Ideas

I have been told iFinance outputs reports as XLS and only accepts imports as XLS files. Please can we move on to XLSX files as Microsoft are tightening up on the use of them and they pose a security risk. We automatically quarantine XLS files now ...

Currently phased returns are notes only, and absences are not synced to SIMS for non-working time. It would be very useful if the system could suggest and save absence periods that are outside the phased return working time (based on the staff mem...

Currently Shared Parental Leave doesn't sync to SIMS, meaning we need to add those absences manually to SIMS which risks that becoming a "general" absence category that staff can select for themselves at the next resync.

We use SOCS for music classes and sporting fixtures. It would be great to add a calendar or timetable for viewing only that is synced from SOCS data

It would be very useful if, on the new Cloud Parent Portal, we were able to make small tweaks to customise it for our school. Example 1 - on the Dashboard page after logging on there are widgets for the children showing attendance, timetable and d...

Our Admissions Team would like to have an electronic signature (similar to DocuSign) to be on the form which parents complete on the portal to accept their place at the school.

In Fee Billing > Cycle View > Pupil Search > Notes there is the ability to add both Pupil Notes and Contact Notes. It would make a lot of sense if Contact Notes synced directly with Contact Notes in Pupil Manager>Contacts rather than h...

I would like to be able to set the timetable manager view of all timetables to default to period view. I was able to do this through the Control Panel>Features module, but now this has been removed and the default for my timetables is for Day V...

We currently have the emails sending to tutors on each entry, as below: This is bombarding tutors with dozens of emails per day. Is it possible to have a once a day email which collates all of the entries for that tutor group in one email?

Absence Triggers: at the moment you can’t set up absence triggers for specific absence types (like triggering when a staff member has too much time off for dependants)