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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Ability to attach payment backup in AP Payment screen

    We currently have ability to attach documentation to an invoice but not to the payment itself. In many instances, particularly in the payment of payroll invoices, MANY invoices makeup one payment and is time-prohibitive to attach to each invoice. It would be helpful to have the attach option to be also available in the AP payment screen.

    1 vote

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  2. Ability to ADD zip code when adding new employee contact - KANSAS

    When adding a new emergency contract in employee profile - it will not automatically add a new zip code - you have to open another window (it used to do this when adding a new employee as well - but now you have the option of adding a new zip code from employee profile - but that option is NOT available when you are adding an emergency contract to employee profile and need to add a new zip code.

    11 votes

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  3. Employee Time Off Request in EA-

    Employee Time Off Request in EA- need to log history to track if they change or DELETE a request. If a request is deleted an email to HR and Supervisor sent as well. Employees can delete request prior to approval and we need a way to track this.

    4 votes

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  4. utility to clone rights from PAC over to web version

    With both web and PAC being available in our district, I would love to be able to start moving our users off of PAC. however some of their rights in web are not as fleshed out as they could be. Now, especially, with everyone working from home, we've found the appeal of web, with it being much more easily deployed for off-site users. I would really like to see a utility that could clone a users PAC rights, INTO their web rights, ensuring they could accomplish everything in the new version they could in the old.

    2 votes

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  5. Mass Inactivate Vendors in SBAA (Same utility as Order From vendor)

    Mass Inactivate Vendors in SBAA (Same utility as Order From vendor). We need a way to mass inactivate old SBAA vendors instead of one by one by entity. Larger Districts have tens of thousands of vendors that would require each vendor to be made inactive, a mass utility that would inactive all vendors in SBAA across all entities would be a large time savings process.

    2 votes

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  6. Separate bank account for each credit card transaction

    We use both Finance and Activity Funds on credit card transactions. When I build the invoice I only have the option to choose one bank account. Then I have to run a report to see which transactions that fell within my date range belong to a different bank account and then go into AP/Invoice entry and select that individual invoice and edit to change the bank account. It is very time consuming and if this step is missed then AP gets hung up when trying to print the check register.

    1 vote

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  7. ERO Credit Import - Update Credits for References (Charter Employees)

    We would like to see the ERO credit import update the credits tab for references. Currently, only regular employees are updated using this utility making it a manual process to get the charter school reference employees added for survey reporting.

    1 vote

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  8. Check history printing payroll check stub takes 8 clicks to complete check printing. Decrease amount of clicks to print

    Reduce the amount of clicks to print a payroll stub in check history. Also be able to print a range of check stubs instead of going into each one separately.

    27 votes

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    The check reconciliation browse can be used to sort by check number to view and export based on check number and can be sorted. This is located through Web Financial Management > Accounts Payable > Check Reconciliation.

  9. Give employee an error if they try to submit a time sheet before their time off is approved

    Currently an employee can submit their time sheet before their time off request has been approved. This causes the time sheet to error out when we are trying to import time sheets and we have to denie the time sheet and call the the supervisor or employee to get this fixed before we can continue with payroll.

    30 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this idea.

    This functionality already exists in Skyward. If an employee submits their time sheets from web, mobile, and reader when an unapproved time off request is out there for that week validation exists to prevent the user from submitting the time sheet.

    There is also validation when the time sheet is being approved to catch any unapproved time off requests at that point.

    Is the situation that the time off requests are being put in after the time sheet has been submitted/approved?

    Thank you!

  10. Employee Information Labels

    In Student Management there is an option under Data Mining to create Information Lables directly from a Data Mining report. Having this option in HR would allow the creation of labels (i.e., for personnel files) without having to export a file to Excel and then mail merging a document. It would be a huge time saver!

    1 vote

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  11. Budgetary Data Mining - LFM Name format for PR

    Can the payroll detail records for the Budgetary Data Mining appear with last name first? I was told that the FML format is hard coded into the system. Is that right? That makes it impossible to sort reports.

    1 vote

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  12. Add ability to search for journal entries and cash receipts by keyword

    When I want to search for an old journal entry or cash receipts, to view or clone it, you can only search by date posted. It would be nice if you could search by keyword in the description of journal entry or cash receipt.

    15 votes

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  13. Request descriptions on budget transfers, budget amendment, journal entry, etc. from master to copy down to detail line automatically with a

    Request descriptions on budget transfers, budget amendment, journal entry, etc. from master to copy down to detail line automatically with ability to edit if you wish.

    5 votes

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  14. 3 votes

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  15. view assignment detail in PaC (again)

    We used to be able to go into the profile of an employee, on the position tab and view the assignment detail. It is no longer an option. With payroll being on the PaC side, it would be nice to still have the option to view the assignment information and not have to go into the web side to view. Doing payroll, I am very rarely in the web side.

    15 votes

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  16. Mass payrecord inactive

    Need a mass utility to inactivate all pay records for a specific pay code.

    17 votes

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  17. employee reimbursements

    Allow financial secetarys to submit employee reimbursments on behalf of employees at their building as they know correct accounts, etc. to charge. The office then is able to obtain the original receipt.

    7 votes

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  18. Add Additional Security to Pseudo Approval Area

    We need additional security options for the pseudo approval area. We have added the option for employees to electronically submit a direct deposit change request. These requests will need to be approved by our Payroll Department. We also allow employees to request demographic changes which are then approved by our Human Resources department. We need for the pseudo approval area to have the ability to be restricted by different areas. Another option would be to at least have a report available that would allow us to pull requests, approvals, approvers, date and time in order to verify the appropriate department…

    2 votes

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  19. cash receipts

    It would be nice if on the ash receipts screen you could see the receipt amount and not have to expand it.

    3 votes

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  20. Sub Tracking

    Our district uses Sub Tracking and recently I was working with staff to view the Substitute Transactions detailed in Employee Access. Right now in Employee Access each transaction has a "Paid Date" and I believe that date is the period ending date that is being used when that transaction was imported into payroll. Can that pull the actual "paid date" or "check date"? Period ending date doesn't seem super helpful when we have the transaction date already reflected.

    6 votes

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