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Add On Modules for FUNDamentals

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FUNDamentals Add On Modules Guide
Data Imports Visual Solutions provides Data Imports for all common data entry areas in the software including:
  • Accounting/Financial (Revenues and Expenditures)
  • Point of Service (Meal Counts, Revenues, and Eligibility Status Counts)
  • Labor Hours
  • Inventory Values
  • Provision Percentages
  • Vendor Expenditures
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SFSD Contract Billing The SFSD Contract Billing Module for FUNDamentals enables School Foodservice Directors to establish other feeding programs not specifically addressed in the FUNDamentals base product. Programs such as Head Start or Meals on Wheels can be monitored with this add on module.
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Provision Module The Provision Module for FUNDamentals calculates Provision Meals based on yearly or monthly claiming percentages. Visual Solutions provides a Provision Percentages Import for larger school districts.
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SFSD Prep Kitchen The SFSD Prep Kitchen Module for FUNDamentals allows for the distribution of costs, labor hours, and inventory values from a central kitchen or serving site to satellite sites. This module also allows for selective linking of Administrative Centers to schools for the distribution of Administrative Revenues and Expenditures.
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SFSD Administrative Distribution The SFSD Distribution and Allocation Module for FUNDamentals combines all monthly distribution and allocation processes into a single utility. This module performs distribution or allocations in the following areas:
  • Distribution of Administrative Revenues and Expenditures
  • Distribution of Prep Kitchen Expenditures *
  • Distribution of Prep Kitchen Labor Hours *
  • Allocation of Provision Meals *
  • Allocation of Universal Free Snack (to All Free)
  • Allocation of Monthly Eligibility Application Counts Based on Provision Percentages *

* Requires seperate installation of other optional modules.

Distribution may be run one month at a time, or for all months year to date. This module also allows distribution rules to be established for each Administrative Center, so that expenses and revenues may be distributed as Administrive expenses or revenues, Local expenses or revenues, or not distributed at all.
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SFSD Best Practices The SFSD Best Practices Module for FUNDamentals enables School Foodservice Directors to establish and monitor performance based goals for their schools. The module allows for custom grouping of cost centers for reporting and setting benchmarks. The module features a "what if" analysis for setting participation goals. Users can see immediately how a change in participation will affect their bottom line. This feature also allow users to forecast, or establish a budget based on student population growth.
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SFSD Budget Module This new Add-On Module for FUNDamentals will help foodservice administrators create a combination school based and/or district based budget for the current fiscal year or for the following fiscal year. The software enables users to see the effect of changing meal prices, adding or removing NSLP programs at campuses, changing participation in existing programs, and shifting enrollments where campuses may be consolidated or split. The software also enables the editing federal and state reimbursement rates used in the budget formulas.
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SFSD Expense Generator This Add-On Module for FUNDamentals is used to generate defined expenditure records based on the summary of any linked expenditure sub accounts. The formula used for record generation consists of a user defined operator, a user defined rate, and one or more selected expenditure sub accounts. This utility is useful for the following situations:
  • An alternate record source for the desired expense sub account is either not available or not reliable and a clear relationship exists between the source(s) and result accounts
  • The source(s) of the record generation have been generated or derived from a custom module, excluding a financial import
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SFSD Budget To Actual Generator The SFSD Budget to Actual Utility generates Administrative Revenues and Expenditures by allocating a budgeted amount by 12 months or production days per period.
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SFSD Time Tracking The SFSD Time Tracking Module for FUNDamentals allows daily, weekly, or monthly data entry or importing of labor hours. Labor hours can be reported by employee and can generate expense records based on the number of hours worked by the pay rate for each employee. This module can track regular production labor hours as well as vacation, sick leave, overtime, or any user defined labor hour type. This module is ideal for tracking substitutes and substitute costs where the district finance office does not post those expenses by school.
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SFSD Invoice Tracking The SFSD Invoice Tracking Module enables users to enter and track invoices by vendor, cost center, and expenditure sub-account. Multiple cost centers and expenditure sub-accounts may be linked to a single invoice. A lookup screen allows users to:
  • Find an invoice by using filter and sort functions
  • Reload and Edit invoice details
  • Quickly get totals by date range and/or vendor
  • Export invoice information to a comma-seperated (.csv) format for analysis
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