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3 School Store Manager Guide SCHOOL STORE MANAGER BASICS Accessing School Store Manager School Store Manager Functions Shortcut Keys Documentation for School Store Manager QUICKSELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER Configuration Load Students Print ID Cards Load Transactions Print Transaction Report Clear QuickSell Information STORE OPERATIONS & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER Configuration Load Students Print ID Cards Load Transactions Print Transaction Report Clear QuickSell Information POSTING FROM QUICKSELL TO GENERAL LEDGER Creating a QuickSell Post File Importing QuickSell Transactions to General Ledger Importing QuickSell Transactions to General Ledger QuickSell Post File Field Mappings: General Ledger QuickSell Post File Field Mappings: General Ledger SAMPLE ID CARDS Student ID Card with Picture Student ID Card without Picture Faculty ID Card without Picture SAMPLE STATEMENT OF CHARGES

4 Sample Statement of Charges INDEX

5 School Store Manager Basics In This Chapter Accessing School Store Manager School Store Manager Functions Shortcut Keys Documentation for School Store Manager Online Manual Accessing Online Manuals Using Acrobat Reader Using Online Help Accessing Online Help Using Help Notes User s Guide Format Chapter Format Text Format

6 2 CHAPTER 1 With School Store Manager you can post school store charges to Blackbaud s Student Billing when you use QuickSell 2000 or Store Operations, point-of-sale software produced by Retail Management System. With School Store Manager and QuickSell you can produce a single statement, with both school store and tuition charges, while reducing data entry time and errors. You can transfer customer information from Student Billing to QuickSell. Also, you can print customer ID cards with bar coding, which customers can then use as debit or credit cards. If you have Store Operations, you can set up multiple databases for multiple school stores. This chapter introduces the basics of School Store Manager, including instructions for accessing School Store Manager functions, a brief description of each function, an explanation of shortcut keys, and information about accessing and using the documentation. Subsequent chapters provide explanations and procedures for using School Store Manager with QuickSell 2000 and Store Operations. Appendices include sample ID cards and a sample transaction report. Accessing School Store Manager You access School Store Manager from the Utilities and Housekeeping module of Student Billing by selecting File, School Store Manager. When you highlight School Store Manager, a menu of options appears.

7 S CHOOL STORE MANAGER BASICS 3 School Store Manager Functions The School Store Manager menu contains several selections: Load Students, Print ID Cards, Load Transactions, Print Transactions Report, Clear QuickSell Information, and Configuration. Configuration. Configuration establishes parameters for School Store Manager. You cannot access other School Store Manager options until you have configured the program. Load Students. You can load student information, including address, ID number or Social Security Number, telephone number, gender, birth date, class year, grade, and purchase information directly into QuickSell as customer information. Purchase information includes charge tax exemptions, price level, credit limit, and percent discount. You can also update a spare code or flag in Student Billing for each student loaded into QuickSell. Print ID Cards. You can issue ID cards to customers with QuickSell accounts that include name, account number, and faculty status (if applicable). Also, you can include optional fields: birth date, class year, grade, signature line, school name, and space for a photograph. Your customers can use the ID cards as debit cards or credit cards when making purchases through their QuickSell accounts. Load Transactions. You can export charges and debits on QuickSell accounts to Student Billing. All transactions posted to Student Billing are in summary format. Print Transaction Report. You can print a statement containing item names, prices, quantities, and dates for transactions in which the customer charged at least some of the total price with On Account selected as the tender type. Clear QuickSell Information. When you clear QuickSell information, the program adjusts the customer balance to zero. You must periodically clear customer balances to ensure accounts in QuickSell do not show an inaccurate balance. Detailed information about each of these functions is discussed in subsequent chapters. If you choose to post directly from QuickSell, mark the transaction as Posted. If you post through Student Billing, mark the transaction Not Yet Posted or Do Not Post. Shortcut Keys Throughout School Store Manager, there are shortcut keys and shortcut methods to help with data entry. Function keys are the primary source for shortcuts. When a function key is available, a message appears in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. ENTER SHIFT TAB The ENTER key (sometimes called the RETURN key) signals the computer that entry of a command, field, or data is complete. The SHIFT key allows you to select consecutive items from a grid. To select consecutive items, highlight the first item, then press and hold SHIFT while selecting the last item. The TAB key signals the computer that entry of a command, field, or data is complete. Pressing this key moves the cursor forward to the next field.

8 4 CHAPTER 1 BACKSPACE HOME END DELETE F1 F3 F7 The BACKSPACE key moves the cursor back one character, deleting the character. The HOME key places the cursor at the beginning of the field. The END key places the cursor after the last character in a field. The DELETE key removes the highlighted characters or entry when pressed. The F1 key activates online help. Press this key to access context-sensitive Help. In date fields, pressing the F3 key inserts the current date. Pressing F3 also inserts the default value of a field if one is available. A message appears on the status bar if a default value is available. The primary function of the F7 key is activating table lookups. However, this key also activates a calendar in date fields and a calculator in currency fields. In addition, F7 accesses the search screen, where linking of records is available. Documentation for School Store Manager Select Help from the menu bar to search help topics, view online documentation, and connect to Blackbaud s home page. Documentation for School Store Manager includes the online manual School Store Manager Guide and Help File Topics in Student Billing. You can also refer to the Administrator s Guide for information about installation. Select Help from the menu bar to access online help topics, the online manual, and links to Blackbaud s Web site: Student Billing Help Topics opens the online help file. Here you find procedures to perform essential program tasks such as posting QuickSell charges. School Store Manager topics are listed under Optional Modules. Online Manual opens the Student Billing Guide. You can use the bookmarks to move from chapter to chapter. From the Student Billing Guide PDF, you can access other related guides, such as the School Store Manager Guide. Contacting Support provides information about contacting Blackbaud s support staff and other resources. Blackbaud on the Web provides links to Online Support and the Blackbaud home page. About Student Billing provides serial number, version number, and copyright information. This information is important if you need to contact Customer Support. Online Manual An online manual is a user s guide in a portable document format (PDF). Online manuals are located on your installation CD-ROM and on Blackbaud s Web site. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view a PDF. A free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05 is on your installation CD, or you can download it, without charge, from the Adobe Web site: From a guide s PDF, you can easily navigate through an online manual and print individual pages or entire guides on demand.

9 S CHOOL STORE MANAGER BASICS 5 Accessing Online Manuals If you loaded online manuals during program installation, you can access the Student Billing Guide from the Help menu of a Student Billing module. You can also access this guide by selecting Start, Programs. Then select Blackbaud Student Billing, Online Manual. If you choose not to install the online manual, you can open the PDF files from the installation CD. For the most up-to-date information, download the online manual from the Blackbaud Web site at For the most up-to-date information, download the online manual from the Blackbaud Web site at Using Acrobat Reader You can view the online manual on the Acrobat screen or print a portion or all of the manual. The online manual contains links so you can navigate easily. With a click of the mouse, you can jump from the Table of Contents to Posting from QuickSell to General Ledger. The viewing window contains bookmarks in the left pane that link to individual chapters, the glossary and index, and other user guides in the program. Using Online Help The online help files designed for Student Billing and School Store Manager provide access to many different kinds of help: overview and reference information, procedures, contact information, and user-defined notes. Specific help file topics for School Store Manager are located under Optional Modules on the Contents tab of the Student Billing help file. Accessing Online Help You can access online help in three ways: Help, Student Billing Help Topics from the menu bar the question mark button on the toolbar F1 from most screens in the program Online help contains concise information about specific processes and tasks within School Store Manager. Pressing F1 takes you directly to information about the part of the program you are using. Using Help Notes You can create and save notes and tips specific to your organization s needs about how to use Accounting for Nonprofits programs. To enter and maintain notes as you use School Store Manager, click the Notes button in the help file. A text file (sbnotes.doc) opens in which you can enter and maintain notes. This file is located in your Blackbaud directory folder. If you do not have Microsoft Word, delete the sbnotes.doc so that the Notes button can access sbnotes.txt using Notepad. Be aware when you run program updates, the Notes file is copied over with a blank file. If you want to keep notes, save the text file to a safe location apart from the Blackbaud directory. To share your notes/tips with coworkers, copy the notes file to the Blackbaud folder on their hard drives.

10 6 CHAPTER 1 User s Guide Format This guide follows a standard format to help you locate and identify information. Chapter Format Most chapters contain these elements.: Format In This Chapter Overview Procedures Denotes A listing of the contents of the chapter. A brief description of the information in the chapter. Quick, step-by-step instructions for completing basic tasks. Text Format The table below explains the conventions the manual uses as visual cues for fields, program names, notes, tips, or warnings. Format Bold Bold Italics Italics Denotes This is the name of a field or button, for example, Print. This is a Blackbaud program name, for example, Student Billing for Windows. This is a Blackbaud program module name, for example, Utilities and Housekeeping. The shaded arrow indicates the beginning of a procedure. SMALL CAPS or KEYS KEY+KEY KEY, KEY This is a key on your keyboard. Press DELETE refers to the key on your keyboard. Click Delete refers to an onscreen button. Two keys joined by a plus sign indicate you must press the keys simultaneously to execute the command. For example, if you are instructed to Press CTRL + F, you must press the CONTROL key and the F key at the same time. Two keys separated by a comma indicate you must press the keys in the order in which they appear. For example, if you are instructed to press ALT, F, you must press the ALT key, release it, then press the F key. The traffic light symbol indicates a cautionary note. Generally, this is used to point out a step that may have unwanted results. The notepad symbol designates a note or tip related to information in the main text column. The clock symbol designates a shortcut or timesaving action.

11 QuickSell 2000 & School Store Manager In This Chapter Configuration Load Students Print ID Cards Load Transactions Print Transaction Report Clear QuickSell Information

12 8 CHAPTER 2 Using QuickSell 2000 you can maintain a single school store database. You can transfer a summary of the store s transactions to Student Billing through the optional module School Store Manager and then post them to General Ledger. You can also create a post file from QuickSell and import transactions directly into General Ledger. You can access School Store Manager options from the File menu of Utilities and Housekeeping in Student Billing. The Configuration module of Student Billing must be configured for QuickSell First you must configure School Store Manager to work with QuickSell Then you load student and faculty information through Load Students. Using the information you load into QuickSell, you can print ID cards for students and faculty. Additionally, you can print a transaction report of all items for one customer or all customers. You can filter by a single transaction date or a date range. Student Billing must be configured for QuickSell In the Configuration module, select the Preferences tab. For the Display option, mark System Preferences. Then mark Miscellaneous 1 in the left box. In the Select the system you have installed field, select QuickSell Configuration Your selection in the Use [ ] as QuickSell Account # field becomes the unique identifier for each customer account in QuickSell Changing this identifier after loading students can cause problems. Proper configuration of School Store Manager is a key first step in connecting Student Billing and QuickSell Once you complete configuration, all School Store Manager functions become fully active and transactions can be posted from QuickSell to Student Billing. You establish the program paths for Student Billing and QuickSell on the Configuration screen in School Store Manager. You also select a student identifier to use as the QuickSell account number, edit the school name, specify the Student Billing fee, and set the spare field mappings. The program requires the information on the Configuration screen to establish a link between Student Billing and QuickSell. Before You Configure School Store Manager: We strongly recommend you do not change spare field mappings after loading students. When you change field mappings, Student Billing and QuickSell no longer recognize the other s information. Configure customer fields in QuickSell 2000 Manager so they can be correctly mapped to Student Billing fields. Spare QuickSell fields must be entered in the correct customer field type format (text, date, or numeric) for the selections to appear in School Store Manager. Student Billing field Student Billing record # Date ID card printed Birth date Gender Class of Grade QuickSell 2000 field type Text field Date field Date field Text field Numeric field Text field Student Billing record # and Date ID card printed fields are required. The other spare fields are optional. Make sure you have set up a billing fee in Student Billing Configuration to which you want school store charges applied. You can use only billing fees for the current billing year.

13 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER 9 Student Billing performs all selected options on the biling fee when a charge from QuickSell 2000 is applied to the fee. For example, if you have established a default sales tax on the billing fee, the default sales tax fee is generated when a charge from QuickSell 2000 is applied to the fee. Fields Automatically Loaded into QuickSell The following fields are automatically loaded into QuickSell when you load students. The student identifier (Social Security Number or Student ID) you select on the Configuration screen for School Store Manager enables QuickSell to recognize the student and attach the correct information from the student record in Student Billing. Account number (Social Security Number or Student ID) Last name First name Address City State Zip Country Telephone number

14 10 CHAPTER 2 Configuring School Store Manager for QuickSell From Utilities and Housekeeping, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Configuration. The School Store Configuration screen appears. During the Print ID Cards procedure, you can select the font type, style, and size for the actual printing of the school name. 2. In the QuickSell field, enter the path to the directory where your QuickSell program files are located. For example, if QuickSell is on the C drive in the \QS2000 directory, enter C:\QS2000. If you are unsure of the path, click the ellipsis to browse. 3. In the Use [ ] as QuickSell Account # field, select Social Security No. or Student ID. The selection in this field becomes the unique identifier for each customer account in QuickSell In the School name field, the program automatically fills in your organization s name as it appears in Configuration in Student Billing; however, you can edit this field at any time. The school name in this field appears on the ID cards you print for students and faculty. 5. In the Fee to create in Student Billing field, select a billing fee code. Billing fees are established in Configuration in Student Billing.

15 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER In the Spare Field Mapping frame, select each QuickSell spare field in the Map to column for each Student Billing Field in the left column. Only Student Billing record # and Date ID card printed fields are required. We strongly recommend you do not change spare field mappings after loading students. 7. Click OK to complete configuration. To make mapping easier, customize the names of text, numeric, and date fields in the Manager module of QuickSell before you configure School Store Manager. Load Students After you have properly configured the school store, you are ready to load students. The Load Students utility brings specific student information into QuickSell 2000 from Student Billing. You can filter the list of students being loaded by a previously-defined query, date they were added, and attributes. Also, you can run the Load Students utility to update QuickSell records based on changes made in Student Billing records. Mark the Update information for students already in QuickSell checkbox to include changes. On the Attributes tab, Add, Update, or Delete these Attributes for Each Student is helpful if you want to quickly add, update, or delete an attribute in Student Billing records for students you are loading into QuickSell. For example, you may want to add an attribute named Cafeteria Eligibility with a description of Yes for each student you load into the QuickSell school store. To print ID cards for faculty members or provide faculty charge accounts, you must create records for faculty members in QuickSell. For more information about procedures in QuickSell, see the user s guide produced by QuickSell. After loading students into QuickSell 2000, do not change the student identifier in QuickSell. In Student Billing, the student identifier is either the student s Social Security Number or ID as selected in School Store Manager Configuration. In QuickSell, the student identifier is the QuickSell Account #. The link to Student Billing and School Store Manager depends on this identifier. To add changes made in Student Billing records to customer records in QuickSell, run the Load Students utility and mark Update information for students already in QuickSell.

16 12 CHAPTER 2 Before you can load students, you must complete configuration of School Store Manager. Loading students into QuickSell From Utilities and Housekeeping, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Load Students. The Load Students screen appears. QuickSell does not provide space for middle initials. Marking Append middle initial to first name enables the program to treat the first name and middle initial as one unit. You can use this feature to identify students with similar names. 2. To filter students by a query or load only one student, click Include and choose Selected Students or One Student. The Select a Student Query screen appears. Select a query of students or a single student and click Open. 3. To filter students by the date they were added to Student Billing, mark Only load those students added after [ ]. Enter a date or click the calendar to select a date. 4. If you are updating information for students loaded previously to QuickSell, mark Update information for students already in QuickSell. 5. To add a student s middle initial to the end of the first name in QuickSell, mark Append middle initial to first name. 6. To create a query of students who are successfully loaded or updated in QuickSell, mark Create output query. 7. To create a query of students who are not successfully loaded or updated in QuickSell, mark Create exception query. You can use this query to update later. 8. To print a report detailing the results of loading students, mark Print control report.

17 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER Select the Attributes tab. 10. To filter students by attribute, mark Include or Exclude Students with these Attributes. In the Filter column, select Include or Exclude. In the Category column, select the attribute type. In the Description column, select the attribute description by which you want to filter. The Short Description appears automatically. 11. To globally add, update, or delete student attributes, mark Add, Update, or Delete these Attributes for Each Student. In the Action column, select Add, Update, or Delete. In the Category column, select the attribute type. In the Description column, select the attribute description by which you want to filter. The Short Description fills automatically. In the Date column, you can enter the date the attribute is being added or another type of date. In the Comment column, you can enter up to 50 characters of text. Adding, updating, or deleting attributes affects only the Student Billing records. This information does not load into QuickSell.

18 14 CHAPTER 2 You can use student addresses in QuickSell for several purposes, including billing and student verification. 12. To set the student address used by QuickSell 2000, select the Addresses tab. For information about seasonal addresses, see the Student Billing for Windows User s Guide. 13. To verify addresses before loading students, mark Validate addresses as of [ ], and select Today or <Specific date>. If you select <Specific date>, enter the date in the Date field. 14. To use seasonal addresses in QuickSell, mark Consider seasonal addresses. If seasonal addresses are considered, in the If no seasonal addresses exist, use this address field, select an alternative address. If you select a specific address type, in the If no [ ] address exists, use this address field, select a tertiary address type. If seasonal addresses are not considered, in the Use this address field, select the address to load. If you select a specific address type, in the If no [ ] address exists, use this address field, select a second address type. 15. To load student records into QuickSell that do not have a valid address, mark Create a record with no address. To prevent loading student records that do not have a valid address, mark Omit the record.

19 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER Select the Miscellaneous tab. 17. If you are using a QuickSell multilevel pricing structure, select a level in the Price level field. In the Percent discount field, enter the percentage amount for all students being loaded. 18. To allow customer credit, mark Allow Credit. In the Credit limit field, enter an amount. 19. If all store items are tax exempt, mark Purchases are tax exempt. 20. Select the Additional Fields tab. You must mark Allow Credit to permit credit and debit transactions in QuickSell.

20 16 CHAPTER 2 We strongly recommend you do not change spare field mappings, the QuickSell Account #, or the Student Billing SSN/Student ID after loading students. When you change these fields, Student Billing and QuickSell no longer recognize the other s information. 21. To load additional student information from student records in Student Billing to QuickSell, mark Gender, Birth Date, Class of, and Grade. Any field that you did not map in School Store Manager Configuration is inactive and cannot be selected. 22. Click Load Now. 23. If you selected to create output and exception queries on the General tab, Save Static Query screens appear. 24. In the Query name field, enter a name that clearly identifies the query. You can change the description and selected options. When you are finished, click OK. The students are processed and a screen appears showing the number of students loaded and updated and the number of exceptions. 25. Click OK. If you selected to Print control report on the General tab, the control report appears. To print the report, click the print button on the preview screen. When you finish viewing the report, close it. You return to the main Utilities and Housekeeping screen.

21 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER 17 Print ID Cards In Print ID Cards you can process ID cards for students and faculty in QuickSell. You can print the cards with or without a picture. You can include the school name, graduating class year, a box for signature, date of birth, and an optional field. Using the default font settings, you can print a school name of 30 characters or fewer on one line. If you use a picture on the ID card, the school name prints above the picture and is aligned to the left. You can select one user-defined field in QuickSell 2000 to appear as an optional field on the ID card, such as the date the card was printed or student grade level. We support preprinted ID card forms. If you preprint your school logo, you can: Preprint the school logo at the top of the card. Do not mark School name when printing the ID cards. Preprint the logo in the center of the card using a watermark effect. For example, print the logo as a 10 percent gray screen. Print the logo on the back of the card. Sample ID cards appear in Appendix A. To print this information you must mark the Class of, Gender, Birth Date, and Grade checkboxes during the Load Students process. Printing ID cards with QuickSell From Utilities and Housekeeping, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Print ID Cards. The Print ID Cards screen appears.

22 18 CHAPTER 2 You can select fields by using hot keys on your keyboard: press ALT + the underlined letter in the field name. The default font settings for School name enable up to 30 characters to fit on one line of the ID card. Western is the standard script in the United States. 2. In the School Store field, select the store for which you want to print ID cards. The program processes only one store at a time. 3. For the Print ID Cards for option, mark Students or Faculty. The program processes only one type of card at a time. Additional options appear, depending on your selection. Some fields may be inactive if you did not include the information when loading students. Mark one option: All Students includes all students loaded in QuickSell for that school store One Student enter the student name or click the binoculars to search for the student name Class Of enter the class year of students for whom you want to print ID cards Grade enter the grade of students for whom you want to print ID cards All Faculty includes all faculty loaded in QuickSell for that school store One Faculty Member enter the faculty member name or click the binoculars to search for the name 4. To reprint ID cards for students who previously had cards printed, mark Include Students who already have cards printed. To reprint ID cards for faculty members who previously had cards printed, mark Include Faculty who already have cards printed. 5. In the ID Card Options frame, mark the options you want to appear on the ID card. If you do not have a pre-printed ID card with a school name or logo and want to include the school name, mark School name. Click Font to change the font type, style, and size. To print the class year on student ID cards, mark Class of and select 2 digits or 4 digits. If you want Faculty to appear on faculty ID cards, mark Faculty Status. It is right-aligned on the same line as date of birth. In the Card type field, select to print ID cards with or without pictures. To create a space for student or faculty signatures, mark Signature line. A signature box appears on the bottom of the card. In the Optional field field, select a predefined field from QuickSell To print student or faculty date of birth on the card, mark Birth date. In the If name is too long field, select how the person s name should appear if it does not fit on one line: Drop to next line continue on the next line, Abbreviate first name, or Truncate cut off when space runs out. 6. In the Sort by field, select the order in which you want cards to print.

23 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER Click Preview to view the layout and ensure information appears correctly on the ID cards. When you finish previewing, you can click the print button to print the cards or close the preview screen to make edits. 8. To print ID cards, click Print ID Cards Now. 9. When the print process finishes, a confirmation message appears. A bar code and QuickSell account number appear on the bottom of the ID card. The QuickSell account number was set up when you configured School Store Manager and is either the Student ID or Social Security Number. 10. Click Yes to update the Date ID card printed spare field in QuickSell and close the Print ID Cards screen. Load Transactions The Load Transactions option creates Student Billing charge transactions from QuickSell on account transactions. This option creates a summary transaction for each student. If you are going to post these charges to General Ledger from Student Billing, mark Not Yet Posted as the Post status. If you create a post file from QuickSell to your general ledger program, mark Do Not Post as the Post status so that charges are not posted twice (once from QuickSell and again from Student Billing). If you mark Clear student balances, an adjustment posts equal to the current balance which sets the QuickSell balance to zero. If you do not mark Clear student balances, the students accounts in QuickSell continue to show a balance due. Over time, this could result in students reaching their credit limits, even when they do not actually owe anything. On account transactions are transactions in which payments are applied to student accounts at the POS Register in QuickSell. You can only load transactions that are on account into Student Billing.

24 20 CHAPTER 2 You can load all on account transactions into Student Billing. However, School Store Manager loads only transactions with matching student records. The exception report lists any transactions not loaded. For example, faculty on account transactions are available for loading, but are not loaded. Loading transactions from QuickSell From Utilities and Housekeeping, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Load Transactions. The Load Transactions screen appears. If you are posting within Student Billing, select Not Yet Posted in the Post status field. If you do not mark Clear student balances, the student accounts in QuickSell continue to show a balance due. Over time, this could result in students reaching their credit limits, even when they do not actually owe anything. 2. In the Transaction date field, enter the date to appear in Student Billing as the transaction date. 3. In the Due date field, enter the date payment is due. 4. In the Post status/date field, select Not Yet Posted or Do Not Post and enter the posting date in the box. 5. To include the last name, first name, and today s date as it appears in QuickSell, mark Default in the Comments frame. To create your own comment, mark Custom and type the comment in the text box. 6. In the Include transactions entered into Quicksell after field, enter a date. Transactions entered prior to the selected date are not loaded into Student Billing. 7. To clear student balances in QuickSell after loading transactions to Student Billing, mark Clear student balances. 8. To preview the transactions before posting them to Student Billing, mark Preview before posting. From the preview screen, you can manually select individual transactions to load. 9. To view a report detailing successfully loaded transactions, mark Print transaction detail report. 10. To view a list of transactions that were not successfully loaded, mark Print exception report.

25 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER Click OK. If you marked Preview before posting, the Transaction Preview screen appears. In the Create? column, mark the checkbox for each student transaction you want to load. Only on account transactions with matching student records load into Student Billing. Transactions without a matching record are treated as exceptions and appear on the exception report. 12. Click OK. The Load Transactions Complete screen appears. 13. Click OK. If you marked Print transaction detail report, the report preview screen appears. You can review the report on the screen or print it. When you finish, close the report. 14. If you marked Print exception report, the report preview screen appears. You can review the report on the screen or print it. When you finish, close the report.

26 22 CHAPTER 2 Print Transaction Report You can print a transaction report for one QuickSell customer or all customers. The report includes all items, prices, quantities, and dates for transactions in which the customer charged any portion of the purchase to their account. For example, if the customer pays cash for part of a purchase but charges some of the amount, the entire transaction appears. Printing a transaction report 1. From Utilities and Housekeeping, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Print Transaction Report. The Print Transaction Report screen appears. 2. In the Records to Include frame, mark All customers or One customer. If you mark One customer, the Customer name field appears in which you can enter a name. To search for a name, click the binoculars. The Search for Student/Faculty Member screen appears. Enter information in the filters at the bottom of the screen and click Find Now. Highlight the customer name and click Select. The Print Transaction Report screen reappears with the selected record name listed. 3. In the Include transactions from [ ] to [ ] fields, enter the date range for which you want to report transactions. 4. If you are printing a transaction report for all customers, you can mark Print one customer per page. 5. To view the report before printing, mark Preview report. 6. Click OK. If you marked Preview report, a preview screen appears. You can review the report on the screen, print it, or export it from this screen. If you did not mark Preview report, the report prints to your printer.

27 QUICKS ELL 2000 & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER 23 Clear QuickSell Information To adjust customer balances to zero in QuickSell 2000 and to clear the dates ID cards were printed, you can use the Clear QuickSell Information utility in School Store Manager. We recommend performing a backup before erasing any information in your Blackbaud database or QuickSell databases. If you do not periodically clear customer balances, QuickSell accounts continue to show a balance due. Over time, this could result in students reaching their credit limits, even though they do not actually owe anything. Clearing QuickSell 2000 Information 1. From Utilities and Housekeeping, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Clear QuickSell Information. The Clear QuickSell Information screen appears. This operation clears ALL QuickSell student balances, whether you loaded them into Student Billing or not. 2. To create zero balances for every student, mark Clear student balances in QuickSell. 3. To clear the dates that ID cards were printed for all students, mark Clear ID card field in QuickSell for students. 4. To clear the dates that ID cards were printed for all faculty members, mark Clear ID card field in QuickSell for faculty. 5. Click OK.

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29 Store Operations & School Store Manager In This Chapter Configuration Load Students Print ID Cards Load Transactions Print Transaction Report Clear QuickSell Information

30 26 CHAPTER 3 Using Store Operations, you can maintain multiple school store databases. You can transfer each school store s transactions in summary to Student Billing through the optional module School Store Manager and then post them to General Ledger. You can also create a post file and import transactions directly into General Ledger. School Store Manager options are accessed from the File menu of Utilities and Housekeeping in Student Billing. Be sure to set the correct preference to use Store Operations in the Configuration module of Student Billing before beginning to configure School Store Manager. In Configuration, select the Preferences tab. For the Display option, mark System Preferences. Then mark Miscellaneous 1 in the left box. In the School Store Manager System field, select Store Operations. Be sure to set the preference in Student Billing Configuration to use Store Operations; otherwise, the settings in School Store Manager will be configured for QuickSell If you have multiple Student Billing databases, School Store Manager must be configured for each school. Settings throughout School Store Manager apply only to the database in which you are logged in. We strongly recommend you do not change spare field mappings after loading students. When you change field mappings, Student Billing and Store Operations no longer recognize the other s information. For specific information about configuring settings in Store Operations, see the documentation for Store Operations. First, you must configure School Store Manager to work with Store Operations. Then you load student and faculty information through the Load Students option. Using the information you loaded into Store Operations, you can print ID cards for students and faculty. Additionally, you can print a transaction report for all or selected customers of one or more school stores. You can filter the report by specific items that have been sold. Configuration Configuring School Store Manager in Utilities and Housekeeping is the first step in establishing the connection between Store Operations and Student Billing. Once you complete configuration for at least one store, all School Store Manager functions become fully active and transactions can be posted to Student Billing. On the Options tab, you select whether to use the Student ID or Social Security Number as the account number in Store Operations. Be aware this number automatically appears on ID cards when they are printed. Before You Configure School Store Manager: Configure customer fields in the Manager module of Store Operations so they can be correctly mapped to Student Billing fields. Spare QuickSell fields must be entered in the correct customer field type format (text, date, or numeric) for the selections to appear in School Store Manager. Student Billing field Student Billing record # Date ID card printed Birth date Gender Class of Grade Store Operations field type Text field Date field Date field Text field Numeric field Text field Student Billing record # and Date ID card printed fields are required. The other spare fields are optional. The Student Billing record # field is used to link Student Billing and Store Operations. Student Billing automatically assigns the Student Billing record # based on the last section of the student import ID. If you want to view the student s import ID, open the student record and select File, Properties. Set up credit account types for each store in Store Operations.

31 STORE OPERATIONS & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER 27 Configure store IDs for each store. Each store must be assigned a different number in Store Operations or you will receive an error while configuring School Store Manager. Make sure you have set up a billing fee in Student Billing Configuration to which you want school store charges applied. You can configure each store to use a separate billing fee or you can use one billing fee for all stores. You can use only billing fees for the current billing year. Student Billing performs all selected options on the billing fee when a charge from Store Operations is applied to the fee. For example, if you have established a default sales tax on the billing fee, the default sales tax fee is generated when a charge from Store Operations is applied to the fee. Be aware that a default sales tax on a billing fee cannot be separated from a transaction, even if the item is tax-free. Therefore, we recommend using separate fees for billing and tax. If you want a separate tax fee, make sure you have established it on the Billing Fees tab of Configuration in Student Billing. You can add a different tax fee for each store or use one tax fee for all stores. Tax fees are not required. It is important to set unique IDs for each store in Store Operations. If a school store sells items that are not taxable, you should use a billing fee that does not include a default sales tax. There is no way to separate the sales tax from a transaction if the tax is included in the billing fee. To apply sales tax individually to transactions, you can configure a separate tax fee. Fields Automatically Loaded into QuickSell The following fields are automatically loaded into Store Operations when you load students. The student identifier (Social Security Number or Student ID) you select on the Configuration screen for School Store Manager enables Store Operations to recognize the student and attach the correct information from the student record in Student Billing. Account number (Social Security Number or Student ID) Last name First name Address City State Zip Country Telephone number

32 28 CHAPTER 3 Each school store that you add appears on the main School Store Configuration screen. You can disable a store without deleting it by clicking Edit and changing the status from Active to Inactive. Configuring School Store Manager for Store Operations 1. From Utilities and Housekeeping in Student Billing, select File, School Store Manager. Then select Configuration. The School Store Configuration screen appears. When you complete the information on the General tab and School Store Manager has successfully connected with the QuickSell database, the Store ID field is automatically filled with the ID number from Store Operations. 2. Click Add. The School Store Configuration parameters screen appears. 3. On the General tab, in the Store Code field, enter an alphanumeric code between one and ten characters that identifies this school store in Student Billing. 4. In the Description field, enter a description to identify the store in Student Billing. 5. In the Server name field, select the server for the database to which you want to connect.

33 STORE OPERATIONS & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER In the Database name field, enter the name of the database exactly as it appears in Store Operations. 7. In the User name and Password fields, enter the security information set for this database in Store Operations. 8. In the Status field, select Active to enable transactions to occur or Inactive to prevent transactions from occurring.

34 30 CHAPTER 3 9. Select the Options tab. The Store Operations account number appears on the ID cards. Billing and tax fees are established in Configuration in Student Billing. The Taxes applied to fee field is not required; however, it is useful if you want to use a tax fee that can be applied separately from the normal billing fee. 10. In the Use _ as QuickSell Account # field, select Social Security No. or Student ID. 11. In the School name field, enter the name of the school for this store. The original name defaults from the Student Billing settings. 12. In the Charges applied to fee field, select the billing fee to which you want to apply charges. Only Fixed Amount billing fees for the current year appear in the list. This is a required field. 13. In the Taxes applied to fee field, select the tax fee you want applied to the charge. Only Sales Tax billing fees for the current year appear in the list.

35 STORE OPERATIONS & SCHOOL STORE MANAGER In the Spare Field Mapping frame, select each Store Operations spare field in the Map To column for each Student Billing Field in the left column. Only Student Billing record # and Date ID card printed fields are required. The Student Billing record # field is used to link Student Billing and QuickSell. Student Billing automatically assigns the Student Billing record # based on the last section of the student import ID. 15. Click OK to complete configuration. Load Students After you configure the school stores, you are ready to load students. The Load Students utility brings specific student information into Store Operations from Student Billing. You can filter the list of students being loaded by previously-defined query, school store, date added, and attributes. You can also run the Load Students utility to update Store Operations records based on changes made in Student Billing records. Mark Update information for students already in QuickSell to include changes. On the Attributes tab, Add, Update, or Delete these Attributes for Each Student is helpful if you want to add, update, or delete an attribute for students loaded into a specific store. For example, you may want to add an attribute named Cafeteria Eligibility with a description Yes for each student loaded into the QuickSell stores specified on the General tab. To print ID cards for faculty members or charge faculty accounts, you must create records for faculty members in Store Operations.