SIMS Dinner Money for Academies

From daily supervisor lists and dinner numbers to weekly banking returns, payment lists, kitchen statistics and much more, managing school dinners demands more of your office team’s time than it should.

SIMS Dinner Money allows you to record, monitor and share pupil meal choices and track the financial aspects automatically.

Primary schools can gain an average of 2-3 hours of admin time per week using SIMS Dinner Money – larger primaries will save even more.

Key benefits

• Automatically communicate today’s meals to the kitchen
  Receive data automatically from SIMS Attendance to immediately let your kitchen know how many to cater for - against which menus
   
• Make reporting simple
  Bring together information on pupils and staff, meals and payments, term dates and non-teaching days automatically, and build letters and reports you need to deliver
   
• Get dietary requirements right
  Customise the menu so your school can create its own meals - answering the demand for healthy eating, specific diets or special occasions
   
• Simplify payments
  Record all payments for school dinner money however it is received - cash, credit  card, cheque. Manage banking returns, outstanding monies and refunds
   
• Automated debt chasing
  Overdue monies are always a headache, as is issuing refunds - SIMS Dinner Money automates letters to parents who owe or are owed money
   
• Instil confidence at local authority level
  With high profile cases surrounding actual or perceived irregularities over dinner money management, SIMS Dinner Money provides rock solid reporting - without distracting time and resources in your office or SLT

Tested and proven beneficial in schools country-wide, SIMS Dinner Money is a simple answer that will streamline your processes and quickly pay for itself.

For more information, view our online demonstration.

"Monday’s ‘inputting’ of money now takes about an hour – previously it took all morning!"
- Ros Perrin, Administrator, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School