School System V 3.3.3 released

School System V 3.3.3 released Smarter Reports

December 12, 2013

Charity Tool Inc. released an update to the "School System" product.
School System V 3.3.3 is a free upgrade to all registered users.

Check for new software updates

Enable by default the preference "Check for latest updates at start up". This will inform you when new version gets released.
When this option is enabled, the software will check in our server if there is a new update, and if there any you get asked to download it.
You can disable this option from the menu item File/Preferences..., in the Preferences dialog.

Receipt report

Now you can report all the receipts of a date range instead of the whole only.
Added new three columns "Payments", "Collectable Fees" and "Balance" after the Total received column.

Accounting reports

In "Accounts Summary Report", "Accounts Detailed Report" and "Balance Sheet Report"
In the distribution of payments by method table, If there is a method of payment that is not used in this report it will not be shown.
Before it used to show a line with zeros value.
Now it become smarter and just hide the not used ones.

Payment reports

Now the "Late Payment Report" and "Payment Report" handle the $0 fee records better.
These reports report the parents with no fees assigned to their students with red $0 as a warning that fees was not added.
In case if you decide to set the fees of a student to be $0 as discount. By having a fee record with $0 value.
Now this $0 fees case will not show as warning. And the report will understand that you mean to give him $0 fees.
In the "Late Payment Report" such parent will not show up and in the "Payment Report" will show up with $0 in green.

Student and parent Dialogs

Student and parent Dialogs will show a warning if there is fees assigned to student.

Preferences

Add new preference "Delete report files at closing" in the Preferences dialog. From menu item File/Preferences...
The generated reports get stores in "Reports" folder. This folder gets bigger and bigger with every report that you generate.
Some users don't look at older generated reports (from menu item GoTo/ Reports Folder), they just simply run the report again.
For such user you can go to and enable this preference and all generated report will be deleted when you close the application.
This new preference is disabled by default. So you should see any change in behavior.