Education
Recover tuition without losing the student.
Colleges, universities, and schools carry growing past-due tuition and fee balances, and transcript holds are disappearing as a lever. HL Hunt reaches students and families with respectful, FERPA-aware outreach, clear plans, and re-enrollment pathways.
- Free plan, no credit card
- FDCPA, TCPA & Reg F enforced
- Outreach live in under an hour
- Commission only on recoveries
- +36%
- Past-due tuition recovery
- FERPA
- Aware messaging and portal access
- Re-enroll
- Pathways offered alongside balances
- 3 options
- Plan choices on every account
Why education teams choose HL Hunt
Student-friendly tone
Messaging that treats students and families as community members, not debtors, and leads with options.
FERPA awareness
Minimum-necessary disclosures, authorized-party handling for parents and guardians, and secure portal access to statements.
Transcript-hold alternatives
As states ban transcript withholding, plans and re-enrollment offers become the lever. Both are built in.
Institutional loans and Perkins
Loan-specific due diligence, disclosures, and reporting for institutional and legacy federal loan programs.
SIS integration
Connect student information and bursar systems for placement, posting, and hold management.
Seasonal campaigns
Pre-registration, pre-graduation, and summer outreach sequences timed to the academic calendar.
Ready to run education collections on HL Hunt?
Create a free account, upload your first accounts, and compliant AI outreach starts within the hour. No credit card, no contract.
How it works
- 01
Connect your SIS
Past-due student accounts sync with balance detail, enrollment status, and authorized contacts.
- 02
AI reaches students and families
Respectful outreach with plan options, payment links, and re-enrollment information where applicable.
- 03
Payments post to the bursar
Plans, payments, and status updates sync back. Holds release automatically on your rules.
The transcript hold era is ending
For decades, institutions collected past-due balances by withholding transcripts and registration. That lever is disappearing: a growing list of states prohibit or restrict transcript withholding, and federal rules now limit it for Title IV institutions. What remains is the harder work of actually reaching former students, explaining what they owe, and offering a way to pay that fits their circumstances.
HL Hunt is built for that work. Outreach reaches students and authorized family members through the channels they use, with messaging a dean of students would approve. Plans are sized to recent graduates and non-completers, who rarely have the income to pay a semester balance at once. Re-enrollment pathways are offered alongside the balance, because a returning student is worth far more than a recovered fee. FERPA requirements are built into what can be said to whom and where.
Institutional loans and legacy Perkins portfolios have their own due diligence and reporting requirements, and the platform handles them as distinct debt types with the right disclosures and sequences.
What changes
HL Hunt vs the traditional approach
| HL Hunt | Traditional collections | |
|---|---|---|
| Education fit | Configured for your laws, systems, debtors, and tone | Generic agency or software that does not know your product |
| Who does the work | AI contacts, converses, negotiates, and collects; humans handle exceptions | Agents on a dialer working whatever fits in the day |
| Compliance | Every contact checked against FDCPA, TCPA, Reg F, and state law before it happens | Training, scripts, and audits after the fact |
| Channels | SMS, email, AI voice, letters, and a self-service portal chosen per debtor | Phone calls and letters on a fixed schedule |
| Coverage | Every account worked, including small balances | Large balances worked; the rest ages out |
| Visibility | Every message, transcript, promise, and payment live in your dashboard | A monthly PDF report |
| Cost | Free to $649 a month plus 3% to 26% commission; Enterprise custom | 25% to 50% contingency, or seats plus modules plus services |
Pricing
Start free. Pay only on what you recover.
Education is included on every plan. Start at $0 a month with 50 active collections, and move up as your portfolio grows. Commission falls from 26% on Free to 3% on Enterprise, and it is charged only on money actually recovered.
Enterprise: unlimited collections, seats, SMS, voice, and email with a 3% commission, SOC 2 reports, DPA, and dedicated support.
- $0
- Free
- $149
- Basic, per month
- $349
- Growth, per month
- $649
- Scale, per month
50 active collections · 26% commission · 1 seat
250 active collections · 15% commission · 3 seats
1,000 active collections · 10% commission · 10 seats
5,000 active collections · 6.5% commission · 25 seats
Everything included
One platform covers all of it
Education is one part of the platform. Every HL Hunt plan, from Free to Enterprise, includes the full collections stack, so you never bolt on a second vendor as your portfolio grows.
- AI outreach engineRight channel, right time, right words for every debtor.Learn more
- SMS, email & lettersEvery channel, orchestrated per account.Learn more
- AI voice agentCompliant calls that take payments and hand off.Learn more
- AI payment plansAffordability-based plans negotiated automatically.Learn more
- Payments & portalCard, ACH, and wallets with a self-service portal.Learn more
- Compliance engineFDCPA, TCPA, Reg F, and 50 states, on every contact.Learn more
- Disputes & validationNotices, disputes, and cease requests handled.Learn more
- Recovery analyticsLive liquidation, channel, and cohort reporting.Learn more
- API, CSV & MCP serverConnect your LOS, billing, or let your agent do it.Learn more
Get started
Go live with Education today
Create a free account, upload your first accounts, and AI outreach begins within the hour. No credit card, no contract, no implementation project. Here is what to have ready.
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- 01A CSV or system export of delinquent accounts: name, contact details, balance, and itemization
- 02Consent and contact-preference data you hold for phone numbers and email addresses
- 03Your legal entity, any collection licenses you hold, and the states you collect in
- 04Brand assets and tone preferences for outreach in your name
- 05Settlement authority and payment plan rules you want the AI to follow
Education FAQ
How do you handle FERPA?
Communications include only the minimum necessary information, parent and guardian contact is limited to authorized parties on file, and detailed statements live in a verified portal rather than in messages.
Can we offer re-enrollment incentives?
Yes. Accounts flagged as re-enrollable receive balance resolution and re-enrollment information together, with acceptance flowing back to your SIS.
Does HL Hunt support institutional and Perkins loans?
Yes. Loan-specific due diligence steps, disclosures, and reporting are supported as distinct debt types with their own waterfalls.
Is there pricing for small schools?
The Free plan covers 50 active accounts and Basic covers 250 at $149 a month, which fits many K-12 private schools and small colleges.
Still have questions?
Talk to a collections specialist, or start free and see the platform for yourself.
Start recovering more today.
Create a free account, upload your first accounts, and compliant AI outreach begins within the hour. Pay commission only on what you recover.