SchoolCafé

Bug fixes

Entering Household size is now required to move forward when applying for benefits.
Additional Allergens info will now display on Daily View of School Menus.
Additional Allergens info will now display on the "Make a Tray" feature of School Menus.
Parents can view Menus If the parent is associated with the staff account.
Allergens can’t be duplicated anymore.
Bug fixes, several design enhancements and overall quality-of-life improvements were made. Thanks for making SchoolCafé the #1 platform for connecting families to school nutrition!

When displaying the list of menu items we show Entrees first. This is the most common item people are wanting to see the menu for. Then list Fruit, Vegetables, Grains, Milk.
Bug fixes, several design enhancements and overall quality-of-life improvements were made. Thanks for making SchoolCafé the #1 platform for connecting families to school nutrition!

School Menus: Now, you can see any menus that your district publishes on Saturdays or Sundays (if applicable).
Dashboard: Now, Staff users can request refunds if they have unused funds in their personal account.
Benefits – Apply: You will now see a confirmation prompt when trying to submit an application for yourself personally.
Bug fixes, several design enhancements and overall quality-of-life improvements were made. Thanks for making SchoolCafé the #1 platform for connecting families to school nutrition!

Updated marketing images

Refreshed new marketing images

• A date range selection has been added to meal ordering to allow quicker ordering with less duplication of effort.
• When viewing a bundle the user can remove an order from the bundle so it can be included in a different bundle or canceled.
• When selected for Verification, the user can now select their application from a dropdown list if they have multiple applications.
• SchoolCafé emails have been updated to reflect the correct address of the sender.
• The ‘as of’ date for cafeteria account balances will now be correctly displayed on the dashboard.
• A few other bug fixes and performance enhancements have been made. Thanks for using schoolcafé!

Bug fixes, several design enhancements and overall quality-of-life improvements

Bug fixes, several design enhancements and overall quality-of-life improvements

• Accessibility: We’ve added full screen reader support throughout SchoolCafé.
• Eligibility - Apply: We've fixed an issue where the application acceptance date was showing as invalid in some cases.
• Eligibility - Apply: Now, all students entered on the “Students” step of a parent’s application will display in the “Household” and “Review” steps of the application as well. This will make it easier to make sure that all students are accounted for without duplicating them.
• Parent Dashboard: We’ve fixed an issue where using the ‘Shop Campus Store’ shortcut resulted in not getting a confirmation after submitting a payment.
• Payment Info - Validate Bank Account: We’ve added a ’Remove’ button to allow users to remove a bank account that has not yet been validated. Also, the word ’deposit’ has been corrected to say ’debit’ instead.
• Make a Payment: For security reasons, CVV may sometimes be required when attempting to make payments via a card.
• As always, several other enhancements, bug fixes, and overall quality-of-life improvements have been made. Thank you again for all your support! We wish you the best in the current trials we are facing nationwide. Please reach out to us through your Support page if you need any assistance.

Purchase History – Now, transactions that were reversed display more clearly.

As always, we’ve made various performance enhancements under the hood. Thanks again for using SchoolCafé!

School Menus – Several strong improvements have been made to this feature, including:

•Monthly View – Various usability improvements have been made to make it easier to view and print menus—including a new option, “List View”, which reduces the amount of content on the screen to a more compact size. Additionally, a slider has been added to adjust the size of the text on the screen so that even more content can be viewed/printed on fewer pages. Please note that in some cases, content may still not fit on one page.
•Daily View – Now, users can see which items are only served with other items. A blue icon with the label, ‘Served only with…’ will display next to the item, and when selected it will open a pop-up showing the other associated items. This means that the items can only be purchased together.
•Weekly View – We fixed an issue where *printed* menus were not correctly filtering out some allergens.
•Nutrition facts have now been rounded more appropriately to make them easier to read together. For example, ‘28.00g’ now just shows as ‘28g’, while 28.10g would still show as 28.10g.
•Menu Item details – Arrow buttons have been added to allow users to quickly move from one item to the next without having to close the pop-up.

Other Enhancements:

•Parent Dashboard – Now, when parents select the menus button for an individual student, the menus for that student will also show the menu items filtered out based on that student’s allergies. Please note that this information comes from the school district and may not always be up to date. Exercise caution and contact your district if anything seems incorrect.
•Apply – When certifying the applicant’s address, if their state does not match the state to which the district belongs, a warning will now display.
•Make Payments – All district payment guidelines have been updated to make them easier to follow.
•Register/My Profile – Now, a user’s security questions have been translated into their preferred language, or when the site language has been changed using the icon at the top-right corner of the screen.
•Bank Account Verification – For security purposes, all users who add a new bank account as a payment source must now verify ownership of that account before being able to make a payment with it.
•Dashboard - View Recent Transfers – Now, all mobile users will be able to see whether a transfer has been successful or has failed. Previously, this column was only visible on the desktop website or for some tablet users.
•System-Generated Emails – Some minor changes have been made to make the text easier to follow.
•As always, various usability and performance improvements have been made. Thanks for helping make SchoolCafé the #1 app for child nutrition!

Bug fixes and performance improvements

• The Allergens filter on the Daily view of the School Menus page has now been added to the Weekly and Monthly (desktop users only) views as well.
• We’ve sped up the performance of the Email Log (found in the Inbox page) to load emails significantly faster.
• We’ve fixed an issue where users who have changed their school district were still seeing their old school district when logging back in.
• Now, Staff users (or Parents who have added themselves as Staff along with their children) will no longer see a grade displaying next to the staff patron(s) on the Dashboard.

• Now, you can view a history of recent SchoolCafé emails sent to your email address (such as Low Balance Alerts, student balance transfers, and password resets) right from your SchoolCafé account! How: In SchoolCafé, go to your Inbox in the top-right of the screen, and select the new Email Log tab. Note: users must have verified their email address in order to use this feature.
• Now, Student and Staff users have access to the Change My District functionality on their My Profile page, just like Parent users. (Same warnings apply)
• The ‘Show Nutrients’ toggle on the Monthly view of the School Menus page has now been added to the Weekly view as well.
• We fixed an issue on pages where data appearing in a table format could be exported. Before, the dates on the exported file were not being reset if the user changed dates without selecting the ‘apply’ button again. Now, the results are cleared whenever the date is changed by the user.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• NEW! Create an account (or link your existing account) using Google, so that you no longer have to remember your username and password. Existing users: just go to the My Profile screen and select the ‘Link your Google account’ button to get started
• District administrators can now log in to their account using the SchoolCafé app! Be on the lookout for a separate list of significant changes to admin accounts, as there are quite a few
• Set your preferred language in My Profile to automatically load SchoolCafé in that language every time you log back in to the app!
• When making an account balance transfer or refund request (contact your school using the Support page if this functionality is not available to you), you can now view your most recent transfers as well
• West Virginia users: positive balances now display in green, while negative balances display in red with a negative sign in front. The text ‘Amount Owed’ has also been changed to ‘Amount Available’
• You can view the Purchase History for inactive students on your account now, too!
• And for Guests, the school and menus are no longer selected automatically on the School Menus screen
• Finally, various bugs have been trapped in a tissue and gently placed back outside

Highlights:
• Introducing Themes! Now, you can change between SchoolCafé’s Light Theme and Dark Theme by selecting the paint bucket button in the navigation menu at the top of every page. Perfect for when you need to make those late-night payments or check out tomorrow’s menu before going to bed!
• School Menus – Daily View: A new report, View Nutrition Info, has been added to the top of the menu item list for any day where menus have been published. Selecting this button allows you to quickly view all of the items being offered for the day, along with nutritional information.

Other Enhancements:
• Parent Dashboard: For those districts accepting online free-and-reduced meal applications through SchoolCafé, submitting an application for the current school year successfully turns the 'Apply for Benefits' button into a 'View Eligibility Info' button. Selecting this button takes you to the 'My Applications' tab of the 'Eligibility Info' page, allowing you to easily check on the status of your application or view/print your eligibility notifications.
• School Menus (All Views): Now, menu items on each page display in alphabetical order by category, and certain items are no longer displayed in a bold font.
• Password Strength: For your security, a stronger password may now be required when changing your password or creating a new account. A strength meter has been added in these locations to help make sure that your password is strong enough.

- Enhanced support and usability for the Verification Response feature (this feature is only for districts accepting online applications through SchoolCafé).

* Fixed an intermittent issue that resulted in some users being unable to access the app. Installing the latest update should resolve this issue.

• Improved performance and support for older devices.
• When a payment is made, the timestamp is now the same on both the app and website.
• Squashed a bug that caused menu item images to not load.

New fitness regimen helped us shed a few Bugs and get in better shape! Now, SchoolCafé is looking and performing even better for you! It's the little things...

• Face ID and Touch ID are now supported: Now, you can easily login to SchoolCafé using your good looks, or magic touch!
• Your district's home is now furnished: Upon searching for your district from the SchoolCafé home screen, now you'll be able to see a list of all of the SchoolCafé features your district so lovingly offers you up front. Plus, you can now (conveniently!) sign into your account directly from this screen, rather than going back to the main SchoolCafé home screen.
• Benefits-Apply now has a built-in income calculator: For those of you whose districts receive mobile free-and-reduced meal applications through SchoolCafé, now you'll be able to save time filling out your application by letting us help calculate your monthly and annual household income for you.
• Purchase Restrictions: Now, when updating the purchase restrictions for an individual student, you can see the date and time of when those restrictions were last updated.
• School Menus: Now, when viewing menus as a guest, the grade filter automatically selects the appropriate grade by default, and updates itself when a new site is selected as well. We've also simplified the Make-a-Tray rules to make them sound more... relatable. Finally, we've fixed an issue where menu item images decided to just disappear whenever they felt like it.
• Various other bugs were stepped on-- we mean, gently placed on a tissue and tossed outside.

SchoolCafé got a makeover! While we’ve still got the same great features, we hope this cleaner, simpler look makes it even easier for you to manage your student or employee accounts. Read on to see what’s changed, and be sure to give us your feedback!

NEW:
* For districts receiving applications through SchoolCafé: You can now apply, view applications, and view letters directly in the app! (Finally!)
* District employees can now both view their school ID card *and* make payments toward their account! Register as a ‘Student or District Employee’ and connect your cafeteria account to get started, and you’ll then be able to add payment sources and make payments in addition to all of the features you enjoyed previously.
* 'Find My District' widget on the homepage takes you to a dedicated page for your district, allowing you to easily create a new account, contact your district for help and, in coming months, even more!
* You can now translate the whole app into a few languages (though currently this feature in beta). Please let us know if a particular translation is inaccurate!


NAVIGATION CHANGES:
* We’ve reduced the number of navigation options to make existing features easier to find! Now, all features are in one of three categories: Payments, Benefits, or Menus.
-For districts processing payments and/or purchases through SchoolCafé: Payment Sources and Payment History are now tabs in a single page: Payment Info. Purchase History is now accessed directly from the Dashboard per student, located in their Details drop-down.
-For districts receiving applications through SchoolCafé: My Applications and Eligibility Notifications are now tabs in a single page: Eligibility Info.
-For districts publishing menus through SchoolCafé: My Trays and Interact are now tabs in a single page: My Favorites.
* My Profile, Inbox, Notifications, and Logout have been moved to the top-right navigation. The full navigation has moved to the left side of the app.
* Parents can now view individual student details through the new ‘Details’ tab on a student card, in order to reduce the amount of scrolling needed on the screen.
* Removal of students or student photos can now be done, through the icon on the top-right of the student card.
* The ‘View Menus’ button has now been moved from the homepage to the My District page. Staff can either view menus using this button or through a staff account.


ALERTS:
* We've added information about when an automatic payment setting was last modified in order to make auto pay-related issues easier to troubleshoot.
* We’ve added information regarding when the low balance alert setting was last modified as well as when the last alert was sent, and even the balance of the student at the time of the alert.


MAKE PAYMENTS:
* The guidelines for making a payment were moved to a dedicated pop-up at the top of the screen to reduce the need for scrolling.
* Potential balance displays what a balance will look like for an individual student before the payment is complete, in order to help a user determine exactly how much is needed before submitting the payment.
* For districts offering non cafeteria-related payments through SchoolCafé: A 'Shop Campus Store' button has been added to the payment process to allow users to browse school-related items such as Yearbooks and other fees **if offered by the school online**.


SCHOOL MENUS
* Menu Item ratings are now done thumbs-up/thumbs-down-style!
* Make a Tray is now done per patron (student or employee) or grade in order to make tray requirements more accurate for different individuals on an account.


MISCELLANEOUS
* Several existing pages were given a new look and feel to increase visibility of specific features.
* Various issue fixes and performance enhancements.

Bug fixes