Before School, After School, Under Control
Split shifts make food program records twice as easy to get wrong. CenterPilot tracks morning and afternoon service separately and cleanly, so your claim adds up no matter how your day is split.
Why it matters for your program
Morning and afternoon, kept apart
Breakfast before the bell and snacks after it are recorded as the separate services they are — no blending, no double counting, no reviewer questions.
Built for rotating staff
Different staff run the morning and afternoon shifts? Each records their own service from any device, and the records still line up.
A claim that adds up
CenterPilot assembles both halves of your day into one clean claim, checked against your menus and enrollment before you submit.
What’s Included
- All application features — nothing is paywalled except optional add-ons
- Participant importing, menus, meal counts, and production records
- Meal production records built on the USDA Food Buying Guide
- Perpetual storage of claims, receipts, expenses, and documents
- Claim payment, ACH, and QuickBooks record keeping
- Free, unlimited support — call, and a real person answers
Simple Pricing
| Monthly fee (independent center) | $40 |
| One-time setup fee | $40 |
| Annual maintenance | $40 |
| Unlimited customer support | Free |
| Attendance App (optional add-on) | $20/month |
Part of a sponsoring organization? See CenterPilot for Sponsors — $30 per site per month.
Also worth a look
Running more than one program? Plenty of sponsors do, and the same login covers all of them. We also cover child care centers, Head Start programs, adult day care, at-risk afterschool and emergency shelters.
Still deciding? How to choose CACFP software sets out what to compare and the questions worth asking any vendor before you switch. If you have already decided, switching from another system covers the practical side, including what Texas wants in a Specific Prior Written Approval and why you never pay two vendors for the same site.
And the enrollment and meal benefit forms are free to download in English and Spanish, customer or not.
Outside school hours questions, answered
How are before-school and after-school meals kept separate?
Breakfast before the bell and snacks after it are recorded as the separate services they are, so there is no blending and no double counting for a reviewer to question.
What if different staff run the morning and afternoon shifts?
Each shift records its own service from any device, and the records still line up at the end of the day.
Does the claim combine both halves of the day?
Yes. CenterPilot assembles both services into one claim and checks it against your menus and enrollment before you submit.
Can we see it against our own bell schedule first?
Yes. Book a demo and we will walk through a split-shift day the way your program actually runs it before you decide anything.
Ready to fly through your paperwork?
See CenterPilot with your own menus, your own sites, your own claim. A demo takes 30 minutes, and you’ll talk to a real person — not a sales robot.