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A feeding plan says how a particular pupil eats this term, and how far ahead their family pays. Plans are per term, like enrolments.

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Choosing a cadence

The discounts come from the class’s feeding rates and can be changed per class.
None is a real choice and you should use it. A pupil left on Daily who brings food from home still gets billed for meals, and the family will dispute it. Set every non-eating pupil to None.
A plan can carry its own daily price that overrides the class rate. Use it for:
  • A pupil whose meals are sponsored — set the override to zero
  • A family who negotiated a different rate
  • A pupil on a partial arrangement
The override applies to that pupil only, and only for the term the plan belongs to.
An override of zero is the honest way to record a sponsored meal. The pupil still appears on the meal register and still counts in your kitchen numbers — you simply do not bill them. Setting them to None instead would take them off the register, and the kitchen would cook one portion short.

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Changing a plan mid-term

You can change a cadence during a term. It affects what is billed from that point forward; a feeding invoice already issued is not rewritten. Where a family has prepaid termly and then withdraws, the unused portion is handled as a credit note or refund, not by editing the plan.

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What gets billed

A plan sets the rhythm and the price. What is actually charged depends on the meals recorded in the meal register against the meal days on your term calendar. See Feeding invoices.

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Who can edit it

The edit_finances permission.