Getting a Nu-Way Online Ordering Account
Only current school-program customers of Nu-Way can get an online ordering account. If you are looking to hire Nu-Way to run your school's lunch program either call them at 201-997-4851 or
email them.
If you already have Nu-Way running your school's lunch program them contact them to add a user for you into their online system. You can have multiple users for your school as necessary.
Forgot Password
If you forgot your password, no problem! Go to the Nu-Way homepage and below the login information there's a
forgot password link. There you will be asked to enter the email address you user is associated with. The system will then email you a new randomly generated password for you to login with. It is suggested that you then login and go to the My Settings area to change your password to something that you will remember
If you don't know what email your account is associated with then you must contact Nu-Way by phone to verify your information and retrieve the email address you used.
Change Email or Password or Remove User
If you need to change the email your account is associated with or your password first log-in and then go to the My Settings area on the top of the page. Enter in the new information you desire (new email, new password, or both) and then click the "Update" button. You should soon see a confirmation that your settings have been updated and you should also receive a confimation email.
If you want to remove your user from the system then again go to the My Settings area and click on the "Remove" button
View Order History
The Nu-Way Order System has the ability to allow users to view their order history. Login and then in the Control Panel area of the My Page page click on the link "View Order History".
Here you will be shown your the 10 newest Invoices for your account with their associated Delivery Date and Order Total. You can click on the Invoice number to view the order's details.
To view orders beyond the 10 most recent click on the "next" link on the bottom right of the Order History to see the Next 10 Invoices, etc..
Placing an Order
To Place an Order first Login and then in the Control Panel of the My Page, click on "Place and Order".
The system keeps items in your shopping cart until you click "Submit Order" at the bottom. This means that if you want you can begin adding items to your cart, do some other things, and then complete your purchase at a later time/date
The Place Order screen has 2 important "tabs": Shopping Cart and Most Purchased Items. There are 2 ways to add items to your shopping cart: Most Purchased Items or Search
The Most Purchased Items area lists the 100 items that you have bought most often, listed in Alphabetical Order. You can go through the list, add quantities next to each item you desire, and then click ANY of the "Add Item(s)" buttons to add all the items with quantities next to them to your cart
If an item you want isn't list or easily found in your Most Purchased Items list, you can search for it by typing in a few letters into the Search field. The Search returns all of the items with your letters in it's name, listed IN ORDER OF YOUR POPULARITY. That is in order of how often you ordered that item. To add an item to your cart just click on it. It will be added to your cart and then you can change its quantity there.
If you can't find an item in your Most Purchased Items list or by Searching, place item descriptions and quantities in the Notes area an Nu-Way will work to find and enter these items into your order
At any time you can change the quantities of an item in your cart by typing in a new value and hitting TAB. Or you can delete an item by clicking the "Delete" button next to the item
Once you have all your items and quanities entered, make sure to SELECT A DATE FOR DELIVERY at the TOP RIGHT and then click "Submit Order". The order will be processed and then you will receive a Verification Message.
I Can't Find an Item
If you cannot find an item either in your Most Purchased Items list or by performing a Search, then place a description and quantity in the Notes field. Nu-Way will work to find the item(s) and add them to your order.
Change a user's email or priveleges
Login with a user that has Admin privaleges. In the My Page there should be a link for Edit Users in the Admin Controls area. Click on this. You can then choose what school you want a user to be able make orders and view order history for. IF YOU ARE GIVING SOMEONE ADMIN CONTROLS YOU SHOULD CHOOSE "GLOBAL". Here you can also change the user's email address and change their privelages between User and Admin. When done, click "Update" and you should see a verification message. The user will also receive an email stating that an Admin has changed their settings
In this area you can also delete a user by clicking the "Delete" button associated with their user.
Add a User to the System
Only an Admin can add Users to the system. To add a user login to your Admin account and in the My Page click on Edit Users. At the top of this page is a link for "Create a new User"
Here add a username (that the user will use for logging in), select which School Account they should be able to access (if this is a Admin account select Global), set their privleges (User or Admin) and click "Add User". The user will have an email sent to the email address specified telling them that they have be added to the system and what their username and randomly generated password is. They should login and go to My Settings to change their password to something they will remember.
NOTE: You CAN have more than 1 user for a given school
View Purchase Orders
An admin account can see what they need to buy from which vendors over a date range. All same items for orders in the date range are added together and then then items are grouped according to Vendor. Vendors can also be designated so that they subgroup by Account.
To view purchase orders first login to your user that has admin rights. Then on the My Page in Admin Controls, select "View Purchase Orders"
By default it loads the POs for the next day. If you want another range of dates select the Start Date and Stop Date and click "Generate POs". You can also optionally choose to only see the PO for a single Vendor
If you want to print the POs, after you Generate the POs for the range you want (see above) click on "View Printable Version". This will bring up the same POs but without the header and footer of the webpage and will pagebreaks after each vendor so each vendor will be printed on a separate page.