How many Indian higher education institutions offered merit-based scholarships in 2025?

Over 4,800 universities and colleges offered merit-based scholarships in 2025, covering more than 65% of total student enrollment.

Why set buffer periods in automatic penalty configurations?

Buffer periods provide a 3–15 day grace window before fines are applied, allowing institutions to maintain fairness while reducing disputes.

How frequently can penalties be scheduled in advanced billing systems?

Penalties can be scheduled on daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or semester-wise intervals depending on institutional policy.

What is the typical maximum fine cap set by institutions using automated penalty features?

Most institutions set maximum fine caps between 5–15% of the pending amount or use a fixed slab capped up to ₹25,000.

How do SMS/email triggers impact late payment recovery rates?

Automated SMS and email reminders recover more than 70% of overdue fees within 10 days of the first alert.

Why allow bulk status updates and offer/rejection letter generation?

Bulk actions cut communication time by 95% and ensure instant, audit-ready documentation for compliance and record-keeping.

Unpacking Camu’s Scholarship and Automatic Penalty Here’s What You Need to Know

Managing the scholarship process
Introducing Camu’s newest value addition
Student application and visibility
The Scholarship Application
Implementing automatic penalty for late fees
The Billing Schedule and Configuration
Student notifications
Closing note

Unpacking Camu’s Scholarship and Automatic Penalty

Here’s What You Need to Know

In the quest to achieve operational excellence and student success, higher educational institutes must have the right systems, tools, and processes, in place.

In this blog, we introduce Camu’s scholarship which seeks to bring students and institutes closer to their academic goals.

Our product team is constantly innovating to solve specific user problems, drawing from customer feedback to build updates that reflect the current needs of the hour.

Here’s a preview of what you can expect.

Managing the scholarship process

Awarding scholarships to deserving students is one of an institution’s most proud and fulfilling moments.

But the process can be complex and rigorous.

From setting selection criteria and sourcing candidates to reviewing submissions and reporting outcomes, administrators must work hard to manage the scholarship efficiently and thoughtfully.

Ultimately, the goal is to maximize the impact of the scholarship in support of diligent scholars.

Introducing Camu’s newest value addition

A multi-talented management feature that allows institutions to feed in all necessary scholarship information into one, singular place and take valid actions to support and nurture it

Administrators can easily add the different kinds of scholarships provided, update the information with general details (payer name, code, grant group), and attach the mandatory documents.

Additionally, they can add/map multiple bill items to a particular scholarship and schedule it for the students, which is viewable by the students via their portal.

Student application and visibility

Note - students can apply for the scholarships from their portal under the scholarship section if enabled, and they will be able to view the status of applied applications.

The Scholarship Schedule equips institutes with information on how long a particular scholarship is valid. It’s up to the management to decide which type of scholarship can be visible to students.

The Scholarship Application

Allows the administration to view the list of applications that have been submitted by the student, and perform certain actions like uploading bulk scholarship applications, making bulk scholarship status changes, and downloading reports.

With the Scholarship Offer Letter and Rejection Letter template, they can update the information and send it to the applied students in a matter of minutes.

Implementing automatic penalty for late fees

Ensuring that tuition fees are paid on time and within the right installments is no easy feat, and often requires credit management expertise.

With Camu’s automatic penalty feature, institutes are equipped with an in-house credit officer.

The Billing Schedule and Configuration

The Billing Schedule allows administrators to set a due date for every billed item, for which the students need to make the payment. When the payment is not made according to the schedule, penalties (bill item categories or individual bill items) can be added via Billing Configuration.

The process is divided into the following steps - add the penalty to a billing item based on the interest/fine/taxes, select the billing item, set the buffer period and maximum amount as fine, and update it. Schedule penalty for each bill item on multiple intervals such as Daily, Monthly, Quarterly, etc…