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A Month of Tuition, Billed in One Click

Every family gets one invoice with each child's tuition, the sibling discount already applied, and last month's late-pickup fees included. Subsidy portions go to the agency on their own invoice. In January, parents get the statement they need for their taxes.

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The First of the Month Problem

Tuition invoices are built by hand, every month

Forty families, each with a different combination of days, siblings and discounts. Someone spends the last weekend of the month copying last month's invoices and editing them, and a family or two always gets billed wrong.

Subsidy payments break the books

The state pays part of the tuition for some children. Most schools invoice the family for everything and then apply the agency's check wherever it fits, so no report ever shows what the family really owes versus what the agency owes.

How BizBooks Pro Bills Tuition

The monthly run

1

Pick the Month

Every enrolled child, their plan, and any pending fees are gathered for you.

2

Preview

See each family's invoice line by line before anything is created.

3

Create & Send

Invoices post to your books, ready to email from the Invoice Center.

What one family's invoice looks like โ€” the Garcias, two children, March

Tuition โ€” Mia (Toddlers) โ€” March 2026 ยท Full Day 5$1,000.00
Tuition โ€” Leo (Preschool) โ€” March 2026 ยท Half Day 3$600.00
Sibling discount 10% โ€” Leoโˆ’$60.00
Late pickup โ€” Mia, 20 min (2/10)$15.00
Total due March 1$1,555.00

Run it twice, bill once

The run remembers which families and agencies were already billed for that month. Re-run it after a new child enrolls mid-month and only the missing invoices are created โ€” nobody gets billed twice.

What You Get

๐Ÿงพ Tuition Runs

Monthly plans per child, or a custom rate for the family with the unusual arrangement. The sibling discount comes off automatically for every child after the highest tuition, and posts to its own discount account so you can see what discounting costs you.

  • Preview before anything is created
  • Create as posted invoices or as drafts to review
  • Children who start or leave mid-month are handled by their dates

๐Ÿ›๏ธ Subsidies & Vouchers

Set the agency and the monthly amount on the child. Each run takes the subsidy off the family's invoice and puts it on one consolidated invoice to the agency, posted to its own income account.

  • Family and agency balances tracked separately
  • Aging report shows which agency is slow to pay
  • Subsidy amounts never inflate a parent's tax statement

โฐ Late Pickup & Extra Fees

Record a late pickup with the minutes and the fee computes from your grace period and per-minute rate. Registration fees, field trips and supply fees work the same way โ€” they wait for the next run and land on the right family's invoice.

  • Inside the grace period, no fee is charged
  • Pending charges are visible until they're billed

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿซ Classrooms & Ratios

Each room carries its licensed capacity and your state's child-to-staff ratio. The overview shows enrollment against capacity, flags any room that's over capacity or short-staffed, and keeps a waitlist you can enroll from in one click.

  • Open seats per room at a glance
  • Monthly tuition roll โ€” what full enrollment is worth

๐Ÿ“„ Parent Tax Statements

In January, every family gets a statement showing what they actually paid during the year, with your name, address, EIN and license number โ€” what they need for IRS Form 2441 and dependent-care FSA claims.

  • Based on payments received, not amounts billed
  • Subsidy-paid amounts correctly excluded

๐Ÿ’ณ Getting Paid

Families are regular customers, so everything else in BizBooks Pro applies: email invoices with an online payment link, accept card or ACH, send statements and automatic reminders, and reconcile the bank as usual.

  • Tuition aging by family and agency
  • Full double-entry books underneath, GAAP-compliant

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this childcare management software?

It's the accounting half. Tuition billing, subsidies, fees, family balances and year-end tax statements live here, alongside your real books. Daily attendance, ratios at the door, parent messaging and curriculum stay in whatever classroom app you use.

How is the sibling discount calculated?

The child with the highest tuition pays full price; every other child in that family gets your discount percentage off. You set the percentage once in Settings, and it posts to a Tuition Discounts account so the full tuition and the discount are both visible on the income statement.

We're a church-run preschool. Can it share the church's books?

Yes. Run both editions in the same company file, or keep the school in its own company if it files separately. See the Church Edition for offerings, funds and giving statements.

What if a family pays weekly, or we bill a different way?

Plans are monthly today, and a child can carry a custom rate. Weekly and bi-weekly billing cycles are on this edition's roadmap โ€” tell us how you bill and it moves up the list.

Does it prorate a child who starts mid-month?

Not yet โ€” a child enrolled during the month is billed the full month, which matches how most schools charge. Proration is a planned option. For now, a custom rate on that child for the first month does the job.

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