This article provides an introduction to Rotating Meal Menus in Arbor and is part of a series. This guide takes you through what Meal Menus are, the prerequisites needed to set up Meal Menus, and the setup steps you need to complete before starting to set up your menus.
This article is the first in a series of six. The other guides in this series are:
- Rotating Meal Menus - Introduction
- Rotating Meal Menus - Setting up a Menu
- Rotating Meal Menus - Adding Provisions to Menus
- Rotating Meal Menus - Making a Menu available
- Rotating Meal Menus - Managing Meal Menus
- Rotating Meal Menus - Frequently Asked Questions
You can use our Rotating Meal Menus functionality if you have rolling meal choices that change often, or if you want parents to be able to book which meal their child will have in advance through the parent Portal and Parent App.
Rotating Meal Menus are included in our newest Perform package. All other Arbor packages won’t have this feature by default. Want to upgrade or find out what package you’re on? Just get in contact with our Partnership Team by emailing customersales@arbor-education.com.
Permissions
You'll need the Meals: Administer All Students permission to set up meal menus. If you don't have the permission, you'll need to ask your admin team to give you permission using these instructions.
Before setting up Meal Menus
First, decide whether you wish to charge all students for meals.
If you don't want to charge students, please follow our guidance here: Set up meals without using payments or having Payments
If you do want to charge students, please make sure:
- You have set up card payments in Arbor. If you want to enable payments to be made via card for Meals, you'll need to make sure you have already set up Card Payments in Arbor.
- There is a Customer Account type for meals in School > Payments > Setup > Customer Account Types, and it's visible on the Parent Portal if you want guardians to be able to top up the account.
- Starting balances have been set to bring over any starting money from your previous meal management system: Creating Initial Account Balances.
Regardless of whether you intend to charge for meals, please also make sure you have completed steps one to five of setting up your meals in Arbor. Find our full series of Meals setup guides here: Setting up Meals - Step by step
Once you're happy with the above, you're ready to get started with setting up your Meal Menu. Please move on to the next guide in this series to start: Rotating Meal Menus - Setting up a menu
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