CNIPS Update

The California Department of Education (CDE) will be having a maintenance outage and URL change for the Child Nutrition Information and Payment System (CNIPS). CNIPS will be temporarily unavailable and when CNIPS is back online, there will be a new URL.

This communication provides important dates to remember, information on the new CNIPS URL, usernames, passwords, and support contacts.

Dates to Remember

• January 17, 2025, at 6:00 pm, CNIPS will be down and unavailable through January 20, 2025, as Technology Service Division (TSD) works to transition the CNIPS servers.
  
  
• January 21, 2025, CNIPS will be online and Program Operators will have access using a new CNIPS URL: cnips.cde.ca.gov.

System Information

• Program Operators will use their same Username and Password to login.
  
  
• The CNIPS system and software functionality will be the same.

New Link and Reminders

• On January 21, 2025, you will use a new CNIPS URL: cnips.cde.ca.gov
  
  
  • Note the cde portion of the URL has been added.
    
    
  • If you use the old URL (cnips.ca.gov), you will be redirected to the new site.
    
    
  • The redirect ability will be in place until NSD updates web references to old CNIPS URL. The NSD will communicate in advance of sunsetting the old URL redirect functionality.
    
    
  • Please remember to update your CNIPS bookmarks.

Contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the CNIPS Help Desk at cnips@cde.ca.gov.

For any questions specific to the Child and Adult Care Food Program, please reach out to the California Department of Social Services at CACFPInfo@dss.ca.gov.