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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Empoyee Acess Code viewable in Employee Access

    We would like to our employees to be able to view their Employee Access Code for TrueTime in Employee Access. Currently the only way to view the Employee Access code is in HR/Employee Profile/TrueTime/Setup. Employees are not able to view that themselves. They have to contact someone with securities to that screen to find out what their code is. It would be much easier if employees had the ability to see the code in Employee Access.

    9 votes

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    Where do you envision this would be available for users in Employee Access?


    Is this a fairly common occurrence that users are needing to reach out to get these codes?


    Thank you for additional information you can provide!


  2. Utility to Mass Delete ACH Information for Inactive Employees

    In the interest of security, and minimizing impacts of a possible data breach, we would like to have a utility that will mass delete ACH information for all employees once they have been inactive for a period of time. It would be great to have the option to run the utility based on the length of time the employee has been inactive, e.g. 6 months or 1 year.

    7 votes

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  3. Add gridlines on custom form design

    When designing custom forms it would be nice to have a easy way to insure the fields are line up straight.

    1 vote

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  4. Having a utility to mass change how staff receive W2 to be cleared out and not hang onto historical selections

    Currently skyward hangs onto what an employee has selected for receiving their W2 (electronic vs. paper copy) Staff seem very confused about when they may have selected electronic vs. paper copy. For that reason, I would love the option to run a utility to clear this our so each year staff are required to choose electronic vs. paper and historical selections are not part of this.

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  5. Enable importing data for bulk check requests and vendor adds/changes

    Enable importing data for bulk check requests and vendor adds/changes to expedite data entry when a large batch of checks for individual vendors (families) needs to be entered. Every year we have transportation contracts that require check requests for hundreds of private school families. They've had to be entered one at a time, along with vendor creation and updating, usually in a rush timeframe. Every year, this feature will create a huge time/labor cost savings and make it more reliable for us and Fiscal Services to meet the end of fiscal year deadline. The business need isn't going away. We…

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea -


    We do have the vendor import which is located through Web Financial Management > Vendor > Product Setup > Utilities > Vendor Import where you can setup a .csv file.


    As for the check requests, would it be expected that there are multiple detail lines on a single check request or a check request for each vendor?


    Thank you for your additional input!

  6. Text Messaging Authentication

    Staff are upset about installing an authenticator app on their personal devices. Could text messaging be set up as an option?

    2 votes

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    At this time text messaging is not being considered for SMS due to security concerns with text message authentication and spoofing.


    We have found the Authenticator apps are the more secure way to handle MFA logins.


    Thanks!

    Erik O.

  7. Auto fill wufar code for vendors when paying bills

    When paying bills it would be nice if previous Wufar codes would automatically load, since so many codes stay the same...at least for smaller schools.

    1 vote

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  8. Enable API v6.1/Data Std v4

    I'm requesting that Skyward enable API v6.1/Data Standard v4 for the SMS Skyward HR/Finance sends that Skyward is certified for by Ed-Fi for Florida. https://techdocs.ed-fi.org/display/EDFICERT/Registry+of+Ed-Fi+Certified+Products indicates that API v6.1/Data Standard v4 is available to Texas and Wisconsin and other states upon request. This request would especially be helpful to Florida districts using FLCode.

    12 votes

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  9. Vendors browse

    Vendor browse should include the contract tab for employees to easily see employee contact information & Cooperative to reference all in one location.

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    The Contract Information tab is currently available through the Vendor Browse, it is located under the drop down arrow next to the vendor name. I have included a screenshot below for you to view where this is accessible from.


    Please let us know if this isn't the option you are looking for.

  10. User Backup Options

    In other systems (like ASCENDER) when you run "major" processes the system will prompt the user to create and download a backup. If a user made a mistake or the system did not perform a process as intended the user could import the backup through a system utility and it would only revert that specific user's data. The user could then re-attempt the process. Currently, if a backup is needed it reverts all users data back to a specific point and time. Because our organization is so massive and there's lots of daily data entry/processes run, we could not expect…

    1 vote

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  11. Employee Access / Address / Request Changes

    Could there be an option to select which addresses employees would like to change when an Address Request Change is entered? Possibly check boxes beside all available Addresses for them to select the ones to update upon approval? Thanks!

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!


    We would like some additional clarification on this


    Currently, employees can request to change their primary or their mailing address and they can be requested to be changed independently. It may depend on how your request changes configuration is setup.


    Or would you expect 1 request for an address change instead of 2?


    Thank you!

  12. taxable sales

    I would like to propose the addition of a "Taxable Sales" button in our system to automatically calculate and post tax to the liability account. Currently, our bookkeepers have that and now that we will be migrating to Q they will have to manually back out tax and post revenues separately, which is time-consuming and prone to errors.

    Implementing this feature will streamline operations, ensure accuracy, and reduce the workload on our bookkeepers by eliminating multiple steps in the tax reporting process.

    I believe this enhancement will greatly improve our operational efficiency and accuracy. I look forward to your feedback.

    2 votes

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  13. Automatic Curser Prompt on Authenticator Screen

    Please consider adding a default cursor prompt in the Authenticator number field on the Authenticator screen. When logging in, one has to take their hands away from the keyboard/mouse to access the authentication code on the Authenticator app, and then reposition the mouse to the field when typing in the code.

    In my experience most authenticator apps automatically place the curser in the authenticator field. This will save time and hassle of repositioning the mouse to type in the 6 digit code.

    3 votes

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  14. Would love the ability to mass add add-ons by individual names as an option to choosing, for us, generic parameters.

    We use the mass add of add-ons utility every year. It's quite cumbersome to get a preview and have to go and delete every record off the preview that should not receive the particular add-on. It would be nice to have the option to choose specific names to receive the add-on.

    1 vote

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  15. Please make check request invoice information "talk" to the rest of Skyward

    Currently if a duplicate invoice is entered through A/P, Skyward will alert the user that the invoice is already in the system. Unfortunately, if a check request is entered with a duplicate invoice number, it does not alert the user. We have run into duplicate payments as some invoices come to A/P for payment unaware that a teacher has also received it and enters a check request a month after A/P has already paid it. Neither person gets any kind of notice that the invoice in check request is already in the system. These duplicate payments are not good accounting…

    3 votes

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  16. Inactivte vendor at any time

    I used to be able to inactivate a vendor at any time, but now I get a message telling me I cannot inactivate this vendor because they have activity in the current or previous year. This changed sometime in 2022. This makes it hard to stop using bad vendors or inactivate employee vendors who leave. I have a list of vendors from 2022, 2023 & 2024 that I need to inactivate. I was told I could inactivate the one from 2022 in January 2025. That is a long time to leave them active!

    2 votes

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  17. Add a place on the Standard Report card to add a name instead of all the same "Standard Report Card" with the date they were posted.

    Add a place on the Standard Report card to add a name instead of all the same "Standard Report Card" with the date they were posted. Example 2025 1st 6 weeks report card.

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea! This seems to be aimed at the Student Management Suite and not the Business Suite. I would suggest re-posting the idea to the Student Suite Portal for our product owners to review.


    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  18. check requests

    Add PO Number to Check Request so that the resulting invoice generated can be applied to an existing PO.

    2 votes

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  19. AP attached to Payroll Check

    Currently if you have an employee who is being reimbursed for anything it goes through AP, to post through payroll it would need to do a negative reimbursement. You lose history and there is no place to enter what that reimbursement is. In SMART you are able to attach and AP reimbursement to a paycheck. I know in my past job I had a lot of reimbursement's and they were added to my paycheck as well.

    1 vote

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  20. Background Checks

    Background Checks: Could there be a way to add an expiration on Skyward, as well as add dates to the teachers end? Teachers just see that they have one at some point in the system, whether or not it is expired they cannot see.

    2 votes

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