School setup

There are some initial setup tasks that a school bookkeeper role must perform in Student Activities Management.

Task Description
Set up schools If schools have not been defined by the district controller, create schools.

See Creating schools

See Creating receipt templates
Set up or assign activity accounts to schools Assigning an activity to a school

See Creating school activity accounts

See

Adding a beginning balance to an activity
Set up or assign account codes to schools See Creating school account codes
Set up school classes If your organization will use student records, you can optionally create classes.

See Creating school classes

See Assigning classes to students

Set up or import students If your organization will use student records and they have not been created by the school district, you can create or import students.

See Creating student records

See Assigning classes to students

See the Financials and Supply Management Data Interface Guide for importing student records

Set up bank accounts Creating bank accounts for a school

See Creating bank accounts

See Creating laser check templates

Set up vendors Vendors are used when creating disbursements

See Creating vendors

Set up club sponsors You can optionally set up club sponsors to help group and organize receipts.

See Creating club sponsors