You're Already on SchoolCash Online. Here's What Lunchbox Adds.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Lunchbox is built by KEV Group — the same company behind SchoolCash Online (SCO) — and it's fully integrated with your school's SIS.
• Schools already on SCO don't need a new contract, a new vendor to vet, or a new login to activate Lunchbox.
• Activation brings lunch ordering fully online: parents order and pay in one place, vendors get organized reporting, staff get time back from manual tracking.
• Because your SCO account, student data, and parent familiarity all carry over, there's no re-entering student data and no starting from zero.
• Most schools are live in days, not weeks.
• Is our current lunch process (paper forms, cash, spreadsheets) taking up meaningful staff time each week?
• Would parents prefer ordering and paying for lunch the same way they already handle other school payments?
• Do we have a vendor in place, or would we need help coordinating one?
• Is there a natural start date — a new term, a new month — to launch around?
• Who on staff should join a 15-minute call to walk through activation?

Most schools already running SchoolCash Online have solved the payments side of school life — field trips, fees, fundraising forms. Lunch is often the one piece still running on paper: forms sent home, cash collected, orders tallied by hand.

Lunchbox exists to close that gap, and because it comes from the same team behind SCO, closing it doesn't mean starting over.

One team, one account, no new vendor to vet

Because Lunchbox and SchoolCash Online are both built by KEV Group, activating Lunchbox means extending a system your school already trusts — not adopting a new one.

There's no new vendor relationship to evaluate, no new contract to sign, and no separate procurement process. Lunchbox is fully integrated with your school's SIS, so there's no re-entering student data — and no new login for parents or staff to learn. The account structure and parent familiarity your school has built through SCO carry directly over.

That removes the single biggest hesitation schools have with any new tool: not knowing who's behind it, and not wanting to redo work they've already done once.

What actually changes when Lunchbox is activated

The shift is from manual lunch administration to an online system — with everything else about your school's program staying the same.

Parents order and pay for lunch in one place instead of sending in cash or paper forms. Staff stop manually tracking and tallying orders. Vendors receive organized daily reporting instead of a stack of forms to sort through by hand.

Fundraising proceeds continue flowing back to the school exactly as they do today — activation changes the process, not the outcome.

Why activation is faster than it sounds

An existing SCO account and direct SIS integration mean Lunchbox activation skips most of the setup a brand-new system would require.

Because your school's account, student records, and parent base are already established through SCO, there's no cold start and nothing to re-key. Lunchbox pulls directly from your SIS, so student data doesn't need to be re-entered by hand.

That's why most schools are live in days, not weeks — activation is a matter of turning on the lunch ordering layer on top of infrastructure that's already in place.

Questions to ask before activating

• Is our current lunch process (paper forms, cash, spreadsheets) taking up meaningful staff time each week?
• Would parents prefer ordering and paying for lunch the same way they already handle other school payments?
• Do we have a vendor in place, or would we need help coordinating one?
• Is there a natural start date — a new term, a new month — to launch around?
• Who on staff should join a 15-minute call to walk through activation?

What we're seeing

As one parent council volunteer put it: "One of the best things that happened in our school after SchoolCash Online was going live with Lunchbox... Lunchbox has brought so much to our school. Parents are happy, kids are looking forward to having lunch at school and teachers have more time to focus on what they do best – teaching."

Schools already on SCO consistently describe the same pattern: a familiar system extending naturally into lunch, without a separate learning curve for staff or families.

Ready to make ordering lunch this easy for your school? 

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