GUID that identifies this item

Item number as presented to user.

Description of Item

Electronic identifier(s) associated with this item.

The category is derived from the Child Nutrition Database's food category codes/names (Source: Food Category Name File [CNDB]). Agents may use the actual codes or a district's local definition of the names associated with the codes. The Child Nutrition Database [CNDB] is updated on a yearly basis by the USDA.

Examples
Milk
Meat
Vegetables
Other

This object describes a certain amount for a specific item unit.

Note that this version of the object does not contain any elements that define item pricing. This task is left for future development.

GUID that identifies this item's portion

GUID that identifies related item portion

Quantity of item portion (number of units)

Type of item unit

Optional description of amount

This object gives the sales details for the items sold for a specified date.

GUID that identifies this object

GUID that identifies the school for this object

Date of sales

Quantity of item amounts sold

GUID of FoodserviceItemPortion object

The value of item quantity

The cost (monetary value) of the item sold.

This object describes the unit for an item.

GUID that identifies this unit

GUID that identifies related item

Description of unit ("cup", "teaspoon", etc.)

Child Nutrition Database [CNDB] standard code describing unit.  The database is updated on a yearly basis by the USDA.

Gram weight of this item in terms of MeasureDescriptionCode

This object is a site's meal prices for each grade program, meal status, meal type and grade level.

GUID that identifies this meal price.

GUID that identifies the school this meal price belongs to

Price of the meal

The price value

This object communicates the foodservice menu plan for a school site for a given meal program, grade level range and date.

GUID that identifies this menu plan

GUID that identifies the school for this menu plan

Date of menu plan

Description of menu plan

Feeding figure projected

Quantity of item in this menu plan

Item portion amount

This object communicates the daily milk sales at a school.

GUID that identifies the daily milk sales object

School for which the sales object applies

Date on which the sales occurred.

Quantity of sale

The quantity sold.

Unit of Sale

Charge to child per unit

If a food service transaction is of type Purchase then this object can give the details of the purchase. This object does not exist for other transaction types.

GUID that identifies purchase transaction

GUID that identifies food service transaction in which this purchase was made

Quantity of the item being purchased

Foodservice Item Portion

Identifies whether the item being purchased is earned i.e., at no cost to the buyer. It is used when FoodserviceTransaction object's TransactionType element has the value "Purchase".

The value of quantity

This object describes the federal, state, local and other reimbursement rates for a school.

GUID that identifies this object.

GUID that identifies the school.

Effective start date for the reimbursement rates

Effective end date for the reimbursement rates

List of reimbursing agencies.

Reimbursing agency

Type of the reimbursing agency.

The name of the reimbursing agency. This element is to be used when the Type is set as Other.

Reimbursement rate of the meal

Severe need identifier for the rate. When SevereNeed is Yes then the rate shown is the combined rate. For certain programs the severe need identifier does not apply. In such cases the value NA should be used.

The rate value

This object communicates the daily sales information.

GUID that identifies the daily meal sales object

School for which the sales object applies

Date on which the sales occurred.

Monetary value

(count * cost per unit) done for all grade levels

Type of SalesAmount. This denotes the form of incoming funds for the sales done.

Type of account to which sales amounts apply. This is set to NA when Type is set as Earned.

This object communicates the staff enrollment for a specified date.

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object. This RefId is a “transient” value; that is, it SHOULD be generated by the provider at the time the object is provided in a Response message. This value MUST NOT be used in a later Request for the object.

Reference to SchoolInfo

Date the count is taken.

This object communicates the daily staff sales.

GUID that identifies the daily meal sales object

School for which the sales object applies

Date on which the sales occurred.

This object communicates the student enrollment for a specified date.

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object. This RefId is a “transient” value; that is, it SHOULD be generated by the provider at the time the object is provided in a Response message. This value MUST NOT be used in a later Request for the object.

Reference to SchoolInfo

Date the count is taken.

This object communicates the daily student sales.

GUID that identifies the daily meal sales object

School for which the sales object applies

Date on which the sales occurred.

This object communicates food service transaction information. This is the key object that will be present for every food service transaction.

Note: With SIF Implementation Specification version 2.4 the choice element depicted in the diagram below has changed. In the XSD files, the choice element used to be rendered as a sequence of optional elements. Now, in the XSD files, the choice element is rendered as an xs:choice. This may cause problems with agents that treat the choice element as two optional elements rather than a choice of one and only one of the choices.

GUID that identifies food service transaction

GUID that identifies the school/site of account transaction

Date of transaction

Time of transaction.

Type of transaction

The customer can be a student or staff.

The GUID of the customer doing the transaction.

SIF customer type.

If StaffPersonal, then EarnedStatus is included. If StudentPersonal, then MealStatus is included.

Amount of tax.

Note: Final amount is Amount/Value + Tax

Description of the Transaction

This flag tells us if the transaction is voided.

This object gives the transaction distribution for food service transactions of type other than Purchase. So, this object can be requested for transactions of type Prepayment, Repayment, Refund, Adjustment.

GUID that identifies transaction details

GUID that identifies food service transaction

This amount refers to the funds being directed inwards to/outwards from the customer's account. That is: these amounts reflect the changes to the account balances.

Description

This object communicates the funding for a given transaction. By the term funding we refer to the form of payment that is made for the transaction.

GUID that identifies the payment

GUID that identifies food service transaction

Transaction method.

This refers to the way the payment was made.

This amount is the form of the incoming funds for this transaction. For example; the payment can be made by a credit card.

This object communicates the current meal status and account status of a given staff member. This object indicates whether the staff member is entitled to earn meals.

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object. This RefId is new for 2.7M and MUST be supported like other objects that have a RefId (i.e. it is the key for the object). The alternate keys MUST continue to be supported.

The GUID of the staff to whom this object is linked.

Last breakfast served date

Last lunch served date

This object communicates the current meal/account status of a given student.

This object will return information such as the amount of remaining breakfast/lunch credits, cash balance, meal status (free/reduced), etc. Systems may optionally support the historical reporting of a student's meal status (free/reduced).

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object. This RefId is new for 2.7M and MUST be supported like other objects that have a RefId (i.e. it is the key for the object). The alternate keys MUST continue to be supported.

The GUID of the student to whom this object is linked.

The student's current meal status.

Optionally provides the meal status of the student historically.

The student's meal status. Note that as this status is historical, StartDate and EndDate together, and/or SchoolYear MUST be included. If SchoolYear is included, StartDate and EndDate should not cross school year boundaries, i.e. in addition to multiple statuses being a possibility in a given school year, the same status may be repeated so StartDate and EndDate don't disagree with SchoolYear, if included.

Date of the last reimbursable breakfast served.

Date of the last reimbursable lunch served.