If you experience the “Failed to fetch” error on the PushCoin website, this means that our Internet firewall is blocking your requests. This may occur when you access the Internet from a foreign VPN (Virtual Private Network) or a network segment that was recently used to launch attacks on our systems. To stop the attackers, […]
Category: For school administrators
PowerSchool pays criminals for a promise
As you might have read, PowerSchool admitted to have paid criminals that broke into their systems for essentially a promise to have the stolen data deleted. Ethical questions aside, it is our believe, that this will have negative long term consequences for the entire school tech industry. One should expect the cost of cybersecurity insurance […]
Impact on transaction fees from the new USDA rule
As reported by numerous news agencies, starting 2027 families of Free- and Reduced-qualified students cannot be charged transaction fees for NSLP meals. The rule complicates the situation since money in the student lunch accounts are used by students for breakfast, lunch and ala-carte items alike. At the time of parents making a deposit into the […]
[New] Locking access to a student
You can prevent anyone from linking to a student account by using the Lock (red) button, next to the registration code. Users already linked to a student are not affected. As always, you can unlink a user who has previously linked under the Family tab. Use this feature judiciously and consider adding a note under […]
A new toggle in the Users view
To reduce load on both the browsers and the overall system, the Users view does not bring sponsor accounts into the view by default. To see the sponsors, please toggle the checkbox indicated by the arrow below.
Card surcharge in payment plans
Currently all payment plans do not add a card fee. With the latest release of PushCoin, schools can add a card fee to their payment plans. If your school district would like to add the card fee to the monthly plans, please contact PushCoin.
Do not forget: 24/25 food coupons!
Before the first day of school cafeteria products eligible for FREE and/or REDUCED discounts must feature corresponding 24/25 food coupons. Without the coupons added to the products, students who received the 24/25 FREE or REDUCED status will be required to pay full prices.
NSLP: new family income guidelines in effect
For all NSLP income based applications, we have updated the income thresholds according to the 2024 U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines. Reference: https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines
[NEW] Scheduled report – expiration setting
In the past, administrators using the Scheduled reports tool had to remember to manually delete the reports when they were no longer needed, creating additional work. With this enhancement every scheduled report has an expiration which you control when you either create the report or when you update an existing one. An expired report is […]
NEW – Take payments at registration time!
PushCoin is pleased to announce a new feature allowing schools to take payments at student registration time. Today, parents are invoiced school fees once per month. This works well for cases when the exact fees are not known at registration time or the student enrollment needs to be finalized. However, there are schools who would […]