Campus Cafe Overview
What is Campus Cafe?
Campus Cafe is a web based student information system that unifies admissions, student services, business office and alumni development functions. It is specifically built for the needs of small and mid-sized educational institutes and universities with up to 10,000 students. Some of its customers include Newbury College, Fisher College, Elm's College, NHIA and Wade College. Campus Cafe can be used to create a single record for the entire student lifecycle from applicant to alumni and manage workflow across various college operations.
Campus Cafe is designed primarily for post-secondary career schools. It manages all aspects of operations from lead management, scheduling classes for student, managing academic curriculum and marking daily attendance. The primary features of the solution include managing admission inquiries, tracking new applicants and their joining status, allowing staff members and students to build and customize their profiles among others.
Campus Cafe has its own integrated financial modules. It also allows integration with softwares commonly used in educational institutions, such as Moodle, CollegeNet, CollegeBoard and Easy-League. Campus Cafe is built on Java technology and is compatible with almost all web browsers available across different platforms.
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Campus Cafe Reviews
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My own experience with Campus Cafe software
Over-all I can say that the system is highly recommendable.
Campus Cafe is the way!
Overall, compared to our homegrown system, I’d say Campus Cafe is worth it! Our work is now more streamlined and time we spend on projects and validation of record accuracy has been cut in half! I would recommend Campus Cafe for institutions that are similar to our size (population of 500 or less).
Campus Cafe as a Means to Manage the Student Information System
It is a very functional system that helped us automate some of the important processes for students and the school.
On to Campus Cafe
Being a not so technical person, I found this system user friendly and easy to access and familiarize with.
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Great software for school
Pros
It was a one-stop shop! We had all of our information on paper and excel documents.
Cons
The learning curve, and the language of the software is not intuitive.
My own experience with Campus Cafe software
Over-all I can say that the system is highly recommendable.
Pros
Student can access online their billing statements and can also pay online.
Group billing makes my job easier as I don't have to manually charge student when they enroll for class. The software charges them automatically but I need to post it before it can be reflected on the students' accounts -- this gives me the chance to review the billing first before posting it.
Cons
Once I posted the financial aid of the student, I could not delete it anymore if I happen to make a mistake. I have to make another entry to negate it. I prefer that I can just delete the error.
Some postings done I can still delete but the system does not give me a warning before I delete. I prefer that there will be a pop-up warning me about the deletion just to be sure that I review again before I delete something.
Campus Cafe is the way!
Overall, compared to our homegrown system, I’d say Campus Cafe is worth it! Our work is now more streamlined and time we spend on projects and validation of record accuracy has been cut in half! I would recommend Campus Cafe for institutions that are similar to our size (population of 500 or less).
Pros
Reports are easily accessible and customizable! This is such a great feature for the Registration Department as we need accurate statistics immediately.
The ability to also customize webpages, email notifications, triggers, courses as needed gave us the power to be more flexible and creative with how we focus our energy and time.
Cons
There have been a few glitches in the system even after working through setup. An example of this is syncing Campus Cafe with Canvas LMS- students who withdraw or drop would sometimes sync with Canvas and other times it would not. So there was that inconsistency.
Campus Cafe as a Means to Manage the Student Information System
It is a very functional system that helped us automate some of the important processes for students and the school.
Pros
Tracking activities can easily be added into the system to make sure that when students have changes in academic activities, we can monitor and send out the required tracking mechanisms.
Can alert staff if there are triggers, and/or ability to track and monitor student activities like withdrawal, dropping from course or from the program.
Cons
I am still figuring out how to maximize its features so I can use for my regulars IPEDS reporting and to generate other reports required by the state or accreditor.
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Being a not so technical person, I found this system user friendly and easy to access and familiarize with.
Pros
For financial aid purposes, the software provides me detailed and accurate information I need to process students financial aid and withdrawals based on enrollment status shown in enrollment history, attendance report, transcript/grades, billing statement and other pertinent info.
Cons
I personally was not able to browse other files as they do not concern my line of work. I used to pull-out attendance report from attendance history and if it will be imported to excel file, no student name is shown for the particular attendance report.
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Campus Cafe Pricing
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Campus Cafe Features
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Additional information for Campus Cafe
Additional information for Campus Cafe
Key features of Campus Cafe
- Attendance Tracking
- Auditing Reports
- Auto-Responder
- Billing
- Custom Query Reporting Tool
- Daily Attendance
- Document Management
- Executive KPI, Financial KPI
- General Ledger
- Help Desk
- Integrated Reports, IPEDS Reporting
- Job Placement
- Online Registration
- Point of Sale System
- SAP Alerts
- Smart Calendar
- Student & Faculty Portal
- Student Budgeting
- Student Financial Tracking
- Student Scheduling
Benefits
• Campus Cafe is a web based campus management solution available on ‘Pay-as-you-go’ basis, so no upfront capital investment is required.
• It offers provision of restricted access by setting rules and permissions for different users such as students, faculty and advisors.
• A single database repository allows colleges to unify individual modules and avoid duplication of data.
• Campus Cafe offers financial module to manage general ledger, student billing, accounts payable/receivable, purchase and requisition integrated within the suit.
• It offers academic audits for students to ensure that they have necessary information about their academics. The reverse audit feature allows management to track back student's performance at any time of the academic year.
• The solution allows sending mass emails and text messages to a large number of students/leads at a single click.
• The dashboard offers real-time key metrics for all critical departmental functions in numeric and graphical format.
• Campus Cafe's contact management system ensures centralized repository for contacts and communications with easy to use interface across campus.
• With Campus Cafe, administrator can track students account transaction, manage budget allocations and monitor school funds.
Campus Cafe FAQs
Campus Cafe FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Campus Cafe.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Campus Cafe offer?
Campus Cafe offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Please contact Campus Cafe for pricing information
Q. What are the main features of Campus Cafe?
Campus Cafe offers the following features:
- Attendance Tracking
- Auditing Reports
- Auto-Responder
- Billing
- Custom Query Reporting Tool
- Daily Attendance
- Document Management
- Executive KPI, Financial KPI
- General Ledger
- Help Desk
- Integrated Reports, IPEDS Reporting
- Job Placement
- Online Registration
- Point of Sale System
- SAP Alerts
- Smart Calendar
- Student & Faculty Portal
- Student Budgeting
- Student Financial Tracking
- Student Scheduling
Q. Who are the typical users of Campus Cafe?
Campus Cafe has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Campus Cafe support?
Campus Cafe supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Campus Cafe support mobile devices?
Campus Cafe supports the following devices:
iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Campus Cafe integrate with?
Campus Cafe integrates with the following applications:
Authorize.net, Blackboard Collaborate, Canvas LMS, Edvance360, Moodle, PayPal, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Schoology
Q. What level of support does Campus Cafe offer?
Campus Cafe offers the following support options:
Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials