Ideas

We have occasions where we retain a deposit rather than return it but there is no way of recording this in Fee Billing. It would be good to have a tick box to say "Retained" so that it can't subsequently be returned in error and it isn't included ...

It is very easy to mis-name a batch when in production & it would be extremely useful to be able to re-name batches so that they are easier to identify or correctly identify a batch for future reference.

Please could we have a recalculate function on direct debits. If you change fees or scholarship remission or bursary remissions within a pupils fee table, it would be great to have a recalculation function within direct debits to recalculate the r...

When we raise a REQ we can add an attachment but when we convert that REQ into a PORD the attachment is not carried forward onto the PORD. We use this for quotes etc. What we would like is for this document to appear at every stage up until INV. A...

At present, there isn't an option to manually sort the order of which the invoices appear on the Parent Portal. Ideally, the latest cycles should appear at the top, which is currently not the case. Using the date options don't either have any affe...

Would it be possible to generate a refund bank file from iSams in a similar way that the direct debit bank file is produced? This year we had to manually enter over 100 student deposit refunds into our bank portal. This method introduces a high ri...

When orders are created it would be useful to have a service option, which would indicate that a GRN is not required. For example professional services, exam fees, recurring invoices for leases etc. This would reduce the time taken to process invo...

It would be useful to make a note of the different discounts that are offered to pupils which can then be automatically applied to fee bills once raised. The discounts would need to be separately noted eg % for a bursary, % for a scholarship, % fo...

Currently, our finance team can only publish invoices to the Parent Portal one cycle at a time. This is a very time-consuming and manual process, especially when a parent has multiple invoices from different cycles. We would like to request a feat...

Currently fee billing is capable of processing charges against nominal accounts with no cost centre or department, or those with both a cost centre and department only, but not with only one. For iFinance users, this means you have to have BI code...