Featured Employee -October 2014
Featured PCS Employee Juan Morales Support Technician Juan Morales, took more support calls than anyone else during this year's school start, so needless to say, he is a hard worker and very dedicated technician. His background in hardware and software makes him a big asset for the support team. He is a Tech of many hats, supporting the RIGHTrak, FASTrak, and NetPOS, as well as the new cloud based SDMS and QSP4 systems. Plus, Juan handles the PayPAMS...
Featured Customer
Carlton Roberts Director, Child Nutrition Tuscaloosa City Schools, AL Carlton has served Tuscaloosa City for 26 Years. Recently Carlton expanded the school services to included a Cafe at the Central Office, to make it convenient for employees to eat on campus. Carlton is currently in the process of providing dinners for the all after school programs. Along with implementing the New Meal Pattern he has started a full salad bar at all 19 schools, breakfast in the classroom,...
Free Online Cashier Training
Free Online Cashier Training from Child Nutrition Training Solutions Check out this free online resource for cashier training, providing the ins and outs of recognizing a reimbursable meal. It's a fun, interactive, and instructive experience for your cashiers! Click to go to Online Cashier Training...
Advice from Support
A frequent issue this year-start involves new versions and/or updates of antivirus software that are blocking the communications ports between FASTrak and Alanas / NetPOS touch screens. This creates a "PC Time-Out" error message. If you run into this situation, please make sure that your IT department excludes the following ports from the antivirus software: Ports 5600, 200, 204, 203, 6600, and 6601....
Featured Solutions Partner – TigerChef
Fast Food Trays in all Sorts of Colors, Sizes, and Materials Fast Food Trays are as efficient as they are light weight, non-breakable, easy to clean and re-use. As the school year approaches, be sure you're stocked up with fast food trays for your cafeteria. TigerChef carries a full supply of food trays. This September, mention PCS and get 10% off Off Fast Food Trays: Cambro, Crestware, Update, Winco, Carlisle. Use promo code TRAY10. Click image to browse the...
Focus on the School Food Service Community
Aiding the School Food Service Community Joanne Terry Administrative Assistant II, Food & Nutrition Services Charlotte County Public Schools, FL Joanne has been involved in School Food Service at CCPS since February 2006 and has worked at Champ's Cafe since July, 2008. Joanne served as a Florida Highway Patrolman and was a Corporal with the Sheriff's department in Charlotte County before joining CCPS! A head on collision on-the-job with a drunk driver resulted in neck surgery and a career change...
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...