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  1. 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.

    7 votes

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  2. 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.

    7 votes

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  3. 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.

    7 votes

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  4. ACH direct deposit email notice to vendors should include an excel file of the invoice information

    The body of an ACH direct deposit email notice to vendors is a list of the invoice number, description, invoice date, and amount for each invoice that is included in an ACH payment. Many vendors have requested an excel file of the invoice information so that they can download a file, rather than hand enter our payment information into their system.

    6 votes

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  5. 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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  6. Skyward Profile Notes

    We've encountered an issue with profile notes (WH\EP\TB\NO). When an HR staff member adds a note to an employee profile, only they can edit the note. If the staff member who entered the note separates from the district, no one can update the note.

    6 votes

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    I ran a test of this on an employee profile - I entered in notes as the original creator, and then super used in as another user, and was able to modify the notes as the second user.


    Could I have you verify that they have the proper security to the notes section? (At least level 3 access for editing?)


    Thank you!


    Erik O.

  7. Allow a timeframe for references to review and update responses

    It would be beneficial for Skyward's Fast Track module to allow applicant references a window of opportunity to update their responses, especially since the system has great limitations on choosing references and/or allowing HR the ability to manage the references in any way. We often receive calls from users who accidentally pressed enter and submitted the reference several questions short of completion, and currently have no solution, as once submitted, we cannot purge the reference. Quite often, if the applicant really wanted that person as reference, we have to walk the applicant through submitting another reference out to the same…

    6 votes

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  8. FastTrack-Add the capability to view the date an application was moved with the most recent notes in a column in the open apps view

    Add the capability to view the date an application was moved with the most recent notes in a column in the open apps view instead of having to hover. This will allow us to excel the data out and view the information at a glance.

    6 votes

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  9. Remove Batch lock feature

    What is the purpose of the "Batch lock"? Several of the secretaries gets block and I have to unblock them before I can update PO's. It's such a waste of time.

    6 votes

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  10. add a mass add of pay codes in Web

    If there cannot be a way to add a processing list to PAC to add pay codes based on a processing list please add a mass add/delete/edit option to Web.
    This is so important at the end of the year when we have 100+ people that we pay severance pay to. We could run a processing report based on term date and then give those people a severance pay code. We could then go to mass edit pay codes and change the amount for each of those people.

    6 votes

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    We’d like to better understand this request. Can you tell us more about how the current selection parameters on the mass change utility is not meeting your needs in PaC? 


    Related question/ try this instead: Are you using Employee Management at your district? If so, you can run the Additional Pay Code Mass Add Utility to add the severance code to the Employee Assignments using a Processing List. Then, when you run the Assignment Export /Payroll Import, the Employee Pay Records will be updated. 


    Thank you,

  11. Create a Button that says "Returned For Corrections" in addition to the deny button

    For approving purchase orders, currently, the only options are to approve or deny. We would like the ability to select "Returned For Corrections" so the secretaries and principals don't get overwhelmed with constant denials.

    6 votes

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    We recommend denial comments are very descriptive so secretaries and principles (or whomever is processing the denials) know what should be changed or if it can be submitted or if it is fully denied for other reason and cannot be resubmitted. 


    We have reviewed it and would like to see more support and use cases submitted from the Skyward user community prior to considering it for development.


    This Idea will remain open for the Skyward user community to show support by voting and commenting on it with additional use cases.


    Finally, you now have the ability to indicate the level of importance when voting on an idea. Please take into consideration all the possible enhancements Skyward could complete for you and rank this idea with the global picture in mind.


    Thank you!

  12. Add an eCommerce "flag" when approving requisitions.

    Add a column to flag eCommerce requisitions in the approval process just like there's an option when initially adding a requisition? I've attached screen shots.

    6 votes

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  13. Import applications from third party applications

    Many employers take advantage of posting positions to sites such as Indeed, Career Builder, and college recruiting sites such as Handshake, Simplicity, etc.

    It would be great to have those resumes/applications transfer to FastTrack.

    6 votes

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  14. Payroll department needs to be able to change pay codes without denying timesheet

    Payroll really needs to be able to change the pay code when they are processing True Time. Too many people select the wrong pay when clocking in on the app which then reduces the annualized pay amount and charges the funds to another, incorrect, account number.
    The process of having to go in deny it, wait for the employee to change, then get re-approved is not efficient whatsoever!

    6 votes

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    Have you tried any of the following suggestions?

    (1) Have you tried excluding pay codes that you don’t want? There is the ability to exclude pay codes that you don’t want employees tracking time against from True Time. This can be done with district wide or by timekeeping rule.

    (2) You mentioned the app. Does that mean that the employees are having the biggest issue on the mobile app? When employees have multiple pay codes to track time against. the primary pay code is indicated in pretenses. This should happen automatically.

    (3) Is it a business practice to deny the Time Sheet, wait for the employee to change it, re-approve and re-submit? HR should have the ability to update the pay code from the Employee Profile in the Web.

    Thank you!

  15. Add Vendor Address information as Option on Check Reconciliation Report

    Check Reconciliation > Reports > Report by Bank has not to sequence by Payee Key. If this option is selection, add additional option to include Payee Address information to the report. This report should drop into Excel with the address information usable on a mail merge. This would allow those who need to follow up on specific checks that have not been cashed to use the file to create mail merge documents to notify the vendors.

    6 votes

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  16. Allow applicants to change their references with every new application.

    Right now applicants can only change their references after so many days ( a year I believe) but many request to be able to change them for each application they submit. I get that request often and I can see where if they are applying for different types of jobs they may want to use different references or they may have gotten a better reference since their last application. The applicant should be able to change - update references whenever they want to.

    6 votes

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  17. COMMODITY CODES - YMA on requisitions & COMMODITY CODES on A/P invoices

    We would like to use commodity codes but don't due to the YDA limitation. 90% of our purchase orders are YMA with many lines of detail on each requisition. Having to put an account code for every line item and selecting individual commodity codes per line item is very cumbersome. If one commodity code to could be assigned to a PO via the YMA process it would be helpful. Also, an option to add commodity codes in A/P would help when there is no PO associated with an invoice/payment. Then, we could run reports showing purchases and payments by commodity…

    6 votes

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  18. 941 Schedule B - cannot click on quarter

    941 Schedule B - cannot click on quarter; does not automatically assign quarter like 941 does :)

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  19. report

    Mass Print PO's. Is it possible to add the ability to print a range for history reports? This would be helpful when an open records request comes in with a specific date range.

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  20. Reformat Electronic Version of a Check in Employee Access

    We would like to be able to reformat the electronic version of the check history/ Print check information you download on Employee Access to print out in a way that mirrors the paper check stubs that we print out for employees.

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