Arbor Foundations: Meals Setup and Meals Management

Aimed at School Administrators and Office Managers, these courses will teach you how to setup and manage your Meals offering in Arbor.

Accessible from the Training hub, the learning path consists of 2 courses:

Meals Setup: 

Setting up a new school meal, creating provisions, setting prices, adding a meal sitting, adding meal sitting attendees, setting student meal patterns, dietary requirements & setting account balances

Additionally, setting up rotating meal menus & selecting meals from the Parent Portal (for customers on the Perform package)

Meals Management:

Regular areas for reporting & managing Meals, such as:
Daily Summary & totals, dietary requirement report, adding ad hoc student/staff meals, viewing and printing meal registers, managing meal balances, meals reporting,  managing changes to student/staff meals, dietary requirements & individual payment queries

How to access?

Already purchased?

All purchased training will be available to access via the Arbor Training Hub.

Please read this guide on how to login and access training via the Hub. For this service please follow the Onboarding Training guidance and search for Meals Setup and Management.

Not purchased this yet?

Please contact our Partnership Team by emailing customersales@arbor-education.com for more information or to purchase this training.

Additional Information

Permissions required to carry out tasks covered in this training:

To be able to complete the actions demonstrated in the training, you will need the following permissions:

• Student Profile: Meals: Administer All Students - Set up and manage meals for students
• Student Profile: Meals: View All Students - View meal patterns and choices for students
• Staff Profile: Meals: View - View meal patterns and choices for staff
• Staff Profile: Meals: Administer - Set up and manage meals for staff
• Finance: View - View finance-related data in the MIS
• Finance: Administer - Administer finance-related data in the MIS

Check you have these permissions by going to your profile and clicking Roles and Permissions > Permissions. 

For how to assign permissions, click here.

Useful guides related to this training:

Setting Up Meals - A step by step guide
Meals FAQs
Reporting on Meals