Record Hours for a Single Day [Family Day Care Homes]

Family child care providers need to calculate a space-time percentage at the end of each calendar year for tax purposes. 

• Hours spent providing care to children and 
• any hours spent working at home on child care business when children are not present 

This screen allows you to record hours spent in either category along with a description of tasks for recordkeeping purposes, for example Food Program paperwork, calls or emails with parents, or child care billing.

• Click on “Record Hours” from the main dashboard.

• Select the User you would like to record hours for from the dropdown menu.
• Click the blue “+ Record Hours for a Single Day” button on the upper-right corner 

• Enter the information
• Date
• Start Time and End Time
• Breaks and Other Non-Working Hours
• Hours Providing Child Care
• Click “+ Add Direct Labor Detail” button to select a specific category and record notes.
• Additional Hours Without Children Present
• Description of Tasks
• “All Hours are Food Program Button”: for those staff that have only Food Program-related duties (for example, food service staff), click here to allocate all working hours as Food Program.

• Click “Save”