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Greetings faithful blog readers! We recently held a customer round table regarding the fabulous topic of reconciling Student Billing to General Ledger. This was the first of many sessions we hope to hold discussing popular topics in Student Billing. Our...
Here's a post from Blackbaud Senior Educational Consultant Chuck Hays. Did you know there's an easy way to calculate totals for next year's billing? Have you been using the Projected Charges Report to its full advantage? (Reports -> Analysis...
Once upon a time, end of year procedures involved copying your products and billing items. The Copy utility was great, it had a lot of cool features, and it would make your life a lot easier if it was correctly used. Think of it as the DeLorean of processes...
As Anthony mentioned in a comment on my last blog post , Application Restrictions are key to effectively using Financial Aid and a fantastic answer when you need to make sure certain transactions pay for only certain charges. These transactions could...
Here's the scenario: You have a list of charges or financial aid to enter. You're a pro at this process so you jump right in, but the Item/Description drop-down is blank or does not show the billing item. What do you do now? Well, there are many...
Do you ever notice your workstation task manager shows The Financial Edge is not responding? Just because it shows not responding on your workstation doesn't mean that FE has stopped working. Many times the process is still running on the server....
I'm calling an emergency posting of Tips from a Troubleshooter, because I know a lot of you are awarding financial aid to students right now. I'll return to my series on Student Billing 6 vs. Student Billing 7 soon, I promise. The Financial Aid...
Your students have worked hard this year and deserve to move to the next grade or graduate. The process of promoting students varies based on whether or not Registrar’s Office is installed. If you use RO, students are promoted using the End of Year Processing...
This is a guest post by Chuck Hays. Chuck is a Senior Educational Consultant for Blackbaud. During the Spring, you often need to verify new students' information and track them separately from your current students. To streamline the process, use...
Each month we keep track of the top Student Billing questions you ask. Here are the top questions you asked in May and April. May How to troubleshoot performance issues: BB8626 Why are there duplicates in the query results: BB61118 How to add new table...
Chapter 2: Integrated? What's that? Possibly the largest difference between version 6 and version 7 is that the software uses one database for all of your education and accounting solutions. So what does this mean to you? Think of The Education Edge...
This is a guest post by Chuck Hays. Chuck is a Senior Educational Consultant for Blackbaud. Did you know we have an even easier way to correctly accrue payments for the next school year? First, let's touch on the accounting requirements. If you take...
You are working in the linking grid and see a record that does not belong, such as a withdrawn student. You right-click on the student’s row and open his Education Edge record, change his status to Withdrawn, and save and close the record. This ineligible...
There are several posts on The Ledger blog highlighting some cool functionality that's also in SB. Here are a few: Make it Feel Like Home Detailing Distributions Report Madness Journal References are Supposed to Mean Something? You can find other...
Each month we keep track of the top Student Billing questions you ask. Here are the top questions you asked in April and March. April Why are there duplicates in the query results: BB61118 How to troubleshoot performance issues: BB8626 How to reconcile...
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