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Online Payments with Infinite Campus

The District is pleased to announce our new online cafeteria account management system with Infinite Campus (IC). IC is already operating as the District’s student management system where parents and guardians can review all things related to their student’s educational experience.

Now IC can be utilized to manage a student’s cafeteria meal account fund. Parents and guardians can see a record of their student’s purchases and make a pre-payment or payment towards their student’s meal fund.

At no cost, Infinite Campus allows any family to:
  1. Check your child’s current account balance.
  2. Monitor the items your child has been purchasing in the cafeteria
  3. Create settings to receive email notifications when the account reaches a low balance.
For a 4.75% transaction fee, IC also allows any family to:
  • Make a prepayment or payment into your student’s meal account using a credit card or debit card at the IC portal. Funds deposited through IC are usually available for use within a matter of minutes
  • Allocate payments to multiple student accounts
  • Create settings to automatically replenish your child’s account when it reaches a low balance

We strongly encourage all parents (even if you do not pay online) to review their student’s accounts at no cost through IC.

Setting up the payment system with IC is easy. Follow these steps to review and/or fund a student’s account:
  • Go to your IC student’s home page
  • On the home page you will see your student’s Food Service Balance under the section title bar Quick Info. Click this button to go to the Food Service page
  • If you are seeking to fund a meal account or pay a past due balance, you can click the blue Pay button
  • Enter the amount you would like to prepay or pay
  • Click the blue button, Add to Cart, after you have entered the amount you would like to prepay or pay
  • Click the My Cart button at right to review your payment before submitting it
  • When you are ready to pay, click Submit Payment
  • The first time you use the payment system, you will have to add a credit or debit card. Follow the system prompts to add a payment method

To review purchases:
  • To review the purchase history of your student, click on the Food Service Balance button on your home page and you will open a page that shows your student’s account or the multiple student accounts in your family
  • On this account page you will be able to review purchases for the current school year by clicking the View button. Purchases listed here are for the current school year only. For previous year’s purchases please contact the District at ESMcafe@esmonline.org.


You may still prepay or pay for meals by giving a check or money order directly to your child’s food service cashier. The cost for meals in the elementary schools is: $2.00 for breakfast and $3.00 for lunch. The cost for meals in the Junior-Senior High School is: $2.00 for breakfast and $3.25 for lunch. If you choose to make direct payments with your food service cashier, then kindly make checks or money orders payable to Eastport-South Manor CSD School Lunch Fund.

Thank you for your continued support. I am proud that we will continue to offer you convenience and information through IC. We consistently strive to find new and better ways to serve our students and our families and I thank you for partnering with us in this effort.

If you have any questions, you may contact Karen Piciullo, Food Service Director at 631-801-3341 and she will assist you.