Once you’ve created your terms, you can assign them to children so they have funded hours during scheduled sessions. You can either do this individually, or assign a term to multiple children at once.
Allocating funding to individual children
- Click on
Children in the sidebar. - Click on the name of the child to be taken to their profile.
- Click on the Funding tab on the left.
- Click on the
icon in the top right to add new Funding Details. - Choose which Year this is for.
- Choose a Term within that year. Doing this will automatically fill in the Start and Finish Dates.
- Depending on how you measure funding hours, check the box next to either No. of Hours/Week or No. of Hours/Term.
- Fill in the Universal Entitlement, Extended Entitlement, and Total Entitlement for this child. Note that these cannot exceed the Maximum Funded Hours assigned in funding settings.
- Click Save.
Allocating funding to multiple children
- In the top right, click on
> System Settings. - Click on Terms/Funding.
- Click on the
icon next to a term to assign it. - You’ll be taken to a screen with a list of children. Those who do not already have terms assigned for this period can be edited.
- Click on the Weekly and Termly boxes in the top right to toggle between measuring funding hours as No. Hours/Week and No. of Hours/Term.
- Fill out the fields next to a child's name to enter their funding details.
- If a child is 2 years old, you can choose between one of two funding types for them: Two Year (Disadvantaged) and Two Year (Working Parents).
- If the child is at least 3 years old, you can select their Band for Deprivation Weighting.
- Fill in the Universal Entitlement, Extended Entitlement, and Total Entitlement for this child. Note that these cannot exceed the Maximum Funded Hours assigned in funding settings.
- Click Save.
In Step 4, we’ll use what we’ve set up in this step to generate your first batch of invoices.