Student Billing Management System

A backend system for managing student billing and payment processing, with seamless integration for student functionalities.

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Table of Contents

• Project Overview
• Features
• API Endpoints
  • Student APIs
  • Billing and Payments APIs
• Setup Instructions
  • Backend
  • Frontend
• Postman Collection

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Project Overview

The Student Billing Management System simplifies the billing and payment workflows for students. It includes APIs for creating and managing student and admin users, generating bills, and processing payments.

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Features

• Student login.
• View all students and their billing information.
• Generate and fetch bills.
• Process and view payment history.

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API Endpoints

Student APIs

• POST /students
  Create a new student account.

  Request Body (JSON):

  {
    "roll_no": "MT010",
    "first_name": "Aditya",
    "last_name": "Shinde",
    "email": "Aditya.Shinde@iiitb.ac.in",
    "password": "pass1234"
  }

• GET /student/login
  Student login.

• GET /student-bills/student/{id}
  Fetch all bills of a specific student.
  Headers:

  {
    "email":"Aditya.Shinde@iiitb.ac.in",
    "password":"pass1234"

}

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### **Billing and Payments APIs**

- **POST** `/bills`  
Create a bill.

- **POST** `/payments`  
Process a payment.  

- **GET** `/payments`  
Fetch payment history of a specific student.  
**Headers:**  
```json
{
  "description":"tuition fees",
  "amount":"358000",
  "bill_date":"2025-06-01",
  "deadline":"2025-06-01",
  "studentId": 1
}

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Setup Instructions

Backend

1. Open the project in IntelliJ IDEA.
2. Customize the application.properties file to match your database configuration.
3. Run the project.
4. The server will be available at:
   http://localhost:8080

Frontend

1. Navigate to the ESD_frontend repo.
2. Open the project in Visual Studio Code (VSCode).
3. In the terminal, run:

   npm start

4. The frontend will run at the default React port.

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Postman Collection

1. Use Postman to test the APIs.
2. Configure the following endpoints in Postman:
   • Student Creation: POST /students
   • Login: GET /student/login
   • Additional endpoints listed above.
3. Ensure to pass appropriate headers for endpoints requiring studentId.

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Enjoy building with the Student Billing Management System! 🚀