Manual Claim Entry

This feature is for centers, sites and providers that are using paper as the original source of menus, attendance and meal counts. A manual claim is when a sponsor reviews the submitted paperwork an only enters the final payable meal totals into My Food Program. No attendance, meal counts or menu data is stored.

To use this feature:

• Click on Site Details from the main site dashboard.

• Scroll down to the section for "Claim Settings"
• Make your selection

• Scroll down to the bottom or scroll up to the top of the page and click the green Save button.
• This selection will trigger changes to the main site dashboard
• The attendance and meal count buttons will no longer be displayed
• The Check for Errors button will no longer be displayed (since there are no meal counts to check for errors)

• If this box is checked, when a sponsor creates a claim they will be directed to the manual claim entry screen
• The Claims Overview Screen will a brown "M" next to centers, sites and providers that are set to manual claim entry
• Sponsors can use Manage Site Configurations to
• set the default for this setting for new centers, sites and providers and
• change this setting for existing centers, sites and providers.
• This field will be hidden if the slider for Hide Settings That Can Be Managed from the Sponsor Level is enabled

• The status of this setting appears on the Site Export Report.