Childcare and early years
Licensed care with fixed ratios, recurring tuition billing and obligations to both families and regulators.
Six short steps. No email or account.
Family
Education, tutoring and childcare
Enrolment, recurring billing, and obligations to families and regulators.
- Priority decisions
- 8
Foundation — what that means here
Operating reality
What makes this different
The realities that change which tools can actually work for you.
Staff-to-child ratios are licensed requirements, which makes scheduling a compliance function rather than a convenience.
Recurring tuition billing with failed-payment handling is the core financial mechanic.
Background checks and staff credential tracking are licensing conditions.
Parent communication is a core product need, not a marketing channel.
Where to start
The decisions that matter here, in order
You do not have to take them in this order, and you do not have to take all of them. This is where most businesses like yours start.
- 1Staff scheduling
Build the rota, tell everyone, and handle the swaps.
- 2Payroll
Pay employees and handle the tax filings that come with it.
- 3Invoicing
Send the bill, and let people pay it without writing a cheque.
- 4Card payments
Take a card in person, over the phone or through a link.
- 5Business insurance
Cover the things that could end the business in one bad afternoon.
- 6Accounting software
Track income and expenses so tax time is a report, not an archaeology dig.
- 7Hiring
Post a role, sort applicants and get someone started properly.
- 8Licences and permits
Find out what your trade and your state actually require you to hold.
Your next step
Answer six short questions about your childcare and early years business: your team, where the work happens and what you want to fix first. You get an operating plan in the order to tackle it, with the must-haves and comparison points for each area.
Answers
Common questions
- What software does a childcare and early years business need?
- Licensed care with fixed ratios, recurring tuition billing and obligations to both families and regulators. The decisions that matter most are 8 areas, starting with the ones tied to how the work actually gets done and paid for.
- What makes running a childcare and early years business different?
- Staff-to-child ratios are licensed requirements, which makes scheduling a compliance function rather than a convenience. Recurring tuition billing with failed-payment handling is the core financial mechanic. Background checks and staff credential tracking are licensing conditions. Parent communication is a core product need, not a marketing channel.