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August 1, 2004 - PCS and ImageOne to Provide Meal Application Scanning for School Foodservice.

PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc., a leading provider of foodservice management systems and point of sale for the K-12 school foodservice market, today announced a strategic alliance and marketing partnership with ImageOne Corporation, the leading provider of Meal Application Scanning technology for the K-12 school market. PCS will now sell, service and support i-Scan for Meal Applications – software powered by ImageOne to automate the processing of Free & Reduced Meal Applications.

i-Scan for Meal Applications eliminates the tedious and time-consuming efforts put forth by food service departments to manually key the thousands of Free & Reduced Meal Applications that must be processed at the beginning and throughout the school year. i-Scan is tightly integrated into PCS’ Rightrak District Meal Software Suite, and reduces the labor required to process Meal Applications by as much as 400% by utilizing high-speed scanning and sophisticated hand-print recognition technologies. The built-in document management component of i-Scan allows districts to electronically track, store and view meal applications instantly, eliminating the sorting and manual filing efforts of the past.

“We are delighted that PCS has elected to integrate i-Scan into Rightrak,” said Tom Murphy, General Manager of ImageOne. “PCS’ commitment to application scanning will enable their customers to save many thousands of dollars each year and hundreds upon hundreds of employee-hours, while at the same time providing better service to their schools and students.”

COMPANY INFORMATION - ImageOne Corporation is a leading provider of document scanning and business process automation software and services to county and municipal governments, hospitals and clinics, banks and credit unions, and many large companies wishing to reduce their costs by turning toward paperless information technologies. i-Scan for Meal Applications, powered by ImageOne will help school foodservice departments operate more efficiently and accurately, resulting in labor savings and operational efficiencies that offset the cost of investment typically within the first year of use. i-Scan for Meal Applications is already utilized by school districts ranging from 10 to 225 schools.

June 12, 2004 PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. has released the NetCASH.

Designed to speed lunch lines, reduce cash in the lunchroom and save labor costs, the NetCASH will accept prepayments from a remote location and communicate in REAL TIME to any cashier station in the school!

Promoted as an effective option for eliminating cash during service, the NetCASH can be installed in the front office of an elementary school, in a kiosk in a courtyard – or the cafeteria wall in a high school; all in an effort to SPEED LUNCH LINES. Constructed of 13-gauge steel, with a Medico Tri-Lock and Intelligent™ bill receptor, the unit is designed for security and durability.

Appreciated by Principals, Business Directors and Food Service Directors, the NetCASH is the latest innovation from a company focused on providing Total System Solutions to school food service.

MAY 2004 Pay for all school activities online!

Parents are often exhausted from the struggle to figure out what they need to pay for and how much is the cost of the different school services. At the beginning of the school year parents are 'attacked' with school mailings and fliers. In order to receive more information or to make payments, parents need to contact each school department separately. Some parents are wondering if there is an easier way to handle school payments.

Continuing the success of PAMS program with school food service departments nationwide, PAMS Lunchroom is in the process of expanding the current service. Parents will be able to pay online for all school activities such as athletics, transportation, year books, community education and more.

Parents will be able to view all relevant information online, and make payments for any school activities from the convenience of their home or office.

The system will save school administrators precious time which is currently used for payment processing and answering parents questions.

Funds collected will be deposited directly into the appropriate school department bank account. A Daily Report will be sent to the school department with payment and registration information.

MARCH 2004 PAMS Releases New Phone System

PAMS announces the release of the New Pay-by-Phone system available 24/7. Working with the school cafeteria's point-of-sale computers throughout the district, balances & payments are a phone call away.

Easy to use, parents can pay for their child's meals by just entering their child's meal account ID and credit card number. In addition, Parents can also monitor their child's lunch account balance and check the dates and amounts of their most recent payments.

JANUARY 2004 PAMS Releases New Report Center

PAMS announces the release of the New Report Center. The Report Center was developed in-house by the PAMS team to meet and exceed customer  needs.

The New Report Center is a powerful tool that helps district administrators to reconcile and track payments with greater accuracy.

District administrators can reconcile student payments with bank deposits, and provide accounting reports for all payments sorted by date, school, and student name. In addition, administrators can easily reconcile deposits with payment data imported into the PCS RIGHTtrack DistrictMP Point-of-Sale software.

The reports are available online 24/7, which are printable and/or exportable to Microsoft Excel.

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