Serving Line Operations
Articles about opening lines, line settings, daily line processing, line users and more.
Students and Staff
Operations
- Can I use an iPad in the serving line?
- What is the change-to-milk button and how do I use it?
- Why are the sound prompts not working in my serving line?
- How do I create a new serving line user/cashier/point-of-sale user?
- How do I prevent students from being charged a second meal?
- The use of seconds in your serving lines
- Experiencing Slowness/Lagness in the LCS POS serving lines
- What do I do if a serving line was closed (or closed and processed) too soon?
- How can cash sales be charged in the serving lines?
- Adding a new user for the Edutrak Admin Site and/or the LCS Admin Site and/or serving lines.
- What types of devices can be used in the serving line/point-of-sale?
Default Items and Permissions
Line Settings, Comments and Alerts
- How do I upload student photos to my lunch line? (video)
- If our school does not use Lunch IDs, why am I getting a message that says students do not have Lunch IDs?
- How do I alert my cashiers/line users that a student is the last sibling in the family and graduating this year? (video tutorial)
- What is the Last Sibling Graduating feature and how is it used?
- What real-time balance options are available in the LCS serving line/point of sale?
- How do I create a line comment/message that will appear at the point of sale/serving line for the cashiers to see?
- How do I delete a line comment for one student?
- How do I delete line comments for all students?
- How can a student's spending limits and/or line permissions be changed?
- How can I disable a la carte purchases for students who have a negative balance?
- How can I add allergy alerts that will show up in the serving lines?
- What is the difference between the General Line Settings and the Line Settings?
- How can I turn off / on the family balance at the point of sale?
Transactions
- How to move a serving line to another day
- What are Purchase Types?
- How do I record or add multiple menu items at one time / use the multi-item feature in the serving line?
- How do I add meal transactions from a previous day?
- I entered breakfast in the lunch line (or lunch in the breakfast line.) How do I fix this?
- How do I delete a transaction for a previous date?
- How do I switch a food service menu item that was previously sold in the serving line?
- What are transaction codes and what do they mean?
- How do I add a transaction that was missed in the serving line?
- How do I move meal transactions to a new family?
- How do I delete a transaction from a previous date?
Barcodes
Menu Items and Line Grids
- What are the different item types for menu items?
- How do I change the prices of my menu items?
- How do I create a new menu item and add it to my menu item grid?
- How do I create barcodes for my menu items?
- How do I delete menu items I am no longer using?
- How do I edit the price or item description of an existing menu item?
Batch Edits
- How do I print address Labels? (video tutorial)
- How do I remove a student's photo from the Lunch Cashier System?
- How do I print barcodes for students to use in the serving line?
- How do I get a list / run a report of students who are withdrawn?
- How can I (manually) assign homerooms?
- How do you spread meal transactions across a range of dates?
- How can I see which students have a line comment?
- How can I see which students have allergy alerts?
- How to create Barcodes