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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. Cash Receipt Screen

    I would like to be able to see the total of my cash receipts on the main cash receipt screen. Right now there is Batch Description Created Fiscal Year Rev Source Status etc. Unless I click into each batch I cannot see the total amount If there could be a column between the description column and the Created column with a total that would be extremely helpful for our district.

    6 votes

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  2. Add a notification email feature that will deliver to employee if they did not sign in and does not have time off entry

    Add a notification email feature that will deliver to employee if they did not sign in and does not have time off entry

    6 votes

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  3. ACA Tracker highlights

    The ACA Tracker report highlights changes. These changes do not export to excel. When viewing almost 2000 records, it would be easier to just view the changes. Viewing that many records on the screen is not very user friendly

    6 votes

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  4. posting to inactive cash accounts

    We switched banks a number of years ago and have some inactive cash accounts. Did you know that when entering cash receipts you can choose the inactive bank account and it will then post to that account when you update. It does show up on the cash receipts update report as inactive on the second page but my feeling is that it should tell you the account is inactive when selecting the bank or at least give you a warning PRIOR to the update report.

    6 votes

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  5. Attaching a paycode to a time off entry

    We have employee's that work 2 positions in the District. They submit their time off to individual supervisors per the job the system automatically applies the Time Off to their primary pay code. We would like to be able to assign another pay code to a time off entry. Example Paraworks 6 hours a day Kids Safari: works 2 hour a day Employee submits a time off request for 6 hours to their para supervisor Employee submits a time off request for 2 hours to their kid safari supervisor Currently the system says all of the time of is the…

    6 votes

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  6. Adding paycode - Add to True time message

    When adding a new paycode it would be nice to have an option to say yes/no to adding the paycode to True Time at that point. Time saving. Many times I may be mass adding a paycode for payment of a one-time thing - if I don't remember to also turn it off in True Time I end up with many confused employees wondering why they have a new option when they punch in. More often than not it won't be related to True Time and I'd like to choose that right away.

    6 votes

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    Ashley Prinsen
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  7. Add Individual Employee Pull to True Time

    We would like to be able to pull in an individual to pay for any True Time timekeeping rule. In the State of MN if an employee demands their final check we have to produce in 24 hours. We would like to use the system to calculate all money owed using what is entered in True Time. I have been told that the only way to do this is to manually create a check for the hours owed cut the check and then force the time sheets into history so that you do not pay them again for those hours…

    6 votes

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  8. Employee Cost Report in Employee Management

    I would like to see a report under Employee Administration - Employee Management similar to the Employee Cost by Account Report in Salary Negotiations. This report provides all of the costing we need for staff budgeting but cannot be created from the "live" plans.

    6 votes

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  9. true time account

    True time has the ability to enter two pay codes. However, it does not pull the correct account number from those pay codes. It pulls only from the primary. The system should be able to be set up to do this.

    6 votes

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  10. Credit Cards

    I've noticed a couple things that could be changed since working with the credit cards and training our staff on how to submit their transactions. I would like to see a pop up to flag the user to select a PO or something along those lines. It's too easy to add detail and acct codes without selecting a PO. Also, there is some confusion when assigning the PO detail to the transaction with the Assign All PO lines and Close as the options. I particularly like the Assign all PO lines option but it seems to confuse some. And if…

    6 votes

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  11. It would be extremely helpful to be able to have a person have more than one time off connected to true time.

    It would be extremely helpful to be able to have a person have more than one time off connected to true time.

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  12. I would like automated emails with finance to be able to notify our business office when I add an invoice type category and/or attachment to

    I would like automated emails to be added to the finance side of skyward. They are very handy in making certain data in is good and also that the appropriate people are notified to update other systems or pay purchase orders when adding invoices or attachment with category type of invoice. That way they know it can be paid and we are not waiting in October for a May PO to be paid.

    6 votes

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  13. I would like to be able to enter a negative max for a benefit on the main benefit code screen.

    I would like to be able to enter a negative max for a benefit on the main benefit code screen.

    6 votes

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  14. Denial Note for Time off

    When a Time off request is denied it would be nice to note to employee WHY it was denied -- i.e. Sick time must be taken in one hour increments, so your request for 1.5 hours is denied.

    5 votes

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    Thank you for submitting the product idea! We are looking into the ability to add denial notes when a time off request is sent back to the user.


    The idea will remain open for continued voting and feedback.


    Thank you!

    Erik O.

  15. Be able to add a ship to name without adding a vendor

    I previously had the ability to add a ship to name without setting up a new vendor. I need to be able to ship to our Ag Barn, but that isn't a vendor. Please put a button back in the requisition/PO group set up where you can add a ship to name without creating a vendor.

    5 votes

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  16. Fiscal year as default

    We do not close our Fiscal year until the budget is approved by our BOE in October. In invoice entry, there is a way to set the Fiscal year you want as a default. In Cash receipt entry there is currently no way to do this. could this be an added field on the Data Retention on Add of Cash Receipts? Since GASB 84 all of our schools enter cash receipts daily for credit card payments received and this is a missed entry often. See the attachment for the screen I would like to see this added to.
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    5 votes

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  17. Inactive employees in red in all areas like in HR portion of the system

    I would like to see inactive employees highlighted in red like in the HR portion of the system. When looking at security or groups it would be very helpful to see a color differential for inactive employees.

    5 votes

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  18. Why, Why, Why is there not a way to save the adjustments that we make

    Why, why ,why can we not save the adjustments that we make to get our columns the size and stuff that we want (like the clone option)??!! I make the adjustments to the columns to fit my needs and then as soon as you leave the page they disappear. The idea that I have to redo it EVERYTIME I come back to that page is RIDICULOUS! I know it can happen because I have them saved in some areas (they say "clone). Why not offer that on all the pages that we can already make adjustments...ie the add requisition accounts…

    5 votes

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  19. pseudo approval

    Create a notification to the approver when an employee requests an address change/direct deposit change or any change that requires a pseudo approval. This way we don't need to go in daily and check pseudo approvals for any new submissions.

    5 votes

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