In the next major release of PushCoin, the Student Wallet feature has been significantly redesigned. PushCoin V1 (Current Version) In the current production version (V1), the Student Wallet functions as an account that can accept both charges—typically from cafeteria point-of-sale (POS) systems—and deposits from parents. Charges for meals deduce the Wallet balance, while other charges, […]
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Identified Inconsistencies in USDA Income Eligibility Guidelines Based on Income Frequency Reporting
Policy Memorandum Subject: Identified Inconsistencies in USDA Income Eligibility Guidelines Based on Income Frequency Reporting Reported to USDA, ISBE: October 25, 2019Most recent update: June 6, 2025 Author: Slawomir Lisznianski, PushCoin Overview Analysis of the USDA Income Eligibility Guidelines for Free and Reduced-Price Meals (130% and 185% of the Federal Poverty Level) for the 48 […]
New feature: controlling access to student accounts
Your district can request that anyone wishing to link to a student must enter a valid registration code. Currently, if sufficient student personal information is entered, a parent can look up their child without knowing the registration code. The personal information required to find a student without the registration code includes all of: date of […]
New type of attacks targeting email accounts
We have received a report of a fairly sophisticated attack on a parent email account at AT&T (serviced by Yahoo). The attack works as follows: a parent’s email account is compromised. The original emails are deleted and substituted with look-alike emails with injected content by the attackers. The injected content can include links to websites […]
Why am I seeing “Failed to fetch” message
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, […]
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.