GPS tether & ankle monitor agency software
Enroll participants, bill the tether fee automatically, and collect card or Cash App payments online — with every balance tracked to the dollar.
A GPS tether program is a subscription business with unusually hard customers. Every participant on an ankle monitor owes a daily or weekly fee for as long as they are on the device, the term length is set by a court rather than by you, and the person paying is often a parent, spouse, or bondsman rather than the participant. Miss a few weeks of billing on a handful of clients and the shortfall is real money — but the only way most agencies catch it is by scrolling a spreadsheet.
Tether Pay gives GPS and ankle monitor agencies the business system their tracking platform doesn't include. Enrollment sets the rate and the cycle once. From there invoices generate on schedule, reminders go out by text and email, payments arrive through a link, and the balance on each participant profile is always the number they actually owe.
Built for GPS tether and ankle monitor programs
Everything here maps to a step your staff already does by hand: enrolling a participant, setting a rate, sending a reminder, taking a payment, and answering the question "how much are they behind?"
Enrollment that sets billing in motion
Add a participant with their device type, program start date, daily or weekly rate, and responsible payer. Billing begins on the cycle you choose and requires no follow-up entry.
Recurring invoicing per participant
Each client can sit on their own cycle and rate. Court-ordered term changes, rate reductions, and program level changes take effect on the next invoice without rebuilding anything.
Pay-by-link for participants and family
The person paying is often not the person wearing the device. Payment links can be sent to a parent, partner, or bondsman by text or email, and the payment still credits the right participant.
Live balance tracking
Balances recompute from the payment ledger every time money moves, so you always know who is current, who is behind, and by how much — including partial payments.
Recovery and discharge handling
Pause a client during a jail sanction and both billing and automated texts stop. Discharge them at term end and the final balance stays on the record for collection or write-off.
Autopay for reliable payers
Participants and payers can save a card once and be charged automatically on each due date, which turns your best-paying clients into zero-effort revenue.
How a GPS tether program runs on Tether Pay
Enroll
Create the participant profile, attach the device and program details, and set the tether rate and cycle.
Bill
Invoices generate on schedule for every active participant — no batch to run, no reminder to yourself.
Collect
Reminders go out ahead of the due date with a payment link. Card, Cash App, and bank transfer all post automatically.
Close out
At discharge you have a complete, dated payment history for the file, the court, or a collections handoff.
Where GPS tether revenue actually leaks
Ask a tether agency where money goes missing and you'll hear the same three answers. First, participants who were enrolled but never added to the billing sheet, so weeks of fees are never invoiced at all. Second, payments taken through a personal payment app or in cash that never get written down, which later show up as a dispute nobody can resolve. Third, participants who quietly stop paying and aren't noticed until the balance is too large to recover.
Automating enrollment-to-invoice closes the first leak: if a participant exists in the system, they are billed. Routing every payment through a tracked checkout closes the second: each transaction is stored with its exact timestamp, amount, method, and processor reference, so "I paid last Tuesday" is a question you can answer instantly. Automated reminders and an overdue view close the third: a client who misses a due date is flagged the next morning, not next month.
Agencies that make this switch usually notice the difference in the first full billing cycle, because the same caseload starts producing the revenue it was supposed to produce all along — without adding an office person to chase it.
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Get your tether program billing on its own
Set up your agency, enroll your caseload, and let every tether fee invoice, remind, and collect itself.