Do your own Daycare Payroll and Save
My recent post on Efficient Scheduling of Daycare Staff got me thinking about other ways to economize on payroll expenditures. If you are currently outsourcing your payroll check calculations you should seriously consider doing your own Daycare Payroll. It’s much easier than you might think and will save you money every pay period by not having to cut a check to your payroll service. If you are currently spending $50 to $100 per month or more on a payroll service you’ll easily recoup your software investment in just a short time. Continue reading
Reporting Payroll Hours for your Child Care Business
Recently 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
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
Get Your Child Care Listed Online
Although word of mouth is still the best advertising any child care center can receive, it’s becoming increasingly important to be listed in online directories as more and more parents search for daycare providers online.
Recently I talked about how to Get your Child Care Business Found on Google. Today is a follow up to that article. There are many places you can have your child care center listed, even if you don’t have a web site. All you need is basic information like the name, location and contact information for your child care business. Continue reading
Get your Child Care Business found on Google
These days it’s important for even smaller child care centers and daycare providers to have a website. Families like to be able to get at least basic information online.
But, it doesn’t do much good if your site can’t be found in the search engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. all need keyword phrases in your titles and on your pages to help them identify what your site is about. Continue reading