COMMON LANGUAGE
Shared terms both sides understand.
Programs, rates and eligibility are defined once, the same way for the school and the employer.
EMPLOYER-FUNDED EDUCATION
Make your education benefit actually work.
Fund your people's education at every school they want to attend, through one process. Your team confirms who is eligible and approves what gets paid. The school handles enrollment and billing.
EFFA helps schools and employers run employer-funded education, from partnership terms to payment. Employers pay EFFA nothing and fund only the tuition they choose to fund.
WHY IT MATTERS
The roles you can't fill are the ones your people could grow into.
A tuition benefit usually sits in the benefits binder, next to the gym discount. That is the wrong filing. The hardest roles to hire for — skilled trades, technical and licensed work — are the ones where training someone already on your payroll beats competing for someone who isn't.
Most benefits never get that far, because most of them ask the employee to pay the school first and claim it back later. EFFA pays the school directly, so the person who needs the benefit most is not the one fronting the money.
Common Language, Common Process, and Real-Time Unified Data.
Employer-funded education breaks down when every school you work with does it differently. EFFA puts every school partner on the same terms, the same steps and the same data.
COMMON PROCESS
One workflow from agreement to payment.
Agree terms, confirm eligibility, approve invoices and pay, in the same steps every time.
REAL-TIME UNIFIED DATA
Everyone sees the same status.
Schools, employers and employees see where every invoice and payment stands, as it happens.
EFFASKILLS
See what your tuition spend connects to.
EFFASkills connects the programs employers fund to the occupations those programs prepare people for, and the skills those roles use. Paid and settled tuition becomes a view of the capability you are building, by occupation, by program and by employee.
It is a mapping, not an assessment. It does not claim any individual gained a skill, a credential, a promotion or a raise.
See EFFASkillsEFFASKILLSEmployer view · Illustrative example
Skills by program
Program details
Funded program
MSN — Nursing Informatics
$870 funded · paid · Synthetic example
Illustrative program
Skills this program is designed to teach
- Nursing Informatics
- Clinical Data Analysis
- Care Coordination
- Health Information Systems
- EHR Management
Synthetic funding, program and skill examples. Illustrative mapping only; no individual assessment, proficiency or achieved skills are shown.
WHAT IT COSTS YOU
Nothing.
Employers pay EFFA nothing — no subscription, no per-seat charge, no implementation cost, no line item on any invoice. You fund only the tuition you choose to fund. Schools pay a transaction fee on direct-bill settlement, 3.5% standard, netted from their payout.
Set up in about an hour. An account, a bank link, and confirming terms. No IT project, no SSO, no HRIS integration.
Once you approve an invoice, ACH settlement typically completes within four to six business days.
FOR SCHOOLS
Grow enrollment through employer partnerships.
Turn employer relationships into a steady source of funded students — terms agreed once, employers billed directly, payment tracked from approval through settlement.
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