First consider if this is really appropriate. It's much easier to allow Tuition Express to process all payments rather than trying to collect for a few things manually by check or cash. If you decide to pursue dual payment collection, there are several options.
Option 1: Wait to charge items that you do not want collected by Tuition Express until after you've processed the normal Tuition Express payments for the week. At this point, each family will presumably have a balance of zero. Now post the fees you wish to collect by check or cash. As the payments come in manually post them to the family ledger cards.
Note: If some families do not pay on time and still owe this "extra" money the next time you process Tuition Express, you may:
Let Tuition Express collect the full balance due (up to each family's maximum)Or manually adjust the amount down (in Step 2) for those families.
Option 2: Use the Sponsor Ledger for normal fees you want processed through Tuition Express and post other fees to the CoSponsor Ledger. The family will then have two balances. When check and cash come in for the "other" fees be sure to manually post them to the CoSponsor Ledger. The disadvantage to this approach is that those families will need to have two statements printed, one each for the Sponsor and CoSponsor Ledgers. Also this option will not work if you are already using the CoSponsor ledger (for example in a divorced family situation).
Option 3: Create a Third Party Agency ledger to hold charges you do not want processed through Tuition Express. You could name the agency something like "Other Charges.” This is similar to option 2, but has the added disadvantage that in order to print a separate "Agency" statement for each family, you'd have to print them one at a time.