tinkerbell1403 Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Afternoon all, I am desperate to get away from our over complicated, messy paper registers which are time consuming for myself sitting every Sunday writing out the next week/terms registers. We also have a high turnover of children from travelling communities so find we are constantly having to make amendments. Would anyone be willing to share their paperless systems/documents with me so that I can trial a few ideas? We have children attending morning, lunches and afternoon sessions. We currently still use a paper based system for recording payments for sessions but again I would like to move to something more efficient if anyone has anything successful they wouldn't mind sharing with me. In an ideal world I would love to invest in nursery management software but our budget just doesn't extend to this so I am hoping to recreate something similar. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouseketeer Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 I keep thinking this might be the way to go to, but I only do one paper register for the whole term but see how that might not work for lots of amendments, we have the odd couple that might increase hours following a half term so just add them to the bottom. Will also be interested to see what others are using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFCCCC Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Nursery Management software still produces paper registers. It does also do the payments though - and save a lot of time. Ours is not very expensive - its a web based system and includes all support and updates for £30 per month which works out at less than £7 per week. I used to use a spreadsheet to create registers and record payments - I will have a look and see if I still have a copy somewhere on my hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panders Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 (edited) http://www.helios-computing.co.uk/index.shtml Kent CC used to give this and training free to PVI's, I haven't used it myself, not found the need. Edited March 13, 2017 by Panders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LKeyteach Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 We have paperless register. We use our tablets to take the register. I sometimes let the children tick themselves in. The system we use has been developed for us and at some stage it will also produce invoices. At the moment it does still have its limits but does some goof stuff. Recently attended CP conference and was able to show non attendance of child. really sorry I don't have the cost of it at the mo and I know you can buy of the peg software. I just wanted something that worked for me that I did not have to compromise on. I would say if you could afford it do go for it cos it does make some tasks so much easier. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouseketeer Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 http://www.helios-computing.co.uk/index.shtml Kent CC used to give this and training free to PVI's, I haven't used it myself, not found the need. My county also gave us this free some years ago, I never really got to grips with it ...or maybe I just didn't give it a fair go :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panders Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 My county also gave us this free some years ago, I never really got to grips with it ...or maybe I just didn't give it a fair go :-/ Dont know 'Mouse' - they have done up-dates etc. and it should be at a reasonable cost, according to their info page, anyway. Like most things already set up I like to do things my way - then I understand it all that much better as it comes from my perspective, so I didn't use this, although did run it through the laptop for a looksee! On it's simpler registers which you can access a sample of, I suspect you could set something up very similar on an excel spreadsheet without too much hassle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbell1403 Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 Thanks for your replies everyone. I really would love to go down the nursery management software route but this really isn't an option for us financially at present That's great that some of you have been provided with free software through your LA-Ours is about to end their LA subcription here so no chance of any software being sent our way!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSFRebecca Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 That's great that some of you have been provided with free software through your LA-Ours is about to end their LA subcription here so no chance of any software being sent our way!! We're sorry to lose your LA - will you be staying with us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbell1403 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 We're sorry to lose your LA - will you be staying with us? I was trying to find info regarding the cost of individual membership to see if this is an cost we could take on but I couldn't find it. Do you know the costs Rebecca? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 The subscription fee for an individual is £20+VAT, Tinkerbell. :1b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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