Dinner Money

Please click here for printable instructions (you can also save these to your device for future reference!)

Please click into the Payments tab > Shop > Look below ‘Accounts’ as shown below:

Below ‘Accounts’ you will be able to find your child’s name listed here. If you have more than one child at different schools, they will also be listed here. Once you have selected who you need to top up for, you can type in an amount to top up as shown below:

Please remember that this will only add money to the account, this is not for the number of meals you would like.

When you are in the Checkout section, you will be able to choose a payment method. The school may have set a minimum top up amount; if you attempt to top up less than this amount, you will see an error message like the one below.

On your computer

From your main menu, please click into Payment History > Cashless Accounting. Here you can then select the statement you wish to view. This will list the transactions that have been made by your child. For further information, you can select a transaction by clicking into this. If you see ‘meal’ here, this means the school tills aren’t sending ParentMail details of individual items that have been purchased on each transaction. If the school tills do provide this information, you will see details of what your child has purchased here.

On the Android App 

Open the ParentMail App, please click into Payments > History > Dinners > Select an account > Select a statement by month. This will show you a list of all actions (top ups, refunds, meals taken) related to that balance. If you see ‘meal’ here, this means the school tills aren’t sending ParentMail details of the individual items that have been purchased on each transaction. If the school tills do provide this information, you will see details of what your child has purchased here.

On the iOS App

Open the ParentMail App, please click into Payments > History > Dinners > Select an account > Select a statement by month. This will show you a list of all actions (top ups, refunds, meals taken) related to that balance. If you see ‘meal’ here, this means the school tills aren’t sending ParentMail details of the individual items that have been purchased on each transaction. If the school tills do provide this information, you will see details of what your child has purchased here.

If you get an error message stating that you can only purchase one of this item, as shown below:

Please click OK and then go to your Basket, where you will find the item already added. You can either remove the item by changing the quantity to ‘0’ or you can continue to proceed with the purchase.

This is an automatic message sent out when a child is added to a dinner register. If your child is entitled to free school meals then please feel free to disregard the reminder and you will not need to proceed and top up their dinner account.