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Below you will find a listing of different areas within the DayCare Information Systems PRO 2004 LITE .  Click the category desired for more information about that area of the software.  While the categories below are not a complete listing - it should give you a good overview of the software.  For more detailed information about this software - click HERE to download a FREE trial version.

• Child and Employee Folders
• Income and Expense Entry
• Standard an Express Billing
• Menu Entry and Meal Attendance
• Reports
• Internet capabilities
• System Requirements
• Pricing Information

Child and Employee Folders
The Child and Employee folders allow you to keep a detailed "folder" of each child and employee, but without the paper.  There are many sections to these folders for each child or employee, but you only need to use the portions you are interested in.  There are no requirements for these folders - except for a first and last name, but the more information you enter, the more detailed your records will become.

Some highlights of the Child Folder are :

• Keeps all parental information, and emergency contact information.
• Maintain an ongoing shot record for each child.
• Setup the type of billing you plan to do for each child, or if your not going to be billing at all.
• Create a "photo album" for each child - assuming you have a scanner, or another way of importing pictures into the software.
• Maintain important medical information for each child, emergency phone numbers, and insurance information.
• If the child receives payment assistance - these values can be entered here to help when billing the child.
• Enter a base schedule for the child to make schedule creation a snap every week.
• Plus more . . .

Some highlights of the Employee Folder are :

• Keeps all basic employee information
• Maintain hiring info, and pay rate info
• Keep an ongoing training record for each employee.
• Put the employee's base schedule in the folder to make creating employee schedules each week easier.

Income and Expense
The Income and Expense window tends to be one of the most important areas of the software for most providers.  This is where you record all of your income received for your daycare, and then any expenses you may incur because of the daycare.  We have provided you with different options in recording this information - so that you can choose what best fits your needs.

Some highlights of the Income Entry are :

• Post child payments to their account either by single child, or as a family as a whole.
• Separate payment assistance monies from the monies paid you by your client.
• Record all income received that were not from a child such as food programs.
• If you provide refunds to a child for any reason - you can create the refund from within this window.
• Print receipts out for child payments only if desired.  You can always go back and reprint receipts if needed at a later date through the income report.

Some highlights of the Expense Entry are :

• Record your expenses, and track them by category, date, or store from within the general expense report.
• Enter allocated / shared expenses (mostly used by home daycare's).  This total can be used at the end of the year to calculate the tax deduction you may take based off of your time / space ratio.

Standard Billing
The DayCare Information Systems PRO 2004 LITE allows you to bill your clients in several different ways.  Below you will find a brief summary of the Standard Billing system.

Standard Invoices are invoices that are created for your normal child care fees - those invoices are:

• Period Invoice - You can bill your child a full time rate, part time rate, or by daily rates.  You also have the
  ability to add discounts and extra fees by the day, or once you have subtotaled the invoice.

• Hourly Invoice - You can bill your child by an hourly rate, by the day.  This rate can be automatically calculated by a click of a button - importing the child's hours directly from the Signin Module, or you can simply enter their times for each day they were present.

• Simple Period Invoice - Simply choose the period for the invoice, and the amount you wish to bill, and with a few clicks of the mouse your invoice is complete. 

• Simple Hourly Rate - Same as the hourly invoice above, however the hours are displayed as a total, and not broken down by day.

Other Invoices

• Late Payment Invoice

• Returned Check Invoice

• Miscellaneous Invoice

• Part Time To Full Time Invoice

• Half Day To Full Day Invoice

Menu Entry and Meal Attendance
The Menu Entry and Meal Attendance area of the DayCare Information Systems PRO 2004 has been completely revamped, and enhanced based off of customer requests.  This area allows you to enter your weekly menu easily with the few clicks of the mouse.  If you serve the same meals repeatedly you can also save those meals, and then load them on the appropriate days to simplify the menu entry process even further.  This menu can then be printed out to be posted for parents, or turned in to your food program.

You also have the ability to track which children were served which meal for every day of the week.  This information can easily be imported from the SignIn Module 2004 LITE with the single click of the mouse, or you can manually select the children that were served meals.  Once you have selected the children that were present for meals you can then print out different meal attendance sheets. 

Reports
The DayCare Information Systems PRO 2004 provides you with over 60 different reports - that's 25 more reports than the 2000 version of the software.  Most of the reports have the ability to be customized so that they display the information desired, for the time frame desired.  They also have the ability to be saved in several different formats, along with now having the ability to preview the reports prior to printing them out.

Internet Capabilities
The DayCare Information Systems PRO 2004 has incorporated a few new features that can be used with an active internet connection.  The reports will allow you to email them to any valid email recipient, and if your food program sponsor participates - you can email your menu and meal attendance information directly to your sponsor!

To be able to send emails from within the software you need to have a valid SMTP email server.

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