STUREC© License (Support) for 2010-2011 Robert Campsmith, President, MicroData Systems, Ltd.

Well folks, it has happened again. First a few observations...

• Our Legislators took another salary increase
• The price of gasoline continues to rise even though it came down a little
• Real and Personal Property tax has risen another 6%
• Local assessors just keep raising property values arbitrarily
• Unemployment is the highest it has been in years
• S&P 500 isn't going up
• Dow Jones is down
• NASDAQ is down to steady
• Your FTE Funding has not increased
• Interest on savings is really low 
• College tuition is up another 5% - 15%
• Communication costs have risen a little
• The Single Record Student Data (SRSD) is now MSDS
• The Michigan Adult Education Reporting System (MAERS) is stagnant
• STUREC© Annual License will remain the same for the seventh year in a row!

***  There will NOT be a surcharge this year.

Facts of life happen. We want to continue to provide you with the best Pupil Accounting Software and continue to provide you with help and support that you need. In light of the continually downward trend in your real funding, we have decided to hold the line on our license fee again this year. As always, we are ready to help you with STUREC© questions as part of your license fee. We will be happy to help you with non STUREC© questions, but you may be charged for help that could be provided by your district.. 

We will be happy to make your MSDS or MAERS submission files for you, however, we will charge you a minimum of one hour for off-line data processing.

Here are our rates for the 2010-2011 school year. Begins August 1st.

As in the past, we will invoice your district the first time in a school year that someone from your district downloads an update or accesses our help-desk for 2010-2011 school year. If your district requires that you have a Purchase Order before you purchase a product or service, please bear this in mind. We would certainly appreciate it if these invoices for services or products you receive can be paid in a timely manner. Thanks.

MAERS Batch Transfer Service pricing as follows.

• Newly created Enrollment records @ $ 1.00 each
• Changed Enrollment records @ $ 0.50 each
• New or Changed Outcomes records @ $ 0.50 each
• New or Changed Assessment records @ $ 0.50 each
• Errors caused by you that you could have corrected @ $ 0.25 each.

Your district will be billed after each submission is accepted by MAERS. Terms are net 30 days. You may start batching for the 2010-11 school year by simply sending an email indicating that you want to participate in batch.

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