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Flexible Care
Start providing flexible hours of care, and earn more!
Convenience is a product that has immense value to your customers.
Why parents will pay you more per hour when you offer hours they need?
A parent who only needs 20 hours of care per week would gladly pay a higher rate per hour for those 20 hours, rather than a lower rate for 50 hours they can’t fully use.
In a year-long study we conducted in our own centers, 46% of Parents who started their children in flexible care increased their usage over time & eventually switched to higher revenue full-time programs. This resulted in an average revenue increase of 1.9% per week.
Child Care Seer is the ONLY tool available that removes all of the headaches with offering this kind of high demand flexible care.
WIN, WIN, WIN Scenario
In this scenario we find a Win Win Win outcome as two Families now save $80 per week WIN and don’t pay weekly for something they need hourly! Teachers can get paid $2.25 more per hour by taking the unused hours away and giving them more planning time WIN, and the daycare makes an extra $40 WIN.
Standard childcare center
Childcare center offering flexible
care to multiple families
Full-time Care = $200 ($4 /hr x 50 hours)
Offer a 20 hr/week plan for $120 ($6 /hr x 20 hrs)
They only used 20 of the 50 available hours
Offer the available space to another family
Teacher required for fewer hours (-8 hrs)
Fixed labor cost = $60 (Fixed labor cost per “slot”
for 50 hours of 3 year old care @$12 per hour. 50*12/10=60)
With same labor cost = $60
Teacher making more per hour (~$14.25 per hour)
For example, if you typically charge $200 per week for a full-time slot (50 hours of possible care), the parent is paying $4 per hour as shown in “standard daycare” illustration below. Most families appreciate that with a bit of communication and the right tools on the expected schedule they can pay $6 per hour for the 20 hours they really want to use instead of paying for 30 hours they aren’t using. When combined with other families’ needs, for example another family wanting 20 hours at different times, the daycare is able to make $240 for the entire full-time slot, and each family has a weekly bill of only $120 as shown in “flexible care” illustration below.
Customer satisfaction is dramatically increased and you have an offering that stands out from the competition. By generating more revenue from fewer hours (42 versus 50), the daycare incurs lower costs to serve these families and thus boosts its profits. This is the win/win/win scenario that is possible when you adopt this philosophy and have a tool like Child Care Seer making it easy. The more you know about when customers need you, the better you can tailor your offering to meet their needs—and increase your profits.
Hourly care rates
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See current status for each class
Join, Move and Move children to and from classrooms via Dashboard
See scheduled children, staff and activities
Start & end classroom events like merge, nap time, meal time, and playground
Control which classroom is managed with the device, activate new devices, deactivate devices.
See and resolve alerts for missing children
Hourly visits
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Controll entries delay time before released to families
Possibility to put entries on hold
See posts before sending: to whom, where, by whom and when the activity was added
Possibility to release earlier
Get alerts when a child is tagged in a post but isn’t approved for group photos.
Possibility to adjust before release
Availability view
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Daycare, Staff and Adults Inboxes
Sending automated absence note, which adds children to the planned absence
Shared daycare inbox with personal read and unread messages
Sending anouncements without possibility to reply
Awaiting reply messages
Attach photos and documents to messages
Mark messages important
Discussions on a specific topic