Cashless Catering

Cashless catering in SchoolMoney becomes effortless, with parents having more convenient options and school staff avoiding the need to handle cash.

The basic dinner register is a great way to see who is getting a school dinner and who is having a packed lunch. With built-in meat and veg options in addition to dietary options, parents can be given full assurances of their child’s lunches.

The basic dinner register shows the student names, their form and year group (which are pulled from your MIS system), then the days of the week Monday to Friday. For each day, a colour can be selected from the key to note the child’s dinner, or the data can be automatically synched from SIMS Dinner Patterns. The finances for each child are automatically counted on the right-hand side. If a child is absent, you can easily click to remove the colouring for that day and the system will recognise that the child is absent.

There are a couple of different ways that parents can pay for the school dinners. Firstly, we have top up, where parents can pay a set amount each week which gets added on. Alternatively, parents can pre-book and pre-pay for their children’s meals in advance. SchoolMoney eliminates the burden of manually totting up the costs of meals, with it’s clear in-built reports available to show exactly how much each parent owes.

More cashless payment options

Cashless catering isn’t the only way we can support your school with going completely cash-free. SchoolMoney is flexible for different schools, so if you’re not sure exactly which features you need, chat to our friendly team or read more about what we can offer.