sQuid has now arrived at your school in Nottinghamshire County Council

What is the school cashless catering system all about?
Your school has teamed up with sQuid to develop a new cashless catering system. We will be one of the first schools in the country to use this technology. Students will use biometric identification to pay for transactions, linked to an online sQuid account.

Create an account and register with sQuid

Simple to setup, simple to use
You should have received a welcome letter from one of the following schools with your own unique sQuid registration number (16 digits long) and a 3 digit security code. You need to Register with sQuid, create and account and enter these numbers. You will then be able to top-up your account and view your balance and transactions.

Parents can be sure that dinner money is spent at school and students won’t have to worry about carrying cash. Lunchtime queues are reduced and the risk of students losing money is removed.

Create a sQuid account

Register and create an account with sQuid:
- Enter a few personal details to create an account
- Top-up your sQuid cashless catering account online 
- Top-up from a bank transfer/credit or debit card
- Protect your card balance should it be lost or stolen

Login to your sQuid account to:
- Check your balance; do you need to top-up?
- View your transactions to check your spending
- Top-up your account; bank transfer/credit or debit card
- Update your details and preferences

Having created a sQuid account you will then be able to view your account balance and a breakdown of transactions online at anytime.

Topping up online - which purse?

Make sure you top-up the correct purse on your sQuid account
Your sQuid account can have more than one purse. A purse is a simple way to split out the different things you may want to spend money on. For example a cashless catering purse to pay for school dinners and a school e-payments purse to pay for school trips and other school items. It is important to make sure you top-up the correct purse.

Top-up your child's cashless catering purse
Top-up this purse, your child's cashless catering purse online, so that they can then pay for their lunch or a snack from the school canteen. Top-up by bank transfer, or from a credit or debit card.

Top-up this ePayments purse to pay for school trips
If your child's school has enabled online top-ups for school trips you will also see this purse on your sQuid account. Top-up this purse online, so that you can pay for your child's school trips or other items. Top-up by bank transfer, or from a credit or debit card.

More than one child using sQuid?

More than one child using sQuid at school?
If you would like to register more than one child, you will need to register each child separately with a different username. All other security information, i.e., passwords and security questions/answers can be the same for each.

Monthly draw to win £50 on your account
All you have to do is create a sQuid account and top-up your cashless catering purse online. You will then be entered in to our monthly draw for the chance to win £50 which will be added to your account!