From the Transactions menu, Post Annual Fees can be used to post any type of annual fee (registration, membership, insurance, etc.) to existing families or students.
You have the option to post the fees for:
- Family based on the Family Registration Month. A family's registration date is the date they registered with your facility, either via a Jackrabbit User (in-house) or through online registration, and is displayed on the Summary tab of their Family record.
- Student based on the Student Start Month. A student's start date is the date they were first added to the Family record in your Jackrabbit database and is displayed on the Summary tab of the Student record.
- Student per Class based on the Student Start Month.
You can narrow the list of people who will be included in the batch and have the fee posted to their accounts using the Search Criteria (Who do you want to bill?) including:
- Select Location (family)
- Post Fee Per Family/Acct., Per Student, or Per Student-Class (Fee Per Student)
- Student Start Month (if Per Student) (September)
- Active (Enrolled) Only? (are students currently enrolled in any classes?)
- Enroll Date From and Through (date the students were enrolled into class)
- Class Session (students currently enrolled in classes with this session)
- Category 1, 2, 3 (students currently enrolled in classes in this category)
- Membership Type (family)
Choose what type of fees you want to post, and what details you want to apply to the transactions, in the Transaction Details to Post (What Fees do you want to post?) section.
If you are posting per family you will enter the amount of the fee for a family. If you are posting per student, or per student-class, you will enter the fees for the first student, second student, and the third student. The fee for the third student is used for the fourth, fifth, etc. students in the family unless a maximum fee per family is designated. If a maximum fee exists, the fee will post for each student until that maximum is reached. If the maximum is reached it will be posted to the family in one transaction vs posting each student amount individually.
By default, Post Annual Fees will exclude transactions for a family with previously posted fees with an exact match on:
- Transaction Date
- Transaction Type
- Transaction Amount (per Family, per Student, or per Student-Class)
If you have chosen to post fees per student or by student-class, the transaction must also match the student name (this would mean that the originally posted transaction would have to have the student listed in the student section of the transaction).
Entering dates in the Duplicate Check Date From/Through fields allows you to also exclude duplicate fees for a family/student for a specified date range instead of the exact transaction date. This searches the date range in addition to matching the type, amount, and for per student fees, student name.
If you would like the Family Registration Date or Student Start Date to act as a 'due date' for next year's fees select Yes to Optionally, Advance Registration Date By 1 year. Note: To keep a record of their actual registration/start date consider adding those dates to the Notes field on the Misc tab.
You have the option to preview the fees before you commit to posting them!
The Preview Annual Fees page provides transaction counts and the option to remove a family, or families, from the batch. The fees are not posted to families until the Post Fees button is selected.
If annual fees are posted in error, use Transactions > Delete Transactions to delete. See Delete Transactions for more information on deleting a fee.