This week went entirely to the desk where the money is taken. The three separate Search Receipts screens are now one Fee Receipts screen with a running total and a column chooser. And Collect Fees V2 has been redesigned so the student, the twelve months, the fee heads and the payment all fit on a single screen — with any balance carried over from an earlier session shown as a card you cannot walk past.
A fee counter is judged on two things: how fast a receipt can be raised, and whether the numbers on it are right. This week is about the first. Two screens that had grown by accretion over the years — receipt search, split awkwardly across three menu items, and fee collection, spread over roughly four screens of scrolling — have been rebuilt into one screen each, without removing a single column or option. The classic screens are still there, one button away.
Neither of these rebuilds took anything away. Every column from the three old receipt screens is still available, the classic Collect Fees screen is untouched and one button away, and every old menu item still lands somewhere sensible. What changed is the number of screens a clerk has to cross to raise one receipt — and how obvious a carried-over balance is when the parent is standing at the counter. More next week.