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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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…

  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Report transfer

    Need a utility/function that allows for the transfer of reports to a new owner. When an employee leaves they have hundreds of reports that need to be transferred to their replacement instead of having to clone each report individually. This transfer should process datamines from all areas (emplyee, budget, vendor, etc.).

    17 votes

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  16. Custom Form Date field

    I would like the ability to use a date on a custom form without the day of the week showing up. I have to create a form with 26 date fields and the day of the week takes up a lot of real estate and it is not necessary

    1 vote

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  17. ACA 1095 Processing

    An employee accidently key a social in place of the last name. It run all the way through the process. When the file was sent to the IRS it was rejected with a TPE1024 error, after examining the xml file I determined that when Skyward created the xml file the numbers were deleted from the SSN leaving 2 dashes (--) the IRS flags this as a potential SQL injection attack. This error should have been caught at some point before it was sent to the IRS

    1 vote

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  18. Prevent Employees from Requesting More Hours Than Setup

    In Employee Access, employees will get an pop-up message warning them that they are requesting more hours than the number of hours per day in their time off setup. However, this is a warning only. Employees can click OK and submit the request anyway. I'd like to see an option for making this an error instead of a warning to prevent employees from submitting such requests.

    4 votes

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  19. Add field to Position - Assignment Mass Change Utility in Employee Administration

    We have a separate supplement plan in our system. There are many times when our teachers are receiving a supplement/bonus (Best and Brightest - Florida) or a one time pay enhancement supplement that every teacher will have the same account distribution. It would be nice to have an account distribution field in Position-Assignment Mass Change Utility to add the account distribution without having to touch each position control.

    1 vote

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  20. On screens where I have to Select a Payroll (like 3rd Party Retirement Plan), please add a Select All button.

    On screens where I have to Select a Payroll (like 3rd Party Retirement Plan), please add a Select All button.

    4 votes

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