Fingerprint Check In for Your Preschool
Thinking of fingerprints at your daycare or preschool may bring to mind those wonderful, colorful creations that are always popular with the five and under set. Wide smiles and giggles are sure to follow when the finger paints and easels appear.
But there are other areas where fingerprints could benefit your child care business. Namely, check in and security. It’s easy to let parents check their children in using a small fingerprint device (also known as a biometric ID) connected to a computer with Child Care Management Software.
If you’re currently using Procare Software® for child or staff check in you’ll be especially interested in a new feature that allows use of a fingerprint only with no additional password required. Continue reading
3 Time & Attendance Methods for Your Daycare
If you need to print daycare time sheets or keep track of time and attendance hours for your preschool you’ve probably found that manual time sheets are inefficient and time consuming. By using Daycare Software specifically designed for Attendance Tracking you can greatly simplify time keeping tasks and dramatically cut the administrative time involved.
In this article we’ll take a look at how Procare Software® can be used to check children in and out in several different ways, depending on what works best for your child care business. Continue reading
Child Time Cards
With the Time and Attendance Tracker from Procare Software® it’s easy to see child time card totals at a glance or by running an attendance report for more details. You may even choose whether to view time in hours and minutes or decimal format. Oh and let’s not forget time card rounding – you may select that as well. Continue reading
Time & Attendance: Batch Check In
An efficient way to check many children in and out at once is not to stand on a ladder and adjust the big hands on a clock (see image). A better way is to use a Time and Attendance program from a company that specializes in Daycare Software. This will help you save time and simplify the management of your child care, preschool or similar child-centered business. In this article we’ll show you how the Batch Post Time Card feature of Procare Software® may be used to check children both in and out at the same time.
This is the third in a series of articles about tracking time and attendance of children. The first article called One Pick Up, Many Children and the second article Bus Run Check In may also be of interest. Continue reading
Time & Attendance: One Pick Up, Many Children
Child Care Management Software can 
help you manage Time and Attendance for children at your childcare center, daycare, preschool or after school program. There are various check in situations your software should accommodate. This article is the first in a series covering one such situation. We’ll show you how to use Procare Software® to allow a single authorized pick up person to check in multiple children from more than one family. This is convenient for car pool situations where friends or neighbors are allowed to pick up each others’ children. Continue reading
