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Dee-Mack Primary & Junior High |
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Christina Lammers, Principal |
Frank
Reliford, Principal |
Bill
Lamb, Principal |
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Voice: 359-4321 Fax: 359-4015 |
Voice:
447-6226 Fax: 447-5201 |
Voice:
359-4421 Fax: 359-3125 |
Friday, January 04, 2008
Dear Parents,
We realize it can be
difficult to keep track of fees and payments to the school district. To help simplify payment of school fees, Deer
Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District No. 701 has enrolled in an internet-based service called Café Prepay. This service is a website where you can pay
for school lunches or textbook fees using your Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express. Participation in this service is voluntary;
you may enroll at any time.
Café Prepay enables
parents to keep track of their child’s account balance. In addition, the website offers Automatic
Replenish. This is optimal for the
student whose lunch spending varies greatly from day to day. With automatic replenish, when the student's
account balance goes below a specified amount, another specified amount is then
deposited into the student's account via credit card. Using "automatic replenish on low
balance", the student will never run out of money. Conversely, your credit card will not be charged
until the student's balance goes below the specified dollar amount.
To get started, you will
first enroll at cafeprepay.com.
You will be asked to enter your email address and a password, which will
be used each time you log in. Please
note that a valid email address is required and that Café Prepay stores any
necessary personal information in a secure, offline database which is accessed
only to process payments and send payment confirmations via email.
Up to now, Dee-Mack
Schools have not been able to accept credit card payments for school lunches. Businesses that accept credit cards must
forfeit a percentage of the sale to the credit card company, as well as pay a
transaction fee and a monthly fee. We
simply cannot afford to absorb these fees.
Café Prepay was implemented in 2000 to collect credit card payments on
behalf of school districts across the country.
In order to keep this
service free to the school district, any item requiring Café Prepay to advance
credits to your child’s account is sold at a small premium. This website fee covers all costs involved
with this service, such as website maintenance, personnel, support, processing,
electronically transferring payments to school bank accounts and infrastructure
costs.
Please visit pay4lunch.com/faq.aspx
for more information. If you have
questions that are not answered on the website, we encourage you to use the
“Contact” link for Café Prepay or call Patsy Davis (PDavis@deemack.org) , Food Service Manager
at 359-3172. We hope you find this
service a convenient alternative.
Yours for excellent schools,
Steve Yarnall
Superintendent