Partner with colleges to acquire students at fraction of ad costs.
Founders of student payment platforms face sky-high acquisition costs because students ignore ads and prefer free bank apps, compounded by abysmal retention from semester-based churn.
CampusForge is a toolkit for automating outreach and integrations with college admins for co-branded payment adoption. It provides templates, CRM for deans, and embeddable widgets that colleges promote officially. This bypasses ad blindness with trusted campus endorsements, while lock-in features combat churn.
Founders and operators of startups building payment platforms for college students
Pre-built college partnership playbooks and admin portals, zeroed in on 4k US colleges.
professional
Track outreach to 1000s of colleges with templates.
Embeddable payment links for college portals.
No-code dashboards for colleges to monitor usage.
Email sequences and follow-ups to deans.
ROI per college, acquisition attribution.
Legal-ready agreements for partnerships.
Notify on partnership milestones.
Upload lists with enrichment.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| company | text | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| college_name | text | No |
| status | text | No |
| signed_at | timestamp | Yes |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| partnership_id | uuid | No |
| embed_code | text | No |
| clicks | int | No |
Relationships:
/api/partnershipsCreate partnership record
/api/widgets/:idGenerate widget embed
/api/outreach/sendTrigger email sequence
/api/analytics/partnersPartnership metrics
1 widget
50 colleges/mo
Unlimited
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 10 | 10% | $35 | $420 |
| Month 6 | 120 | 25% | $1,050 | $12,600 |
Automate partnerships that drive organic adoption.
Scrape college payment founders from Crunchbase/AppSumo, offer personalized demo. Post in Edtech Founders FB group. Run $50 LinkedIn ads targeting 'student payments' founders.
Affiliate networks
Not college-specific
Targeted for higher-ed partnerships
Curated database of 4k college contacts + success playbooks.
Colleges pushing digital payments post-COVID + admin tech adoption.
Slow college sales cycles
Focus on small colleges first
Contract compliance
Partner with legal templates service
Success: 2 willing to pilot
Success: 50 acquisitions
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