GILBERT PATERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
CASHLESS SCHOOL – PARENT MANUAL
SECURITY' – One of the most important questions that many people are concerned about is the security of the Cashless School System. The Cashless school system has the same security as the banking system. Any money that you Deposit into your Cashless School Account is held in a ‘ TRUST ' account with the Kev Software Company. These accounts are monitored continually by the government with regular audits, checks and balances
To open your Cashless Schools Parent Center account, start your internet browser and type in CashlessSchools.com in the address bar. www.cashlessschool.com
Step 1
This is the first screen that you will see when you open your parent center .
Don't have an account? Register Now
At this screen “double click” on the “Sign Up Now “ or “Register Now”
Step 2
You will now see a screen that looks like this:
At this screen you will select the name of your student's school:
Begin typing the school name in the ‘ Enter School Name to Search ” box. A short list of school names will begin to be displayed. To select the correct school, click on the name in the drop down list the click ‘ Select'
Gilbert Paterson Middle School
Lethbridge School District
If your school name doesn't appear when you type it in you can search by school name or district name, so type in the name and hit the search button
Step 3
You next screen that looks like this:
Please enter your home email address or the email address where you will be operating your “Parent Center”
An email address is required to logon to this website. ‘ Enter your email address' and click ‘ Continue; . jsmith5@telus.net (your email address)
Step 4
Your next screen will look like this:
Please fill in your information as required
Step 5
Your next screen will look like this:
Enter your child's first and last name and date of birth
Click the “search student” button and your child's name will pop up as it is registered at the school.
Please ensure that you do the search.
This must be the student's legal name as registered with the school district.
Enter your child's ‘ Student ID' if the date of birth is not sufficient information for your child. Student ID may be obtained from the school office.
Step 6
Your next screen will look like this:
Enter a pin number here that you will remember. This is something of your own creation.
A PIN is used by students to make purchase at school using the student card. (This is not available for Paterson students as yet)
** To set up more than one child you need to repeat the up process – Step 1 to Step 6 – Congratulations and Welcome to the Parent Center
Once all of your children have been entered your Parent Center will look like this with
‘Your Account' means ‘your children'
You can add as many of ‘ your children' as you have at this school and at LCI (they are also piloting this program). Elementary schools are not on this program as yet.
Setting Up Your Bank Account Information for Transferring Funds
Return to the Parent Profile to add your bank account information.
Enter your information as required.
Your banking information is located at the bottom of your personal cheques. If you don't have a checking account please get your banking information from you bank.
Please indicate that you have read the terms and conditions.
After this information has been set up you can “Deposit Funds” to your cashless school account or you can pay fees using a ‘eCheck'
Depositing Funds has some advantages over the ‘eCheck' service.
The processing fee (like an ATM fee) is only charged once on deposit of funds, fees can be paid from the deposited funds with no further fees. The processing fee is approximately $1-$2.
When you use an ‘ eCheck ' to pay fees you are charged each time you use the ‘ eCheck ' Service.
In order to start paying your fees, click on the “Pay Online Fees' on the left hand side of the screen.
‘Pay Online fees' page which will tell you which fees have been registered for your student
Your on line fee account will look like this:
Here you will pick which fees you want to pay or all of them at one time.
From this screen ‘ Check out your cart '
‘ Confirm your order' in this screen
Click on the ‘ Finish Payment' button
Choose your payment method from this screen
• Cashless School Account
• eCheck
This page indicates that you have successfully paid you fees.Please print your receipt from here.
“ If you forget to print your receipt you can go back to ‘Fee Payment History to see your history of all payments made including receipts # Choose File -> Print when viewing this screen to achieve a print out .
Please keep the receipts for Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton and any other extra-curricular athletic fee for your taxation records. No other receipt will be issued. If you have any questions please call Gilbert Paterson School and we will be more than happy to help you.
WITHDRAWAL OF ‘ YOUR FUNDS' IN CASHLESS SCHOOL
Should you need to withdraw funds from you ‘Cashless School' account, please follow the prompts that as indicated.
If you have your account set up in memory it will go back directly to that account.
Your final screen for the withdrawal process will look like this:
This is your receipt for the funds that you have withdrawn.
**SUPPORT PHONE NUMBERS FOR THE HELP DESK IS: 1-800-866-231-3322 OR support@firstnationaltech.com
The Help Desk Link has access to FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)