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SMS 2.0 Student Management Suite


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  1. ACH Check Request Option

    Please allow the option for ACH Check Request for SBAA. We currently have several online payments that have to be entered as journal entries, which means the information is not being included in the vendor 1099 information.

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    Thank you for submitting this idea request.

    This functionality exists in Qmlativ, where Activity Accounting (aka SBAA in SMS 2.0) mirrors most everything in Core Finance including eCommerce, Credit Cards, and ACH.

    Some alternative solutions to try in SMS 2.0 include:
    1. Run ACH payments through Accounts Payable.
    2. Physically run a check in lieu of the ACH payment.
    3. Continue to post the journal entries (not recommended by Skyward) and alter the 1099 reporting at the end of the year.

    Thank you.

  2. Auditors would like to see Skyward create an Automatic Journal entry numbering system. This then creates an audit control .

    Auditors would like to see Skyward create an Automatic Journal Entry Numbering System. This then creates a audit control and it is not up to the user to create a numbering system.

    3 votes

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  3. Add Approval and Deny Capabilities in the initial notification email for time off requests and PO Requisitions

    Add Approval and Deny Capabilities in the initial notification email for time off requests and PO Requisitions

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  4. Include option to print budgetary reports to Word.

    In PaC, we were able to export the report to Word or Excel. Now, with the latest updated, we are only able to export to Excel. I know we can convert the Adobe printed report to Word, but that is an enhancement that you have to purchase with Adobe and if I want to combine a summary & detail reports into one file, the process is more complex and doesn't work well....print to Adobe, convert to Word, then do the same to the other report, but when you copy one report to the other, the reports headers get funky. You…

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  5. Under personnel tab - comment section, it does not allow allow enough room to enter comments.

    Under personnel tab, comment section, can you allow more room to type text in the comment field? There is not enough room and we document many things under that tab for employees.

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  6. Add Req Entry Option to make Commodity Codes a REQUIRED field on YDA/YMA requisitions.

    More and more districts want to use Commodity Codes, but so often the field is forgotten when the detail is being added.

    Add a Purchasing > Setup > Configuration > Req Entry Option to make Commodity Code Field a required field on each line item for YDA, or entire PO for YMA and/or Blanket POs.

    3 votes

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  7. Receiving Records, quantities remaining

    In Purchasing > Purchasing Activity under the Receiving Records, it would be beneficial to see the records added together to give the remaining quantities yet to be received. I think adding an extra column after "PO Quantity received" titled something like "Line Nbr. Quantity remaining" would be possible.

    3 votes

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  8. Add a COMMENT field to Assignment

    Add a 30 character free-form text field to EMS/SN > Assignment Maintenance > Assignment Detail .

    This field would be used by HR to flag assignments changes throughout the year that are currently managed outside of Skyward.

    Most HR departments keep a separate spreadsheet of the internal transfers that have happened during the year; whether the employee resigned, retired or transfer, included who may have replaced the employee.

    Associated updates::
    1. Assignment Browse should e updated to include the Comment field.
    2. View: Staff Assignment> FILTERS should have COMMENT has a field that could be rearranged on a custom filter.…

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  9. When an email goes out letting a supervisor know there are true time records to be approved, it shows the District Website url. Is there a

    When an email goes out letting a supervisor know there are true time records to be approved, it shows the District Website url. Is there a way to get the Web finance url to show up. Time off has this option, but not true time. We would like to have more customization options - like Time Off

    3 votes

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  10. Allow Mass Deletion in Print Queue

    Allow for the Mass Deletion of Reports either in the District or Users Print Queue based on the Filtered Selection. We have thousands of Error Reports in our District Queue from users who no longer work here. Deleting one at a time is not be feasible.

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  11. Make Expense Reimbursement Group

    Would it be possible to get expense reimbursement a setup for groups like you have for purchase order groups would make setting up easier

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  12. SBAA - Display "Payee Name as it Appeared" on the Check Reconciliation Screen

    Add the "Display Payee Name as it Appeared on Check" field to the SBAA Check Reconciliation screen. This will allow a more efficient workaround for creating a Positive Pay file for SBAA accounts, until SBAA functionality starts catching up with regular accounting. The user can use the Excel export to get the correct name for a full-match on their Positive Pay file.

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  13. Make Custom Forms alphabetical rather than based on when you create it

    Make custom forms A-Z vs. when they are created.. Very difficult to find your form when it is not alphabetized

    3 votes

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  14. WF\AP\CR\RE\SB C=Continuous Void - offer a separate check box for better reporting.

    WF\AP\CR\RE\SB C=Continuous Void - can you offer a separate check box for better reporting? This would eliminate the 0.00 continuous checks from ACH populating in your Report for Selected Banks (SB).

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  15. Skyward Conservation Reports

    Skyward Conservation Reports that are used to track data for the Illinois Department of Public Health, request;

    Skyward’s Conservation Reports do not accurately populate. To make them accurate, I am requesting that the Observation List (under referral information) for both vision and hearing, be changed to allow multiple selections. Currently the Observation drop down will only allow only one category to be selected.

    For example, if a student has multiple results (i.e. Myopia and Astigmatism) we can only select one option. This does not provide the information needed to run the report accurately, that is submitted to the state. If…

    3 votes

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  16. Inventory: option to add requisition approvers

    We would like to be able to designate inventory requisition approvers based on the warehouse assignment and the individual warehouse items. We would like to be able to assign users individually as approvers for this functionality with the option to have multiple approvers. Ideal functionality is if this setting is chosen for an entire warehouse, requisitions for all items assigned to that warehouse will require an approval from the user(s) designated in the set up. If no approver is designated at the warehouse level, then any approvers designated on the individual items would take precedence. If none are designated at…

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  17. Inventory: option to restrict access based on group

    We would like a setting to restrict access to view and order certain items. We would like to be able to add users individually to the setting that would designate those ‘allowed’ access (so, anyone not added, would not have access). Our suggestion is for this restriction option to be available to both the warehouse set up and to the individual inventory items set up. If the restriction is added to the warehouse, then the warehouse itself and any items added to that warehouse would only be available to users added to the restriction setting. If the warehouse has no…

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  18. Pay Records

    Adding an override for class code for ORS to the pay record module, some staff have multiple roles, but unable to modify the class code per record currently.

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  19. The option to print Employee Confidential Information in Vendor Data Mining should be optional

    If you have an employee that is also a vendor, their confidential information is marked when looking at Vendor Profile/Browse. However, if you print the information in Data Mining then it is not marked confidential. Vendor Data Mining needs the check box like Employee Data Mining.

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  20. Reports staying out in Queue longer than two days.

    It would be great if reports could stay out in print queue for more than just 2 days. A week would really be great. If out of office when an autogenerated report prints - it is gone if not saved prior to those two days.

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