Time management, people management, paperwork; these are all important aspects to running a successful nursery. But boy! Don’t they distract you from the work you actually love?… Helping young children to thrive.
If you’re nodding and wishing there was help at hand, then please read on… We might be able to give you a glimmer of hope.
Five fabulous benefits of using nursery management software
1. Reduce your admin time
It’s an attractive thought, eh? Invoicing at the press of a button, and a huge reduction in admin and filing. By having online control over fee tables, discounts, voucher management, pupil progress, meal plans, you name it… you can automate a significant proportion of your admin and save A LOT of time.
2. Facilitate efficient rota and session management
Imagine ditching those paper timetables and having everything cross-linking and updating online instead. At-your-fingertips knowledge of staff absences, pupil attendance, special needs requirements, ratios, and spaces. With well-designed nursery management software, your life is made so much easier through automated reminders and warning notifications, so you can maximise the use of your staff and your space.
3. Provide instant reports and management information
Budgets are always tight, so having close control over your cashflow is critical to your success. But with centrally held information such as waiting lists and special requirements, the management information that is available to you with just a single click can transform the way you run your nursery in all sorts of ways and help you make swift decisions.
4. Ensure personal data is secure and in one place
If you choose nursery management software that is cloud-based, you have the benefit of being able to access it wherever you are, whenever you want to, on whichever device. Authorised users with access to the internet can still carry out key tasks at home, or out of hours. Plus the personal data a nursery needs to hold is stored digitally, so you can have peace of mind that it can’t get lost, is always accessible, and is only viewable by authorised individuals.
5. Improve time management
Of course staff rostering and admin are time consuming as mentioned above, but that’s not all there is to time-managing a nursery. The more you can automate through nursery management software, the easier it is to hit the ground running every morning. E.g. meal plans, activity plans, curriculum monitoring, registration. Every time an aspect of any of these can be automated and managed via software rather than manually, the more efficient your operation becomes.
BONUS BENEFIT - Massively improve communications
Good nursery management software will enable you to store standard letters and automate certain communications. For example, issuing invoices, sending out newsletters, and updating parents on upcoming events. However, it’s also superb for improving internal communications too, through sharing diaries, timetables, and messages.
So if you’ve now realised you could be missing a trick, please do give us a call. Your time is precious and we believe there’s no reason why every second can’t be dedicated to the important aspects of your work and not the tedium of admin!