This article describes how parents can use the new Lunch Ordering App (with Shopping Cart) to submit and pay for orders online on the QuickSchools Parent Portal. 

The summary of steps are as follows:

• Go to the “Lunch Ordering” menu
• Select a Student
• Select Meal(s)
• Click on the Shopping Cart to Check out
• Click “Pay Now” and follow the checkout process
• Enter Credit Card information (or select a previously saved credit card)
• Confirm credit card details

Select a Student

The Lunch Ordering screen will list all students you have access to on the Parent Portal:

Click on a student to begin the process.

Select Meal(s)

This screen shows all the available meals to be purchased. Simply click on a the checkbox to add a meal to the shopping cart:

Our new Lunch Ordering App, which now supports Online Payments via our new Shopping Cart (Beta), is getting a lot of traction with our schools. So to help schools using this app, we’ve added a new Summary Report:

To enable these reports, just configure the Lunch Ordering App in your QuickSchools App Store, and add the appropriate users / roles to “Who can run Lunch Ordering Summary Reports”:

We’re still in the process of adding more Lunch Ordering fields to the Report Creator. So if you have additional requirements when it comes to reporting, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to turn things around for you.

Today’s release aims to address a few bugs introduced in the last release, plus a few improvements to the Lunch Ordering App:

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Lunch Ordering Improvements

• Allow users to select meals via checkbox (instead of dropdown)
• Display “Note” for meals, when mousing over the meal name
• Bug fix when filtering meal by Grade Level
• Bug fix for unsubmitted orders

Other Improvements / Bug Fixes

• New Importer Support via SFTP (Beta)
• Increase Product/Service Dropdown list for QuickBooks Integration App
• Bug Fix Error for accessing certain Advanced Search
• Bug Fix Error when accessing Login History
• Bug Fix Error when accessing Audit Trail (Beta)

We deployed a few minor improvements today, primarily for the Orchestra Master Scheduler and Security.

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Minor Improvements for Master Scheduler

• Ability to configure starting periods for courses
• Record date/time when course request is assigned to a section
• Bug Fix Step 1 when teacher is deleted
• Bug Fix Step 2 when clicking on Teachers
• Improve Reporting for Master Scheduler

In the Orchestra (Master Scheduler for QuickSchools), you can set up a Caseload limit for teachers in Step 1, under “Configure Teachers”:

The system calculates the current caseload for the teacher by adding the total number of students for all sections, and then compares it against the Caseload limit. Here’s an example from the “Teacher Case Load (Step 5)” Summary Report that shows how the Caseload is calculated and compared against the Caseload limit:

For convenience, you can also see the current caseload for a teacher in Step 5, when mousing over a an available section for a student’s course requests:

The Lunch Ordering App will be receiving a big update this summer. QuickSchools will soon be supporting Online Payments for Lunch Orders. Parents and teachers can pay for meals online before orders are sent to the school for fulfillment.

This improvement does not change the existing flow for selecting meals. Users will see a Calendar view of all meals offered. However, instead of seeing a “Submit Order” button, users will see a Shopping Cart icon at the top:

Clicking on the Shopping Cart icon will display all meals that have been added to the Shopping Cart: