vryproudmom

I am having a lot of trouble negotiating my daughter’s my.pitt.edu site since they upgraded this past summer. The site states that parents can check the amount of meal passes, dining dollars, and panther funds remaining in the student’s account. I have not been successful with any of it. For instance when I click on check panther funds link I am taken to the page to add more panther funds. Can anyone give step by step instructions? I am especially interested in the meal passes and dining dollars. Thanks.

mrsref

I've been getting the same error when I try to see how many Panther Funds are left. It worked for the first couple of weeks in September, but not now. I'm not too concerned...I'm bettng D2 will tell me when she runs out of Panther Funds.

vryproudmom

I believe you are right...they will let us know. The meal plan selection is what I would like to see for future planning for upcoming semester. Also love to see DD usage

aglages

The report for meal pass & dining dollar usage has NEVER worked since before the semester began. They know about it and claim (once again) that their "third party vendor" cannot give them a date for when the application will be working. They also claim that the "third party vendor" cannot remove the option from the site to avoid giving parents the impression that this information is available online and to limit the calls they receive asking about it. When your child uses a meal pass at one of the dining facilities they are given a receipt with the information you need. Just ask him/her to hold on to the receipt long enough to give you the information.

vryproudmom

Thanks...wish I had known before I waisted an hour. Hopefully this post will save someone else the time.

DonnaMom

I have had the same problem - it's very frustrating.

vryproudmom

I really have a thing against typos and since the website does not allow me to edit here, is my edited post. I typed waisted wrong...should have been wasted. Sorry...just compulsive about it. LOL

aglages

vryproudmom: Too late. We have all seen your typo and judged you lacking in both spelling and internet protocol. Nothing left to do but change your user name. <grin>

vryproudmom

I definitely agree!!

CMPeanut

Passes are a waste of money: First of all there is no way to tell in the panther
usage center how many Passes are even being used they only show Panther funds, your money that you deposited and Dining dollars I was told there is no way to keep track of dining Passes being used by the school and if you don't tell Market central specifically to take it out of the passes part of the panther card they can take it out of the dining dollars side of it instead. To me this sounds like all your dining dollars and panther funds part of the card gets used first and thats why kids are left with so many passes at the end of the semester because they not being accepted properly by a cafeteria cashier that doesn't care what part of your cards funds are being used. I can't believe some of the financial students at Pitt don't address this issue and I'm just an average joe that figured this out.
For Pitt to say they can't keep track of Food Pass usage and only dining dollar and Panther fund usage sounds very underhanded and sly. It's a school of science yet they can't figure out this simple flaw in the Panther card system I would always suggest get the smallest passes
the smallest of dining dollars and send money in another way to your child until Pitt figures out a way to smooth this bump in the system.
they must think we are all stupid to think they can hide this fact.As a parent that pays for my childs education I take it personally

CMPeanut

You have to go to mypitt use password and email name then click on Panther central after it goes through click on dining not housing . Then click Panther funds usage report and it will show the usage of Panther funds (extra cash) or dining dollars( to be used in or outside of market central) but not Dining Pass Usage which Pitt claims they cannot keep
track of .There is a name given on the website that you can contact through Market central a lady is in charge. If you have a complaint. Personally i think everyone should be complaining about such a lame system.
Another thing is if your child has late classes and hasn't eaten till like 8:30 or so the only thing they can really eat good that late at the cafeterias is like a waffle they make themselves. Everything else is old and dried up and the Pizza lady retires way before closing Oh she's there but the pizza's are not. Whose gonna ask before closing.. will you make me a pizza Pizza lady. They should at least have a pizza sitting out for a quick meal. Talk to your child. Find out where your moneys going or not going. Oh yeah and I figured its 13 dollars a meal that's an expensive waffle ... Sept 2012