| 50 Reasons to Use The School Food Service Director's Point of Service |
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| · Touch screen or keyboard driven. |
| · No propriety hardware required! |
| · Easy to install, easy to use. |
| · Use class rosters, scan ID cards, or have students key Ids at POS |
| · Flexible Pricing Structure – This software can accommodate any pricing structure by allowing users to create variable meal prices based on grades and participant types. The user may add an unlimited number of participant types. |
| · Flexible POS ‘Pin Number’ scheme – Users may import an array of student numbers like social security numbers and district assigned student numbers from the student management software used in the schools. Users decide which number will be used at point of services verses the software requiring a specific scheme. |
| · Student charge override is user selectable by student. |
| · Users select the default key for processing students as Cash or Account. |
| · Users choose from three methods of processing: Roster based; ID based; or Mass Entry. |
| · Al A Carte menus customizable by line. |
| · Users may choose the revenue category assigned to menu items. |
| · User defined menus display up to 18 items per line. |
| · Homeroom, alert messages, and account balances may be displayed at point of service. |
| · Color-coded account balance messages used to alert cashier of low account balance at point of service. |
| · Allows users to auto-serve meals at point of service to accommodate a la carte lines. |
| · Student pictures may be displayed at point of service. |
| · Plays “Happy Birthday” while a student is being processed whose birthday matches the current date. |
| · Multiple methods for allowing deposit collections: during point of service by id or roster and/or by dedicated line. |
| · Allows variable price per meal based on combined item price. |
| · A la Carte mode checks meal components to determine if meal is reimbursable. |
| · Caches scanned ids for lines where multiple scanners are used with one computer. |
| · All transactions automatically update financials utilizing NFSMI FUNDamentals software program. |
| · User selectable demographics requirements: phone number types, address types, numeric id types. |
| · Low credit letters are printed based upon account criteria set by users for each participant type. |
| · Drop and entry dates can be entered or imported for each student. |
| · Students can be transferred individually or by grade from one school to another. |
| · Data may be automatically updated to the district office or a file be created so that users can email or copy to a diskette depending on network restrictions. |
| · Low account letters available in English and Spanish depending on demographic selection per participant. |
| · Audit trail for start of day cash modifications. |
| · Multiple schools feeding from same cafeteria requirements fulfilled. |
| · Tax is added at point of service by participant type. |
| · Adhoc reporting capabilities. |
| · Daily Summary report displays by terminal for beginning and ending cash, cash and account sales, deposits listing cash and check payments, overage and shortage cash, ending cash. |
| · System information updates to school sites automatically as modified and flagged by school food authority. |
| · Allows POS program updates to occur at all or selected schools as part of end of day processing. |
| · Allows charge slips to be printed via receipt printers. |
| · Verifies 2nd reimbursable meal cannot be served to a single participant. |
| · Flexible program (meal) tracking. Track catered, contract meals, and CACFP meals as well as Breakfast, Lunch, and After School Snacks. |
| · Communication with School Food Authority via Reports, Diskettes, Modem, or Network. |
| · Reports include Account History, Account Balances, Status Changes, Daily Deposit, Pre-Paid, Emergency Roster, Participation, and others. |
| · Transaction logs and participant inquiry available at all point of service lines. |
| · Search for participants by homeroom, grade, or name. |
| · Single key-press entry at point of service. |
| · Allows entry of pre-payments, adjustments, returned checks, and refunds to accounts. |
| · Users may change account numbers and participant status as needed. |
| · Cash drawer counts may be displayed at anytime. |
| · Easy cash drawer counting. Users enter the number of each coin and currency type. The system calculates the ending drawer count. |
| · Audit trail of all changed and voided transactions. |
| · Allows for student and adult guests with variable pricing structures. |
| · Allows for student and adult workers with variable pricing structures. |