Heartland School Solutions Launches mySchoolBucks(R) Mobile Application

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Parents Can Conveniently Manage School Related Fees While On the Go

(firmenpresse) - PRINCETON, NJ -- (Marketwired) -- 08/12/13 -- Heartland School Solutions, a division of Heartland Payment Systems® (NYSE: HPY), has launched a mobile payments application for parents of school-aged children to manage school related fees such as meals, tuition, lab or library, athletic or club, sporting events, and more from smart phones and tablets.

Available on and , Heartland's new app provides parents convenient access to their students' meal accounts and enables them to use their smartphones or mobile devices to prepay school related fees, replenish their child's account using credit cards, debit cards or electronic checks, and view recent activity for their children while on the go. A secure PCI-DSS and Visa CISP compliant online prepayment system for school payments, mySchoolBucks also allows parents the flexibility to view current account balances and student meal purchases, arrange recurring payments when their account reaches a low balance threshold, and set daily or weekly spending limits.

"Knowing parents are busier than ever, the mySchoolBucks mobile app lets participating districts offer a convenient service to parents, encouraging greater participation in their school meal programs," says Michael A. Lawler, president, strategic markets group, Heartland Payment Systems. "The app also helps increase flexibility, convenience and control for parents looking to pay for their child's school meals and school activity fees. For schools and districts, our mySchoolBucks solution reduces cash and check handling while tightening cash controls, allowing schools to reduce administrative costs and risks associated with students carrying cash and checks to school. It also speeds up lunch lines, thereby increasing the number of meals served."

MySchoolBucks is utilized by more than 2,000 school districts across the country, including Arlington, VA; Rockwood, MO; Humble, Texas; Clay County Florida; Williamson County Tennessee; Northwest Texas; Newton (Mass.) Public Schools; Pleasanton (Calif.) Unified School District and many more.

is a leading provider of innovative child nutrition management and secure online payment solutions to more than 29,000 public and private schools throughout the United States. Schools can effectively manage point of sale, state and federal compliance, Free and Reduced Meal applications, menu planning, nutritional analysis, production records, ordering, inventory management, and online payments for meals, athletics, boosters, parent teacher organizations, tuition and more. This is Heartland's second K-12 app release after the recent launch of its ® app, which provides parents with a faster, more convenient and secure way to pay for student school lunches.

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. (NYSE: HPY), the fifth largest in the United States, delivers credit/debit/prepaid , mobile commerce, , , , , and related business solutions and services to more than 250,000 business and educational locations nationwide. A FORTUNE 1000 company, Heartland is the founding supporter of , a public advocacy initiative that educates merchants about fair credit and debit card processing practices. Heartland also established to advocate for the rights of sales professionals everywhere. More detailed information can be found at , , or following the company on Twitter and Facebook at .

This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature which represent our management's beliefs and assumptions concerning future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions and are based on information currently available to us. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to many factors, including risks and additional factors that are described in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.

Michael J. LaCosta
Director of Public Relations
Heartland Payment Systems
1-888-798-3131, ex. 2245

Leanne Scott Brown
Vault Communications
610-455-2742

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