BANNER FINANCIAL AID AUTOMATION
Banner Financial Aid, automated.
Less manual work across the aid year, so your staff can focus on students.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Award letters are due. The system isn't ready. The same issues are back.
Hardcoded SQL, manual budgets, and quick fixes that don't last. Every aid year, your team starts over.
WHY LUMINA
We've worked inside financial aid offices like yours.
Hands-on Banner experience on campus and as a consultant. You work directly with the person doing the work, from the first conversation through go-live and beyond.
Direct access
You work with the person doing the work, no extra layers in between.
Automation-first
Focused on removing manual work and preventing errors, not just documenting them
19 years
with Banner, since 2007
Banner 5–9
every major migration
Public and private
institutions from 300 to 35,000 students
Full range
Setup, reporting, and the technical data work in between, all in one place
Engagement
Targeted fixes, fixed-fee projects, hourly, or monthly support. No prepayment.
WHAT WE AUTOMATE
From the aid year build to the last disbursement.
New aid year build
New aid year build / Rollover through student communication
Process redesign
Faster, simpler workflows through automation
Root-cause fixes
Dynamic rules; setup and records fixed at the source
Cost of attendance and packaging
Algorithmic budgets and packaging
Grants & scholarships
Federal, state, and institutional awards, automated from eligibility to reconciliation
Reporting and compliance
Argos audit and IPEDS reports, plus statistics
Our Services
We provide Ellucian Banner® Financial Aid consulting for colleges and universities — small and large, public and private, from single projects to ongoing support.
Setting Up and Configuring
We set up and configure your Banner Financial Aid system to match your institution's policies and workflows. We also build your system for every new aid year.
Reporting and Data Insights
We use Argos to turn your Banner data into clear, useful reporting for compliance, audits, and decision-making — plus hands-on work like Pell Grant reconciliation and Summer Aid processing.
Support and Ongoing Help
We provide continued help for institutions that need Banner Financial Aid expertise beyond a single project — as a targeted fix, project, hourly, or monthly support, whatever fits your institution.
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