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.
How to Count Children in Active Families
Another good question recently came into our ProCare Tech Support email:
When I do a “Count” of Active families, the number seems to include siblings who have previously withdrawn. Is there a way to exclude withdrawn siblings so the Active count displays only the number of children who are currently enrolled?
It turns out this is a fairly common question; one to which there are a couple of different solutions.
Stepped Rate Child Care Billing
The following question recently appeared in the ProCare Tech Support “IN” box.
“I am setting up our child care tuition fees, but we do not have weekly rates. Our billing uses a stepped rate charged ahead of time. Here’s our rate schedule:
Infant Rates
- Up to 3 Hours/Day $21 (level 1)
- Up to 4 Hours/Day $25 (level 2)
- Up to 5 Hours/Day $29 (level 3)
- Up to 6 Hours/Day $33 (level 4)
- Daily MAX $35 (level 5)
Please let me know how we can enter this to be billed according to the days they are scheduled in advance.”
You can absolutely do this kind of stepped rate billing in ProCare. In fact, one of our standard billing formulas fits this case perfectly.
Yum-O! Kid-Friendly Recipes from Rachael Ray
Most of us are familiar with Rachael Ray, the cooking and talk show personality. Rachael Ray has launched an exciting new cause called Yum-O!
Yum-O! is an organization that empowers kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking. You can read more about their mission here, “Cook, Feed, Fund.”
In the spirit of Rachael’s Yum-O! mission, we’ve included some of her great ideas to get kids in the kitchen that any provider can try in their child care center!
How to Charge Late Pick Up Fees
Do some families at your child care, daycare or preschool tend to pick their children up late, after your center is officially closed? Perhaps you’ve even read the article called The Unbearable Wrongness of Being Late from ChildCareExchange.com.
You’re thinking you’d like to implement a Late Pick Up Fee but aren’t sure how to go about it. With the ProCare Attendance Tracker it’s easy to process Late Pick Up charges for all appropriate families at once.