MySchoolBucks

- May 2, 2017

Everyone

Education

( 2,960)

Description

MySchoolBucks makes school meal payments easy for busy parents on-the-go! Quickly and securely add money to your student’s school meal account using your credit card, debit card or electronic check. You can also view recent cafeteria purchases and check current meal account balances for each student. MySchoolBucks is backed by Heartland Payment Systems, one of the largest and most trusted payment processors in the United States. **MySchoolBucks is available in participating schools only**

Notes on Permissions:
· Camera permissions are needed to allow parents to take a photo of their student.
· Storage permissions are needed to store the student photos and crash log data.
· Phone and SMS permissions are needed for the username/password recovery by SMS process.

Reviews

3.4

2,960 total

5 1,095

4 499

3 383

2 328

1 655

USELESS!!!! The only thing this app is good for is taking your money and charging you a fee every time you do so. Otherwise, you can't see any activity and it NEVER updates! This app is supposed to make it easy and convenient, but all it does is cause lots of frustration. Would not recommend to anyone.

I like it except it closes down at the end of the school year! I could be putting money on the account all summer if not for this.

Allen McHenry

School is out. It's really annoying to continue to get notifications that the balance is low .Need to somehow figure out when the school year ends. Make an option for us to enter last day of school.

Josh Noyes

App is easy to use and very convenient. 3 stars Since I can't lower the minimum warning balance and I cannot transfer funds from one child to another. Hopefully you can fix these issues.

Vania Melamed

Charges you the cost of one meal to pay for each meal-funding transaction. I thought public schools received enough taxes to cover their respective districts' third-party contracts. The fees should be more modest.

Katherine Seeley

Keeps freezing pissing me off. Fix ur issue so when I want to put a certain $ amount I can and don't have to hit the Dam button a million times waiting for it to pop up.!!!!!

User reviews

May 24, 2017

June 2, 2017

I like it except it closes down at the end of the school year! I could be putting money on the account all summer if not for this.

Allen McHenry June 3, 2017

School is out. It's really annoying to continue to get notifications that the balance is low .Need to somehow figure out when the school year ends. Make an option for us to enter last day of school.

Josh Noyes May 25, 2017

App is easy to use and very convenient. 3 stars Since I can't lower the minimum warning balance and I cannot transfer funds from one child to another. Hopefully you can fix these issues.

Vania Melamed May 13, 2017

Katherine Seeley June 2, 2017

Keeps freezing pissing me off. Fix ur issue so when I want to put a certain $ amount I can and don't have to hit the Dam button a million times waiting for it to pop up.!!!!!

Sarah Smith May 23, 2017

The app won't refresh after my mom put money on my account.

Jasmine Mcmillan June 8, 2017

It's easy and I can keep up with my daughter money and want she eats every day.

Confi Dential May 10, 2017

Need to be able to transfer funds between students.

Shawnye Abercrombie June 6, 2017

Easy to pay my childrens account.

kevin johnson April 25, 2017

Looks like other people are experiencing the same problem...cant get The add funds button to respond...been an issue for sometime.

Jennifer Ward April 19, 2017

I like the app. It makes it easy and fast to add money to my children's acct. However, there should be the option to transfer funds between kids.

April 26, 2017

It was ok until it stopped updating & now I'm getting calls for a late lunch account.

Dominique Devrai April 15, 2017

Easy way to keep money in my kids accounts. It also tracks their spending!

PokeyJay Hawk April 24, 2017

Great app!:) Extremely easy to navigate through both of my childrens lunch accounts. 5 stars!!

Ellis Booker May 15, 2017

This app comes in handy

Terri Barkley April 28, 2017

Awesome way to pay and be alerted of low balances.

Joe Mat May 3, 2017

Terrible app

Tiffany Mosack March 23, 2017

*****SHOULD NOT HAVE UPDATED. NOW CANT USE AS THE BOXES TO PICK OR ENTER AMOUNT ARE GONE!! **Everything is fixed and works for me on this app. Easy to add funds and see what your child spends. Can now add any amount in the app. However the fee is a bit ridiculous. Small detail is I would like to see the day with the date in the history. (Ex. Friday, 10/7)

samantha vanvleet March 25, 2017

Pretty good. Overall I like the app, it's easy to add money to my kids account and track the balance. However there have been a few things I noticed, the first being that either the school or the app does not accurately track what my kids are eating, I check the app and ask my kids what they had for lunch and it almost never is the same thing. The second thing would be that twice my son has been charged $3 for breakfast and where we live all breakfast is free and according to what the app says he got for lunch he shouldn't have been charged, not sure if this is the schools fault or the apps. I would like to be able to click on the day and see the full name of what they are for lunch instead of an abbreviated one.

Bravo Academy of Music May 11, 2017

Do not use this app. It does not accurately show history of all payments or debits. When our account falls negative the balance always just shows $0. All the features on the website are not available on this app. The low balance threshold notification doesn't work properly.

Andrea Thompson March 24, 2017

My kids switched districts so when I added them online everything is fine because I can choose the new district. The mobile app however, keeps saying I don't have any children because it doesn't let me switch to the new district. It used to be great but now it's useless.

Toni Moore March 24, 2017

No quirky issues. Been using this app for 2 yrs. Nothing in life is free so taking the fee with a grain of salt & moving on with my life. Notifications of low $ comes to my email addy, and confirmation of $ applied as well. Don't have to worry about my kids being hungry or losing lunch $. LOVE THIS APP. #SAMSUNG

Amy Hill March 24, 2017

There needs to be a way to see a running total. All I see is how much was added and taken out and a total balance. But the schools my kids are in don't always post/update daily. I've had times where a week had gone by with no activity showing! If it's been a wile since I added funds I don't necessarily remember what the last balance was. Also, I shouldn't have to check it every single day just to do the math myself. I've been very tempted to just uninstall it and take money to the lunch room myself!

March 24, 2017

I never had any issues with the app. I performed the update and the app seems to work fine. I did note that when you select "Other" as the amount to add you type the amount into that box and it will appear below as the dollar amount you're adding. I will update if I find any issues.

Teana Kim March 28, 2017

I like the convenience of the app. The remaining balance at the end of the school year rolls over to use the following school year. It sends you notifications when lunch accounts are low but the $2.50 charge for every time you add money to the accounts is a bit ridiculous. Our kids lunch is 2.75 each so the 2.50 fee each time I deposit can almost feed another student....

Laura Zuniga April 6, 2017

I have 3 students, one of them is in a different school district than the other two. The app does not allow you change between school districts, therefor i always have to log in on a desktop to pay for the 3rd student. Lately the website has been down making this system close to useless. Better pay your lunch accounts by sending checks to the school.

Kindra N March 31, 2017

I use the website online to fund my children's accounts and there is no fee. I will not use this app and pay a fee. It doesn't even say ahead of time what the fee is. No good for me.

Amy York April 11, 2017

I would appreciate the app if it did not have a service fee otherwise it's not useful. Old fashioned checks are better

Joe Reveles March 24, 2017

Went to add funds, error said could not connect and try again, so tried again and same error. Went online to check payment history and was charged twice with the fee. We'll see how they are at fixing there error. App is disappointing.

Alecia Vaughan March 31, 2017

It's a great! My son have a speech delay and with the app I can make sure that he's getting both meals and also make sure that it all adds up.

Damon Collins March 20, 2017

Every time I need to add money to the account I can't log in and have to reinstall. Now that doesn't even work. Just says service not available. Well if it's not always available what's the point?

Angela Hansel April 1, 2017

I think it's ridiculous they charge per kid per transaction. I mean why the hell are you charging us to feed our kids??? Its dumb and unnecessary. Anyway to make money and off our kids lunch. Stupid

Michele Smyers March 24, 2017

This app is simple to use and super convenient....now, if the fee was reduced or non existent that would make this the best app but I realize nothing in life is free and I have the option to not use this app and write a check...love it

Mari White April 1, 2017

Can't change district. I love the app and the fact that I can set it up to add funds automatically when the balance falls below a certain amount. My only issue is that I have kids in two different school districts and the app will only allow me to see one of them so I have to do everything for the other child's account online. If the app allowed me to switch districts like the website does I'd happily rate it 5 stars.

Suzette Djerf March 17, 2017

Always have problems when trying to add money to my kid's account via the app. If that could be debugged the app would be great.

Liza Beam March 31, 2017

I don't like the fee, but the app is very convenient, easy to use, and I have never had a problem with. It updates daily for me on all three of my children.

Amanda Roe April 6, 2017

my older son never remembers to tell me he needs lunch money until the day he's account is at a 0 balance and of course he's already at school... this app is very helpful, with in no time I can add money to he's account from anywhere! 🖒

Sheryl MacIntosh April 4, 2017

The app never updated true time. I'll check in the am before my kids go to school and there is enough there then I'm get a phone call from the school that there is no money there. It's just so annoying!