This facility enables you to write off all or part of an outstanding balance for a selected pupil or staff member. 1. Select Focus | Dinner Money | Pupil (or Staff) Additional Transactions to display the Find Pupil (or Staff) browser 2. Search for and select the required individual. The Pupil (or Staff) Payments and…
When a school purchases SIMS Dinner Money they will need to request the Dinner Money License patch 12370. We will require a copy of the confirmation purchase order from Capita. Hosted Schools – Send the email confirmation to Scomis also requesting the patch is applied to your hosted SIMS. Non Hosted Schools – Send email…
Change the meal charge via Tools>Dinner Money>Backdate Meals processed. Change the date back to the start of the academic year. Via Tools>Dinner Money>Pupil Meal Definition click serach and select the meal definition you need to amend and change the start date, click save. Via Tools>Dinner Money>Unlock Meal Processing, put a tick in the tick box…
In Focus>Dinner Money>Banking Return, when running banking return a message appears that there is an unconfirmed payment. To locate the unconfirmed payments go via Focus>Dinner Money>Pupil Payments include leavers and search to see all pupils. Look at the list in cheque and cash amounts where any unconfirmed payments would appear. Find the unconfirmed payment and click save,…
Message ” you can only make a refund if the balance is above 0.00″ when trying to make a refund via Focus>Dinner Money>Pupil additional Transactions. A refund can only be processed when a balance is above 0.00, the opening balance for the pupil will need to be temporarily edited via Focus>Dinner Money>Pupil Opening Balances and…
A pupil is eligible for a free school meal on some days but not all days, unable to put in the charged meal details. This can be recorded as an Adhoc pupil meal via Focus>Dinner money>Adhoc Meals>Paid child meals, add the pupil name in the reason, this will provide a record of the meal for the student…
Free School Meals in SIMS Dinner Money – Quick Reference Sheet. Free School Meals in SIMS Dinner Money Reviewed 29/10/2015
At the end/start of the academic year: a) Create a new Catering Year for the forthcoming academic year (usually September) b) Reconcile pupil/staff balances c) Produce appropriate letters for pupils/staff with outstanding balances d) Enter any new meal prices as part of meal definitions in the DM setup. (It is also recommended that the school…
Sometimes a cheque payment will be made that needs to be split between more than one pupil. Enter the full amount for one pupil and then click on the Split Payment button. This will display the pupil and other siblings. You can add other pupils by clicking the Add Pupil button. Put in the relevant…
Once a meal definition has been set up it cannot be amended. In order to make changes to the year groups you need to create a new meal defiition with all the year groups required. Go to Tools – Dinner Money – Pupil (or Staff) Meal Definition Search for the meal definition In the description…