School Business Suite
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Add description field to payroll worksheet screen
This would allow users who are entering a limited access worksheet the ability to put in a description of why an employee is getting the pay. This would help the Payroll department to audit what is being entered and would be retained for historical tracking.
This has been a road block to using the limited access worksheets in our district.69 votesWe currently have the Transaction Pay Code in Payroll Worksheet which can be used to add a description why an employee is getting paid. Currently, what happens is when you select the Worksheet Detail record into Payroll, it pulls all the deductions/benefits from the Pay Record Pay Code, then renames the Pay Code to the Transaction Pay Code. When it comes through on the check, it’s the Transaction Pay Code, but everything is pulled from the Pay Record with the Pay Record Pay Code. Our suggestion is to create Transaction Pay Codes, but you won’t need to create pay records with them. By doing it this way, you’ll also create consistency between the different records vs a free form description box. This way will also handle any concerns about combining worksheet detail records into payroll transactions.
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On the YTD tab add the ability to accumulate TRS w
This would be VERY helpful when processing the TRS annual report. The outcome would be a quick way to check TRS wages when completing the annual report. It could be done by adding the ability to accumulate wages by a date range that would be manually entered. It is already accumulating by a predetermined date range.
35 votesThank you for submitting this idea and voting on it.
We suggest you try running the Update Retirement Earnings with Summer Payroll Amounts. This can be found by navigating to PaC > Human Resources > Payroll > Reporting > Retirement Processing TRS. Click on the “Options” button to run the Update Retirement Earnings with Summer Payroll Amounts.
Keep an eye out for Emails from Skyward for TRS Annual & TRS Pay Period Report Webinars and Training available this summer.
The TRS Pay Period Report goes live January 2021.
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We want the ability to auto approve the Primary ma
Auto approving address in employee access. You will not be able to use the auto approve option for the reason below:
When an employee changes their address they enter a new street direction city zip. If the employee chooses a street city or zip that is not entered in your system already Skyward doesn't have a data table to pull this information from. Remember when you enter an address in profile there is a table that auto fills with the street info. If you are entering a street that has never been entered before you have to add that street…
25 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We are not considering it for development as the program is working as intended as a security and privacy precaution. This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by our Skyward user community.
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Enhancements to Pay Distribution Report
Make the following enhancements to the Pay Distribution Report:
1) Add an option to print either the SSN Employee ID or neither
2) Add the Calc FTE to the report. Since this is sorted by the Account Number we will have to prorate the FTE and add an asterisk to the line if someone has a split distribution.
3) Add the YTD payments and contract balance
58 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea.
We’ve requested feedback while researching this request. Going forward, we are not considering this request for development.
Please continue to contribute your ideas — they push us to innovate, problem solve, and really understand your needs.
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Ashley Prinsen
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Ability to rename time off allotment codes.
It would be helpful to be able to rename time off allotment codes. The description can be edited but the code itself can't be renamed. As groups change their time off agreements the allotment code can become less helpful when selecting. Creating new allotment codes isn't efficient because then it needs to be changed at the employee level and the list of codes is a mixture of current and outdated codes.
A process similar to the renaming of pay codes deductions benefits and employee types would be great. The code is renamed everywhere it is used in the system. For…
38 votesThank you for submitting this idea and responding to requests for feedback. We’ve conducted a thorough analysis and have determined that we will not be pursuing this update for development. The scope and risk involved does not align with our roadmap priorities. This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by our Skyward user community.
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Purchase Orders
Purchase Order "Deliver To" Needs to have the phone number added as when venders call with a concern or question they always call the Billing Office as that's the only phone number available and they don't know the answer so then the call is forwarded to me.
With the phone number added to the delivery address calls would be directed directly to the correct school without delay in answers. Deliveries wouldn't be delayed and the Billing office would not be given unnecessary calls. You have built into the system address 1 & address 2 - address 1 could be the…46 votesThank you for submitting this idea!
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Edit the default flag on Employee Assignment
In discussing an issue in automating Active Directory record creation from Skyward the problem of staff assigned to multiple schools was identified. As Active Directory should only have a single record for a user a way to select the correct record of the multiple assignments that a staff member user could have in a year is needed. One suggestion was to make the current HPMASN-ASSIGNMENTS.HPMASN-PRIMARY-X field accessible in the UI so Personnel could make this determination of the primary 'home' assignment in these cases. The SIF agent could then pick this up for use in creating a single active directory…
42 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We’ve review this request and conducted some research for implementation. At this time, we are not considering this request for development. This request impacts many areas of the system that could introduce risk of instability.
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Holidays split between pay codes
The goal would be to have the system look at the employees detail schedule and split the holiday pay between pay codes rather then basing it on the primary pay code. The only way to currently do this is to manually split it and this leaves too much room for error.
The expected outcome would be for the system to look at the detail schedule rather then the primary pay code when determining holiday hours.64 votes -
"Other Name" or "Nickname" field
I would like to see an Other-Name field or Nickname field be added to the "Name" table.
I'm trying to utilize Skyward as the authoritative source for our staff data. I have found that many employees do not go by their legal first name OR other language(Chinese/Spanish) name i.e. "Cynthia" goes by "Cindy" OR "Hsin Jung" goes by "Amy"... (How does one find Amy in the staff directory when her name is listed as Hsin Jing?Why is there an other-name field for students but not for staff?
I want to be able to use this field to map to…75 votesThank you for submitting this Product Idea.
We've reviewed it and are not considering it for immediate development.
This idea will remain open for continued voting, and commenting. Thank you!
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Preferred Vendor Management
Some districts have special pricing agreements with particular vendors making using those vendors the fiscally responsible choice when entering a requisition; however there are legitimate situations where a user may need to use a non-preferred vendor (i.e. The preferred vendor doesn't have a specific item). Currently there is not systematic way to help users know which vendors to use nor a way to handle requisitions where users needed to use a non-preferred vendor instead of a preferred vendor.
1) There would be a new vendor code under WF\VE\PS\CO called Vendor Types where districts could define vendor types like "Office Supplies"…
49 votesThanks for the feedback! After thorough research and team analysis we’ve decided to not pursue this idea in the near future because of the scope.
This idea will remain on the ideas portal for continued voting and comments.
Thank you!
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Mass selecting recurring entries to create invoice
It would be great if we could mass select recurring entries for creating invoices for payment. Having to select each one at a time is much more time consuming than if we could select several at a time from the list.
50 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We’ve reviewed it and will not be pursing this development in the near future. While we see the value of this request it would require a lot of development time and it doesn’t align with our current road map.
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EXPORT FIXED REPORTS TO EXCEL; Sort on Class
It would be very helpful if we could export the fixed s Current Value Report to Excel to facilitate sorting/reporting/analyzing etc.
59 votesThank you for submitting this request. We’re researched implementing the request based on the information supplied. Thank you!
Ashley Prinsen
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Need ACA hours for docked day to equal hours workd
Need to have ACA hours for a docked day to equal daily hours worked in Employee Management. Currently the docked hours for ACA default to 8 and this is not correct in most cases.
Dock pay would automatically deduct the correct number of ACA hours when used.
Additional clarification from customer:We currently pull ACA hours from Employee Management. When processing a
payroll and an employee has dock pay it pulls up the hours associated with
the calendar for the employee. I would like the ACA hours to pull from the
hours per day on Employee Management. This way the…49 votesThank you for submitting this request and voting on it. We’ve had our experts run a few test at Skyward and we believe the system is working as intended as long as the set up is correct. Please review these steps & try this instead:
1) When running the Unpaid Time Off Import (Create Dock Pay) utility in Payroll Worksheets the ACA Hours are automatically created.
2) The hours are negative – to indicate taking ACA hours away from the total ACA hours for the payroll
3) The number of hours recorded is based on the Time Off Code Setup – Hours per Day
4) The ACA hours are written directly from the Unpaid Import. They are not derived from the ACA Import button in Payroll Select
5) Primary Pay’s ACA hours is pulled from the ACA Import in Select
6) The Import runs out to the web. It is…
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Please make the font on reports easier to read
I have had numerous requests from our users to change the font on budgetary data mining reports so that it is easier to read. The size doesn't seem to be the issue it just needs to be bolder.
57 votesThank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We’ve researching implementing this enhancement and have determined we will not pursue it at this time.
There are several limitations to updating the font so that it is bolder. The biggest impact is that by making the font bolder it will shift the font and take up more room. Every report in the system would need to be reviewed and most likely updated as data would get pushed off the report rendering them unusable.
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Ashley Prinsen
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Staff assignment screen - View Add on button
1) When you view a staff assignment we need a View button on the Add-on screen that will open up the Add-on maintenance window. Currently there is no View button available. In order to view the information we have to go through Edit Staff Assignment and then Edit the Add-ons.
2) On the Add-on screen the Amount we see is the Calculated/Add-on amount - a prorated amount based on Calculated FTE. When we make assignment changes we need to be able to see the actual add-on salary amount. If one were to inadvertently use this value on a new assignment…
47 votesThank you for submitting this idea. It’s not currently being considered for development. This idea will remain open for continued voting and commenting by our Skyward user community.
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Need to manually enter Barcode and Proximity Value
We should be able to manually enter Barcodes and Proximity values for our TrueTime users in Employees in TrueTime. Employees has their ID badges before employees are set up in TrueTime we need to manually enter these values verses hunting the employees down and then setting up their badges at readers.
This will be a huge time-saver for our employees and those managers that set up the badges.54 votesThank you for submitting this idea, voting on it and in some instances providing more feedback. We spent time researching this request and working with our Professional Services department for a viable solution.
At this time, we are not considering it for development. This request requires some heavy technical enhancements that do not line up with our current road map.
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Ashley Prinsen
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Time Off decimal entry restrict to .00 or .50
We would like to restrict the time off entry to be entered in decimal increments of whole decimal(.00) or half decimal (.50)increments. We no longer allow any other option of decimal incremens.
33 votesPlan to complete in the October Release.
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Update PSERS reporting for Sabbatical leave
Need Skyward to update PSERS state reporting correctly for Sabbatical leave.
We were given a solution in SKYWARD to create correction contributions but not a way (except with a manual change in state reporting) to report the wages as described below.
From PSERS ManualDuring the period of the leave the member must be paid 50% or more of their contracted salary. The
employer reports the actual amount paid to the member as well as the unpaid portion (totaling 100% of
contracted salary) each month. Members are considered to be in regular daily attendance during the
period of the leave…
44 votesThank you for submitting this request to the Ideas Portal. In reviewing this request with our State Reporting and Compliance Department, while our current process involves a small portion for manual verification, we are compliant with the PSERS reporting manual specifications.
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This report sorting rules should be able to be mod
This reports is setup to sort by social security number which is sometimes the way I like to see it but it would be helpful to also have the option to sort it by vendor name as well.
Having different options on sorting will allow users to be more efficient.
32 votesThank you for submitting this idea. We’d like to see more support from the Skyward User community before we consider it for development.
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Allow JE for SBAA to work like regular JE
Allow a Journal Entry for SBAA to post or pre date transactions greater than 90 days.
For Journal entry for SBAA to behave like a regular Journal entry allowing it to be predated more then 90 days.
33 votesThank you for submitting this request to the Ideas Portal. At this time we are not considering the ability to pre or post date transaction greater than 90 days.
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