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Feeding is priced separately from tuition — its own rates, its own invoices, its own arrears. A family can be fully paid up on tuition and behind on meals, and the two never get confused.

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The daily rate

Each class gets a daily meal price for the term. That is the only figure you have to set; everything else can follow from it.

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Cadences and their discounts

A family chooses how far ahead they pay. Paying further ahead earns a discount, expressed in basis points: These are the defaults a new class starts with. Change them per class if your school prices differently — each of the three is set independently, and any of them can be zero.
The discounts reward cash arriving early, which is usually worth more to a school than the few percent it costs. Schools that set all three to zero tend to find most families drift onto daily payment.

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Setting a package price directly

You can leave the weekly, monthly and termly prices to be worked out from the daily rate and its discount — that is the normal case. Or you can set a package price explicitly, and it overrides the calculation. Use that when a prepaid package has its own negotiated price that is not simply the daily rate less a percentage.

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Rates are per class, per term

One rate row per class per term. A class with no feeding rate set cannot have its meals billed, so set rates for every class that eats before running feeding billing.

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What happens next

The rate sets the price. What a particular pupil is on — and whether they eat at all — is their feeding plan. What they are actually billed depends on the meal register and the days you marked as meal days on the term calendar.

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Who can edit it

The edit_finances permission.