Category: For school administrators

In the past, PushCoin only offered a single, per active student billing. Some districts expanded their use of PushCoin to manage staff accounts for retirement fund payments or other non-student related payments. To allow these schools fully utilize PushCoin in other areas, we now offer a per active user fee in lieu of the per […]

In the past, PushCoin emailed a generic letter to all families of students who do not have a sponsor linked. With this change, it’s possible to customize the letter to your school’s needs. To request a change please contact PushCoin Support. For reference, below is the letter that is used by default:

Effective immediately (March 20th, 2023) all checks from schools should be mailed to: PushCoinP.O. Box 640South Elgin, IL 60177 *) Schools that make payments electronically are not affected.

It is possible to use Google Sheets to assign various student fees. Any time a spreadsheet is updated by a designated school administrator, PushCoin will automatically bill the students or issue refunds, if rows in the spreadsheet are deleted. While the Student Information System remains your primary source for driving mandatory school fees such as […]

Back in Dec of 2022, we announced that families would be able to enroll in automatic payment plans. The new feature was welcomed among the school districts and parents alike. Since that date, hundreds of plans have been created by the parents without any assistance from the school staff. This directly translates to many hours […]

A new parameter of the Virtual Terminal called Send notifications to families instructs the system to either notify the families of the charges submitted via the Virtual Terminal or post the charges quietly.

Here we describe steps for adding PushCoin Payments to school vending machines. PushCoin Payments are added to vending machines to address shortages of cafeteria staff, speed up lunch lines, increase revenues, and extend the hours of serving food. Although vending machines typically serve snacks and beverages, there are units capable of dispensing hot meals such […]

A tagging feature in the NSLP applications was included in the most recent release of the administrative site. Just like products can be tagged, now NSLP applications can be tagged too. The tags can be used by the school administrators to add markers such as “under_review” or “follow_up_in_october”. The tags are never shared with parents […]

In the past, the only way for families to enroll in automatic payments was to contact the school office. In January of 2023, the system will permit families to enroll in payment plans without having to contact the school. This is only available at schools that already offer partial fee payments. The feature works as […]

By default, our credit card and eCheck processor combines charge-backs and deposits. This results in more work for the school office when trying to reconcile electronic deposits. For example, if a previous month’s payment is disputed by a parent the amount will be subtracted from the grand deposit that settled. When this happens, PushCoin report […]