university per diems & expenditures
Make payments painless throughout the university
Crowded consolidates university per diem disbursal, stipends, awards, grantmaking and financial management throughout the university.
- Per diem payments to athletes or traveling professors.
- Grant payments with built-in transparency
- Financial management & banking* platform for student clubs.
per diems for athletes
Athletic per diems without the headache
- Schedule per diem payments to team accounts in bulk.
- Easily track the cash flow from department to recipient.
- Athletes can spend their per diems freely with debit cards.
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departmental per diems
Traveling professor or student per diems
- Physical or digital debit cards to spend anywhere Visa is accepted.
- Keep recipient lists ordered with tags (eg. Psych, Conference attendee).
- Maintain oversight across departmental per diem transactions.
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student club management
Provide responsible financial management for clubs
- Student clubs use Crowded to collect money for dues, events or fundraisers.
- Unlimited budgeted digital debit cards with total visibility
- 100% online account maintenance and officer handovers
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research stipends
Simple research participant payments
- Customizable anonymity features based on study needs.
- Unlimited participant accounts with bulk uploading and transferring
- In-app international transfers for participants
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university-wide insights
Preserve department independence while gaining insights
- Monitor departmental spending
- Gain valuable insights from clear data
- Customized level of financial controls and transparency
Custom debit Cards
Elevate the university with white-labeled cards
- Custom cards with your university’s logo and colors.
- Branded physical and digital cards for instant recognition.
- Unified and professional look across university cardholders.
Why organizations love using Crowded
“Of all the platforms I looked at, Crowded was one of the most simple, even compared to some of the more local banks. So it was kind of a no-brainer when I started playing around with it.”
Elijah, Founder Surmount New York
“Crowded feels like an Apple product — smooth, secure, and beautifully designed. The mobile app with Face ID gives me instant visibility into our balances, and I use it to handle everything from hotels and flights to trains and Ubers for our delegations.”
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“After our previous experiences with other platforms, Crowded’s solution seemed too good to be true. The whole process of paying the staff was super easy, and our staff were happier. A definite win-win. Looking forward to next summer!”
Tara, Camp Director
“It would take us months and months just to make a simple officer change. With board members in different states, we had to coordinate branch visits, fill out tons of paperwork, and hope the banks communicated with each other—it was incredibly frustrating.”
Jordanya, President-Elect
“With Crowded, we’ve eliminated risk and created a system our board, coaches, and athletes can all trust. It’s the kind of operational backbone every multi-team or multi-chapter program should have.”
Zoe, Women’s Club Lacrosse Finance Chair
“What once took over a week can now be completed in just a few hours. Crowded has brought efficiency, security, and transparency to our financial workflows, benefiting everyone from program leadership to staff and student-athletes. I would strongly recommend it to any athletic departments looking to streamline their operations.”
Kim, Athletics Business Manager
“What stood out about Crowded was that they actually understood our unique organizational structure. They recognized that we weren’t like sororities or Girl Scouts. Our chapters are legally separate entities with their own tax requirements.”
Jen, Director of Finance and Constituent Services
“For years, updating bank signers across 41 volunteer-run chapters was nearly impossible. We even lost access to funds when officers went MIA. With Crowded, we can seamlessly update signers online, safeguard chapter funds, and give our national office oversight while preserving local autonomy. For a national association, that peace of mind is invaluable.”
Jen Sanford, Executive Director
“Using Crowded this summer gave us better control over our finances. With its clear documentation, we could very easily track our cash flow and minimize keeping petty cash on hand at camp. It also saved us so much more time! We didn’t need to go to the bank and everything could be done conveniently online.”
Amy, Director of Finance
“We only see benefits for our alumnae chapters who create a Crowded account. It gives the chapters freedom to manage their funds in a flexible way. That’s why we continue to say – Crowded is our financial management solution and we want more alumnae chapters to be utilizing it.”
Laura, Assistant Director of Lifetime Engagement
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What is Crowded?
Crowded is a financial platform that offers universities tools to streamline financial operations.
Some of our standout features include:
- Accounts that are free to open with no minimum balances
- 100% online online officer handovers.
- Digital Visa® debit cards with budget limits for group member expenses.
- Unified banking for multi-chapter organizations.
- Payment collection links for dues, member fees and donations.
How does Crowded cater to the needs of a university?
Crowded is a financial platform that offers university departments and clubs easy ways to collect, spend and manage money online.
Specifically for universities, Crowded’s banking dashboard allows the administration to maintain oversight over their department’s finances.
Instead of student clubs and departments maintaining separate bank accounts that the administration has no access to, with Crowded each department is organized under the main organization. This is better for 2 reasons:
- Departments can issue per diems with full visibility from the university.
- In the case of a defunct chapter or botched officer handover, the student activities office can step in easily through the Crowded platform.
Ready to make university financial management easier?
- Talk with us to figure out how Crowded can meet the university's specific needs
- Onboard the participating departments.
- Consolidate your payment processes!
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Darryl Gecelter