Today’s QuickSchools mini-release contains a new feature for the Orchestra Master Scheduler, plus a minor improvements to the recently launched Lunch Ordering App. 

The Orchestra Master Scheduler is now able to track changes to Section Assignments in Step 5. These changes can be viewed via the new “STEP 5: Section Enrollment Changes (ADD/DROP) in last 24 hours” Summary Report. Here’s an example of what the report looks like:

When scheduling Summary Reports, there is now an option to either (1) save the current filters in your report, or (2) always use the most recently used filters for a report:

This article describes how parents can use the new Lunch Ordering App (with Shopping Cart) to submit and pay for orders online on the QuickSchools Parent Portal. 

The summary of steps are as follows:

• Go to the “Lunch Ordering” menu
• Select a Student
• Select Meal(s)
• Click on the Shopping Cart to Check out
• Click “Pay Now” and follow the checkout process
• Enter Credit Card information (or select a previously saved credit card)
• Confirm credit card details

Select a Student

The Lunch Ordering screen will list all students you have access to on the Parent Portal:

Click on a student to begin the process.

Select Meal(s)

This screen shows all the available meals to be purchased. Simply click on a the checkbox to add a meal to the shopping cart:

Our new Lunch Ordering App, which now supports Online Payments via our new Shopping Cart (Beta), is getting a lot of traction with our schools. So to help schools using this app, we’ve added a new Summary Report:

To enable these reports, just configure the Lunch Ordering App in your QuickSchools App Store, and add the appropriate users / roles to “Who can run Lunch Ordering Summary Reports”:

We’re still in the process of adding more Lunch Ordering fields to the Report Creator. So if you have additional requirements when it comes to reporting, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to turn things around for you.

Today’s release aims to address a few bugs introduced in the last release, plus a few improvements to the Lunch Ordering App:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Lunch Ordering

• Allow users to select meals via checkbox (instead of dropdown)
• Display “Note” for meals, when mousing over the meal name
• Bug fix when filtering meal by Grade Level
• Bug fix for unsubmitted orders

Other Improvements / Bug Fixes

• New Importer Support via SFTP (Beta)
• Increase Product/Service Dropdown list for QuickBooks Integration App
• Bug Fix Error for accessing certain Advanced Search
• Bug Fix Error when accessing Login History
• Bug Fix Error when accessing Audit Trail (Beta)