Case Study: The First Academy achieves paperless payments and $90K in annual savings with Intellistack

The First Academy Overhauls Payment Processes

The First Academy, a Christ-centered preparatory school in Orlando serving about 1,400 students, struggled with paper-based processes that produced inaccurate data, heavy manual labor, and lost payments. The school lacked a fast, secure way to accept online payments, forcing staff to manually process large sums and divert resources from other priorities.

Since adopting Formstack Forms in 2010, Assistant Creative Director Tim Nethers built roughly 300 digital forms across departments and integrated Authorize.Net to accept payments online. The school now processes more than $100,000 annually through forms, has saved nearly $90,000 in yearly expenses (by eliminating extra staffing needs and administrative overhead), recovered hundreds of hours of work, and streamlined key workflows like onboarding, event registration, and collections.

The First Academy

Tim Nethers

Assistant Creative Director