Setting up and managing staff meals

First, check you have card payments enabled on your site. To be able to set prices for staff, make sure you have set up a Meal on your site from School > Meals > Setup. You can see how to complete these steps here: Setting up meals.

To set up staff meal options you can either:

Add a staff price to an existing meal provision

• Required option for schools who use Meal Menus to prevent parents from being abe to select staff meals
• Recommended for schools that have a simple meal setup e.g. only one provision for hot meals etc.

Add a new meal provision for staff

For schools who don't use Meal Menus and have complex setups where staff have different meal options to students, or if you want a free staff meal option. Please note: Any separate meal provisions set up will display in the Meal Register, so be sure to clearly name it so teachers don't select this option for students.

You can log cash or cheque top-ups from the Payments > Meals > Account Overview section on the staff profile.

Staff can also top up their own accounts by following these instructions.

You can add a staff meal pattern to automatically deduct the price of a staff member's meal from their account balance each day after the meal taken place.

Unlike with students, there isn't an area where you can add staff meal patterns in bulk. Instead, you'll need to add them from the Meals section of their staff profile.

First, add in which sitting they should be attending - this will mean you don't have to manually add the staff to the meal register. Click +Add in the Meal Patterns section.

The slide over will select every day by default, but if a staff member has lunch during a different sitting on certain days, you can untick the days.

You can then see a new section for Regular Meal Choices - this will mean you don't have to add in which meal they are having every day. Click +Add.

The slide over will select every day by default, but if a staff member has a different meal on certain days, you can untick the days.

If you have set up staff meal sittings and meal choices as shown in the Optional - Set staff meal patterns section above, staff will automatically be included in meal registers and their meal prices will be automatically deducted.

If you are adding staff manually, go to School > Meals > Daily Summary. Select the tab of the sitting, and click Add Staff.

In the slide over, select the staff and the meal they are having today, then click Add Staff.

If you can't select a staff member here, they may have already been given a regular meal sitting. Click the View Register button and go to the Staff tab. Click the staff member without a meal choice to select their meal choice.

If a staff member is no longer having the meal they have been booked onto, go to School > Meals > Daily Summary. Select the tab of the sitting, and click View Register.

Click on the Staff tab, click on the staff member to edit the meal or click Remove Staff.