Today’s release contains improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler, Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart as well as other areas of our Student Information System:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler

• Restrict duplicate courses (with same Course Code)
• Show Course Code when displaying Course Constraints in Step 3
• Improve UI for Advanced Search in Step 5
• Customize generated Section Name in Step 6
• Ability to email Schedule PDF from Student record (see above)

Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart

• Improve Checkout Flow for Shopping Carts that have already been checked out
• Bug Fix Undo Cancellation from Order Fulfillment
• Bug Fix Lunch Order Listing in Parent Portal

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

• New Audit Trail for Simplified Scheduler (see below)
• New Audit Trail for School Profile (see below)
• Report Creator support for Student Documents
• Support for Fee Category in printed Invoice PDF
• Support for Course Code and Course Name in Transcripts PDF
• Improve support for In-Screen Help

Beta Improvements

• Support for multiple School IDs in SFTP Importer
• Support Student ID Card in PDF Templates App

New Audit Trail

We’ve added Audit Trail support in 2 areas:

• School Profile
• Simplified Scheduling

On the “School Profile” page, you’ll see a new “History” link next to the “Save” button:

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Yesterday, we released improvements in several areas including the Payment Plan, Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart, Online Tests and Private Messaging:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Payment Plan

• Show Stripe Connection screen when not connected to Stripe
• New Notes section for Skipped payments
• Only show Active Payment Plans by default
• Advanced Filtering for Payment Plans
• New email notifications for upcoming payments and expiring credit cards
• Support for Report Creator

Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart

• Parents can edit orders
• Refactor how Subtotal and Total Cost are calculated and displayed
• Improve re-processing of orders after cancellation
• Additional Safeguards against duplicate orders
• Bug Fix manual create order by admin with Mark-Up
• Bug Fix rounding of orders with Mark-Up

Online Tests

• Improve Teacher / Subject Selector
• Improve screen for Adding new Online Test
• Support Tags for Online Tests

Private Messaging (See above)

• Search Inbox
• Search Message Thread

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Barcode Support for Sign-In / Sign-Out App (see below)
• Improve how teachers names are imported based on name format
• Improve file size checking when attaching files to mass emails
• Improve description for Online Payments via Admissions and Online Forms
• Display module information from Online Payments
• Improve SFTP Importer to handle student name formats and duplicate courses

Barcode Support for Sign-In / Sign-Out App

If you’re using the QuickSchools Student ID Card with generated barcode, you can now use it with the Sign-In / Sign-Out App:

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Today’s release contains improvements in several areas including the Orchestra Master Scheduler, Payment Plan, Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart and our QuickSchools API:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Improve Course Request Import via SFTP
• Improve adding/removing of Max Sections in Step 1
• Cosmetic bug fixes when searching for teachers in Step 4
• Beta option to move sections with enrollment in Step 4
• Improve Step 5 Advanced Search with the new Minimize/Maximize function
• Exclude deleted courses from Teachers sections
• Improve how empty sections are displayed in teacher’s Schedule PDF
• Beta option to hide Weekly Schedule

Payment Plan

• Option to configure the number of Retries after a failed payment
• Option to configure the wait time to retry after a failed payment
• Option to “Charge Now” for Admin
• Support to back date schedule for new Payment Plans
• Email Notification for Failed Payments, with option to CC/BSS additional email addresses

Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart

• Improve the Sales Order PDF to include Subtotal and Credits Used
• Support Mark-Up when Checking Out with Credits
• Bug Fix Manual Orders with Mark-Ups
• Fix how meal types are handled for new academic terms

API Support

• API Support for Engage CRM
• API Support for Student ID Card on Mobile

We’ve been adding new features to the Payment Plan, Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart and the Master Scheduler modules on an ongoing basis over the past several months. We’ll be updating documentation on these modules, and will provide a consolidated view of all these new improvements in the coming weeks. Keep a look out for those.

We had a release last Wednesday, with improvement in several areas including the Orchestra Master Scheduler, Shopping Cart and Admissions:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Improve how constraints are displayed in Step 4
• Show Teacher Assigned Course Request in Step 5
• Support to override Room for a specific section within a Group / LinkNo.
• Bug fix for “Subject Schedule by Teacher” Report
• Bug fix “Bulk Transfer Students to Another Section”
• Move option to Print 4 Per Page to Private Beta

Shopping Cart Framework

• Support to exclude/handle expired shopping cart items (see above)
• Improve how the Shopping Cart module is accessed by role
• Report Creator Support for Shopping Cart
• Bug fix for empty Sales Order

Admissions Fixes / Improvements

• View Online Payment details from submitted Applications
• System Fields in Embedded Application Form and now Required Fields
• Support for Fee Tracking Invoices, when Online Payments is also enabled

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Show Date/Time in Private Messaging
• Improve support for special characters when downloading files
• Fix Callback Number for Voice Messaging

Beta Improvements / Fixes

• Support for Non-Binary Gender
• Bug fix Course-Teacher Configuration import via SFTP 
• Bug fix error when resigning teacher for Group Schools

Happy New Year! We had a release last Thursday, with improvements in the Orchestra Master Scheduler and Lunch Ordering. Our new Payment Plan module is officially in Private Beta:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Step 4 Search by Teacher Name
• Improve Step 4 Course List Preferences with reloading the screen
• Improve top menu for Step 4 and 5
• Teacher Schedule Board support for Weekly Schedule
• Student Schedule support for Weekly Schedule from Courses & Sections
• Increase scroll bar height

Lunch Ordering App

• Admin can adjust customer credits
• Update location of “Order History” link
• Bug fix when adding Lunch Orders for days that were previously deleted
• Bug fix double orders in Shopping Cart

General Bug Fixes

• Disallow deletion of Admin Columns that are using in Formulas
• Fix Missing Grade in Transcripts Configuration
• Improve handling of special characters in file name when exporting data
• Improve how Class Discussions are displayed to Student when student is not enrolled into any classes

Beta Improvements / Fixes

• New Payment Plan
• Add Online Payment Support for GBP
• Disallow parents from editing uploaded Student Documents
• Improve information on notification emails from scheduled tasks
• Bug fix error when running specific imports via SFTP