Pre-Payments for School Meals

IN PERSON PRE-PAYMENTS: Parents and students can always pre-pay in person by cash or check in your student’s cafeteria. Pre-payments made in person by the student or parent/guardian are free of charge and do not have a fee associated to accept and process the payment. 

If parents opt to send funds with students to deposit on their meal account, it is recommended that parents put the funds in an envelope with the following information written on the envelope:

  • Intent of funds: “School meals”, “Foodservice”, or “Breakfast/Lunch”
  • Student’s name
  • Student ID number
  • Amount of funds sent
  • Amount of change issued on cash payments (example: You sent a $50.00 bill and would like only $30.00 to be deposited on the account. You’d list “$20.00 change” issued to student.)

NOTE: Change will not be issued for checks being deposited on student meal accounts.

To ensure that funds are safely delivered to the cafeteria and applied to the student’s meal account, it is recommended that parents check their School Cafe account to view the student’s meal account balance and Purchase History.  

ONLINE PRE-PAYMENTS: Parents and students may also pay via debit card, credit card, or electronic check using our online parent portal, School Cafe account. Please be aware that there is a convenience fee of 5% of the total payment associated with paying online. The convenience fee associated with pre-paying online is to cover the cost of processing the payment transaction. 

To pre-play online, parents should log in to their School Cafe account and click:

  1. Make a Payment on the user dashboard, or
  2. Make a Payment at the top of the user screen, or
  3. Add Funds to Student Account under the student’s name

Parents may also set up automatic payments on their individual student’s accounts on School Cafe account . Automatic payments do require parents to add a form of card payment to their user account. Parents can set up automatic payments and payment methods on their user account by following these steps:

  1. Click on “Not Set” next to Automatic Payment: Not Set under a student on the account.  

  2. Enter the “Payment Amount” to set the amount that will be paid automatically each time the student’s account balance reaches the balance threshold.

  3. Enter a “balance threshold” to set how low the student’s balance must be before the automatic payment is initiated.

  4. Select Add a Card or a payment source that you have already entered.

  5. Confirm the date that the Automatic Payment will expire. (NOTE: the payment expiration date should be before your payment source (card) expiration date, when possible)

  6. Select Save. 

NOTE: When paying online, it may take up to 24 hours for the payment transaction to process and the funds to appear in the student’s meal account at the campus level.