Award-Winning Real-Time Integration Keeps Student Financial Data Current Across Systems and Reduces Manual Work for Campus Teams

Illumia, formerly known as Transact + CBORD, an award-winning leader in innovative higher education, healthcare, senior living, and corporate technology, today announced it has received the 2025 Ellucian Partner Award for Integration Excellence. The award recognizes Illumia’s fully bidirectional, real-time integration between Illumia Integrated Payments and Ellucian Student, powered by Colleague, that helps keep student financial data continuously synchronized across systems and reduces the manual reconciliation burden on campus finance teams.

As more colleges move to Ellucian Student, the need for real-time, reliable integration is rapidly growing. Illumia’s integration replaces batch-dependent data cycles with live student account information, helping colleges reduce delays, improve data accuracy, and support a smoother migration experience.

“This recognition reflects what colleges and universities need from their technology partners right now: integrations that are proven, real-time, and built to reduce operational friction,” said Chris Setcos, SVP of Partnerships, M&A, and Corporate Strategy at Illumia. “As more institutions move to SaaS, data accuracy and interoperability are becoming essential to keeping the student financial experience running smoothly.”

No on-premises installation is required. The integration operates through Transact Exchange (TREX), Illumia’s cloud-based middleware platform, which orchestrates all data flows between Illumia Integrated Payments and Ellucian Student, via Ellucian’s Ethos framework. When students access Illumia ePayment, the system retrieves current demographics, account balances, financial aid information, and hold statuses directly from Ellucian Student in real time. When payments, charges, refunds, or status changes are processed in Illumia, those transactions post immediately back to Ellucian Student, maintaining a single, consistent student account record across all campus touchpoints.

The integration covers more than 12 Ethos APIs and Data Model entities, retrieves more than 25 student data elements in real time, and supports five transaction types: payments, charges, refunds and reversals, deposits, and status posts. Illumia has earned 12 Colleague SaaS Verified badges and 25 total Ellucian badges across Banner and Colleague.

“Central College is actively partnering with Illumia and Ellucian as we prepare for our move to Ellucian Student,” said Joe Vande Kieft, CIO, Central College. “The collaboration has been highly iterative and transparent, with close alignment across teams to validate real-time integration capabilities and ensure they meet our institutional needs. Illumia’s engagement throughout this process gives us confidence that the integration is being designed thoughtfully and in step with Ellucian Student framework.”

The integration carries PCI-DSS Level 1 certification and is compliant with FERPA, GLBA, Red Flag Rules, ADA, and NACHA standards.

Illumia’s integration roadmap remains actively aligned with Ellucian’s broader platform strategy, including planned integration with Ellucian Experience for enhanced student dashboards, Data Connect for expanded data capabilities, and future Campus ID integration.

About Illumia

Illumia (formerly Transact + CBORD), a business unit of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: ROP), powers the payments, access, foodservice, and credentialing systems that more than 10,000 higher education, healthcare, and senior living institutions depend on every day. Its unified platform delivers the stability, security, and reliability these environments demand — where downtime is not an option. Illumia transforms the experiences organizations deliver to their communities while modernizing how those organizations operate. For more information, visit illumiatech.com.

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Illumia’s real-time integration with Ellucian Student helps colleges keep student financial data current and reduce reconciliation work.