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Working with student and family lunch accounts

Student and family lunch accounts in jmc Office are perfect for making deposits, issuing refunds, changing lunch statuses and more!

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Written by Emily Hoyne
Updated over a year ago

The Edit Student Lunch Data and Edit Family Lunch Data pages in jmc Office provide comprehensive tools for managing student and family lunch accounts. These pages enable users to track deposits, view transaction records, manage free and reduced lunch status, issue refunds, and print notices for low account balances. With convenient features like allowed purchases and the ability to make new free and reduced determinations, these pages simplify lunch account management and provide a centralized hub for all lunch-related tasks.


In jmc Office, head to Lunch > Data to check out the robust features available on the Edit Student Lunch Data and Edit Family Lunch Data pages.

Edit Student Lunch Data

The Edit Student Lunch Data page in jmc Office is a centralized hub for managing lunch account information for individual students. From this page, users can easily view lunch contacts associated with a selected student, set their free or reduced lunch status, access transaction records, and perform actions such as making deposits and issuing refunds, all in one convenient location.

  • Deposits: depositing funds into a student lunch account allows for a documented record of cash, check, or credit card payments made to the school, ensuring that the funds are available for the student to use at the Point of Sale.

  • Refunds: refunds are utilized to withdraw remaining funds from a student's lunch account, typically when the school returns unused money to the student at the end of the school year or upon the conclusion of their enrollment period.

  • Allowed Purchases: the "Allowed Purchases" tab on the Edit Student Lunch Data page allows for individual student customization, enabling the restriction of breakfast and lunch purchases, including extra milk and A La Carte items, on a student-by-student basis.

  • Transaction Records: review and print a full record of transactions including deposits, purchases, refunds or changes in free and reduced status.

  • Print Notices: print a notice indicating a low account balance to send home with a student, notifying families that it is time to make a deposit.

  • Making a "New" free and reduced determination: office users can easily and quickly apply a free and reduced meals designation to individual students with just a few clicks, providing manual control over their meal eligibility status.

Edit Family Lunch Data

The Edit Family Lunch Data page in jmc Office provides an effective tool for managing student lunch accounts that are connected through a common lunch contact. Users can easily review the students associated with a family lunch account, add funds to a shared family balance that is accessible for all family members, set free and reduced lunch status for the entire family, and perform other related tasks.

  • Deposits: depositing funds into a family lunch account allows for recording cash, check, or credit card payments made to the school, ensuring that the funds are available for all students linked to a designated lunch contact.

  • Refunds: refunds serve as a method to remove remaining funds from a family lunch account, typically done when the school returns unused money to the family, such as at the end of the school year or enrollment period.

  • Transaction Records: review and print a full record of deposits, refunds and purchases made by any member of a family along with changes to a families free and reduced lunch status.

  • Print Notices: print a notice indicating a low account balance to send to a family notifying them that it is time to make a deposit.

  • Making a "New" free and reduced determination: office users can easily and quickly apply a free and reduced meals designation to all family members with just a few clicks.

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