Inspections are an important part of running a licensed daycare center. What an inspection seeks to do is determine whether the facility is meeting all the requirements for licensure. The list of requirements for childcare is lengthy with much of the focus on safety.

Online childcare payments provide benefits to both parents and your business, improving your relationships while saving everyone time and money. Perhaps you have already received requests for online payment from your clients, and you are in the process of determining the benefits and value to your childcare facility. 

Every childcare center should have an emergency plan to address and mitigate risks. Since childcare is regulated by the state, you should verify the requirements for your facility.

After school programs provide a bridge between the school day and the time parents get off work. They can also give students a chance to experience new activities or be with friends in a safe space. However, maintaining attendance rates can be a challenge; by the time students reach middle school and high school, they are more independent and able to skip out on activities that are not part of the mandated school day.

Late tuition payments can cause your cash flow to stutter. They also take time to administer. You and your staff must take the time to ensure all payments have been made and remind parents who have not caught up on their bill.

You loved caring for children, so you built a business around it. But it isn't enough to just love caring for kids; you are running a business that requires care, too, so it can grow to provide services to more parents and their families.

In 2011, a survey by Edutopia.org found that an online parent portal was the second most desired ways parents wanted to receive news from their children’s school. At the time, nearly half logged in once or twice a week while another quarter of the parents surveyed checked in three to five times per week.

Meal tracking is an essential part of childcare management, particularly if your facility participates in government reduced lunch programs or other subsidized programs. The federal government leaves it to the states to administer federal programs, which simplifies filing for you but still makes you responsible for keeping track of all meals served to your kids.

Every morning and every afternoon the great parent stampede occurs. In the morning, parents line up to sign in their children so they can rush off to work. In the afternoon, they line up to sign out their children so they can rush home to fix dinner.

The owner of a childcare management facility wears many hats, just like any other small business owner. The accountant hat may be one of the most time-consuming and least liked of them all. However, using a software solution that combines all the required applications for invoicing and billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and general ledger can streamline your bookkeeping process while reducing errors.