To get your business off to a flying start, we ask you to complete your Business Settings in your tiney app. This confirms the various aspects of your business, including your rates, hours, holidays and preferences, so that we can pre-fill your new childcare contracts and save your time late. Hopefully your Business Settings also give you a space to decide on the way you want to run your business so that it works most successfully for you.
Here are the Business Settings we ask you to complete:
Business Setting | Question | Information needed |
Standard Hours | What are your Standard Hours? | Tell us which hours you charge your standard rate for. These will commonly be the same each week and for each contract. Note: these are not your opening hours, which are already recorded on your tiney profile. If you want to charge a different rate outside of these Standard hours i.e. for Breakfast or Afternoon Club, tell us in the next questions. |
Standard Hour Rates | How much do you charge for Standard Hours? | Childcare is most commonly charged on an hourly and daily basis. |
Out of Hours Rates | How much do you charge for Out of Hours? | You may offer care outside of your Standard hours and may wish to charge a higher rate than your standard hourly rate. This is your Out of Hours rate. |
Breakfast Club | Do you offer Breakfast Club? | Breakfast Club is a valuable service you can offer to parents in the morning before your core hours start. |
Breakfast Club Rate | How much do you charge for Breakfast Club? | You can charge an hourly rate so that you can charge for varying amounts of time. If you would prefer to charge a flat fee, you can divide the total fee but the number of hours offered to complete this setting. |
Morning Drop Off | Do you offer morning drop off? | You may offer drop offs to local schools in the morning, either by foot or transport. |
Morning Drop Off Fee | How much do you charge for morning drop off? | Include all costs like transport fuel |
Afternoon Club | Do you offer Afternoon Club? | Afternoon Club is a valuable service you can offer to parents in the afternoon after your core hours end. |
Afternoon Club Rate | How much do you charge for Afternoon Club? | You can charge an hourly rate so that you can charge for varying amounts of time. If you would prefer to charge a flat fee, you can divide the total fee but the number of hours offered to complete this setting. |
Afternoon Pick up | Do you offer afternoon pick up? | You may offer pick ups from local schools in the afternoon, either by foot or transport. |
Afternoon Pick up Fee | How much do you charge for afternoon pick up? | Include all costs like transport fuel |
Late Pick Up | Do you charge for Late Pick Up? | Stating a late pick up charge is commonly used to deter parents from being late at pick up. |
Late Pick Up | How much do you charge for Late pick up? | Late pick up fees are charged per every 15 minutes that the parent is late after the agreed pick up time. |
Occasional Overnight Care | Do you offer occasional overnight care? | You must have permission to offer Occasional Overnight Care (called Condition of Registration) - contact tiney if you’re unsure. |
Occasional Overnight Care | What do you charge for occasional overnight care? | It's most common to charge for overnight care at an hourly rate that's higher than your standard rate |
Personal Holidays | Up to how many days paid and/or unpaid holiday will you take annually? | Planning how much holiday to take each year (and when to take it) may depend on the type of placements you offer and your experience. If scheduled care falls on your planned holiday days, you can either charge or not charge for those days i.e. paid or unpaid, respectively. |
Personal Holidays | What do you charge for paid holiday? | You can either charge your standard rate, or set a different rate. |
Personal Holidays | When have you planned holidays for in 2023? | By letting tiney know about your planned holiday dates we can ensure invoices are processed correctly. You can complete these dates at any time. Tiney do not inform guardians of planned dates - you'll need to make them aware with at least 30 days notice |
Public Holidays | Will you stay open on Public Holidays? | There are 9 UK public holidays in 2023 (and there may be further festivals/significant dates relevant to you). Most commonly childminders take these days off as unpaid holiday, but you can decide to stay open if you wish. |
Public Holidays | What do you charge when you're closed? | You can decide whether to charge your standard rate, or not to charge at all |
Public Holidays | How much do you charge for Public Holiday care? | If you stay open and are scheduled to provide care on a public holiday, you can set your rates for that care (including if the child is on holiday but care was still planned). |
Funded | Do you accept funded placements? | To be able to accept funded placements you need to request eligibility information from the guardians and register either with your local authority or with tiney. This can take some time, so we recommend arranging this in advance. |
Frequency | Do you offer full year or term time placements, or both? | Let us know if you offer care all year round (full year) or in term time only |
Term dates | For your academic year, when do your terms start and end? | Your term time dates will generally be the same as the Local Authority's dates, or you might want to follow the dates of particular schools that you do pick ups/drops offs for. |
Income Goal | How much income do you plan to earn each year? | You should consider how much income you need to make in order to make profit after costs and expenses. Setting an annual goal can help you decide how to set your rates, fees and the number of enrolments you take on. |
Policies | Confirm your tiney home’s policies | Your policies will set out what you will do in certain situations and must be shared with parents (and signed) to make it really clear how you run your business. We have listed all the key policies here. Please add any additional policies specific to your tiney home. |