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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Import/Create Vendors into SBAA & Order From Vendors.

    We would like to have the ability import and create vendors from a CVS/excel file within SBAA and Order From (VENDOR) side.

    1 vote

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  2. Org Chart & Employee Management

    Employee Management & Org Charts

    Can you please code the Org Charts to automatically add employees in the org chart under the correct supervisor, when a change is made in their Employee Management? The current method is inefficient. What is the point of creating a Org Chart using Employee Management if it doesn't automatically add the employee under the supervisor? It is extremely tasking to have to continuously make changes when an employee changes building (supervisors).

    22 votes

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  3. Not display Inactive Bank Cash Account for Cash Receipts

    When entering Cash Receipts, it would be helpful to not see the inactive bank cash accounts. If we could have one of the following it would be helpful.

    1. On the bank cash account, add a checkbox to 'not use for cash receipts'
    2. Or just have the inactive cash accounts not display as an option.

    7 votes

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  4. Account Number & Account Distributions From Employee Management Available to Employee Letters

    We would like to be able to pull Account Numbers and Account Distributions from Employee Management into the employee contracts that we provide to employees through Employee Letters.

    Account Numbers/Distribution are currently available in EM, but are not allowable to be pulled into document produced and posted through Employee Letters.

    1 vote

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  5. Ranges in Employee Profile screen on web

    would like to see an option to filter by term date in the employee profile screen under WH\EP\TB\AF. would be very helpful at the end of year for 1095 reporting, W-2 reporting and for end of school year for people leaving and people coming. for example, right now I only want to see all staff with a term date of 1/1/2019 or greater. I know I can pull a list, but I need to check each person's ACA report and edit so I would rather do it from the screen itself.

    2 votes

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  6. Add a Preferred Name Field in the Employee Profile

    Would like to see in the Name Information section of the Employee Profile a field that we can populate with the employee's preferred name

    63 votes

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  7. Print Commodity Codes on Purchase Orders (EDGAR "Like-Type" Items)

    The TEA letter from November 2018 regarding micro purchase thresholds under EDGAR have made it more important than ever to accurately measure our purchasing levels in like-type categories. Because of this, more districts will begin utilizing the Commodity Code feature in Skyward. Having the ability to print commodity codes on POs will greatly assist our end users with determining which commodity code to use on new requisitions.

    4 votes

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  8. True Time - Premium Pay during COVID-19 Shut-down

    Exploring options to continue paying our Hourly Staff regardless of clocking in/out, but additionally paying at a Premium rate for those who do clock in/out during the closure.

    1 vote

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  9. Add header option to display on Invoice Import

    It would be nice to be able to keep your headers in the invoice import spreadsheet rather than deleting it to do the import.

    1 vote

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  10. Would like the option to drag and drop people around in the Org Charts.

    It would be really nice to drag and drop names around in the Org charts instead of going through all the menu options

    11 votes

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  11. Email notification to HR for more than one status code on an applicant. (490 and 495)

    I would like to be able to set it up in Skyward so that I, as an HR Director, receive an email when an applicant's status code is changed to a 490. I already receive one for the 495 but would prefer to have both.

    2 votes

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  12. Purchasing Reports

    When running a Purchasing Report (specifically PO Payment History and Account Number Sequence reports - I would like to see the option to select a Fiscal Year so that when you have opened your new fiscal year you can run reports of purchase orders for the current fiscal year only instead of getting both fiscal year's PO's.

    13 votes

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  13. Time Off Request in Excess of Hours Scheduled

    Is there a way or could you implement a way for employees to not be able to request time off when they have already worked their scheduled hours? For instance: Jane is schedule to work 40 hours per week. She leave 2 hours early on Tuesday, but ends up working an additional 2 hours through out the course of the week. Therefore she did not need to enter a time off request. Since she has entered one and it was approved she will now earn 3 hours of comp time.

    3 votes

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  14. Electronic 941

    It would be nice if we could upload electronic 941's. Your website indicates that you have 2,000+ customers so that means that there are over 8,000 paper forms going to the IRS every year. Other software companies are doing this, why not Skyward?

    84 votes

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    6 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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  15. Please put the view option back on the position tab for assignments!!

    As a payroll specialist I was consistently/constantly using the Position View button to check information and to be able to answer questions for employees such as is there an add on to the pay base, what is the hourly rate, were the dates correct that were entered in Employee Management etc. The view tab was removed as it was considered an "enhancement" as it was moving all EM parts to the web but this is terrible for anyone in payroll. Please please please put it back until all of payroll is moved to the Web.

    8 votes

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    Thank you for submitting this ideas request.

    We definitely could have gotten in front of this better that these buttons were going to be taken away and we will make sure next time we decide to take any buttons away for data integrity and efficiency, we will make sure we inform our valued customers way ahead of time.

    The reason we committed to this enhancement is because Employee Management is no longer supported in PaC. The system did not handle the new salary calculation method and new scenarios correctly such as additional pay codes and add-ons, which ultimately could have shown inaccurate data for employees.

    There are many efficiencies to using the web. Example: currently if you are running payroll or running a report and want to look at assignment information in PaC you would have to back all the way out of what you were doing to go to…

  16. Mass stop assgn/start assgn utility

    Need a utility to stop/start a group of assignments. The best example of need is for a non-retro pay raise where the only change is the matrix code and dates.

    2 votes

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  17. Option for set amount during payroll accounting adjustment

    We would like the option to select a set amount during a payroll accounting adjustment instead of percentage only. The system could calculate the percentage in the background and move the associated benefits that way. It would be much quicker. We have tried calculating the percentage, but it never seems to be the correct amount so it takes multiple trial-and-errors to get the correct amount to adjust.

    11 votes

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  18. Allow Journal Entries to link to vendor profiles

    Create a tab under the vendor profile that will allow journal entries to be linked to specific vendors. This would greatly simplify being able to look at edits that were made after posting and help communication

    5 votes

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  19. Flag to NOT allow duplicate check requests in the Check Request module

    Create a feature in Check Request (Finance) that would allow us to not allow a user to submit a check request if a duplicate invoice exists in the system

    6 votes

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  20. Bolding out the Totals: Section on a 1099 report

    We have over 350 pages on our 1099 report. We need the ability to look at all vendors who spend over $600. It would be convenient and time efficient if the "Totals" for each vendor were bold to jump out at us better. Any chance you can accommodate by the end of the year?

    3 votes

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