About Us
The Caribbean's all-in-one school transaction management platform.
Manage every school transaction.
Parents — tired of frantic last-minute scrambles for lunch money, field trip payments, and uniform fees? Tired of wondering where the money actually went? Manage your child's school transactions from anywhere, whilst on the go.
School administrators — lighten your load. There is a better way than students handing you money as you walk through the corridor, or 1000 little pieces of paper on your desk with names scribbled on them for PE jersey payments.
Cafeterias — we honestly don't know how you do it. Take the money, make the change, get the order, write in the notebook for who you gave credit, manage the suppliers. We see your day and you deserve better.
Vendors — there's a place for you in this too. Get online with us and reach parents directly. Help them find what they need for their child easily.
MyCashlessClass can help.
The Birth of MyCashlessClass.
We built it because we've lived it.
In my best Golden Girls re-enactment voice... Picture it. October 2024. I got a call from my son who was in school. We had forgotten that today was the last day to pay for some random thing — and I was here and he was there.
It struck me in that moment: there was no way, in real time, to transfer money to my son.
His school didn't have Linx, so even if he had his debit card it wouldn't help. I could have done a cashless/cardless transfer using a solution offered by one of the banks here, but that would mean he'd have to leave the school compound to go get it. I could have called the school office to negotiate a bligh, but that would mean stopping what I was doing.
In that moment, what I really needed was some way that I could send him a 'top-up' — just like I could send him a phone card.
That got me thinking. What would be even better is if there was a solution that allowed me to manage all his school transactions in one place. Pay for the field trip. Transfer money in real time. Let him buy things in the school office and the cafeteria. And — for the win — reduce the likelihood of him being a target for bullies by reducing the amount of cash he had to carry.
I was convinced there had to be a better way. So, I created MyCashlessClass.
Why it had to be built for everyone.
Here's the thing that kept gnawing at me as I built this. I was an executive responsible for bringing digital payments online at the national level — leading Trinidad and Tobago's financial sector transformation work. We had the data. We knew financial exclusion rates were ticking up, not down. In 2026. How is that even possible?
Meanwhile, our schools? Stuck in 1962. Notebooks. Paper. Cash. Bligh.
And in the schools that DID try to modernize, I started noticing something that made me angrier than the schools doing nothing at all. Some administrators had the vision and commitment to fold in Point of Sale machines as well as accept bank transfers, but that only solved the problem for families who could afford it — and quietly made the children whose parents couldn't, invisible.
I'll never forget a mother who came up to me after a PTA meeting. She makes $60 a day at a daycare. Sixty. Trinidad. Dollars. Her bank account had been closed multiple times for insufficient funds. She came to me with tears in her eyes, asking — was there any way her son could use MyCashlessClass? Could she top up when she had it? Could her child be included?
That mother is the reason MyCashlessClass exists the way it does.
We don't assume every child's parents can afford the same things. We let parents top up however they can, whenever they can — and we make sure their child never has to feel different at the cafeteria counter or the school office.
MyCashlessClass is built so that no child is invisible. Regardless of family means. Use us when you can, a little or a lot, whenever YOU need.
Our Mission.
To modernize how school transactions are managed across the Caribbean by providing an all-in-one secure, transparent, easy-to-use, and inclusive digital platform — while promoting financial literacy, digital fluency, and responsible money management among the region's students. And ensuring no child is left behind because of how their family earns or saves, or where they fall on the digital literacy curve.
The Digitally Comfortable Student.
The importance of closing the digital literacy gap NOW.
As parents, we focus on giving our children a competitive advantage so that they can have a strong future and thrive. Being digitally comfortable is no longer optional. They need to know how to be digitally safe as they get digitally ready. It's the only way to ensure that they can meet today's global digital reality confidently.
The digitally comfortable child:
- Is financially included as they grow up in the digital economy
- Can access global employment opportunities
- Can create entrepreneurial pathways for themselves — able to reach global markets and earn hard currencies in the Caribbean's foreign exchange-constrained reality.
- Knows how to stay safe online — able to recognise predators and scams before they become victims.
...And there's more we should talk about.
The Caribbean is at exactly the right point to leverage the momentum of AI thoughtfully — but only if we get the foundations right. We can enhance the education experience whilst ensuring that the safe and ethical use of AI is appropriately baked into our education framework and that we close rather than widen the digital divide.
Reading fluency and literacy rates are dipping across the region.
Class sizes are larger than ever.
Our hardworking principals and teachers are overworked and the digital tools to support them are few and far between.
That's the problem. MyCashlessClass aims to be part of the solution.
The opportunity is now. It's not too late.
If we act now.
How digitally comfortable is your child, really?
We're not talking about whether they can use a smartphone to watch TikTok or a YouTube video. We're talking whether they (or you) are comfortable using technology safely to give them a real competitive advantage in life.
Take this short quiz. We'll assume your child is at least 7 years old. We don't track responses — this is just for you to see where your child stands on the digital literacy and life-readiness indicators recognized in global frameworks.
This is your opportunity to do an honest and private reflection on where your child is.
If you answered 'No' to more than 3 of these questions, your child has digital comfort gaps that you should address.
The good news is, if they do; knowing is the first step in the right direction. Doing something about it is the second. You can change how they show up in today's digital reality. We can help.
About the Founder
Dawn Nelson is the Founder and CEO of MyCashlessClass.
Dawn served as Vice President of Financial Sector Transformation in Trinidad and Tobago, where she led the team that conducted the country's first national financial inclusion survey and oversaw the rollout of many digital payment solutions at the national level. She has advocated for the introduction of digital channels for farmers alongside Namdevco, and worked alongside the UNCDF team in Trinidad and Tobago on a Fintech Sprint that produced not one, but three fintech solutions.
Her creation of MyCashlessClass was featured on TV6 Morning Edition's "Innovators in the Spotlight" in January 2026, highlighting her contributions to digital payments, financial inclusion, and entrepreneurial development across the Caribbean.
In her own words: "Never let the tech lead. Keep the desire to solve the customer's problem in your heart and a great solution will emerge."
Dawn brings to MyCashlessClass the same equity-first philosophy that shaped her national-level work: that digital infrastructure must serve everyone, or it serves no one.
MyCashlessClass - The Caribbean's all-in-one school transaction management platform.
How does it work?
To use MyCashlessClass, your child's school must be on our platform. Don't see yours? Share your school's profile and we'll reach out.
MyCashlessClass brings every school transaction onto one platform — accessible from any device, with real-time visibility for every stakeholder.
Parents top up funds online — anywhere, anytime, in real time — using debit or credit cards. No more I forgot my money home' drama.
Students pay using QR codes. No cash needed at school. MyCashlessClass respects the Ministry of Education's no-phone-during-school-time policy. Students do not need phones.
Principals, school administrators, and cafeteria operators see every transaction for their area on their own dashboard, in real time. No more chasing paper. No more reconciling notebooks. No more wondering who owes what.
From cafeteria purchases to PE jerseys, uniforms, field trips, and items sold in the school office — every transaction lives in one place. Every stakeholder has the visibility they need. Every child stays included.