Modernizing RevTrak for Mobile-Friendly K-12 School Payments
Vanco's RevTrak moved from legacy AngularJS to a modern, component-based Angular application: mobile-ready across every payment flow, navigation cut from 5 levels to a maximum of 3, and zero disruption to the backend integrations schools already rely on.
A responsive, scalable RevTrak without touching what schools depend on
Vanco Payments is a financial technology provider specializing in payment processing and donation tools for community organizations, including K-12 schools. RevTrak is part of Vanco's education offering, helping schools manage a wide range of school-related payments in one place.
To better support today's families and reduce friction on mobile, Vanco partnered with HatchWorks AI to modernize RevTrak into a responsive, scalable web experience, without disrupting the backend services and integrations schools already rely on.
Legacy AngularJS, and parents who expect to pay from their phone
RevTrak was running on legacy AngularJS, which limited mobile usability and made it harder to evolve the product quickly.
With parents increasingly expecting a simple, mobile-friendly way to pay for meals, field trips, athletics, spirit wear, and more, Vanco needed a modern frontend foundation that could scale across payment categories and devices.
Legacy framework
AngularJS limited mobile usability and slowed product evolution.
Mobile expectations
Families want to pay for meals, trips, and athletics from a phone.
Nothing can break
Backend services and integrations schools rely on had to keep working.
Re-engineer the frontend, preserve the ecosystem
HatchWorks partnered with Vanco to re-engineer RevTrak into a modern, component-based Angular application designed for responsiveness, maintainability, and long-term growth. Key workstreams included:
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AngularJS to Angular migration
Migrated RevTrak pages to modern Angular using a component-based approach to improve maintainability and consistency across the product.
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Mobile-ready, parent-friendly UX
Built responsive interfaces and refreshed UI patterns to reduce friction across core payment and account-management flows.
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Reduced complexity in key journeys
Simplified how users find fees and complete payments: navigation depth cut from 5 levels to a maximum of 3.
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Backend and ecosystem integration
Connected the new UI to existing Vanco APIs, authentication services, data stores, and third-party integrations, with zero continuity disruption.
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Platform foundation for ongoing delivery
Improved frontend-backend separation to support maintainability and long-term development velocity.
Less friction for families, no disruption for schools
The modernized RevTrak experience helps schools and families complete payments with less friction, especially on mobile, while keeping operational workflows consistent behind the scenes.
Frictionless mobile payments. Families pay for meals, field trips, and athletics from any device: fewer steps, cleaner experience.
Uninterrupted school operations. Backend integrations fully preserved, with no disruption to the administrative workflows schools already rely on.
Fewer avoidable support issues. Simplified navigation and clearer flows reduce payment errors and cut unnecessary support requests.
Legacy AngularJS frontend with limited mobile usability
Fees buried up to 5 navigation levels deep
Harder to evolve the product quickly
Modern, component-based Angular application, responsive across all payment flows
Navigation depth capped at 3 levels
Existing APIs, authentication, data stores, and integrations fully preserved
The modernization in numbers
navigation levels, maximum depth reduced
mobile-ready, responsive across all payment flows
backend disruptions, existing integrations fully preserved
Framework migration: AngularJS to modern, component-based Angular
How GenDD supported delivery
Alongside standard engineering practices (code review, testing, and QA), the team used GenDD-enabled AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality across both frontend and backend work.
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Backend audit and refactor planning
Auditing and understanding the existing backend to identify required refactors and new endpoints for modernization, giving the team a clear map of what to preserve, what to evolve, and where to extend.
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Contract-first API design
Generating and refining OpenAPI (YAML) specifications to clearly define API contracts, including routes, parameters, and response formats. This enabled parallel frontend and backend work and reduced integration churn.
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Figma to production UI
Accelerating frontend development by translating Figma designs and mockups into production-ready Angular components, shortening the path from design to shipped, mobile-friendly interfaces.
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Knowledge gap acceleration
Assisting with knowledge gaps, including integrating internal payment and card-processing libraries, using documentation review and AI-assisted code analysis to close ramp-up time on unfamiliar systems.
GenDD-enabled delivery across frontend and backend, accelerating modernization without sacrificing stability for the schools and families relying on RevTrak.
In their words
“Mobile matters for busy school communities. HatchWorks helped us reduce friction for families with a mobile-friendly payment experience while keeping our integrations stable—so schools get a smoother process and fewer avoidable issues.”
Steven JoosChief Product Officer, RevTrak
About the work
About Vanco
Vanco is a leading provider of secure digital payments, online giving, and administrative software for faith communities, schools, and nonprofits. Vanco helps organizations accept and manage payments, streamline everyday tasks, and deepen participation with reliable tools and practical support. The company's faith business will now operate as ACS Technologies, offering trusted church management platforms such as Realm and MinistryPlatform that help ministries manage membership, contributions, accounting, missions trip management, events, and communication. Vanco also serves K-12 districts with education payments solutions, including RevTrak and SmartCare. Across every offering, Vanco's purpose is simple: help teams spend less time on systems and more time with people.
HatchWorks AI turns AI into ROI by automating key business processes, transforming data, deploying intelligent agents, and shipping AI-powered products that deliver measurable results. Its proprietary Generative-Driven Development methodology is a repeatable path from idea to production, blending AI, agents, and engineering to ship faster with less risk.
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