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.

What one owner’s child care business purchase taught him about the due diligence you can’t afford to skip. You found the perfect child care center. The numbers look good. The location is right. The teachers want to stay. You close the deal on a Friday, plan to reopen Monday, and then — you can’t open. That’s exactly what happened to read more.

A guide for child care center owners and operators exploring Applied Behavior Analysis as a service expansion and revenue diversification strategy. The child care industry faces a persistent challenge: operating on thin margins while demand for specialized services continues to grow. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) offers child care centers a powerful opportunity to address both problems at once—expanding the families read more.

The child care industry faces a severe workforce crisis. In fact, more than 150,000 workers are “missing” compared to pre-pandemic projections. As a result, staffing shortages keep getting worse. For child care center owners, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — known as WIOA — offers powerful tools to recruit, train, and retain staff at little to no cost. What read more.

Payroll is the single largest expense in most child care businesses — often consuming 60% to 70% of total revenue. However, it’s also the area where the costliest compliance mistakes tend to hide. From IRS penalties to Department of Labor investigations, a single child care payroll error can snowball into thousands of dollars in fines, back pay, and sleepless nights.​ read more.