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The rest of the batch still goes\nthrough. Awarding to up to 200 students at a time is supported.",[406,547,548,549,551],{},"The mobile app does the same: open a discount's menu and choose ",[410,550,518],{},", then pick by\nsearch or by class.",[419,553,555],{"id":554},"checking-before-you-invoice","Checking before you invoice",[406,557,558,559,562],{},"On the invoice form, ",[410,560,561],{},"Check discounts"," answers what the invoice will actually\ncharge before anything is created: the fee lines, each reduction that applies, and\nthe reduced total, per child, plus a family total when you are invoicing siblings.\nIt writes nothing.",[406,564,565,566,569,570,573],{},"It is offered for a ",[410,567,568],{},"single student"," and for a ",[410,571,572],{},"family (by parent)",", not for a\nwhole class: the reductions differ per child, so the only honest answer for a class\nwould be a list as long as the class itself.",[406,575,576],{},"The check is done by the server, not the form, because a sibling discount's\neligibility depends on your enrolment records rather than on anything typed into the\npage. Editing the invoice afterwards clears the answer, because a figure that no longer\ndescribes the form is worse than none.",[406,578,579,580,583],{},"If a discount is granted or revoked in the minutes between checking and creating,\nthe invoice is ",[410,581,582],{},"rejected"," rather than quietly charging the new figure, and the\nmessage names the child whose discounts moved. Check again and create it.",[419,585,587],{"id":586},"revoking-an-award","Revoking an award",[406,589,590,591,594],{},"You can ",[410,592,593],{},"revoke"," an award at any time. Revoking stops it applying to future invoices and never\ntouches invoices already issued, so last term's figures stay exactly as they were sent.",[419,596,598],{"id":597},"what-families-see","What families see",[406,600,601],{},"A discounted invoice shows the subtotal, each reduction as its own line, and the reduced total. That\nis true on screen for staff, in the parent portal, on the student's own fees page, in the mobile app,\nand on the PDF you send. Parents can see what they were given and why the amount differs from the\nfull price.",[406,603,604],{},"Each fee also says what came off it. A discount that applies to particular fees is labelled against\nthose fees with the rate it took off, so a parent is not left working that rate out from two figures,\nor guessing which of five fees the reduction came from. A discount covering the whole invoice has no\nsingle fee to sit against, so its rate is shown once, on the reduction itself.",[406,606,607],{},"Two things are deliberately left unsaid. A fixed-amount discount shows no rate, because its value is\nthe amount already printed beside it. And where two percentage discounts both apply, both rates are\nlisted rather than added together: the second applies to what the first left, so 20% and 5% come to\n24%, not 25%, and printing a single figure would be wrong.",[406,609,610],{},"Because a discount is snapshotted onto the invoice at the moment it is raised, renaming or changing a\ndiscount later never rewrites what a family was already charged. Retiring a discount stops it being\nawarded or applied to new invoices, and leaves every historical record intact.",[406,612,613],{},"Discounts are permission-controlled in their own right: seeing them and managing them are separate\ngrants from the rest of fee management, so an accountant can run discounts without every finance\nrole being able to.",{"title":615,"searchDepth":616,"depth":616,"links":617},"",3,[618,620,621,622,623,624],{"id":421,"depth":619,"text":422},2,{"id":473,"depth":619,"text":474},{"id":503,"depth":619,"text":504},{"id":554,"depth":619,"text":555},{"id":586,"depth":619,"text":587},{"id":597,"depth":619,"text":598},false,"md",{},true,null,{"src":631,"alt":632,"width":633,"height":634,"caption":635},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffee-discounts\u002Fdiscounts-tab.png","The Discounts tab of the Finance Workspace listing a principal bursary, a second-child discount, a staff-child waiver and a third-child discount, each with its type, the percentage or fixed amount it reduces by, and what it applies to",1832,1270,"The discounts a school has defined. 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