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Feature
Aid applications with dignity built in.
Tuition assistance is a fact of life in Jewish education. 613OS makes the process private, paperless, and painless — for the families applying and the committee reviewing.
The problem
Sound familiar?
An uncomfortable paper trailFamilies hand-deliver tax returns in envelopes and hope for discretion. The process feels exposed at exactly the moment they're most vulnerable.
Committee review by email chainSensitive financial documents forwarded around an email thread among committee members is both inefficient and a privacy risk.
Awards disconnected from billingThe scholarship committee decides $6,000; someone has to remember to manually adjust the family's tuition plan — and sometimes doesn't.
What 613OS does
Built to make this disappear
Private online applicationsFamilies complete aid applications and upload supporting documents from home — no envelopes, no office visits, no waiting-room encounters.
Secure document collectionTax returns and financial statements upload directly to the family's confidential record, visible only to authorized committee members.
Review pipelineApplications move through stages — submitted, under review, committee decision, award issued — with tasks and deadlines for each reviewer.
Award letters & acceptanceDecisions generate personalized award letters sent for parent acknowledgment, with terms documented and e-signed.
Automatic tuition adjustmentApproved awards flow directly into the family's payment plan. The committee's decision becomes the billing reality without manual re-entry.
Year-over-year historyEvery family's aid history in one place — prior awards, prior documentation, and renewal applications pre-filled to respect their time.
100%of aid decisions flow into billing automatically — zero manual adjustments
0envelopes handed to a secretary — documents upload through a private link
1 flagon the CRM record — a neutral status, never the family's finances
Privacy by design. Income documents and committee notes stay in your aid file and accounting system, not on the CRM record. 613OS carries only a neutral status flag — so no staff login can stumble into a family's finances.
Works together with
Related features
Tuition collectionThe payment plan the award adjusts — autopay, smart retries, and follow-up that runs itself.Learn more →Re-enrollmentPre-filled contracts in one click, with the aid award already reflected.Learn more →Documents & e-signAward letters and terms signed online and filed to the family record.Learn more →
Frequently asked questions
What is financial aid management software?
Financial aid management software lets families apply for tuition assistance privately online, with documents uploaded securely and committee review workflows that keep sensitive information restricted. 613OS handles the application, review, award, and the resulting adjusted payment plan in one connected flow.
How does the financial aid application protect family privacy?
Families upload documents through a secure private link rather than emailing statements or handing envelopes to a secretary. By design, the sensitive detail — income documents, committee notes — is kept in your aid file and accounting system, not on the CRM record; 613OS carries only a neutral status flag, so no staff login can stumble into a family's finances.
Does the aid award connect to the family's tuition plan?
Yes. When the committee sets an award, the family's payment plan reflects the adjusted amount automatically. There's no separate spreadsheet reconciling scholarship decisions against billing — the decision and the billing are the same record.
Can we run financial aid on our own schedule and criteria?
Yes. The application form, required documents, deadlines, and review stages are fully configurable. Schools keep their existing committee process and standards; the system replaces the paper shuffle around it, not the judgment.
Do families re-apply for aid every year?
That's your policy choice. The system can roll applications forward for returning families with pre-filled information, or require a fresh application each year — either way, reminders and document chasing run automatically.
See financial aid & scholarships in action
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you exactly how this would run at your school.
613os.com/demo · 305-954-7362 · yoni@613os.com