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Login Sign Up! LLC 141 Old Stirling Road, Warren, NJ 07059 theHumans@.com Admin Login 1.844.MYFOODDays 1.844.MYFOODDays " Helping parents and schools bring in fresh local food for our children every day " Tour Learn more Vendors Get a free trial New Parents Support Lunch Ordering Online for Schools and More: Hint: It&aposs a long list but, in short - go paper free with your PTO Place lunch orders online Sell spirit wear, dinner dance tickets and more Boost fundraising - all sale profits go to you Organize your parents with automated email reminders and email blasts Automate your volunteer and committee signups Collect funds without merchant accounts or credit card fees Streamline payments and book keeping Boost your PTO donations See your Parent Directory online and on your smartphone Manage events with maps & directions Host your own PTO website Answer questions with Parent/Child centric surveys Banish paper slips! Spend time with your kids not spreadsheets Who is and ptoBay for? Small Schools Large Schools School Districts PTOs PTAs HSAs After School project coordinators Volunteer Coordinators School Service Vendors Local Vendors National Chains Cool people Take a tour of the service Tour as a parent Tour as an administrator Take a look at the simple steps to opening an account, ordering and making your payment. Register you and your children Registration is quick and simple, just enter your info and the name and homeroom of your children. You can even pick an icon picture for each child. As an administrator you need to be up and running quickly. Once there, you need to be able to focus on running the event. helps out with orders, payments, reports, emails, volunteers and... well, everything! Get started The first time you use you'll get started by entering some basic information, starting with Teachers and homeroom information. Parents will use this when they add their children. You'll be able to generate reports targeting specific Teachers and homerooms. Place orders When the school opens ordering you'll be able to complete the orders for each of your children in a few minutes. Check your balance Before paying for all of your children, in one easy step, you can review your order then choose between credit/debit or PayPal. Some schools also accept checks. Review payment history Keep track of past and pending payments and credits from the history view. Review your account Review past orders onscreen or in printable form for the fridge! You'll get regular emails from to remind you when to order and what you ordered. Volunteer Sign up and volunteer your time, manage your commitments. Track your preferences Track all of your settings from one location. Manage passwords, children and even your volunteer commitments. Smartphone App Review your orders each day on the iPhone, iPod or Android app. You can even set up your password on your children's device so they can check for you! Want to see more? Sign up for a free account and place your imaginary children in Check It Out Elementary here Menus To keep life simple, you'll create menus based around a theme. It could be Mondays or Tuesdays or could be based around a vendor like Fresh Foods When you enter information about the foods that you serve, you capture both the price you pay the vendors and the price you charge. We also cater for wholesale items like pizza and can manage foods that can only be ordered with others. There are also tools for discount pricing like multi-buy and free-lunch programs. If you have the information, we can store nutritional data too. Ordering Runs Assemble the pre-entered themes into ordering sessions where you control the dates upon which parents can order and pay. The system will take care of email reminders and follow-ups. Payments roll in As the payments come in you can see who's paid and who hasn't. Mark off checks and send out statements to your treasurer. Emails Send out emails to parents directly from the system. Target Target groups such as those that haven't paid or send to individuals directly. Volunteers Manage your parent volunteers within . Set goals for volunteer support and track those that step up to help. Quickly see if you have enough people on hand for each day. Reports At the heart of the system is a reporting engine that can prepare the information that you need. Orders for vendors (emailed out), reports for the volunteers, for the treasurer and for you to assess your performance. School closed? Have automatically credit all of the parents on a snow day. Credits can be used on the next order or given up to the school as a donation. Not just food allows fundraising from all sorts of activities: school spirit wear, memberships and donations - all kinds of fundraisers. Surveys Want to find out how you're doing? Want to invite parents to next year's PTO posts? includes survey tools to reach out to your parents with customised questions. Want to embed into your website or create your own service under your own name? We've created in a way that allows you to run the whole service as though it were your own business, we call it our White Label service. Follow the link to see examples and learn more... Want to see even more? To learn more about the features of or see a live interactive demo, please contact us here See More Images of our platform Ask theHumans Learn more about the system, ask questions and see a live demo of the service and its features... Free trial Create a free trial account for your school to play with... Or, download takeaways Download a PDF about the service to share at your next meeting, here Find out more about the service What shall we call you? required How shall we reach you? required What would you like to know? required What would you like to do? Have my question answered Have us demo the system to you Set me up with a Free Trial School Submit... About us Pamela Thwaite Co-Founder & Chief Operating Human Pamela&aposs experience began in child care services running the operations for a Day Care Nursery in the UK. In the US, Pamela took on the role of President of the Parent Teachers Organization at the local Elementary School, before hitting on the idea of automating the Food Day program. was born out of that idea. Today Pamela runs the day-to-day operations including supporting the Administrators, Parents and the product development process. Michael Thwaite Co-Founder & Chief Technology Human Michael&aposs technology experience spans 30 years including 15 years in Financial Services, high-speed transaction processing systems, where security, speed and reliability are paramount when developing and managing the systems responsible for trading more that $8B each day. Today Michael develops and supports the software and systems behind . History started life in 2003 as a one-school-one-page website project for Woodland Elementary School to alleviate the pressure on the PTO Food Day chairs. This pressure was preventing the Food Days program from running - the supply of volunteers was drying up as the workload and time commitments escalated and of course, as a result, the money raised was diminishing. Over the last ten years has grown and adapted, adding features and tools to help schools and PTO/A&aposs make the best out of their fundraising efforts. On the right is how we used to look in 2003. In the News As grew, we started to pick up the occasional news article, even in 2003 we were featured in the Star Ledger and later and in Florham Park over at NJ.com. Today, we host and provide a complete online ordering solution for Schools and PTO/A&aposs. No servers or software, and upgrades come free and often. Michael and Pamela both enjoy running and developing , it&aposs become a labour of love. They answer thousands of emails each year from parent questions to helping with order processing, payments and credits. process credit cards, handles merchant accounts, distributes payments, consolidates thousand...