Civica cashless / parentpay

[ozydave]

Hi,

 

We currently have NRS (now Civica) and parentpay.

 

We are an all through school.

For our primary phase, we need a some way for parents to book the menu choices online (Parentpay possibly) and pay for them.

Then in the morning, a member of staff collates the choices and hands to the caterers.

 

Ideally what we would like:

Parents go onto parent pay, select the menu for choices for the following week. Pay on parentpay.

These choices then go into the Civica catering system so the caterers know what to order and what meals to get ready.

 

Hope this makes sence

 

Cheers

[ozydave]

Hi

We were assured this would be the solution for us. Parent Pay said it would do what we needed. It didn't and we have now going to use School Cons for the primary phase.

Still using parent pay for the secondary phase.

 

The reason it didn't work out was to do with parent accounts.

If parents had above 5 children the parent would need 2 different logins. Which would have gotten real messy. (We have a number of parents above 5 kids [emoji45])

We have a single SIMS instance across both phases, and the ParentPay route meant two instances of ParentPay. There was two MISsyncs going on, so say a parent had a child in primary and child in secondary. Both children would appear in both instances of ParentPay.

 

Just way to messy.

 

The above prob makes no sense. Happy to chat next week if needed