Case Study: Kyoshin Language Academy streamlines international student payments and saves time and money with Flywire

Easing international student payments translates to big savings and efficiencies at Kyoshin Language Academy

Kyoshin Language Academy (KLA), a group of 10 Japanese language schools in Japan, needed a better way to support international students making tuition payments from overseas. The school wanted to move beyond international bank transfers, which were expensive, hard to complete online, and difficult for staff to track and match to the correct invoices.

Flywire provided a localized international payment solution that let students and families pay online in their preferred currency and method while KLA received funds in Japanese yen. With Flywire’s multilingual support, payment visibility, and streamlined reconciliation, KLA saved more than 3,000 hours of manual matching work, 40 million JPY in credit card fees, 350,000 JPY in bank transfer fees, and over 500,000 JPY in refund-related remittance fees.

Kyoshin Language Academy

Doi Yoshihiro

Operations Manager, Japanese Language Education Department