Category: For school administrators

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

A new column called payment_plan was added to the Users export. The values of the payment_plan can be: NONE User is not enrolled in a payment plan. ACTIVE User is enrolled in a payment plan and the last transaction was successful. BROKEN User is enrolled in a payment plan and the last transaction failed. PENDING […]

Starting October 1st, 2023 PushCoin food coupons can support the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program. Schools participating in this program can track sales of CEP eligible items and submit WINS claims with ease. The process of managing CEP coupons, products and students is described below. Step 1: Create a CEP coupon in the Food category. […]