Customer of the Month
A long time customer, Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia have been with PCS since 1999 and have implemented the full PCS product line, front and back office including PayPAMS. Director, Audrey Hamilton, M. Ed., is proud of her two CCPS schools that just won the Southeastern Dairy Association's highest participation award. Lee Street ES won an Atlanta Falcon's Pep Rally (players and cheerleaders visited the school) and Roberts Middle School won the second place prize...
PosNOW Technical Update
PCS is preparing a new version of RIGHTrak that contains the much anticipated component, "Mobility as a Service". This new version provides improved communications with PayPAMs. California customers should note that this update will include a new CNIPS export file. This revised file structure contains the new fields that are requested by the State of California....
Technician of the Month
Bhaumik Thaker, Senior QA Technician Bhaumik Thaker has been with PCS for seven years, starting as a junior support technician and moving up and up, serving as a support supervisor, team leader, and most recently performing Quality Assurance for the development team. "B" as we call him, brings a tremendous amount of experience to every project and support task, and is presently very involved with the roll out of the web based RightNOW upgrade for RIGHTrak. "Over the...
PayPAMS – New Online F&R Apps and Eligibility Check
PCS is launching a few test sites this Fall for online Free and Reduced web applications. Utilizing our PayPAMS Parent Account Management System and Web Portal. Parents and guardians will be able to enter family, student, and income information quickly and efficiently, with the completed application being sent electronically to the RIGHTrak or RightNOW for processing and approval. In addition, parents can check eligibility status online and download or print eligibility status letters through PayPAMS Online...
TrakNOW New Release
In the next few weeks TrakNOW will be releasing a new version. Highlights of the release include: The ability to create an unlimited number of allergens or other ingredients to be tracked with items, recipes and menus. Newly defined allergens will flow at all reports that currently track the system defined allergens. Improvements to our Item/Recipe export including all serving types defined will now populate with nutrients, food based components, allergens (including any newly defined allergens), and...
August 2014
The SNA Annual National Conference in Boston was the culmination to a busy year and we want to thank everyone who visited with us at the booth. We flew the sales team in from all over the country and many of the support team were able to drive up from the corporate office, making this a great opportunity for everyone to put a name to a face. Speaking of which, we kept our social media audience up...
User Group Recap
This Spring PCS conducted User Groups in Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas (Dallas & Houston), Minnesota, California, Delaware, and two webinars online. Based on customer feedback we will conduct a TrakNOW only user group on June 15 for customers in California. Thanks for the idea! Conducting the user groups is a major operation for PCS and involved 7 people traveling and many others working behind the scenes at the office.The user groups provide an opportunity for...
Technician of the Month
Betty Zimmerman, Senior TrakNOW Implementation Specialist Congratulations Betty on 8 successful and productive years with PCS! Prior to joining us, Betty had extensive experience as a school cafeteria manger and supervisor in a district with both warehouse, central kitchen, and bakery facilities. Betty then provided food service IT training and support for PCS products in her district, which made joining PCS a natural next step when management changed at her district. As a Sr. Implementation Specialist, Betty...
TrakNOW – New Release
In the near future, TrakNOW will be releasing its annual USDA Child Nutrition (CN)Database version update. This release will include: CN Items updated to the most current version, CN18. The addition of sugar as a nutrient field as well as a field for % Weight from Total Sugar will be included on the nutrition tab of Local and CN items and all nutrition reports. Modifications to Production Records to better accommodate the identification of menu servings offered for students...
Featured Solutions Partner
School Menu - schoolmenu.com For those looking for something more than posting PDF's of menu, recipes and nutrition on the web for parents and nurses, School Menu has a solution. School Menu does the set up and processing of your menus and posts your finished documents, with nutrition, for interactive display on the web. Changes and updates are processed quickly and efficiently for update to the web. Multiple languages are supported, as well. TrakNOW customers can export menus...