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Thought of that, but it'd look a mess, and we have split break/lunch to contend with too. How do trusts do it? Or schools with lower and secondary school?

We were with Scomis for SIMS, they were very good at supporting that tbh

Was hoping someone from Bromcom would chip in and say it's something simple we've all missed. I cannot believe it isn't a useful feature for loads of schools.

To be perfectly honest, I am not that happy with Scomis. It usually boils down to I log a ticket, get one reply at day until eventually the agent just escalates it with Bromcom anyway. We would't be raising lots of tickets, just when we do, it genuinely is something not working as expected.

The AP timetable is completely different, there is an AM registration period where the main school goes right into P1, then the length of the periods is 60 minutes vs 100 (2x50min A/B sessions). The real issue is the periods not lining up. Should a teacher be required to cover P2 at the AP, it isn't P2 on their calendar and there is a ~15-20 minute travel time to the other site. If everyone were sensible it wouldn't be a problem, however we are SLT are losing it as they can't understand the technical limitations.

Is it possible to have more than one period/day structure? We have an AP that has a different schedule, but this is causing issues with staff timetables as the periods do not line up. Scomis, our support provider, say no. I have read snippets here and there that say yes, but do not elaborate. Is this possible? We can't be the only school to have an alternative provision on a different timetable. Our "timetabler" has washed his hands of it so it falls to IT as per usual

Oh in case anyone is looking for the CSV headers, ParentPay do not make it easy to find this info, spreadsheet attached Manual Upload Template - PUPIL.xls

We were happy with Scomis for SIMS support so it wasn't a big jump for us to go with them for Bromcom. A few snags haven't been ironed our since October, which might be one of the reasons they are exiting the hosting biz for Bromcom. Sucks I will have to go back to all our 3rd parties to update our integrations and PowerBi reports... the URL won't be bromcom.scomis.org

They are exiting the hosting market soon

Bit of the tread bump. As of this morning, our ParentPay upload are still working... There is no settings in our Bromcom for it though. I am trying to find a template CSV for our pre-admissions. I think because we are Scomis hosted (for now) this hasn't been turned off properly...

Yep the IT dept (I.e. me) is busier than ever, but the tools are so much more powerful now

They have had a few outages and performance issues in a short period of time. It's generally fine, massively better than SIMS IMO

I recall hearing about Nextgen... 2016 was it?

Oh, 102% uptime then!

"100% uptime" when users can't do a register 😑