Sending lunch balances emails to parents via School Messenger

Sending an email to parents via School Messenger

Automated phone call (and emails) for negative lunch balances goes out every Thursday @ 5p.m.

Need to find only those students with a negative lunch balance? Check the stored searches

Need to find only those students with a positive lunch balance? Check the stored searches

The method is the same exact way for sending an email.. Except for a few minor tweaks.

1. Some students are positive and others are negative?  You’ll want to run this twice. Once for positive balances and another for negative balances.

2. The field you are going to insert is “Speakable balance” - strange, I know.

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3. If the balance is a negative, you’ll want to add the “-” before entering the Speakable balance field.

   Your email should look something like this: 

   Positive Speakable balance email →  

   ← Negative Speakable Balance Email

What does that other lunch balance look like? I wouldn’t use it.  It prints out as non-currency looking and parents will be calling you about this.  We’re working on getting it removed (9/2018).