Low-Cost Employee Perks That Help You Keep Great Childcare Staff You can absolutely boost staff retention with low-cost or even no-cost perks that feel genuinely valuable to your team. Let’s walk through ideas that work well in early childhood settings without blowing your budget. Start With “Human” Benefits, Not Expensive Ones Most early educators stay for relationships, respect, and stability, read more.

The Revenue Your Enrollment Numbers Are Lying About One of our advisory clients was confident they were collecting $187,000 per month. When we reconciled their enrollment report to actual bank deposits, they were only bringing in $157,000. That is a $30,000 monthly gap — $360,000 a year — hiding in plain sight. Another center we work with showed $150,000 in read more.

Head Start Partnership Opportunities: Boosting Enrollment and Funding in Your Childcare Center Head Start and Early Head Start are designed to work through community partnerships with child care programs, schools, health centers, and other local organizations. These partnerships give families access to more comprehensive services (health, family support, screenings), while your center benefits from increased demand and stronger outcomes. For read more.

EIDL Collections Are Coming: What Every Childcare Center Owner Needs to Know If you took an EIDL loan to keep your childcare center alive during COVID, you are not alone. Thousands of daycare, preschool, and early childhood education businesses relied on Economic Injury Disaster Loans as a lifeline when enrollment plummeted and shutdowns left them with no revenue. But now, read more.

S-Corp for Daycare Business: LLC, or Sole Proprietor? How to Choose in 2026 If you run a childcare center, choosing the right S-Corp for daycare business tax structure may be the single most impactful financial decision you make this year. Tax season just wrapped up — and for many daycare owners, that filing was more painful than it needed to read more.

Running a daycare means you have a lot to keep up with. While the children are your main priority, you are still running a business and have to keep up with a variety of things. From marketing and customer service to billing and inventory – it is all part of any business. The thing about a childcare is that parents are trusting their children to your care. So, an excellent relationship with them is important. But what about potential customers too? Directors must be able to track and follow up their leads from initial inquiry through enrollment. From start to finish, wouldn’t it be nice to have something that helps with all of that? Is a CRM right for your business? Here is a guide to childcare CRM: reviews and pricing for 2019.

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Childcare business financial management looks very different when you own multiple locations. Most multi-location owners review one combined P&L — and that habit quietly hides a serious problem. Specifically, one profitable center may be funding the losses of another. This post breaks down why per-center profitability analysis is essential for sound childcare business financial management, and which three metrics to read more.

The right daycare communication app does more than keep parents happy — it affects your bottom line. Apps that handle billing, signatures, and tuition collection reduce your accounts receivable days, cut administrative payroll costs, and create a paper trail that holds up during audits. As CPAs who work exclusively with childcare centers, we see the financial impact of these tools read more.