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SMS 2.0 School Business Suite


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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Requisition/Purchase Order comparison

    We need a report to compare the prior year's purchase order totals by group to the current year's requisition totals by by group. For example, you can see that 1st grade spent $1,200 this year and then you can see that they have requisitioned $1,300 for next year. This would greatly help to be able to compare the information for reasonableness from year to year. It would be ideal for the information to be available to the approvers in the requisition approval screen. Attached are excel versions of a report that I created

    1 vote

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  2. Identify Teaching Postings with Subject Specificity

    We would like to be able to add the subject area to the position in a posting. For example, a math position would also have "Algebra I" or "Geometry" included in the name of the position, not just the body of the posting.

    5 votes

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  3. Dependent report from insurance tracking enrollment data

    PLEASE include gender of the dependents in the report data. Names are not necessarily indicative of gender of the dependents and we need the data for other information / reports we create.

    11 votes

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  4. 52 votes

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  5. Import applications from third party applications

    Many employers take advantage of posting positions to sites such as Indeed, Career Builder, and college recruiting sites such as Handshake, Simplicity, etc.

    It would be great to have those resumes/applications transfer to FastTrack.

    6 votes

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  6. Requesting Time Off for a Specific Fiscal Year/From that Specific Year's Allocations

    We would like to suggest that Time Off can be requested for a specified fiscal year. Example: current school year is 2022-2023 and the employee has a scheduled trip during the 2023-2024 (following) school year. We would like the employee to have the option to select the calendar year to submit their request from 'that fiscal year's time off allocations' (not the current year's allocations).

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.


    Thank you!

  7. Have the notes on a requisition print on the purchase order

    Have the notes on a requisition print on the purchase order.

    4 votes

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  8. Ded/Ben Set Up = Single

    Having a deduction and benefit code check type be set up as single. Currently having to manually make this edit each payroll. The current choices for set up are regular, wire, hold and blank. We also tried having the set up check type as blank and set the default check type to single on the vendor profile and the check type turned to H (hold). Just hoping to save a step or if it is accidentally forgotten to manually update.

    2 votes

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  9. search for specific dates and dollar amounts

    add search function to find specific dollar amounts or dates

    1 vote

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea.  

    Can you help me understand this idea better?


    Where in the system would you like to be able to search for specific dollar amounts or dates?


    How would you expect this search to work?


    Could you help me understand the full process, and how being able to search on dollar amounts or dates will improve your day to day?


    Thank you!

  10. Adding a Room field within Skyward Business

    I think it would be great to have a room number field within Skyward Business. Our IAM system syncs with Skyward and it would be great to pull the room number from one central source and push out all of this to our other downstream systems.

    1 vote

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  11. View Time off for same department employees and supervisors

    Supervisor wants everyone in the department to be able to see time off for everyone in the department at any level, but not to be able to see how they are using their time off. Another words, he want employees to be able to see the name of the other employees taking off, but not if they were NCD, sick, etc. This would be a great help to the department, because employees never know when supervisors are going to be off.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Additionally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when submitting or voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.


    Thank you!

  12. Allow us to see if an emloyee has the true time button when setting them up

    There are so many things that need to be set up before an employee can see their True Time module. Even though we can see that employees appear in a Timekeeping rule it doesn't mean they have the ability to see/use the TT button . If we could see if they have it when we are in their profile under the blue circled i like we can use check estimator it would avoid having to log in as the employee and ensuring they have the button open to them. There are too many variables that need to align and often…

    9 votes

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  13. language

    Could we add Language in Employee Access as a field that connects to the Language field in Profile? And, also make it a field that an employee can request to change?

    1 vote

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  14. Add submit button to invoice entry screen

    Add "submit for approval" button to the invoice entry screen or "Save for later", similar to the credit card screen. Also, being able to submit for approval by batch would be helpful if the supervisor then received only one email notification.

    4 votes

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  15. pseudo approval

    When looking at historical pseudo approvals , we would be nice to know if the employee requested for a set amount or a percentage. We can see that they requested a deduction amount but we can't confirm if they wanted a set amount or a percentage withheld. (checking to see if we set it up correctly) Just a letter like "P" for percentage next to the word deduction - would be helpful.

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  16. Expand Attachments function to show more than 20 records

    Please do this ASAP!! We are trying to go paperless and are scanning old documents into the Attachments area of the Employee Profile but you are only allowed to view 20 records at a time. This way, if there are more than 20 documents, if you try to sort by title or date, only page 1 sorts and the items on page 2 don't sort with it so you would have to go in and sort page by page to find things. Almost every other field in Skyward allows you to expand what shows on a page up to 2000…

    3 votes

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  17. It would be great if you could print Copy A that is submitted to the IRS for 1099's, if there is an issue efile you can submit via mail

    It would be great if Copy A of 1099s can be printed from skyward. If there is an issue wit e-file with the IRS there is an option to print instead of handwrite all 1099's

    4 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea. Our Federal Reporting and Compliance Department reviewed it and provided the following response:


    Because Copy A is only valid when printed on specialized paper forms obtained directly through the IRS, it is in the best interest of our users to not offer that particular printing option since submitting the forms on the wrong paper could result in penalties from the IRS.


    Please reference this website for more detailed information: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1099nec.pdf


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  18. Please add ability to mass change position amount in Position Assignments Mass Change Utility.

    We use an amount on our stipend positions because they are the same for everyone that gets that stipend. This year we raised the amounts for some stipends. I had to manually edit each position for each campus in order to update the amount on the position because on the position-mass change utility, there is no place to update the amount. I would like a field to be added to the position -mass change utility that will update the amount on positions selected.

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Thank you!

  19. Allow text messaging option in addition to email for alerts and updates.

    Allow text messaging option in addition to email for alerts and updates. For example in Time Off, Fast Track; notification could be received via text to alert that a request has been submitted.

    3 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We researched implementing Text Message within our system and determined the scope of development did not align with our Roadmap vision. 


    We do have Push Notifications for some areas in our Business Suite:


    Time Off: Request Awaiting Approval, Request Approved, and Request Denied


    True Time: Time Sheet Awaiting Approval, Time Sheet Denied


    Finance: Requisitions Awaiting Approval, Check Requests Awaiting Approval, and Credit Card Transaction Awaiting Approval


    To enable these Push Notifications please navigate to: Product Setup / System Administration / Push Notification Queue/ Configuration (PS\SA\NQ).


    We will evaluate implementing Fast Track pus notification as part of researching this Product Idea.


    Thank you!

  20. Pulling Reports on Historical Data when an Employee has changed Employee Type

    I would like to see some enhancements on historical payroll data reports.
    I want to pull a report showing the total payroll amounts by Employee Type and pay code type. HOWEVER, I want the report to show those that were in that employee type during the time frame of the payrolls.
    For example, in 2020-21, Susie Smith was a paraprofessional. In 2021-2022, she became a teacher. I want to be able to pull a report for 2020-21 showing employees that were paras at the time. Right now, the system only pulls current employee types. So if I need to pull…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this Product Idea. We have reviewed it and would like to see more support from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Thank you!

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