As other ideas have suggested, any mistakes in re-enrolling students year over year cause the generation of a new Family ID and require creation of a new account. Additionally, if a family's children go to different SmartTuition schools (e.g. preschool, K-8, and High School) the family now has to manage multiple SmartTuition Portal accounts for current, active enrollments. This is irritating and cumbersome at the very least and, for families not enrolled in auto-pay, can cause confusion and payment errors if a family isn't meticulously keeping track of accounts that should only need to be accessed once a month at most.

Making a primary portal account that families can access, and under which Family IDs across multiple schools can be aggregated, will make managing and tracking tuition and payments much easier, and will improve the auditability of Smart Tuition ledgers.

It's not something that can't be done in a relatively simple manner: Banks have had the functionality (where one login gives access to checking, savings, CDs, insurance, loans, etc) for nearly twenty years; even local recreation departments allow families to track multiple children across multiple activities, and in many cases collaborate across municipalities to enable centralized family account management.