What does SchoolComms write back to SIMS?

[Jehanzeb]

We are one of those who took on SchoolComms, only if I knew I wouldn’t have done it. My question is, SchoolComms says their system has the ability to write back to SIMS but so far we found neither payments of dinners or anything related to kids (including deletion, editing) doesn’t seem to write back. Major issue is with parents payments to their dinners, goes to a company CyPad system but doesn’t really add anything to SIMS.

 

does anyone know or found out what does SchoolComms write back to SIMS?

 

kind regards

 

Jehanzeb

[russlp]

I think it's just the communications log - so messages and messages marked as attendance.

[Seb1780]

I agree, just a log of communication - and then only when it is told to do this.

 

Nothing about payments is tranferred to SIMS.

[paulkerton]

We are one of those who took on SchoolComms

 

SIMS is a wing of ParentPay which Schoolcomms is a part of now...

In theory they'll be working even closer going forward!

[Jehanzeb]

This sucks, they sell their product to say it write backs to SIMS and so one would imagine it will write back but it doesn’t do anything. Really annoyed to be tricked in

[Boredguy]

Strange, on their website it appears quite clear that the write back is only the comms log

"Comms Log SIMS write back – allows you to keep an audit trail of communications between school and home. Reduces manual record keeping and ensures record integrity."