Procare Software proudly announces Procare v10, the product of years of experience in the field of childcare center management software. We would like to take this opportunity to brief you on some important elements of the application, and in particular on how we plan to introduce it to the Procare community. There are some subjects you need to think through, some work you may need to do, and some things you need to know in order to prepare for that transition. Procare v10 is not an update of Version 9... it is a new product with some new concepts.
New Procare v10 Concepts
- The “People” concept: All people connected to your child care will now reside in a single database table. This makes it easy for you to assign them multiple, interconnected roles. Staff might also be parents, parents might be authorized to pick up children of other families, anyone could be an emergency contact for a different family.
- The “Billing Box”: Charges are now tied directly to each child. Charges for services may be billed to the primary payer (parent) on each account (divorced parents will have separate accounts) or agencies, in any configuration. All are stored in the child's Billing Box.
- Record Auditing: Ledger and time card records can now be audited for review of all changes made to them.
- For more examples, go to Procarev10.com
Procare v10 Release Schedule
- We plan to implement Procare v10 in a phased fashion, beginning September 30. We will start with the childcare centers who wish to do original data entry If you wish to be in this group, please let us know by emailing us.
- We'll move to centers who wish to convert their existing data.
- Modules for Payroll, Budgets, Expenses and Financial Reporting will be included in a release later this year. Centers licensed for these modules now will implement Procare v10 at that time.
What is your 'Cutover Strategy'?
- For a short period of time before conversion, use v10 with an empty database. Experiment by creating families and employees and learning key functions. Understand that you can't learn everything instantly, and take time with our learning tools to become comfortable with the basics of the program. Then convert your data!
- Operate v9 and v10 in parallel, maintaining both for a short time. Compare the results between them and move to v10 at your own pace.
- Your database conversion can only be done once! After it
is done, the records will be "as of" the date of conversion.
- Yes, Procare v10 is compatible with the upcoming release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system!
- If you run Windows XP on your main computer (the one that hosts your database), you will need to have Service Pack 3 (SP3) installed. XP client computers (individual workstations) can run either Service Pack 2 or 3.
- More on System requirements can be found here.
- If you use Procare for more than one location you’ll need to decide how to host your data.
- If you need remote access to all locations, or need to run combined financial reports, you’ll want a single database running across a VP (virtual private network). If you purchase data hosting from us, we will combine your individual location data files into an integrated database.
- You may host your own data, and combine your data files using our data conversion software.
- Alternatively, you might run a separate database at each location, running on a standard LAN (local area network). This choice makes sense if each location operates as an independent entity doing all the computer work on site and printing their own separate reports.
- For more information click here.
- What information can be converted from my current v9 data files?
- For the details, click here. Bookmark this page! It will be updated periodically to give you specific tips on how to edit your v9 data to optimize its conversion.
Stay In Touch!!
- Your Software Consultant is vitally interested in your progress and always available at 800.338.3884
- Technical Support is ready for your specific issues and questions at 800.964.1729