PowerLunch Reports

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PowerLunch's reporting functions are varied and useful. Run the reports regularly to manage your own records and to provide statistics to the state, if necessary. For the most part, they are simple to produce and user-friendly. However, you are encouraged to see the sections Custom Reports and System Reports before trying to create reports.

Note: Click your Web browser's Back button anytime you get a report that does not provide you with the proper information. Whether you need another column or just selected the wrong reporting date, simply go back and reset your specifications.

Run the Cash Report

This report tells you how much cash each cashier accepted on a selected day.

1. On the start page, choose PowerLunch under Applications in the main menu. 
2. Click Cash Report under Reports. 
3. Enter the date for which you want to produce the report using the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy. If you do not use this format, an alert appears. If you submit the date with an incorrect format, the date field is submitted as a blank entry.
4. Click Submit. 

Run the Meal Count Listing Report

This report is similar to the Meal Count report but includes more details. You have the option of clicking links in the reported statistics to learn more about them.

1. On the start page, choose PowerLunch under Applications in the main menu.
2. Click Meal Count Listing under Reports. 

3. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Date Range	Enter the date range to be scanned using the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy. If you do not use this format, an alert appears. If you submit the date with an incorrect format, the date field is submitted as a blank entry.
   Meal	Choose the meal from the pop-up menu.
   Use school calendar	Select the checkbox to use the school calendar when scanning. This function excludes any school holidays from the count.

4. Click Submit. 
   
   Click any of the linked numbers to view the details of the transactions that make up that number. For students, there are seven categories: free, reduced, paid, guest, exempt, earned, and additional. The seven categories are added in the total column. For adults, there are four categories: faculty, guest, earned, and additional. The four categories are added in the total column. Both totals are added in the last total column on the right. Totals for multiple days appear at the bottom of each column.

Run the Meal Count Report

This report provides a quick list of total meals served on the selected days. It displays the breakdown by meal and lunch status. The following rules apply to students on this report:

• The guest or earned meal must have been served at the current school in order to be included in the guest or earned meal count for the current school.
• A meal served at the current school for a student enrolled in another school in the district is included in the Meal counts for the current school but excluded from the Eligibility counts.
• The student must be enrolled at the current school (or within the district if running at the district level) on the eligibility count date. The eligibility section of the report only applies to the end date of the date range; students need to be enrolled on that date to be counted correctly on the report.

Note: Once the PowerSchool end-of-year process is complete, no historical meal counts or eligibility counts can be reported for the preceding year.

You can run this report at the district level. If doing so, you must first switch schools to the district office. See 2021-06-25_19-51-59_Choose School. Also, the students must be enrolled somewhere within the district during the specified date range.

If you run this report at the school level, the report scans pasts and present student enrollments in the current school for the date range entered.

1. On the start page, choose PowerLunch under Applications in the main menu. 
2. Click Meal Count Report under Reports. 

3. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Date Range	Enter the date range to be scanned using the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy. If you do not use this format, an alert appears. If you submit the date with an incorrect format, the date field is submitted as a blank entry. If you do not enter a date, the current date is used as the date range. You can enter the same date in both fields to report on a single day.
   Restrict report to these grade levels	Enter the lowest and highest in the range of grade levels to be scanned. If you want a report on one grade only, enter the same grade number in both fields. To scan all grades, leave both fields blank.

4. Click Submit.

Take PowerLunch Class Counts

This report helps you plan how many meals to prepare by importing counts from the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal.

Note: The count will only display meals for those teachers who submitted their lunch counts through the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal.

1. On the start page, choose PowerLunch under Applications in the main menu. 
2. Click PowerLunch Class Counts under Reports. 

Run the Transaction Detail Report

This report provides detailed information about transactions in a selected date range. After you select the information to be scanned, PowerLunch produces a report in your spreadsheet application. You can select to retrieve almost any information from PowerLunch on any day.

1. On the start page, choose PowerLunch under Applications in the main menu. 
2. Click Transaction Detail Report under Reports. 

3. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Columns to show	Select any combination of the checkboxes to indicate what to display.
   Start Date	Enter the start date of the report using the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy. If you do not use this format, an alert appears. If you submit the date with an incorrect format, the date field is submitted as a blank entry.
   End Date	Enter the end date of the report using the format mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy. If you do not use this format, an alert appears. If you submit the date with an incorrect format, the date field is submitted as a blank entry.
   Transaction Types	Select the checkbox next to the transaction type to display: All (both staff and student lunches) Student Lunch Staff Lunch
   Batch number	Enter a batch number to scan a specific batch. Separate multiple batches with commas. A batch refers to a cashier's session for the day. For example, if you have two cashiers for breakfast, the sessions are batch numbers 1 and 2. Perhaps you have four cashiers for lunch on the same day. They would be batch numbers 3-6. You can prepare a report on the activities of certain staff members.
   Order	Choose from the pop-up menu the sort order of the listings on the report.
   Export	Select the checkbox to export the report to a file that you can open with your spreadsheet application. If you do not select the checkbox, the report appears in your Web browser and you will not be able to format it.

4. Click Submit. If you did not select the Export option, the report appears, including the columns you selected and cash totals. Print or save the report. If you save the report without exporting it, you could lose some of the report's format. For more information, see Run, Print, and Save Reports.
   If you chose the Export option, continue to the next step to save the file.
5. Choose File > Save As....
6. In the Save dialog, specify a name, location, and file type.
7. Click Save.