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  1. Payroll Description on Pay Stub

    Our district pays out Extra Duty pay 3 times each year (November, March, June) for coaching and advisors. There may be a staff person that has multiple positions to be paid Extra Duty pay. An example might be a Senior Class Advisor and Student Council Advisor. It would be very helpful if we could input additional descriptions while processing Payroll that would flow through to the check stub for each position they are being paid Extra Duty pay for. To take the example above, Pay Code EXP $200 with a check stub description of Senior Class Advisor, Pay Code EXP…

    13 votes

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  2. 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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  3. Internet Explorer Vs Chrome

    With Internet Explorer not being supported for many applications. Please review why when running Skyward financial in Chrome no X is available to clear a field. I have included a sample of what i am referring to.

    1 vote

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  4. Add Name ID to the Application Information in Employee Access|FastTrack Screener|Open Applications|View Application Information

    Add Name ID to the Application Information in Employee Access|FastTrack Screener|Open Applications|View Application Information and Employee Access|FastTrack Screener|Applications by Position|View Applications|View Application Information. We are currently usingFileBound's Connect to store all of our HR documentation. We integrate on the Employee ID. This would allow our hiring managers to review current employee applicants' HR records without having to make a trip to the central office.
    This has already been added to Human Resources|Employee Administration|FastTrack|Applicants|Application Information, but our Hiring Managers do not have rights to this area. Please see attached.

    2 votes

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    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  5. ACA 1095-C Tracker

    When the 1095-C tracker is run, changes are highlighted. However, once the report is exported to excel these highlights do not export. Please add the settings to export the highlighted fields as they appear in Skyward.

    2 votes

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  6. Credit card report based on date of final approval

    We would like to be able to run a credit card report based on the date that the transaction is fully approved, regardless of when the transaction, import or post date is. For instance, a report of all transactions that were fully approved during October, even if the transaction date is in September.

    1 vote

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  7. Preferred Name in FastTrack

    Add a field for preferred name to FastTrack.

    2 votes

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  8. TRS Reports

    We need a report that we can run to tell us how many days & hours have been reported for any employee(s) per month or school year to TRS. TRS has identified some of our employees that had no days or hours reported for several months. I don't have a way to run a report to check on all employees. These hours are reported on RP20 & RP25 reports in different months. The days/hours are not in one single place.
    This is a new problem, but one that I have always been concerned about with that first year since the…

    3 votes

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  9. 6 votes

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  10. 15 votes

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  11. 34 votes

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    Planned  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Hello! This idea is planned to be worked on. Stay tuned for more updates on this idea. Thank you and have a great day!

  12. 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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  13. Total on Screen

    It would be helpful if when we are on the chart of accounts or any screen with rows of data that we would get totals for the rows viewed on the screen. For example, if I filtered salaries on chart of accounts, I would have a total for the budget, debits, credit, remaining budget. these figures would pertain to the rows/accounts I would view on the screen based upon my filters.

    2 votes

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  14. Filter on all screens

    It would be very helpful if you are on any screen (i.e. - chart of account) where you can right-click and filter out certain information. For example, If I am looking at chart of accounts and filter on salary accounts, but I want to exclude overtime in my view. I would be able to right-click and either exclude every account that has the word "overtime" or exclude the object code for overtime. Instead of download the chart of account to excel and doing this filter through excel.

    4 votes

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  15. Credit Card: Allow access to view "Quick Key" & "Account Description" on Review/Submit Transaction and Approve Transaction screen

    It would be very helpful to all the "Quick Key" & "Account Description" columns to be an option on the Review/Submit transactions and Approve Transactions screen. This would be very similar to the option given for "Account 2" in the approve transactions screen.

    1 vote

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  16. Credit Card: Select All Approval button only selects the transactions being viewed

    We have filters set up for each cardholder on the approval screen. It would be helpful if the "Select All" button only allowed to select all the transactions the approver views on the screen.

    1 vote

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  17. Move columns are in all screens.

    It would be very helpful to be able to reorganize columns in all screens in order to get the information your district is looking for in order of importance to us. Another system I used was able to drag the columns around.

    2 votes

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  18. Credit Card: Allow a download to pdf of backup documentation for multiple transactions.

    When the auditors request a specific employee's credit card statement for a specific month (i.e. June) it would be very helpful to be able to select that cardholder and download all the documents that were upload for a certain date range. Currently, you have to download one document at a time. If that statement has a lot of transactions it will be very time-consuming.

    2 votes

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  19. Employee Locator - Limit viewing to ORG Chart structure

    Employee Locator - Limit viewing to ORG Chart structure

    Employee locator is a great feature under employee access. It is currently an OFF/ON feature. We do have it turned ON. However, aides and teachers can currently see Superintendent, Principals, and the personal time off and reasons listed for every employee in Skyward. This is information that we feel everyone should not be able to see. Having viewing access limited based upon the ORG Chart would be a great addition to Employee Locator in Skyward. I recently found out that Skyward employees already have something similar to this hard-coded into your…

    4 votes

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  20. Add option to add charter school employees to all formats for State Reporting

    In the State reporting maintain area there is an option to Add Charter Demographic Info but not to any of the other formats. It would be so helpful to be able to add charter school staff in all of the formats and be able to clone them year to year with the ability to edit and update fields. I find it hard at the moment to only add charter staff demographic information if we have to manually create files for all the other formats since they are not on our payroll.

    1 vote

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