Complete Tuition Management

• Track and record tuition and fees
• Assign multiple billing fees per student
• Easily and efficiently send out billing statements
• Access charges, create invoices, post payments, apply credits and scholarships, and apply late fees.

Powerful Reporting

• Produce a wide variety of reports including personalized letters, certificates, financial statements, demographics, and billing statements. You can even create your own reports.
• Quickly pull general reports to see current balances and other useful information

Quick and Easy Tracking

• Track student enrollment history, schedules, grades, attendance, activities, discipline, bus information, health, vision, and permanent records.
• Track teachers' professional backgrounds, teaching experience and credentials with detailed teacher screens.
• Choose from a variety of attendance types to indicate excused absences and early dismissal.

Secure Background Checks

• Ensure that all proper background checks have been performed. Keep fingerprints or federal background checks on file.
• Background integration from the Safe Environment screen enables you to automatically order background checks from SecureSearch.
  • Quickly order background checks
  • Save time, money and headaches
  • Be consistent in your screening process

Flag Special Data and Dates

• Recognize expired immunizations with the field for Expiration Date. Those that are past due will appear in red.
• Indicate special circumstances for a student that has critical information that everyone needs access to.

Customizable Security

• The most important quality of a database is the security of the information entrusted to you. With School Office, you have the peace of mind of choosing who has access to each specific part.

Efficient Data Entry and Easy Look-up

• Enter and manage large amounts of data such as student, family, financial, and school processes.
• Manage mailing information, personnel background data, volunteer areas, emergency contacts, home and work phone numbers, e-mail addresses, health and vision records, attendance history, class history, grades, GPAs, transcript data, permanent record information, and tuition billing
• Quickly find students, ID numbers, classrooms, teachers, and more. Customize the View Listing tab to show any combination of fields.
• Archive information to get inactive records out of your way.

Processes Tailored for Speed and Precision

• Save time entering information at the beginning of every year. With the Class Schedules Quick Posting process you can add the subjects in the schedule onto the student's grade screen.

Mail Features

• Address mail to the oldest student in the family or the youngest using a variety of salutations. You can also print grade levels.
• CASS certify mailing addresses on y our own schedule over the Internet with PDS CASS It!™, an optional add-on feature.

Synchronizes with Other PDS Software

• Integrate seamlessly with PDS Church Office™ and Formation Office.  Multiple programs share a single database. Enter a student or family once and access and edit their records from any of these programs.

• Track your hot lunch program by using our School Office interface with PocketLunch™. PocketLunch tracks your hot lunch program, and our easy interface pulls totals into School Office to include on your statements and financial analysis reports.
• Automate your library.  Whether you are automating for the first time, upgrading from an existing automation system, or consolidating to centralize your resources, Surpass® is the solution to automate your library.
• Accept donations online 24/7/365. QPay Online Giving is an application toolset that enables your church, school, or diocese to receive payments and donations using secure internet technology.
• Save time and preserve your valuable sacramental records with PDS Sacramental Register™.  This optional add-on to the PDS Office Programs provides a searchable electronic database for all of your sacramental records, making it easy to quickly locate entries in your written registers and preserve your valuable records.
• Get anytime, anywhere access to all your data. PDS OnDemand™ is a flexible and secure hosted solution that enables you to use all of your PDS desktop software whenever and wherever you need to.
• Promote your facility on the Web. Reach out to the community around you and start growing your numbers with an innovative Web site. Extend™ is an online content management solution for organizations that want to edit their Web sites quickly and easily.

All PDS software solutions come with comprehensive support and training options, including:

• FREE 90-day enrollment into our Preferred Client Program, which provides unlimited telephone and email support, 24/7 access to the  Online Knowledge Base, free software upgrades, plus much more.
• Comprehensive, context-sensitive Help documents accessible with F1 Key.
• Access to a variety of training formats including self-paced online videos, customized training online or at your facility, and an annual conference.