SchoolCafé

Bug fixes

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

• 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