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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Option to auto create vendor on employee add - individually not mass

    I would like to see an option when creating a new employee to create a vendor at the same time for that employee. However I don't want this to be a system wide/mass add option. We don't want to add every employee as a vendor, just certain ones. A check box during the employee creation would be great. This would trigger the vendor to be created and carryover ACH info to vendor profile automatically.

    4 votes

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  2. “Note” & “Attach” buttons: Credit card, check request, JE, CR input entry screens are not consistent in existence or placement. (attachmnt

    “Note” & “Attach” buttons: For credit card, check request, journal entry, and cash receipt input entry screens are not consistent in existence or placement of the buttons. (See attachment for more detail)

    4 votes

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  3. Other Ways to Search for a PO or Requisition

    Add other ways to search for PO's and Req's besides the PO or Req number. Specifically by vendor, amount or date span. Most of our users (other than our AP person) are looking for a PO to view what was ordered so they can reorder, to know a price, to know a quantity, to find out an account number, etc. but they don't know the PO or Req# to search for it in Skyward.

    6 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Purchasing  ·  Admin →
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  4. Save eCommerce Requisitions

    Give the ability to save eCommerce Requisitions once started. Sometimes you will be entering an eCommerce order and you will have 50 things that you want to get. Once you hit the submit button it will crash and you loose everything. It would also be nice if you could save it that you could come back and make any changes for example you decided you only need 5 boxes of pens instead of 10. If you had the ability to edit, it would take about 20 seconds instead of 20 minutes to fix.

    2 votes

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  5. Choose a date span for Summary Reports

    Currently we can only choose a date span when running a data mining report if it is a Detailed Report. We need to be able to run a Summary Report by date span too.

    10 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Data Mining  ·  Admin →
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  6. Certification details

    Currently can enter the issue/expiration dates for the certification master section. Need the ability to enter issue/expiration dates on the certification detail section in order to determine infield/outfield status. Example is a teacher who gets an additional certification area 3 years into the certificate but should not be reported as infield for that area before the addition area was received.

    4 votes

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  7. add-on reporting

    Add-on codes need to use the state code defined to report Florida additional compensation information. If you don't use the pay-code of the assignment the hourly rate calculation is inaccurate which means the additional paycode tab is of no value because of the wrong rate. Another option if different paycode values must be maintained is to have a check-box that says these codes should be included in the calculation of hourly rate when transferring to the additional paycodes. If this option is used, it needs to also follow the additional pay code screen and allow a box to mark so…

    2 votes

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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. Our State and Federal Reporting Department has review this request for State Reporting compliance.

    At this time, we need your feedback! If you support this idea, please vote and comment on it and provide your use case for how this enhancement will benefit you and your processes.

    Thank you!

  8. Salary Negotiations Plan Security

    We would like an additional layer of security/configuration added to the SN Plans. Need to allow users to continue maintaining under the Base Plan but not any of the Freeze Plans. This would help prevent users from accidentally updating the wrong plan both under Employee Profile and directly in Salary Negotiations.

    2 votes

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  9. Is there a way to mark a position/assignment in EM as the primary assignment? Pulls in coach job not teacher job when I want primary job onl

    Is there a way to mark a position/assignment in EM as the primary assignment, like you can mark a pay record as primary? When I run Data Mining reports data being pulled in is all their assignments (coaching, extra duty) and not just the primary (teacher) when I want primary job only. I have to always pull in multiple assignments and then edit the excel document so I only have their primary assignment and not all the extras. I do not want to create multiple plans, I like to view all of an employee's assignments for a year at once.…

    11 votes

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  10. Option to reprint vouchers in Accounts Payable or a system setting to not move forward until opened

    In Kansas, our PR and AP clerks are both having issues remembering to print their vouchers while doing PR and AP. My PR clerk is trying to get into the habit of saving those each time but forgets to do that and print them sometimes. Is there a way to go back and reprint vouchers that you know of? If not then could a setting be added to not move onto the next section in AP until vouchers are printed or at least opened. This is the option if you don't print checks, but would like to see that added…

    15 votes

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  11. Participates in Sick Bank

    It wold be great to have a mass process to check the Participates in Sick Bank box on profile. We have not previously used this, but I would like to for tracking purposes.

    2 votes

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  12. 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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    Tell us More  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We need more feedback.

    Could you provide a working example, and what you would expect to change? Could you explain with the working example why each update would be helpful for your process? We’d like to better understand this request.

    Thank you!

  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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    1 comment  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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    Thank you for submitting the product idea!

    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.

  20. 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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    Deferred  ·  Ashley Prinsen responded

    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!

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