Allocation
Allocation
Deciding which fee lines a payment settles. By default the oldest debt by due date; it can be directed at a specific fee type. See Allocation.
Arrears
Arrears
What a family owes and has not paid. Tuition arrears and feeding arrears are tracked separately.
Basis point (bp)
Basis point (bp)
One hundredth of a percent. 500 bp is 5%; 10,000 bp is 100%. Used for discounts and assessment weights so that a figure like 7.5% is exact rather than a repeating decimal.
Billing run
Billing run
One pass that turns the fee grid and a term’s enrolments into invoices. Can be previewed before issuing and reversed afterwards. See Running term billing.
Cadence
Cadence
How far ahead a family pays for meals — Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Termly, or None. Paying further ahead earns a discount. See Feeding rates.
Credit
Credit
Money received that has not yet settled a fee line, held against the pupil and applied automatically to their next invoice. Credit remembers what it was paid for.
Credit note
Credit note
An instrument that reduces what a family owes on an already-issued invoice. Moves debt, never cash. Compare refund. See Corrections.
Current term
Current term
The one term marked as current. Billing, attendance and marks all default to it. Exactly one exists at a time.
Discountable
Discountable
A flag on a fee item saying whether a pupil’s fee category may reduce it. A levy you remit to someone else should not be discountable. See Fee items.
Enrolment
Enrolment
A pupil’s place in a class for one term. Billing reads the enrolment, not the pupil record. See Enrolling a pupil.
Fee category
Fee category
A named discount — Staff child 50%, Scholarship 100% — attached to a pupil’s enrolment for a term. See Discounts.
Fee item
Fee item
One thing you charge for: tuition, PTA dues, an ICT levy. Priced per class in the fee matrix.
Fee matrix
Fee matrix
The grid pricing every fee item for every class in a term. See The fee matrix.
Fee payer
Fee payer
The one guardian per pupil who receives the bill. Exactly one, always. See Guardians.
GES point
GES point
The Ghana Education Service grade point attached to a grade band — 1 for an A down to 9 for an F on the default scale. See Grading scales.
Pesewa
Pesewa
One hundredth of a cedi. Every amount is stored as a whole number of pesewas so that fees, discounts and payments can never disagree by a fraction. The screens show cedis.
Published (report card)
Published (report card)
A report card signed off by the head teacher and frozen. Later changes to marks or scales do not alter it. See Report cards.
Ready (report card)
Ready (report card)
A form master’s assertion that their class’s marks and remarks are complete and it is fit for the head teacher to review.
Refund
Refund
Money going back to a family. Requires approval by someone other than the person who requested it. Compare credit note.
Reversal (billing run)
Reversal (billing run)
Undoing a whole billing run that should not have happened, with a reason recorded. For a single pupil, use a credit note instead.
Snapshot
Snapshot
The frozen copy of a report card written at publication — marks, grades, position, attendance and remarks exactly as they stood.
Void (payment)
Void (payment)
Reversing the receipt of a payment that should not have been recorded. Unwinds its allocations. Not the same as a refund, which records cash leaving.