For the 2025-26 School Year we will be switching from MyPayments Plus to SchoolCafé. Parents are welcome to create a SchoolCafé account at their earliest convenience. However, please note that balances will begin appearing and payments can be made in the new system starting June 1. Prior to June 1, meal payments will continue to be made in MyPayments Plus.

Visit the SchoolCafé website to create an account with a new username and password or download the mobile app. Make sure you have your student ID number ready when creating a new account.

Read instructions on how to set up a student SchoolCafé account (Spanish instructions PDF also available).

Watch a video on how to make a payment in SchoolCafé.

As a reminder, families must apply each year for free or reduced school meals, transportation, and student registration fees.

Benefits of School Café include:

• Check application status and view or print meal benefit notifications 
• Access menus with full nutrient and allergen details 
• View your child’s meal account balance at any time 
• Manage multiple student accounts from one login 
• Transfer funds between student accounts 
• See detailed meal and à la carte purchase history 
• Set limits on à la carte purchases 

• Elementary Breakfast: $1.60
• Middle/High Breakfast: $1.80
• Reduced Price Breakfast: $.30
• Elementary Lunch: $3.20
• Middle/High Lunch: $3.30
• Reduced-Price Lunch: $.40
• Extra Milk: $.60

Pay at School:

Bring cash or check to school. At the elementary level, please bring payment to the front office. At the secondary level, the student can bring payment to the cafeteria during their meal. There is no processing fee for this method of payment.

Pay Online:

Beginning in June 2025, Olathe Public Schools will use SchoolCafé for managing student and staff meal accounts. The previous meal payment system, MyPaymentsPlus, closed at the end of May 2025, but all remaining account balances are transferred automatically to the correct users in SchoolCafé.

When using School Café to pay online, there is a minimum deposit of $20 per account and a 4.5% payment processing fee when using a credit card for either a one-time payment or an auto-payment.

To get started, you’ll need to create a new SchoolCafé account with a username and password. Be sure to have your student(s) ID number on hand. Create your account on the SchoolCafé website.

• Read instructions on how to set up a student SchoolCafé account. or read the Spanish instructions PDF
• Watch a video on how to make a payment in School Café

Refunds:

For a refund of a student's meal account, please email Marie Lenquist and include the student's name, who the check is payable to, and the address to which the refund is to be mailed. If you are on autopay, please turn it off before making a refund request.

Negative Balances:

Payments to students' meal accounts can be made by check or cash at the school, or by credit card online using SchoolCafé.

Households may set up an automated notification called a “low balance alert” using a School Café account when the amount falls below their predetermined amount.

Account balances (positive or negative) will follow the student each year within the district.

When an account is -$20.00, Food Services will reach out by email or letter alerting the household that without payment the account will be sent to the district's business office to be collected.