Paying with a scholarship or ESA
Many homeschool families pay for learning tools with a state scholarship or an education savings account (ESA), such as Florida's Step Up For Students. Solveville is educational software, so in many programs you can buy it yourself and then claim the money back. Here is how.
The short version
- Buy a year of Solveville on our site as usual (card, through Stripe).
- Print our receipt: open Solveville, tap Parents, enter your PIN, go to Account and tap 🧾 Receipt for a scholarship. Type your student's name and tap Print or save as PDF.
- Claim it in your program's portal (for Step Up, that's EMA), attaching the receipt.
Why our receipt, not the email from Stripe
Programs usually want things the card receipt doesn't show. Ours has the seller's name and address (DB Performance Inc., doing business as Solveville), your student's name, what you bought ("educational software subscription, one year") with its start and end dates, the purchase date, the price, tax and total, "Paid in full — balance $0.00", and a receipt number. The name you type is printed on the receipt only; we don't save it.
One student or several?
Some programs pay only single-student prices and won't pay for a family plan, or only if the receipt splits it per child. Until we know your program's rule, we suggest buying the Single plan for each scholarship student. If you'd rather buy Family, check with your program first.
Florida: Step Up For Students
- Scholarships that use the EMA portal (PEP, FES-UA, FES-EO, FTC) let you claim reimbursement for approved purchases. Educational software subscriptions are the kind of item families claim; "in-game purchases or credits" are not, and Solveville has none.
- The 2026–27 program year runs from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027, and claims are due by July 31, 2027. A Solveville year runs 365 days from the day you buy it.
- Step Up decides each claim. We can't promise a claim will be approved, but if they ask for something the receipt doesn't show, write to us and we'll help.
Texas: TEFA
Texas's program pays vendors through its own marketplace instead of paying families back. Solveville isn't listed there yet. We'll update this page when it is.
Other states
Arizona, New Hampshire, West Virginia and other programs have their own rules. Many take a receipt like ours; ask your program, and tell us what they say so we can list it here for other families.
Refunds
Scholarship programs don't allow refunds of their money to families. So once a purchase has been paid back to you by a scholarship or ESA, we can't refund it to your card. If a refund is ever owed, it goes back to the program, as our Refund Policy explains. Please use the free trial first to check the games suit your children.
Questions
Write to [email protected]. We're a small family company and read every message.
Sold by DB Performance Inc., doing business as Solveville, 6220 Vireo Ct., Lake Worth, FL 33463. This page is general information, not advice from any program; your program's own rules always decide. Back to Solveville · Terms · Privacy