Reports

The Trust-e Cashless solution provides a wide range of report information as standard. All activity including sales on the till, payments at the Revaluation units, payments made on the WEB and cheques received in the office are date and time stamped. This gives us the ability to extract any information from the system that you might require. From Product Sales to Meal Uptake to a Full Audit Trail.

Report examples are:-

Example reports are available on request.

Often when you take a report from a system this leads to more questions instead of actually answering any. It is for this reason that Omron offer an Advanced Pivot Reporting option. This allows the user to quickly and easily drill down through the data to get to the information required.

This initial Pivot shows sales by Class by Month. The Class RED has generated the most amount of income on Catering

We have now asked the Pivot to show us the sales split by Gender. We can now see that in the Red Class the boys have spent the most.

In the final Pivot we have introduced The difference between Cash & Free School Meals.

Primary and Secondary Schools

Trust-e offers the complete cashless catering solution for Secondary Schools. This simple to use Cashless System provides a host of benefits, including reduced administration, faster lunch time service, full audit trail for incoming monies, powerful reporting tools and increased Meal Take Up.

Pupil Identification

Your school has the choice of how you identify your pupils. Biometric, Magnetic Card, Smart Card, Photograph and PIN are available. We have ensured that all Becta guidelines have been followed giving you the peace of mind that the solution is right for your school.

Menu Scheduling

As schools are required to provide more nutritional information within Trust-e future menus can be easily created. Each day the system checks which menu is active and automatically changes the till layout.

Increase Meal Uptake

The system will calculate the meal uptake and monitor changes and fluctuations in trends. Information included would also incorporate Free School Meal information such as FSM take up and total pupils receiving FSM.

Full Nutritional Information

Each product can have nutritional information assigned to it. This then allows Nutritional Reporting by pupil.

External Links

Links include SIMS, ParentPay, TASC Pars Registration, Saffron, Nutmeg, BioStore & MicroLib.

Implementation

As a One Stop Solution provider Omron will complete each aspect of your installation from Site Survey to Go Live Assistance. Below gives you an indication as to how Omron will Implement your system. If your requirements are different these would be discussed at the initial Implementation Meeting.

Hardware Solutions

Our in house assembled 15” Touch Screen Terminal is a robust and industry standard device designed for every type of environment. Its excellent reliability puts this terminal in front of the competition.

Our in house designed and constructed Revaluation Unit is the best available to any School in the UK. Each Revaluation Unit is built to your specification using Biometric, Swipe Card, PIN or Smart Card pupil identification options. We also offer Coin and Note options which enables us to meet your exact specifications. Its steel construction and design gives you the best security available meaning your money is always safe.

Pupil Identification

Biometric (Meeting BECTA Guidelines) Pin Magnetic Card Smart Card RFID Photograph Template For Primary Schools

The choice of identification does not effect any of the functionality found within either the EPOS Front End or Back Office Software. Which ever method you prefer is the method that we will install into your school.

BECTA Guidelines

We have followed the advice given by Becta to ensure that the solution that we provide meets the needs of the school,parents and students. Becta, the Government’s schools ICT agency, sets out clear guidelines on how the Data Protection Act 1998 applies to the use of Biometric data in schools.

To read the guidance go to www.becta.org.uk and search for biometric in the search box.

Service & Support

Omron Systems N. I Ltd provide excellent Service and Support to their customers based around the whole of the UK.

As part of the A-Z service provided by Omron one telephone number is all that is required. Our Help Desk will determine what the best cause of action is to solve your problem and around 95% of all calls are resolved during a 2 minute telephone call.

Our Help Desk will assist you via the telephone or via a Remote Session into your computer. 95% of all calls are dealt with in this manner but on the occasion that On Site Assistance is required one of our Remote Engineers will attend your site.

We service customers from 8am while 10pm, 7 days a week. We offer both a remote and on site service thereby giving you the best possible Service and Support.

Our Associates

We also work closely with the School Food Trust to ensure that our solutions meet the current and future guidelines.

Online Payments

Hundreds of schools are already using ParentPay to accept payments for school meals, trips, music lessons, clubs, uniforms and much more. NRS have a seamless link with ParentPay that produces a seamless link between both systems.

All sales and transactions are passed from the cashless system to ParentPay via a daily schedule. The schedule means that parents have real time information relating to their child’s meal uptake and other related information such as balances or purses.

All transactions on the Cashless EPOS terminal can be reported upon at the School.

All transactions on the Cashless EPOS terminal can be reported upon by parents using ParentPay.

EPoS

EPoS – our electronic lunchtime till system

In September 2008, the nutrient-based standards for school lunches become law in primary schools. To ensure that we meet these standards, our school lunch menu has to be nutritionally analysed. Every child taking a school lunch should have the option to have a balanced diet, including certain levels of fish, red meat, vegetables, etc. (having regard to dietary needs, of course). Within a few years, we will be required to report on the take up of the food. Without recording what a child has taken, we have no way of knowing whether certain food types have been taken. You will note that I am using the term ‘taken’ and not ‘eaten’!

Another benefit for the school is that we are able to monitor the catering contract to give us accurate information about the popularity of certain meals, as well as being able to count portions served. I am now able to ask questions of our caterers such as why only 12 portions of a particular choice were served and challenge some of the menu choices.