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Track Donations and Fund Raiser Revenue

Do you want to know how effective your fund-raising efforts are? With Procare Software® you can track donations to your childcare center, preschool or other child-centered business a couple of different ways, depending on your needs.  Track detailed contributions for individual families in the Family Accounting module, with amounts included in deposit reports or, if you don’t need family-level tracking and reporting, you could use the Expenses and Ledger module to record this revenue as a simple journal entry.  We’ll examine both of these options in this article. Continue reading

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January Giveaway With a Twist!

$500 Giveaway$500 towards your school’s fund raising efforts!

ProCare Software wanted to start the New Year right, so we’re beginning with a HUGE giveaway!

Consider the following scenario,

Jimmy is enrolled in your child care center for Tuesday and Thursday, full days. But once a month, his mom brings him on Mondays as well. It was so infrequent, and you’ve been so busy, that you barely noticed when Jimmy started showing up more. It took you a couple months to notice, and now that you have, you realize you should probably mention it to Jimmy’s mom.  Continue reading

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Reporting Payroll Hours for your Child Care Business

42-16072097Recently this question came in to the ProCare Tech Support team. Perhaps your child care business could use payroll reports like this too.

“I need to produce a summary report containing employee name, straight  time and overtime hours and their hourly pay rate.”

This turns out to be an easy one. ProCare Software already includes a Daycare Payroll report with all that information. In fact, ProCare can automatically calculate payroll and withholdings and print payroll checks, as well as offering many standard payroll reports.      Continue reading

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Daycare Software – What size fits your Child Care Center?

As a daycare provider it’s important to choose management software that suits the needs and size of your child care center, preschool or similar place of early learning. With that in mind, ProCare Software offers a modular Daycare Computer Program so you choose only the components needed to manage your child-centered business in the most efficient and cost effective way. For smaller and home based daycare centers Mini-ProCare offers the same rich selection of features with affordable pricing and convenient payment plans. 

So what exactly is Mini-ProCare and how do you know which solution is right for your business?  Continue reading

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ABCs of Child Care – And Then Some!

Starting a child care business can be hard work. It can be even harder to attract new families and maintain that business. We’ve gathered some of the ABCs of Child Care that will help to keep your business running smoothly!

Feel free to add one of your own tips in the comments and make sure to participate in the poll.

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