Forms and Profile Fields serve different purposes in collecting Parent and Student information. 

Profile fields should be used for collecting any information information that needs to pull into reports (ex: Emergency Contacts and Medical Information entered onto the student's profile will map and pull to the Emergency Report on SchoolSpeak's Admin page.)  
Please Note, profile fields must be added by SchoolSpeak Support. To request this, please email schoolspeak-support@communitybrands.com or reachout via PureChat.

Forms Fields should be used for registration-specific items like Tuition Agreements, number of students returning, names and grades of students returning and any legal agreements that need to be signed by the parent, prior to their attending the school in the next school year. 

In Re-Registration for Current Family Forms, all information can be captured from families by combining a mandatory profile update with submitting a record for the Registration form. To do this, SchoolSpeak Support can set up a link which redirects to the form once the parent has completed all family profile updates. This allows all information to be captured - profile information and registration information. 

In general, anything that is collected per person should be done in the profile, while anything collected per family or only needed once per year should be part of the re-registration form.

Examples of Profile Fields:                                                      Examples of Form Fields:                               

- Allergies                                                                                - Tuition agreements

- Emergency Contacts                                                           - Number of returning students in the family

- Sacrament Records                                                             - Policy Agreements (fundraising, etc.)

- Preferred Doctor                                                                  - Registration Fees