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  1. Time off in Mobile App KS

    We require our paras to tag the school secretary in all time off requests - so the school secretary knows they are going to be gone for the day. (They do this by selecting employees to notify when this request is submitted and approved/denied) - however, in the mobile app this is not an option. Is there a way of adding this to the mobile app so secretaries can be notified in addition to the paras direct supervisor.

    8 votes

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  2. Employee Access, Time Off, My Requests

    If an employee is entering a block of time off, as a Date Range they are not able to enter hours and minutes, only when entering individual days.
    I have an employee that needs to leave early from work, so take one hour of sick leave, every day for the next month and they cannot enter it as a date range. Would be nice to have the option of date range and still be able to enter the number of hours/minutes off each of those dates in the range.
    Yes, I know they can clone the previous entry but that…

    8 votes

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  3. Delay making W2 available electronicially if staff chooses to receive paper copy

    For the staff who choose to receive a printed copy, we'd like the ability to delay making the electronic version of the W-2 available in Employee Access. Basically, we are hoping to give an incentive to those who choose to receive it only electronically - the incentive is to have it available earlier. Ideally, we'd like to enter a date or run a separate process to activate the electronic version at a later date (for those who received a printed copy).

    8 votes

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  4. Purchasing vs Recieving

    A purchasing and receiving report so you can easily view what was ordered, received and paid. Very simple column headings:
    PO number , description, quantity, received quantity, invoice number, check number

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  5. Please create a report meeting WRS specs for mid year mass terms and enrollments

    Please create a report that would meet WRS specs for the massive amounts of mid year terms and enrollments. We can data mine the information needed however, the set up and format they require is something that has to be designed by our software provider to meet the requirements that WRS has.

    8 votes

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    Thank you,
    Ashley Prinsen
    Product Owner

  6. 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…

  7. Fixed Asset search

    It would be nice to be able start typing in a description of the asset rather than having to know the asset key or tag number on the asset. Example if I am looking for a Dodge truck, it would be helpful to be able to type Dodge in the description field and have all assets that start with Dodge come up as a selection option

    8 votes

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  8. Accounting adjustment for General Ledger

    We need an accounting adjustment routine for general ledger similar to the accounting adjustment routine we have in the payroll module.

    8 votes

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  9. Reoccurring Check Requests

    Would like the option to setup reoccurring check requests. The option is available for A/R and A/P invoices. This would save some time when entering utility bills etc.

    8 votes

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  10. Display timesheet in Unsubmitted even if no hours

    Could it be set up so a timesheet is created even if there are no hours recorded and have it display in Unsubmitted Time Sheets for each week there is a workweek schedule? This would be for timekeeping rules that use Annualized Pay based on Employee’s Schedule (see attachment for screen shots). Currently the Unsubmitted Time Sheets area doesn’t show timesheets for weeks where the employee didn’t clock in for the entire week. This could be a problem since the employee is automatically paid using annualized pay and it’s possible time off or worked time was supposed to have been…

    8 votes

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  11. Account Clearance Groups - Add Mass Delete option for users

    Skyward currently offers a Mass Add option to add users to Account Clearance Groups. I would like to see an option to Mass Delete user option? We currently have to manually remove users one at a time.

    8 votes

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  12. Reocurring Invoices and purchse orders

    It would be nice on the reoccurring purchase orders is there was a mass update for the fiscal year. The way it is now you have to log into PAC and then you have to update each vendor separately with the new fiscal year. It is very time consuming when you have a lot of reoccurring vendors set up for payments. It would be nice on the reoccurring purchase orders is there was a mass update for the fiscal year. The way it is now you have to log into PAC and then you have to update each vendor separately…

    8 votes

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  13. Denial reason shown in email sent to originator

    If a check request is denied the denial reason is not shown in the email that is sent to the originator. This causes inefficiencies because then the person has to call the business office to find out why their check request was denied. Further confusion is caused by the fact that a Notes field is in the email that the employee receives it's just left blank. Therefore they don't think to go into Skyward to check if there is a denial reason because the field in the email is blank. It's currently confusing to people in our District because we…

    8 votes

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  14. Expense Reimbursement - Verify Available Funds

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    The Verify Funds options should be made available in the Expense Reimbursement module. Without this function, reimbursement requests can be made without available funds. The enhancement would eliminate the possibility of processing payments without available funds and provide necessary controls in the software. Like any other process related to budget...purchase orders, check requests, etc....this option should be applied to Expense Reimbursements.

    8 votes

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    In the meantime, if you haven’t tried this already, it could be the solution you’re looking for:

    The AP available funds setup in PaC > SA > FM Config > AP will govern Expense Reimbursements. It does so at the AP Processing level, so you won’t necessarily see the verification at the Expense Reimbursement phase. Neither will it verify at the Exp Reimbursement approval phase. Instead, you will noticed an * indicating that the account is over-budget.

    The system will, however, check…

  15. Be able to enter state codes for certifications instead of having to start typing out.

    Be able to enter state codes for certifications instead of having to start typing out.

    8 votes

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  17. direct deposit email notification

    It would be nice to have the ability to schedule the direct deposit email notification for later in the day. I have to process my payroll by noon, but I don't want the email to be sent until after 5pm. Right now, it either gets sent at noon, when the check hasn't been deposited to their account yet, or it doesn't get sent at all. I know I can schedule it as a task, but that means that the email goes out first, and I don't want it to go out until the check has been deposited in their account…

    7 votes

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  18. Paramaters to "Compare Assigns in EM to Pay Recs in Payroll"

    We need a way to eliminate inactive employees from this report.

    7 votes

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  19. Employee Replace/Clone

    Employee Replace/Clone does not include Employee Data Mining reports to be cloned to another user, but it does include Budgetary Data Mining.

    Add option to clone Employee Data Mining reports.

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  20. Clone a Check Request

    Please make it available to clone a check request that is in History. This would be helpful for reoccurring monthly bills that need to be paid.

    7 votes

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