Faith in Site now offers a package for school lunch programs. This solution is customized for your specific needs, but allows the entire school lunch ordering and reporting system paperless and online. This exciting expansion will greatly reduce overhead and allow students and parents to easily make orders and school administrators to get real-time reporting on the orders. Parents are also able to pay for their orders online! Let’s go through some of the main features.
Website Integration There is no need to learn a new system or make your students and parents go to other sites. We can incorporate the meal system directly into a website, using secure login and account management.
Monthly Programs
Split your meals into monthly or bi-monthly programs so you can more easily control the orders as well as specify cut off dates for both new orders and changes to existing orders. After the cutoff date of particular program students and parents will be still able to view their orders online and print off quick schedules to remind them what they are to have on a particular day. Administrators will still be able to make changes should the occasion arise.
Dynamic Meals
Enter unlimited meals into the system with options and additional costs for extras on each meal. Your meals also may include a detailed description including photos. The price for each meal is independent of each other, allowing changes along the way. Students and parents may order a single order per day per student, but may alter those changes at any time until the cutoff date for that monthly program.
Simple Order Process
A user friendly interface allows parents and students to quickly scan through the meals and make their order. Each meal has a full description and a simple checkbox. An order review box makes it simple to get the total price for all the orders and an overview of what changes you may be making if you are editing an existing order.
Printable Order Form
There are parents who remain uncomfortable with E-Commerce or using online systems, regardless of the security we use. To easily accommodate these users, a printable order form is available on the website as well.
Billing Accounts
Each student and staff member receives a billing account, which contains the current balance that is due to the school. Parents with multiple students will be able to see the total balance due for all their children and either mail in a check or pay right online. If a student or parent changes an order after paying, or has a positive balance due to absence or snow days, the positive balance will carry over and be counted as a credit the following month program. The system is simple and works like a credit card. Charges are made on a user account when purchasing meals and the balance is reduced or removed when a payment is entered. User friendly administration tools allow for quick reporting and administration of all accounts and analysis.
Billing Reports
The corresponding reporting found in our custom Spruance Web Controller allow administrators to quickly view accounts and make changes. Administrators are also able to get quick reports for total account activity based on month, program, or individual user.
Advanced Reporting
We understand that a system like this is only as good as the reports that it can generate. We have built several reports with the system which will enable a clear view into all aspects of the system. Remember this is a custom solution, not a boxed product. Should you require a specialized or custom report for your particular setup, we can customize reports for you based on your requirements. We want to remain as dynamic as possible to accommodate growing changes and requests.
Class / Grade Reports
Staff will be able to receive quick reports on student’s meals for either a single day or a full monthly program. These quick reports are easily printable and are dynamically generated by class, teacher, or grade.
Program Summary Report
Numbers are vital to keep a program as complicated as a school lunch program running smooth. The program summary report offers a quick look into all the meals of a particular program. The totals for each day and meal along with a totals summary are included.
Staff Meals
Faculty and staff will be able to access the same system. Pricing for faculty and staff can be set to be different or discounted, and works easily alongside regular student accounts for staff with children in the school.
Multiple Groups
While faculty and staff may be very common, the system is built to handle other groups as well. Regardless of the group, you may assign accounts in the system to it and establish custom and special pricing for meals.
Vendor Tracking
Meals may be quickly assigned to be provided by a particular vendor allowing for quick reporting for quantities needed for any particular day.
Simple Interface 
Dynamic Meals
Enter unlimited meals into the system with options and additional costs for extras on each meal. Your meals also may include a detailed description including photos. The price for each meal is independent of each other, allowing changes along the way. Students and parents may order a single order per day per student, but may alter those changes at any time until the cutoff date for that monthly program.
Simple Order Process
A user friendly interface allows parents and students to quickly scan through the meals and make their order. Each meal has a full description and a simple checkbox. An order review box makes it simple to get the total price for all the orders and an overview of what changes you may be making if you are editing an existing order.
Printable Order Form
There are parents who remain uncomfortable with E-Commerce or using online systems, regardless of the security we use. To easily accommodate these users, a printable order form is available on the website as well.
Billing Accounts
Each student and staff member receives a billing account, which contains the current balance that is due to the school. Parents with multiple students will be able to see the total balance due for all their children and either mail in a check or pay right online. If a student or parent changes an order after paying, or has a positive balance due to absence or snow days, the positive balance will carry over and be counted as a credit the following month program. The system is simple and works like a credit card. Charges are made on a user account when purchasing meals and the balance is reduced or removed when a payment is entered. User friendly administration tools allow for quick reporting and administration of all accounts and analysis.
Advanced Reporting
We understand that a system like this is only as good as the reports that it can generate. We have built several reports with the system which will enable a clear view into all aspects of the system. Remember this is a custom solution, not a boxed product. Should you require a specialized or custom report for your particular setup, we can customize reports for you based on your requirements. We want to remain as dynamic as possible to accommodate growing changes and requests.
Billing Reports
The corresponding reporting found in our custom Spruance Web Controller allow administrators to quickly view accounts and make changes. Administrators are also able to get quick reports for total account activity based on month, program, or individual user.
Class / Grade Reports
Staff will be able to receive quick reports on student’s meals for either a single day or a full monthly program. These quick reports are easily printable and are dynamically generated by class, teacher, or grade.
Program Summary Report
Numbers are vital to keep a program as complicated as a school lunch program running smooth. The program summary report offers a quick look into all the meals of a particular program. The totals for each day and meal along with a totals summary are included.
Multiple Groups
While faculty and staff may be very common, the system is built to handle other groups as well. Regardless of the group, you may assign accounts in the system to it and establish custom and special pricing for meals.
Vendor Tracking
Meals may be quickly assigned to be provided by a particular vendor allowing for quick reporting for quantities needed for any particular day.
Faith in Site LLC in coordination with its’ joint partner Daslos Studios LLC, has developed a customized and powerful website content management system called Spruance. With Spruance, never before has updating your web ministry been easier than it is now.
Spruance is the backbone of a Faith in Site web ministry website. Through it, you will be able to control all your text, images, audio files, videos, and all other files on your website. Spruance allows unlimited changes to the web content, and we encourage all of our clients to maintain an updated site. Changes made in Spruance are seen on the website instantly. There is no new language or code to learn to use Spruance. If you can understand a word processor, you will be fine.
What exactly is Spruance? Well, it is a web application that runs behind the scenes with various advanced tools within it to allow you the ability to make changes in real time to the ministry. You may access Spruance through a specific website address and with a secure username and password. You may make changes to your web ministry with Spruance, anytime and from any internet connection.
Spruance, now in its’ third full release has gone through many changes over the past several years. The current edition is written in the latest Microsoft framework and utilizes the latest Microsoft database server. Is this the cheapest way to build a website? No. But, when developing Faith in Site, we decided that our goal was to build advanced tools that could grow with a congregation in any number of ways. We would build the core to be expandable to allow you, the users, the decision making in the strategic direction. It is for that reason that we selected the most expandable, secure, and stable web technologies when building our tools.
School Lunch Program Packages have two prices that you will need to be aware of. The first being the development cost for the system itself. This is the price for the design, programming, and development of the website itself. This cost is due half upon the start of the development with the remainder due when the development has been completed and you are trained on Spruance and the new ministry. The second price is the hosting and licensing costs for the system, which are a monthly recurring cost.
Site Details
- Full School Web Package
- Dynamic School Lunch Online System
- Advanced Reporting and Administration Control within Spruance.
- Full use of the Spruance Web Controller (unlimited content updates)
Hosting Details:
- Hosted on our dedicated servers.
- 1000Mb of hard drive space.
- 16GB of monthly data transfer
- SSL Security Certificate
Support Details:
- Online training with our team for Spruance. (2 hr)
Pricing Details:
- Development Costs: $ *4985 (includes website)
- Recurring Hosting / Licensing Costs: $ 60 / month
*Cost based on a standard installation. Data migration and other data upgrade factors may increase cost.