PathPos

Path Programme in Schools
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Overview

The Government of Jamaica in seeking to advance social development, initiatied the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education, PATH. The PATH program is administered nationally through the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) since its inception in 2002, and has become Jamaica's flagship social assistance program. One of the catergory of benefit from this program is: Children from birth to the completion of secondary school. One of the program's objective, is to reduce child labour by requiring children to have minimum attendance in schools. With this in mind, Digitech Software Technologies, saw it fit to develop an application for all schools to monitor and manage the distribution of this benefit in schools

Some primary and secondary educational institutions are having difficulties managing the PATH benefit in schools either because of the vast number of students on the programme, no mechanism to ensure one benefit per student per day, dishonesty amongst students, and or information is mantained manually and is difficult ro tabulate and be presented to ensure compliance.

Implementation Steps :

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One : Preparation for Implementation

If you provide meals and or snacks for your students as part of a grant for PATH benefits, then installing this system is a MUST! The application can be installed on your canteen computer or a server. There is an online version available if you have a reliable internet connection. Provide a list of all your students benefiting from PATH, alonhg with their form and picture in the appropriate format and pixel size. If you will be monitoring your inventory levels, both ingredients and trading items, provide names, barcode, cost, selling price and category of items. The necessary computer equipment needed, is depended on the number of terminals and features you will be engaging on the system. The minimum equipment required are : At least One (1) desktop, laptop or tablet. One (1) Receipt Printer. For larger implmentation, cash drawers, barcode scanners and magnetic carder are required.

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Two : Implement

Purchase of the PathPos application can faciliated by direct credit, manager's cheque and or cash. Once the application is acquired, the system will be installed on your device directly or remotely. All imformation including PATH student information, pictures, inventroy and supplier's information will be uploaded to the system. There are (8) hours training that will be schedule and adminstered remotely zoom video conferencing application. Training will be delivered based on three (3) levels, cashiers, supervisors and bursars. Training can be done in a maximum of two (2) days.

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Three : Operate and Evaluate

Once in Path Mode, a Path can either swipe or scan their ID card or a name lookup tha will display the student picture for verificcation. The invoice is generated by choice of meal or snacks. The invoice is then generated and the student call then collected their benefit. If the cost of the benefit is greater than the PATH thresholds spitulated per transaction, then the student will have to pay the difference. The system ensures that the beneficary will not be able to access another benefit once a transact is proceeded for the day. At the end of the shift, the systen will track the cashier's operation, path transactions and maintain inventory levels stimultaneously. Within thirty (30) days of operation, you should be able to generate most of the reports provided by PathPos. These includes:

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