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Where would you be without today’s new technology? It’s constantly changing, providing you with better tools to manage staff, improve operations, monitor attendance, collect payments, manage financial data, communicate better and more often with parents, market your services and, best of all, these tools provide you with instant information to make the tough decisions that is required of you. You can find excellent management software programs created specifically for child care center business. Available in ‘off-the-shelf’ and customized specifically for your center business, these software programs are purchased as a one-time cost and downloaded onto your computer/server system. A new technology called Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is also available. A third-party provider licenses an application to you for use as a service on-demand. The difference between this and owning your software is that you pay an on-going monthly fee to use the service �" you do not own the business application.Using technology: Saving money with SaaS technology
by Simon Ho
In today’s challenging economy where profitability depends largely on marketing and creating efficiencies, it is imperative that child care providers find ways to manage their centers more effectively and reduce operating costs. Technology is one way to achieve these objectives.
Historically, child care providers have ...