Comparison

Transact eAccounts vs Modern Campus Involve

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Transact eAccounts

Manage your campus accounts on the go. View balances, track transactions, and add funds easily. At participating institutions, use your digital ID for access and payments.

Highlights
  • View account balances
  • Track recent transactions
  • Add money to accounts
  • Digital ID in Apple Wallet
  • Report lost/found cards
  • Multi-factor authentication
Features
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For users at participating campuses and institutions, eAccounts mobile makes it easy to view account balances, add money and track recent transactions. At select campuses, users can now add their ID card to Wallet to access places like your residence hall, the library, and events; or pay for laundry, snacks, and dinners using their iPhone and Apple Watch. Key Features & Benefits: • View account balances • Track recent transactions • Add money to accounts using Apple Pay or a previously-saved payment method • Add your ID card to Apple Wallet (select campuses) • Barcode (select campuses) • Report cards lost or found • Multi Factor Authentication • App Shortcuts • Change PIN Requirements: • Campus or institution must subscribe to eAccounts service • Campus or institution must enable mobile features to provide access to users • Wi-Fi or cellular data plan for Internet access Contact your campus ID card office to check availability.

About

Modern Campus Involve

Discover campus organizations and events, sync them to your calendar, and check into activities using your digital ID. Leaders can also manage event check-ins within the app. It's designed to boost student engagement and track involvement.

Highlights
  • Discover organizations
  • Find tagged events
  • Sync events to calendar
  • View Digital ID
  • Run Event Check-In
  • Facilitate event check-in
Features
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Use the all-new Modern Campus Involve app to find out how you can get involved on campus, check-in to events with your Digital ID, and more! Organization leaders and administrators can also facilitate the event check-in process all in the same application. • Discover organizations to get involved in • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Sync interesting events to your calendar • View your Digital ID • Run Event Check-In • And More! Powered by Modern Campus Involve. Involve provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, track and measure learning, and improve retention.

Screenshots

Transact eAccounts4 screens
Modern Campus Involve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Transact eAccounts at 4.8 against Modern Campus Involve's 1.9. Transact eAccounts also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 14%) and ratings volume (49K vs 56). Modern Campus Involve's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Transact eAccounts holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transact eAccounts has 49K ratings behind it against 56, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Transact eAccounts's written reviews are positive against 14% of Modern Campus Involve's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Transact eAccounts ships an update monthly, Modern Campus Involve every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Transact eAccounts versus Modern Campus Involve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTransact eAccountsModern Campus Involve
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (49K ratings) — better1.9 (56 ratings)
Positive reviews39.7% of reviews — better14.3% of reviews
Number of ratings49K — better56
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#143 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTransact Campus, LLCCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

Transact eAccounts

All ratings48,559 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews126 reviews
Positive39.7%
Neutral8.7%
Negative51.6%

Modern Campus Involve

All ratings56 ratings
Positive21.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative78.6%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative82.9%

User reviews

Transact eAccounts

From 49K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great technology
  • 🚀 Convenient
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Accessible
  • 👍 Helpful

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance
  • 🐛 Unreliable
  • 🐛 Slow
  • 🐛 Buggy
  • 🐛 Glitchy

Modern Campus Involve

From 56 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great partner for student engagement
  • 👍 Responsive support team
  • 👍 Trainings and implementation are great

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent login issues
  • 🐛 App crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Search bar not working
  • 🐛 Camera not working for check-ins
  • 🐛 Stuck on first screen

Bugs and requests

Transact eAccounts

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Cannot add card to wallet
  • Login/authentication issues
  • Incorrect balance display
  • Grayed out main screen after login
  • Inability to find/select school

Requested features

3 requests
  • Allow for two accounts under the same institution
  • Add option to edit payments within the app
  • Improve wallet integration

Modern Campus Involve

Reported bugs

30 issues
  • Login trouble
  • App crashes
  • Search bar does not work
  • Categories in search bar are unhelpful
  • Garbage backend
Show 25 more
  • Login error for campus
  • Camera not working (iPhone 15)
  • Won't ask permission for camera
  • App steals information
  • Can't find school/nothing to click
  • Can't sign in
  • Presence not good for college
  • Used by schools to track students
  • Can't log in
  • Login Issue
  • Not worth downloading
  • Failed to log in
  • App suuuuuucks
  • Won't let me log in
  • Can't log in to start using it
  • Gave me Ebola
  • Caused grandma to die from cancer
  • Made parents divorce
  • Keeps giving option to log in after many tries
  • Link does not load for student account
  • Stuck on first screen
  • Stuck on intro page
  • Won't work on iPhone and iPad
  • Won't let me past location select screen
  • Stuck on the first page after opening

Requested features

5 requests
  • 💡 Improve login system
  • 💡 Fix search functionality
  • 💡 Enable camera for check-ins on iPhone 15
  • 💡 Provide clarity on data usage
  • 💡 Offer a regular check-in system alternative

In-app purchases

None

Transact eAccounts

No in-app purchases

None

Modern Campus Involve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Transact eAccounts free?
Transact eAccounts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Modern Campus Involve free?
Modern Campus Involve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Transact eAccounts or Modern Campus Involve?
Transact eAccounts is rated higher. Transact eAccounts averages 4.8 out of 5 from 49K ratings, while Modern Campus Involve averages 1.9 from 56 ratings.
Do Transact eAccounts or Modern Campus Involve have ads?
Neither Transact eAccounts nor Modern Campus Involve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Transact eAccounts or Modern Campus Involve?
Transact eAccounts ships an update monthly, and Modern Campus Involve every 3 weeks. Most recently, Transact eAccounts was updated on October 20, 2026 and Modern Campus Involve on October 13, 2026.

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