Category: For school administrators

With this release, imported DC files or manually edited NSLP applications can refer to the recently introduced by the ISBE Reduced Medicaid assistance program.

Usually, transaction receipts are delivered to parents within a few minutes but on occasion the system may postpone them for hours or even an entire day. This is because PushCoin has to obey a daily email quota for sending emails. If quota is reached, it queues up today’s email receipts for the following day’s delivery. […]

Once in a while we run into this question, usually at the start of a school year: “A student who never showed up for school was delisted in our SIS — why hasn’t PushCoin refunded the enrollment fees automaticaly?” To answer this question — and solve the “refund problem” — we need to review the […]

Starting September 1st, our users who came to pushcoin.com using Microsoft Edge browser were shown a strongly worded message: PushCoin did not receive any upfront communication from Microsoft about this. It was just as big of a surprise to all of us at PushCoin as it was to our users. It impacted students who were […]

In the past, it was possible for parents – and the school staff – to transfer money between the Wallets or Fees accounts regardless if the underlying funds have settled in the school bank. Effective immediately, the system requires that only settled funds can be transferred. This ensures that for any charge to have a […]

Consider the following scenario when deleting a cafeteria product: A terminal (POS machine) is working offline and keeps all sales and products in its local memory. Meanwhile, a cafeteria manager deletes a product on the PushCoin admin website. Any POS working offline is unaware that the product was deleted. The POS eventually reconnects and pushes […]

We are happy to share that our Fees engine has been upgraded with additional features that many schools will benefit from. The list of additional features includes: Prorated refunds. Enumeration-based discounts. For example, you can specify that students are not charged for more than two activities per semester regardless how many activities they are enrolled […]

Over time you will likely accumulate products that you no longer want to see on the Products page. They may include expired web store items or school fees from previous years. Deleting one or two products manually certainly works, but what if you have tens or hundreds of products that you want to get rid […]

Over the last few years, a growing number of schools participated in our new online platform that helps them organize field trips. Thousands of bus drivers now rely on our system daily. In a nutshell, drivers choose the trips they’d like to take and the system allots the trips based on various criteria such as […]

This post is a little different. After sifting through thousands of emails, we have learned a thing about this ever-evolving form of Internet communication. Below we share our tips for email gotchas. It’s a little bit of everything, humor included. Custom fonts. You may be tempted to use any of these pretty fonts from your […]