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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. employee reimbursements

    Allow financial secetarys to submit employee reimbursments on behalf of employees at their building as they know correct accounts, etc. to charge. The office then is able to obtain the original receipt.

    7 votes

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  2. Not display Inactive Bank Cash Account for Cash Receipts

    When entering Cash Receipts, it would be helpful to not see the inactive bank cash accounts. If we could have one of the following it would be helpful.

    1. On the bank cash account, add a checkbox to 'not use for cash receipts'
    2. Or just have the inactive cash accounts not display as an option.

    7 votes

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  3. Download application and all the attachments in one combined manner

    Currently, when my team onboards someone, they have to pull all records out of FastTrack in order to preserve the application, cover letter, etc. by dragging it into the new hire’s OptiView file. For each
    person, I’d estimate this takes about 20 minutes which is very significant when multiplied by the sheer number of hires we have coming through. If we were able to download the application and all the attachments in one combined manner, that would save a huge amount of time over the course of a year. Is there a way that Skyward can facilitate that happening?

    7 votes

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  4. Ability to print batch reports in Data Mining

    When I run batch reports in data mining, I used to be able to print all in order of report in the batch. Now I have to open each one individually and print one at a time. We used to print these all as one big batch in PAC, but during some upgrade we lost that functionality. Now in PAC or web, we have to open each one individually and then print.

    7 votes

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  5. PO notes available under vendors

    When a note is added to a specific PO, the note does not show up on the vendor tab (under notes), but attachments do. Can the notes show up like attachments do?

    7 votes

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  6. Add a Disposal Date to an Asset record for accurate depreciation calculations

    Currently, Skyward will not calculate any depreciation for the year once an assets is tagged as disposed. A disposal date needs to be added to the asset record and Skyward needs to calculate the partial depreciation in the disposal year based on that the disposal date.

    7 votes

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  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

    7 votes

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  8. Ability to mass import documents to employee files

    We use another program to evaluate our teachers and staff, the end product is a signed PDF that needs to be uploaded to the employee records. We can mass download the completed files with name and ID as file descriptors. What we need is the ability to import the files directly to the employee records without having to individually import each file.

    7 votes

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  9. employee profile auto fill into employee management

    It would be helpful if the Employee Profile fed into the Employee Management Module. When entering a new employee, it seems redundant to enter it again into the Employee Management section.

    7 votes

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  10. Update Addresess using USPS database

    Clean, verify and standardize SKYWARD internal address table using approved USPS Postal Services address database. This would improve the formatting and the accuracy of both the mailing and primary addresses.

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  11. Current Value Report Sorting

    Please add more sorting options for the Current value report. Such as the type code. It is very useful when reporting fixed assets to have them grouped by their type such as vehicles, or buildings. It would also be helpful if a description were added to the source expense account that reports.

    7 votes

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  12. Option in LPR to have the system remove Year of Service

    Similar to the CRDC, add the option to have the years of service subtract one within the template. We increment at the beginning of the year and always have to back it out. The CRDC has the option to subtract a year or leave as is. It would be nice to not have to manually update the information prior to submission.

    7 votes

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  13. Auto Populate W2's Issued

    When employees process their own tax returns, like through Turbo Tax, they can choose to have their W2 auto populate once a few fields are filled out. Skyward W2's do not auto populate.

    7 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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  14. Cooperative contract auto send the PO to the cooperative

    Vendors who have a cooperative contract tied to them to auto send a copy of the PO to the cooperative for verification. Much like we are able to auto send a copy of the PO to the vendor we could auto send a copy of the PO to the cooperative based on the contract used.

    7 votes

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  15. Contract inactivated based on expiration date

    I would like to see if it would be possible to have a contract inactivated from a vendors profile based on the contract expiration date. I don't want the contract deleted. I am not aware of a way to pull up the expiration date in order to inactivate a contract from a vendors profile other than placing the expiration date on the description. We have another software that inactivates contracts based on the expiration date. Could a date calendar be placed in the contract area to help with this request? I do see the active button on each contract but…

    7 votes

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  16. Ability to Attach multiple documents at once

    Regarding Cash Receipts and Journal Entries (ATTACHMENTS). I would like the ability to attach multiple saved attachments at the same time (by using the control key for example) to my cash receipt batches and journal entries. Currently we need to attach one document at a time and it is very time consuming. I think this request would benefit all Skyward software users not just my District. In a windows environment the control key within Windows Explorer usually allows the user to choose multiple files to upload or attach to emails for example.

    7 votes

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  17. Check History -

    Check History - Why is there no column listed with hours paid under check history? Check number, Gross Wages, Net Amount, Taxables, etc.... are all available but one of the most important items is hours and you can not view unless you click on the check.

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  18. When using Salary and Negotiations, Employee Mgmt, and upload to Payroll, it would be extremely helpful to have the Employee Selection Param

    When using Salary & Negotiations, Employee Mgmt, and uploading in to Payroll, it would be extremely helpful if the Employee Selection Parameters would be the same for all three - instead of having to set each one up separately.

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  19. VENDOR ACH SETUP

    We are moving in the direction of using more ACH processing and have come across the vendor "Alliant Energy" who requires certain criteria that Skyward is not able to support at this time. Per Aaron King (Service call: 3683187) the part that is not support is the Addenda 7 part of the attached form. Since we make weekly payments to this vendor (because of the various buildings with different due dates) we would like to see if something could be worked out to accommodate ACH processing.

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  20. tweaks to the WRS mid year reporting

    It is great that we now have the ability to create a report of enrollments and terms for WRS. We needs some tweaks to enhance the reporting. Due to the timing of when we can report new hires we find that sometimes they have received a paycheck before we get them reported. When that happens the enrolled employee comes over with earnings. Can that report be set to show zero earnings and zero hours?
    Secondly, there is no report that prints to show what is in the file that would be sent to WRS.After the export is processed it just…

    6 votes

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