Cashless payment has become widley accepted as a natural progression within the school environment.

As new Government legislation dictates that schools must soon monitor pupil meal uptake and their nutritional values as part of their annual recording process. The inclusion of an accurate meal recording system will very shortly be of paramount importance, to school catering services.

One way to achieve the new menu auditing requirements simply and efficiently will be by the introduction of our "QuickDine" cashless trading system.

The major benefits of this cashless system have been well documented. Increased speed of operation by elimination of cash handling. Greater uptake of school meals and revenues. (We have seen hundreds of pounds a week in revenue increases at newly installed sites). Removal of free meal stigma, reduced opportunity for bullying. Budgetary controls and other ancillary uses for card or biometric technology within the education environment, such as Pupil sports activity logging, Registration, Library ID and door access.

LCR Limited are "One Stop Cashless Soloution Providers". In other words we offer a complete package from one source, including Site Survey, Hardware, Software, Installation, Training, Remote Support & Ongoing Annual on-site maintenance facilities. The QuickDine Solution was written with The School Caterer in mind. Our operators don't need a degree in computer science or any Technical background knowledge.

The "QuickDine" cashless payment system is in daily use in over 30 schools throughout the North West. The system was specifically designed as a result of first hand experience in dealing with school caterering operations.

"QuickDine",Cashless solutions Incorporate both magnetic stripe and biometric technology options. Monetary values are stored on a secure PC system. The magnetic card or finger print is used simply to allow the meal transaction to take place.

The QuickDine cashless system was one of the first to introduce Touch screen tills in lieu of cumbersome Pad based Terminals. The Touch Terminals incorporate 6 pre-programmed menu layouts for service periods. This simplifies the transaction recording process and provides enhanced speed of entry and pupil throughput. These combimations have proven to beneficially reduce the meal service period times. Additionally we have commsioned our own wallmounted revaluer units which provide unattended access to pupils virtual electronic meal accounts. These unit are used to add coins and notes automatically and may be used by pupils to check current balances. The range includes Pinpad, Swipe-card and Biometric i.d. methods

"QuickDine Integration"The cashless system can easily accept data from existing administration software operated by schools, such as CAPTIA SIMS.Net TM CMIS TM, PARS TM This data interchange ability greatly reduces set-up time and subsequent pupil updates during the new September school year.

Plastic cards also provide fast I.d. methods, these may include photo i.d. with the relevant school logo and pupil details, however the "QuickDine" cashless system does not specifically require the photo image of the cardholder to be printed on each card, as the system carries the individual pupils photo image for meal entitlement validation at the terminal, especially useful as cards tend to be "shared around".

................... QuickDine Biometric ID has arrived cashA cutting edge new i.d. method has been added to the QuickDinecashless system in the form of Biometric i.d. . Fingerprint scanning removes the onus of card management from the Pupil. Additionally the expense of issuing new cards and the associated administration is diminished for the school . The fingerprint system is a secure and convenient method of pupil i.d. With good captured print quality it can match the 4 - 7 second transcation speed of card based alternatives.

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For convenience an additional USB camera can be added to one of the cashless tills to keep images up to date or add new pupils as pupils they visit the till.

 

Cheque Payments Students cashles accounts can be recharged by Cheque at the office in school, or by the coin/Note operated Revaluation Units. Credit card authorisation facilities may be setup via Commidea WinTI within the school to handle card transactions via telephone.

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