Our software provides a wide range of features, customizable settings, and comprehensive reports to help you manage your program efficiently and effectively.
- FEATURES
A capability or tool built into the software that allows users to perform a task or solve a problem.
What the software can do.
Examples:
- Taking a Meal Count
- Creating a Saved Menu
- Storing a Child’s Birthdate
- CUSTOMIZABLE SETTINGS
A configurable option that lets the user control how
a feature works or how the system behaves.
How you customize the feature or the system.
Examples:
- Choosing to take attendance with in/out times or by present/absent
- Requiring a schedule when enrolling a participant
- Disallowing meals for a milk shortage
- REPORTS
A PDF document or spreadsheet that organizes data collected by the system.
A picture of the data.
Examples:
- Claim Summary Report
- Food Production Record
- Expense Detail Report
- SHORTCUTS
- Feature = Action (what you can do)
- Setting = Control (how you adjust it)
- Report = Output (what you get out)
Explore the table below to view our full list of features, customizable settings, and reports. Use the dropdowns to filter by category; feature, setting or report; and site type. Click any item under the list to remove it from your filter. You can also search for an item using the search field. Please note that report names with * indicates a report that can be run at the sponsor level and ^ indicates a report that can be run at the site level.
| Category | Feature, Setting or Report | Site Type | Item |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsor Settings |  Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Sponsor icon alerts for active site count, special diet forms, overdue monitoring visits, tiering determinations, electronic forms for approval, missing or expired facility license and visits without training |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Message Center to view messages sent from My Food Program to your sponsor account |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Track sponsor name, legal name, Sponsor ID, address, email address, phone |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Track information on sponsor principals, including name, position, birth date, term dates, address, phone, email, employer, job title, conflicts, race, ethnicity, date of NDL check, and whether they are eligible to vote and whether they receive compensation for their board service |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Upload a signature image to be applied to paper checks |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Afterschool Program | Set an ARAM Release Day (a day when breakfast, am snack or lunch can be claimed on a weekday as ARAM) |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Connect to Quickbooks |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Changes site settings for all settings and all sites at once |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Determine the default site settings to be used for new sites |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Set up your banking information and direct deposit information for sites |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | View and pay your invoices for your use of My Food Program, including the ability to view the list of sites included in the monthly invoice and download a detailed spreadsheet |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Set the license types or license age ranges used in your state along with the ability to set them as valid for school agers, non-school agers or all participants and also as valid for night capacity |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Family Child Care Homes | Combine license types into license groups and assign codes for state agency export files |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Manage sponsor users, including name, user name, password, email address, phone number, start date, end date, status, role, assigned sites for monitoring, notes, signature and training |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Manage Sponsor Reporter Site Assignments in bulk |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Generate an ACH file for upload to your banking institution |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Add an ACH payment outside of a claim |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care | Get a direct link to Ready Records forms that need approval |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care | Send Ready Records reminders to all household or only those with missing, expired paperwork with a filter by site |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care | Create a Link to a Ready Records Request |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Run reports at the sponsor and site level |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Mark a report as a favorite |
| Sponsor Settings | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Upload your own logo for providers and center/site staff to see when they login |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Status Icons related to claims status, missing meal counts, missing/expired income forms, missing/expired enrollment forms, missing menus, overdue training |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Store name, site type, legal name, profit status, site ID, status, address, time zone, county, site school district, email address, phone, second phone, mailing address, preferred language, pre-qualifying month, intended start date, actual start date, end date, withdrawal reason, business name, Tax ID, food contracting entity, alternate ID, delivery driver, monitor, administrative percentage, payment method, space/time percentage, notes, and group family child care license |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Hide settings that can be managed from the sponsor level |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set the authorized program type (CACFP Standard, CACFP School Age, CACFP Preschool, Head Start, Early Head Start, ARAM, SFSP or Not Claiming) and the approved claiming dates |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter open/close times and approved meal service times |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Designate a meal for night licensed capacity limits |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set the program type for each meal type |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Enable and assign participant meal shifts |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Copy meal times from one day to another |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Designate a site as a master menu site |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Indicate that a site uses the menus from a master menu |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Track the iron-fortified infant formula(s) offered by a site |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Track licensed capacity |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Add additional age range combinations on top of licensed capacities by age range |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Track information on site principals: name, position, birth date, term dates, address, phone, email, employer, job title, conflicts, race, ethnicity, date of NDL check, and whether they are eligible to vote and whether they receive compensation for their board service |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Track facility license number, effective dates, licensed authority and upload a file to associate with the facility license |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Track the site’s vended meal contract, including the contract name, effective dates and upload an image of the contract |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Place a site on hold and provide the hold dates and reason |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter a record log (large text box with comments only sponsor staff can see) |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter a record log note with the note date, type, summary and description |
| Site Management | Feature | Family Child Care Homes | Record a tier determination, including the Tier I or Tier II, along with the effective dates, reason, census information, school district name, school name, school zip, free and reduced percentage for the area, and a case number (if a provider is qualifying based on their case number) |
| Site Management | Feature | Family Child Care Homes | Use the income eligibility calculator if entering a Tier I determination based on the provider’s household size and income |
| Site Management | Feature | Summer Food Service Program | Designate a summer food site as a camp and allowed to claim three meals |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Link a site to a vendor in QuickBooks and send bills directly to QuickBooks |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Filter the site list by monitor |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Search for sites based on legal name, address, business name, county, alternate ID, email, license number or phone number |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Search for a participant based on first name and/ or last name |
| Site Management | Feature | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a highest allowable count (afterschool and summer food) |
| Site Management | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Expand or collapse simple view of site hours and meal times |
| Site Management |  Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Disallow meals if a facility license is missing or expired |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Assign monitor(s) to sites |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Perform capacity checks by program type (CACFP Standard, CACFP School Age, CACFP Preschool, Head Start, Early Head Start, ARAM, SFSP or Not Claiming) in addition to overall facility licensed capacities |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Track licensed capacity by age range (typically used by centers) or by license type (typically used by homes) |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Hide Message Center |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Make My Food Program chat function available to all sites while logged in |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Make certain program types available when adding sites (CACFP Standard, CACFP School Age, CACFP Preschool, Head Start, Early Head Start, ARAM, SFSP or Not Claiming) |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Make certain meal types available when adding sites (early snack, breakfast, am snack, lunch, pm snack, supper, evening snack) |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Designate a report as a “Favorite” for all sites |
| Site Management | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Designate if site hours and meal times are the same for every day |
| Site Management |  Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Summary Report*^ |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Mailing Labels* |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Vended Meal Contract Report* |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Export Report* |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Principal Spreadsheet* |
| Site Management | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Expiring Provider Tier I Status* |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Facility LIcense Report* |
| Site Management | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Provider Tier Status* |
| Site Management | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Provider Tiering Report Spreadsheet* |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Sites Claiming Evenings and Weekends* |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Time-Space Percentage^ |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record of Sponsor User Logins Report^ |
| Site Management | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record of Site User Logins Report^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Plan menus for participants 1 year+ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Plan menus for infants <1 year |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Create an infant feeding record |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Mark a food as a favorite food so it appears in a quick-pick dropdown on the meal planning page |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create saved menus and group them into weeks |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Delete menus individually or in bulk |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Print menus as a two-week calendar, a portioned spreadsheet or a portioned print-ready, in both English and Spanish |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create food production records individually or in bulk |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set meal order categories for a site |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Store CN Labels, Nutrition Facts Panels or ingredient lists |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create meal orders individually or in bulk |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Copy menus by the week or apply a weekly saved menu |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Copy menus by the day |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record substitutions for special dietary needs |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Menu calendar icons for whole grain, juice, MMA substitutes for grains at breakfast, school release days, field trips, closures |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Exclude certain food Items in the MFP food database for all sites |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a food as a favorite food for newly-created sites and/or existing sites so they appear in a quick-pick dropdown on the meal planning page |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter, remove and view meal orders across all sites |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Search the Food Database by Product Code or CN Label Number |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Mark a Special Diet as Reviewed by Sponsor |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Ignore menu validation |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow entry of menus with missing components but do not allow them to be claimed |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict restrict providers or center/site staff to only foods marked by the sponsor as “favorite” |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from uploading CN Labels, Nutrition Facts Panels or ingredient lists |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatically update food production records when meal food items change |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict meal orders from being entered in bulk |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a default milk to be added to all breakfast, lunch and supper |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow meals if fluid milk substitute is not on the menu and a participant with a fluid milk special dietary need attends the meal. Excludes participants who provide their own fluid milk substitute. |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow meals if CN Label or Product Formulation Statement is not uploaded |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from setting their own menu item names for print |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require same-day food production records |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Disallow meals for missing infant menus (for ages 6+ or for all infants) |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Show an icon on the calendar for school days and non-school days |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict meal orders from being entered using the mobile version |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Require infant feeding records |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Allow or restrict infant menu by name entry to infant meal service times |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict provider or center/site staff from typing in a “description for print view” that will overwrite all menu item names |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from indicating that a food item will supply only part of the full portion size |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Ignore expired CN labels during claims check |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow a meal if there is a food shortage (i.e. the food production record indicates that not enough food was prepared for all the participants who attended the meal) |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow a meal if the food production record indicates that not enough milk was prepared for all the participants who attended the meal |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set age ranges to display for meal orders |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict center/site with “staff” permission level to enter menus (those with site manager/director permission can always enter menus) |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site users with “Staff” or “Kitchen Staff or Infant Teacher” permission level to enter meal counts for prior dates |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Show or Hide the Option to Designate a Food Item as an Extra |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Daily Meal Production^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Daily Meal Production with Leftovers and Dietary Accommodations^* |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Summer Food Service Program | Daily Menu Production Worksheet for Summer Food^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Favorite Foods with CN Label or Product Formulation Statement*^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Food Production Report* |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Food Production Spreadsheet with Meal Pattern^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Food Shortage Report^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Foods Served with CN Labels or Product Formulation Statement*^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Grocery List Report* |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Infant Food Production Record H-1530A^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Infant Menu by Name^ |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Substitutions for Special Dietary Needs |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Food Allergy Label Report* |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Food Order Spreadsheet* |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Food Orders* |
| Menus, Food Production & Meal Orders | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Menu Report* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Record attendance |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Take meal counts by program type (such as Head Start vs. CACFP Standard) |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Disallow a specific meal for a specific participant |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Send a note to the sponsor |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Record a meal outside of the schedule on the participant’s enrollment form |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Mark a participant as absent and provide an absence reason |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Upload daily attendance |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record a reason that a meal is non-reimbursable |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | View an overview of the meal counts entered across all sites |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Reassign meal shifts based on participant meal shift assignments |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Record an Adult Meal Headcount |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Set attendance to “Present” or “In/Out Times” |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Restrict meal counts to be done by midnight or during approved meal service times “Point of Service” |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Take meal counts by name or use a headcount |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Choose from six screens for attendance and meal count entry: (1) attendance and meal counts on separate screens (2) attendance and meal counts on the same screen (3) attendance and meal counts and menus on the same screen (4) weekly entry by roster (5) monthly entry by name or (6) multi-day meal distribution – for SFSP rural, non-congregate sites only. |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require menus for participants ages 1 yr+ before the entry of meal counts |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Require menus for infants < 1 yr before the entry of meal counts |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require a food production record before the entry of meal counts |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require a food production record be finalized before the entry of meal counts |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Use a headcount for attendance |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow sites to upload daily attendance |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Hide the ability for sites to enter “Notes to Sponsor” |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow center/site users to edit the meals prepared/received field |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require incremental (“clicker”) counts for headcount meal counts |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | If a headcount meal count is marked as non-reimbursable, require a reason |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Display option to record reason for absence |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Disallow a meal if a participant is present for less than 15 minutes of a meal or snack |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set attendance and meal count time limits to a calendar day (i.e. by the 5th of each month) or a day of the week (i.e. by the end of day on Friday) for designated users |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Disallow meals that exceed licensed capacity |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Do not display participants who are “Pending” on the attendance and meal count screens |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Disallow AM Snack and Lunch on a weekday for participants age 6+ unless it is marked as a meal outside of schedule or a school release/summer day |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Disallow AM Snack and Lunch on a weekday for participants included in school age capacity unless it is marked as a meal outside of schedule or a school release/summer day |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow only site managers/directors to enter meal counts for prior days |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program | Option to use the headcount meal count as the attendance count (with permission from state agency) |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Allows sites to override “disallow for meals not listed on participant enrollment form” by checking “Meal Outside of Schedule” and providing a reason |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Send Email to a Sponsor User When a New “Notes to Sponsor” is entered |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Option to display and customize additional fields when taking headcount meal counts |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Setting | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Option to carry over leftover meals from previous open day to selected meal types (Headcount Only) |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care | Daily Free/Reduced/Paid Count by Meal Type^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Daily Meal Counts Tally Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Daily Meal Count with Attendance Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Afterschool Program | Daily Meal Count and Attendance Record (H1535-AT)*^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Daily Meal Count with In/Out Times^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Date Time Stamp of Attendance and Meal Count Entries*^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Five-Day Reconciliation Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Headcount Mealcount with Attendance Report* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Meal Count by Age Range^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Meal Count by Roster^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meal Counts by Meal Type Spreadsheet*^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Meal Recap Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meal Totals Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Monthly Meal Count with Attendance*^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Monthly Zero Meal Count Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participant Meal Summary*^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Reason for Absence Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Total Attendance Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Weekly Meal Count with Attendance Report*^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Weekly Meal Count with In/Out Times^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Zero Meal Count Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Daily Menu Attendance and Meal Count Sheet^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Paper Back-Ups^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Average Daily Participation Report* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | First Meal Report* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meal Counts that Exceed Highest Allowable* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meals Ordered versus Meals Received* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Meals Outside of Schedule* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meals Received or Prepared Spreadsheet Report* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Missing Meal Counts Spreadsheet* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meal Counts Summary by County* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Missing Claim Report* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Daily Notes Export* |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Meals With Counts From Multiple Users^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Summer Food Service Program | Home Delivery Meal Pack by Name Meal Count Sheet^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Summer Food Service Program | Meal Pack Tally Report^ |
| Attendance & Meal Counts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Child Care Management Software API Usage* |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Create rosters with custom names, and designate as an ARAM-only or infant roster |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Add enrollment forms in bulk |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care | Add income forms in bulk |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Upload participants |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Create a new household or add participants to existing households |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Print a participant list with parent/guardian phone numbers |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Track parent/guardian contact information and designate a primary parent/guardian |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Create a new participant |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Delete a participant |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Change a participant’s household |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Merge duplicate participants |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Send a request for electronic forms to an individual parent/guardian |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Add an income form to an individual household, including the Free/Reduced/Paid or Tier status, effective dates, reason and upload file to be associated with the income form |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Print a pre-filled income, enrollment and infant form |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Track participant birthday, gender, roster, race, ethnicity, Title IXX or XX status, allergies, special needs status, migrant status, inclusion in licensed capacity, home school status, school name, school number, school district, notes, group ID and participant ID, weekly or daily child care rate for school days and non-school days |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Set participant status to active, pending, incomplete or inactive |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Authorize a participant to be claimed for one or more program types: CACFP Standard, CACFP School Age, CACFP Preschool, Head Start, Early Head Start, ARAM, SFSP or Not Claiming |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Manage participant foster child status, including the effective dates |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set participant schedules for school days and non-school days (school release and summer break) to be used in food production estimates and comparing enrollment form meals and meal times for claims creation |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Add an enrollment form for a participant and track the effective dates and upload an image of the enrollment form |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Track infant feeding preferences, including whether the parent is providing formula/breastmilk (including the formula brand) and solid foods and upload a file to be associated with the infant form |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Set dates for infant developmental readiness for fruit/veg and for grains/MMA |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Track special dietary needs including the foods omitted, the foods substituted, the food group to which it applies, whether the need is a disability or not, whether it is a substitute milk and whether the parent/guardian typically supplies the item |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Family Child Care Homes | Create a printable invoice for parent/guardians for care based on the participant’s rate and their attendance data |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Income Eligibility Rate calculator with entry for household size and household income entries |
| Participants & Rosters | Feature | Summer Food Service Program | Add a Parent Consent for Home-Delivered Meals (SFSP rural, non-congregate only) |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Disallow or allow meals not listed on participant enrollment form (uses the participant schedule) |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Disallow or allow meals for a missing or expired enrollment form |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Disallow or allow meals for a missing infant meal notification |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Require a participant to be associated with a roster instead of defaulting to the roster marked as the default roster |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from downloading the pre-filled participant registration form with income, enrollment and infant forms |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from setting a participant to “Active” |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from setting a participant to “Inactive” |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set participants to “Pending” when their enrollment form expires |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Require an email address for the parent/guardian |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Compare participant schedule to meal time and disallow if participant not scheduled for meal time |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Allow or prevent the option for participants to not have a schedule and instead “days/hours vary” |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Require at least one meal or snack on participant schedule |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers | Show or hide alerts for missing/expired income forms (for homes, emergency shelters, at-risk afterschool meal sites and head start-only centers) |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers | Allow site/center staff to enter income and enrollment forms (self-sponsored centers only) |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers | Do not include ARAM participants in income and enrollment form reminders |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers | Set ARAM participants to pending when enrollment form expires |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from being able to create or edit infant meal notification information |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from being able to enter or edit infant developmental readiness dates |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from being able to create or edit information about special dietary needs |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from being able to create new participants |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | When a participant is withdrawn, set the enrollment form expiration date to the date of the withdrawal |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers | When the last household’s participant is withdrawn, set the household income form expiration date to the date of the withdrawal. |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow participants to have inactive status on a day they were in attendance. |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Require parent/guardian name, contact information, schedule and race and ethnicity information for participants |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict the ability to set a participant status to pending |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict the ability to set a participant status to incomplete |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Include only enrollment form in participant registration form download |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from creating new rosters |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care | Do not apply income form to a participant if the month they start is after the first effective month of the income form |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set an enrollment form effective date to default to sponsor signature date, parent signature date, first day of calendar month signed by parent, first day of calendar month signed by sponsor or a specific date |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set an enrollment form expiration date to default to one year from effective date, one day prior to one year from effective date, end of the month one year from effective date, end of the prior month from effective date or a specific date |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set an income form effective date to default to first day of calendar month signed by parent or first day of calendar month signed by sponsor |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set an income form expiration date to default to 12 months, 13 months or a specific date |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Set a default age for developmental readiness for solid foods |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Set a custom schedule for reminder emails on missing/expired income forms, enrollment forms and infant forms |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Send email to a sponsor user when a participant is created, a participant schedule is updated, a participant is withdrawn, a race/ethnicity is changed, a birth date is changed or a special diet form is added |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from adding participants on mobile |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from seeing the participants & rosters button |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from changing participant program type |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Show or hide the annual reenrollment report |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Show or hide the “Blank Participant Registration Form” report |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from being able to view Income Forms. |
| Participants & Rosters | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or Restrict Upload Participants |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Special Diet Report*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Enrollment Roster^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Ethnicity/Racial Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care | Household Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Ineligible Participant List^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Infant Meal Notification Report*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Lapsed Participant Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participant Claim Roster^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participant Export Report*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participant Inactive Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participant Summary Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers | Rejected Household IEF Report*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Income and Expense Tax Reports for Family Child Care Providers^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Invoicing Summary Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Revenue Summary Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Family Child Care Homes | W10 Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | All income and enrollment forms effective for a given claim month^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Annual Re-enrollment*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Blank Participant Registration Form^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Bulk Enrollment Form Report*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Daily Participant Summary^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Duplicate Case Number Report^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Missing Forms Report*^ |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Missing Infant Meal Notification* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participant Race and Ethnicity Report* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Enrollment Create Date Report* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers | Expired/Missing HIEF Report* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers | Income Certification Address Logging* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers | Pending HEIF Report* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Household Contact Email List* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participants Enrolled in Multiple Sites* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Participants with Duplicate Meals in Multiple Sites* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Providers Claiming Own Children Report* |
| Participants & Rosters | Report | Summer Food Service Program | Parent Consent for Home Delivery Report* |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create site-level users with the role of site manager/director, staff or kitchen staff |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Link site-level users to multiple sites |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter a training for an individual provider or center/site staff including expiration date, training type, description, hours and the option to upload a file to be stored with the training |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Designate a provider or center/site staff as the primary contact for the purposes of applying electronic signatures |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter training hours for multiple provider and center/site staff in bulk |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set an hourly wage for a center/site user to be used with the Record Hours feature to track staffing expenses |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set training requirements based on site type and user role with the options to run a report to understand who has met the requirements |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Track a site user’s typical working days, working hours and distribution of labor into specific tasks with User Schedules and Timecards |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from adding other users |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict center/site staff from entering hourly wage rates |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Show or hide the dashboard button on staff needing training |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Apply electronic signature to meal count forms after claim is submitted |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a training frequency requirement for calendar year, federal fiscal year, reimbursement schedule or a rolling basis |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict a provider or center/site user from being able to enter hours on behalf of others |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require training hours to be recorded for training |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require training hours as part of visit unless provider not home |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Staff Active/Inactive Report^ |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Staff Training Report^ |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site User Export Report* |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Missing/Expired Training Report* |
| Provider or Center/Site Staff Accounts | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Training Requirements Report* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Check for errors at any time during the month to see which meals will be disallowed and why |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatically view a list of participant with attendance for the day but no meal participation |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes | Automatically view a list of participants with lapsed foster status |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow meals in bulk by name or by date |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from clicking seeing claim errors |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | View dates when the month was submitted to sponsor, when the sponsor created the claim, and the claim payment amount and expected date, along with claim adjustment dates if relevant |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | View prior claims |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create new claims for one provider or site at a time or for all sites at once |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Emergency Shelter | Disallow meals for an infant who is developmentally ready for solid foods and the parent is providing both formula/breastmilk and solid foods |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Manage state submission batches |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Mark claims as paid or unpaid |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Make manual claim adjustments by overriding errors or changing the payable meals, participant count, attendance or days open manually (with date stamps and the user that created the adjustment) |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Generate a file to upload to your state agency for filing your claim |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Feature | Family Child Care Homes | Create a manual claim for paper claimers |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from submitting to sponsor until a claim month is over |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Allow or restrict claim submission if facility license is missing or expired |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Send an email to a sponsor user when a provider or center/site clicks “Submit to Sponsor” |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care | Set the reimbursement calculation method to Actual Meal Count by Type (Round Up or Down), Claiming Percentages (Round Down or Conventional), Blended Per Meal or Fixed |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatically disallow meals if participants with the same name and birthdate are served the same meal at different sites |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatically place zero claims on hold |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Make a list of participants to include in the claim based on attendance, meal attendance, enrollment forms, active status or use a fixed percentage based on a study month |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow certain sponsor users to mark a claim as unpaid |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Do not display sponsor allocation of claim funds in Claim Summary Report |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatically place claims with errors on hold |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow if Meal Count Entry Time is Not Within Approved Meal Count Time Frame |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Claim Summary Report*^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers | Daily Free/Reduced/Paid Claim Record^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallowed Meals Report*^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Meal Count and Menu Claim Documentation*^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Manual Claim Information Form*^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Claim Payment History Report* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Claim Summary Report without Admin Amounts* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Claims Status Report* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallowed Meals Spreadsheet* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Documentation of Meals Claimed (H1540)* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Afterschool Program | Documentation of Meals Claimed At-Risk (H1540-AT)* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Check Stub Report* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Claim Payment History Spreadsheet* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Claim for Reimbursement Worksheet (H4502)* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Disbursement Record for Sponsors of Centers* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Reimbursements by Calendar Year*^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Family Child Care Homes | Standard Meal Allowance*^ |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Family Child Care Homes | State Claim Summary Report for Sponsors of Family Child Care Homes* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Claims Spreadsheet* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Status Submission Detail Report* |
| Check for Errors & Claims | Report | Child Care Centers | Master Enrollment List Spreadsheet |
| Field Trips, Closures & School Release Days | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Add a single day or multiple day facility closure or school release day |
| Field Trips, Closures & School Release Days | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Apply the closure to the selected meal type(s) with the option to upload a file to associate with a closure |
| Field Trips, Closures & School Release Days | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter a closure or school release date for all sites at once |
| Field Trips, Closures & School Release Days | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Calendar view for closures and ARAM release days with the ability to quick-add events |
| Field Trips, Closures & School Release Days | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Send an email to a sponsor user when a site enters a closure |
| Field Trips, Closures & School Release Days | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Site Closures Report* |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create a visit and designate it as a preoperational/intro, 28-day follow-up, regular monitoring, CAP follow-up, weekend visit, desk audit, virtual review or At-Risk Afterschool Meals Program visit |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Answer the monitoring visit questions from your state agency form |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Print a completed visit form using the state agency template |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Store the visit date, meal type observed, monitor, whether follow-up is required, if the provider was not home, the meal attendance count, comments, reminders for next visit |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Customize the date for the next visit due (defaults to 4 months from current visit) |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Mark participants as observed by the monitor or expected to be claimed |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Add file attachments to the visit, including photos or scanned images |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow meals in bulk based on a monitoring visit |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record training for providers or center/site staff performed as part of the visit |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Run a report of the race/ethnicity of the participants on the visit date or those who participating in the meal |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Mark a provider or center/site as being in the serious deficiency process |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Track the Serious Deficiency process by recording serious deficiency events, dates, comments and the ability to store a file associated with a serious deficiency event |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | View a list of site visits by assigned monitor with the option to sort and filter |
| Monitoring Visits | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Mark a Visit Attachment as Reviewed |
| Monitoring Visits | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Disallow meals if a participant is not observed or expected at a site visit |
| Monitoring Visits | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Send an email to the sponsor admin and/or monitor when a site visit is entered |
| Monitoring Visits | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Hide the “expected” column on the visit screen |
| Monitoring Visits | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Monitoring Form Report* |
| Monitoring Visits | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Monitoring Visit Status Report* |
| Monitoring Visits | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Monitoring Visits* |
| Monitoring Visits | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Serious Deficiency Report* |
| Monitoring Visits | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Sites Due for a Review Visit* |
| Monitoring Visits | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Electronic Visits without Forms* |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Enter food temperatures for specific menu items |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record food temperatures with time stamps at up to three timepoints: dispatch, delivery and service |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a food item as hot, cold or shelf stable |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a minimum temperature for hot meals at up to three time points (dispatch, delivery, service) |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set a maximum temperature for cold meals at up to three time points (dispatch, delivery, service) |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Record signatures and typed names for central kitchen staff, delivery drivers and/or meal service staff |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Food temperature calendar icon for identifying meals with food temperatures entered |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Show or hide the ability to record food temperatures and delivery information |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Disallow meals that are outside of the safe temperature range |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require temperatures at up to three time points and at specific meals before meal counts can be entered |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Delivery Receipt Report*^ |
| Food Temperatures & Delivery | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Food Temperature Report^ |
| Record Hours | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Ability to record hours for a single day or in bulk with a split between Food Program and non-Food Program hours |
| Record Hours | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Split Food Program hours into detailed categories, including managing, planning, organizing, menu planning, meal prep & service, meal clean up, supervise meal, meal records |
| Record Hours | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from recording hours, with options for the method |
| Record Hours | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from recording hours on the mobile version |
| Record Hours | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Staff Hours Detail Report*^ |
| Record Hours | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Time Distribution Report*^ |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Create a milk audit by day or by month |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatic transfer of milk expenses to the milk audit |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Automatic calculation of milk usage based on food production or meal attendance |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Create a milk audit specifically for participants that are served a nutritionally-equivalent milk substitute |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Manually increase the amount of milk available because of an opening balance, parent-provided milk, a purchase not recorded in the MFP expenses or reused from the share table |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Manually decrease the amount of milk available based on additional servings or spoilage/waste |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Perform a milk audit for all sites at once |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Add a note to a milk audit |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Finalize a milk audit |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Copy the closing balance from the prior month to the current month |
| Milk Audit | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter | Option to add, sort and mark as important custom visit questions when you do not need to fill out an exact copy of the state agency monitoring form |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Include or exclude Non-CACFP participants from the milk audit |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Remove the requirement for a milk audit for a specific center |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Set the units for a milk audit to cups or gallons |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow milk audits to calculate milk usage based on food production amounts or on the meal attendance |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow only sponsor staff to delete a milk audit |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Require a milk audit before a claim can be created or before a site clicks “submit to sponsor” for the claim month |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Choose if you want milk shortages to result in disallowed meals |
| Milk Audit | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Only Include Approved Milk Expenses in Milk Audit |
| Milk Audit | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Milk Purchased Report^ |
| Milk Audit | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Milk Served by Type Totals Report^ |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Calculate the nonprofit food service balance for all sites at once |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Add an expense that covers multiple categories |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Check the receipt total against the sum of the expenses in each category |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Apply the space/time percentage to an expense |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Mark an expense as reviewed by the sponsor |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Upload a file to associate with an expense |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | See the balance in the food service account separated out by operating and admin (reimbursement amounts are pulled in automatically from claims and expense amounts are pulled in automatically from expense entry) |
| Expenses | Feature | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Reset the balance in the food service account at any time |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict center/site staff from recording admin costs (self-sponsored only)e |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict center/site staff from entering expenses |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Require a receipt total when entering expenses |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Create custom expense category names and indicate of an image upload is required and whether the expenses related to milk, food, staffing or is a non-program expense |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Send an email to a sponsor user when a provider or center/site user adds an expense or uploaded a new expense receipt |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict center/site staff from entering expenses after they have clicked “submit to sponsor” |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict center/site staff from entering expenses after there is a claim for the month |
| Expenses | Setting | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Allow or restrict center/site staff from being able to delete receipts |
| Expenses | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Claim for Reimbursement Worksheet (TDA Form H4502)*^ |
| Expenses | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Expense Detail Report*^ |
| Expenses | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Expense Summary Report*^ |
| Expenses | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Reimbursements by Calendar Year*^ |
| Expenses | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Expense Summary by Center* |
| Expenses | Report | Child Care Centers; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program | Nonprofit Status Report* |
| File Cabinet | Feature | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Add files to the file cabinet that cannot be uploaded elsewhere in My Food Program |
| File Cabinet | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Send and email to a sponsor user when a file is added to the file cabinet |
| File Cabinet | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from viewing the File Cabinet button |
| File Cabinet | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Allow or restrict providers or center/site staff from adding files to the file cabinet |
| File Cabinet | Setting | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | Add tags to files to allow for easier sorting |
| File Cabinet | Report | Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes; Adult Day Care; Emergency Shelter; Afterschool Program; Summer Food Service Program | File Cabinet Contents Report^ |
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