Flex Points plans in Housing.Cloud empower housing staff to offer students customizable meal plan options that combine traditional dining hall access with cashless spending at various campus locations. These plans provide students with added flexibility and convenience, supporting a more personalized dining experience across campus. Flex Points plans are available exclusively to students with an assigned meal plan through Housing.Cloud.
This guide covers the essentials for setting up and managing Flex Points plans, including tracking their usage. See here for more information on meal plan management.
Click Meal Plan Management under Setup to view available meal and flex points plan options.
Select Flex Points Plans to access tools for creating, editing, and archiving flex plan options.
Click Add Flex Points Plan to start building a new plan.
Complete the required fields for your flex points plan.
Plan Name: The name students will see in the Resident Portal.
Point Amount: Set a numerical value for the points, as defined by your institution.
Description: Provide context for the plan’s use, viewable by residents.
Cost: Link the plan to a charge code for billing purposes. [See here for more on charge codes.]
External ID: An internal ID for report generation and data sharing among staff.
After verifying the details, click Save to add the new Flex Points Plan. Plans can be modified anytime from the main Flex Points Plans screen.
Renaming Flex Points Plans Across the System
Housing.Cloud allows institutions to customize the Flex Points Plan terminology to better align with campus branding or dining terms.
From Meal Plans Management, select Configuration.
Input your preferred name for Flex Points Plans and click Save.
The new name will be applied across the admin portal and throughout the Resident Portal, ensuring consistency in terminology for both administrators and residents.
Admin portal:
Resident portal:
