Back to school: What expenses can you use Edenred Flexível for?
31 de August, 2023
The back-to-school period is typically synonymous with a spike in expenses for families with school-age children.
It’s necessary to provide textbooks, buy backpacks and all the material that can’t be reused from the previous school year, pay tuition fees for children attending higher education…
The good news is that all these expenses can be paid for with Edenred Flexível. This employee benefit can be granted by companies to their employees with the aim of helping them to pay for education and training. With exemption from Social Security, it results in greater purchasing power in these areas.
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What can you pay for with Edenred Flexível?
This employee benefit, in the form of an electronic card, can be used extensively for numerous products and services. In addition, it can be used both to make payments in physical establishments and to make online purchases on member websites and platforms.
Use your Edenred Flexível to pay:
- Books and textbooks: currently, all students in compulsory education (from the 1st to the 12th grade) who attend public or private schools with association contracts are entitled to free textbooks. If this is not the case for your children, or if you need to buy other types of books (literary works, preparation books for national exams, etc.), you can buy them with Edenred Flexível.
- School supplies and computer support for studying: backpacks, notebooks, files, pencils and pens, pencil cases, drawing materials, computers or tablets… all these products can be purchased with Edenred Flexível. FNAC or Staples, for example, are places where you can make these purchases and use your card (both in physical stores and online).
- Uniforms, transport and lunch vouchers: these services provided by educational institutions can also be paid for with Edenred Flexível .
- ATL, study centers and tutoring: because education can go beyond the confines of schools, these costs can also be covered with the Edenred Flexível card.
- College tuition and university fees: for children or dependents who attend private schools, or for those who have already entered higher education, it is also possible to pay their tuition and university fees with Edenred Flexível.
- Training centers and language schools: additional training and the development of new skills, such as a language, for example, are also included in the range of services that Edenred Flexível can pay for.
Did you know it was possible to use Edenred Flexível for all these services? In addition to the areas of education and training, this benefit can also be used for charges related to health and social support.
Discover on the MyEdenred App or on our website the more than 2,400 establishments where you can use the Edenred Flexível card.
For contactless payments via your cell phone or for online purchases, don’t forget that you can link Edenred Flexível to MB WAY.