MealTime

Program

Result

Description

Point of Sale

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate Vending Machines that are no longer in use. Doing so will change the behavior of reports that include specific filters for Vending Machine data. US-3409

Administration

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate Campuses that are no longer in use. Inactivation will also change the behavior of reports that include specific filters for Campuses, though care has been taken to ensure that historical data for now-inactive campuses is still available. Please note that campuses may not be inactivated if active schools and/or service areas are assigned. US-3402

Administration

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate Schools that are no longer in use. Doing so will change the behavior in much of MealTime, limiting service at the Point of Sale and the importing of assigned customers. Inactivation will also change the behavior of reports that include specific filters for Schools, though care has been taken to ensure that historical data for now-inactive Schools is still available. Please note that Schools may not be inactivated if active students are assigned. US-3401

Administration

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate Service Areas that are no longer in use. Inactivation will change the behavior of reports that include specific filters for Service Areas, though care has been taken to ensure that historical data for now-inactive Service Areas is still available. US-3398

Administration

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate Tracks that are no longer in use. Inactivation will change the behavior of reports that include specific filters for Tracks, though care has been taken to ensure that historical data for now-inactive Tracks is still available.  US-3349

Point of Sale

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate POS Stations that are no longer in use. Inactivation will change the behavior of reports that include specific filters for POS Stations, though care has been taken to ensure that historical data for now-inactive POS Stations is still available. US-3399

Point of Sale

Feature Improvement

Administrators may now inactivate Allergens/Diet Restrictions that are no longer in use. The Customer Information page will allow a user to toggle the view of inactive allergens and diet restrictions if desired. US-3400

POS Console

Feature Improvement

In the summer of 2020, we added a new pre-order system in expectation of students returning to school after a brief lockdown, with meals being ordered and served in decentralized locations around school campuses. In 2024, the pre-order button has largely fallen out of use, and many users have reported that it is far too easy to press by accident. We haven’t removed the button entirely, but it is now a smaller target and far less visually interesting. US-3419

Administration

Feature Improvement

Many visitors to the Manage Users page found the eTrition ‘Admin’ role confusing, so we’ve removed it. The only eTrition roles available now in MealTime are ones that are synchronized with eTrition and can be assigned to users. US-3404

Income Surveys

Feature Improvement

The Income Surveys module now recognizes “Smart Apostrophe” characters inserted by iOS devices and converts them to standard apostrophe characters before matching with student data. This should improve record matching for affected students. US-3415

Point of Sale

Feature Improvement

Very minor change. The Customer Purchase Controls page has been updated to display the school name above the controls section when selected. US-3420

System-wide

Feature Improvement

We’ve more finely tuned our data center resources for the AccuClaim Edit Checks report to ensure it consistently completes without error in the new server environment.  US-3423

System-wide

Feature Improvement

We changed the text of a Customer Import error seen when importing subsidy information for a district that hasn’t yet set up an eligibility expiration date for the school year. This error will now prompt the user to set that date to solve the error going forward. US-3425

Administration

Feature Improvement

The District Settings page now includes a drop-down list to select your organization type when entering contact and address information. This is a required field that must be satisfied the next time you make changes to the page. US-3416

POS Console

Feature Improvement

By popular demand the POS Console has been enhanced to show the school name and grade in the customer information area when selected. This should be especially useful in schools and districts where many students have the same or similar names. US-3327

POS Console

Feature Improvement

In addition to the customer information area, the school name and grade are also now included in your POS Console search results. We hope this helps better identify students in line for meals. US-3418

Eligibility Management

Bug Fix

The Applicant Count report has been adjusted slightly to ensure that school names are displayed alphabetically instead of in order they were added to MealTime. BG-18969

Point of Sale

Bug Fix

The Clear Customer Balances page has been fixed to address an issue in which Price Group selections were cleared when viewing the report. BG-18945

Point of Sale

Bug Fix

We’ve improved the error message text when attempting to import a customer photo with an unsupported file type. The new message will offer better information about the types we do support in MealTime.

Eligibility Management

Bug Fix

We’ve addressed an issue in our Agency Certification Import feature that could result in determination notification going to the email address of the household primary contact, but with a letter displaying the street address of the secondary household contact. This has been fixed to avoid potential confusion and concern.