Enable Customer Payment Functionality in iFinance (e.g., Refunds, Overpayments)
Currently, iFinance allows payment processing only for suppliers. However, for payments to customers (such as student refunds or overpayment returns), we are required to process the payment manually through the bank and then record it separately i...
An improvement I feel would save time and benefit all billing clerks would be where we do not have to regenerate all invoices withdrawn from the portal before publishing again, for example sibling invoices where no amendments have been made but ne...
Suggestion Description: Currently, the system requires users to select and download invoices cycle by cycle, which can be time-consuming and inefficient — especially when dealing with large volumes of records. I would like to propose a feature enh...
Invigilation, adhoc duties etc - Make it a quick add
We would benefit from a quick add option in the cover module. I would have the opportunity to create an "absence" add a name and the time required. It would be great for invigilation and random duties we need to cover. It would generate a cover sl...
Add Support for Activating/Deactivating Staff via Employee REST API
Currently, there is no method to activate or deactivate a staff member via the REST API. Adding support for this feature would be highly useful for HR and IT teams who manage staff lifecycle through automated workflows or external HR platforms. By...
Fetching Opening Balances from iFinance for Fee Bills
Currently opening balances are fetched from iFinance at the Document Preview stage (and then hardcoded to the final bill). If there is a delay (ie.for bill checking) between the Document Preview stage and actually issuing bills a few days later an...
Feel Billing Contact Notes - link to Pupil Manager Contact Notes
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...
Make the template Reward and Conduct emails editable
What I want: Many other modules' default emails can be edited in the control panel, but the Reward & Conduct notifications that go to parents can't be edited. I would like to be able to edit them. Why I want it: Our simplest reward is set so t...
With the old parent portal you could mimic being a particular parent which made it really easy to troubleshoot issues. It doesn't look like it's possible the new cloud portal which means we are having to go back to parents and ask them for screens...
Already submitted an idea for Bulk Refund of Deposits but can we have the same for Leavers Direct Debits - it took me ages to complete this task too. To have to go into each individual pupil, billing contact and then delete the dd takes too long. ...
