Payment

[Meeko]

No pay.
No stay.
No exceptions.

If they don't have the money, turn them away at the door. If they sneak in with other parents and sneak out without paying...call them immediately to come pick up until they DO pay and add a fee and warning. Don't provide ONE. SINGLE. SECOND of upfront care. It can be hard at first, but it's business.

Walmart doesn't let you take groceries today with promise of paying tomorrow. Daycare is the same. You get paid for BEFORE services are provided.

If it were me, I wouldn't stand for it. They KNOW they haven't brought payment and are trying to be sneaky. I see it as trying to "shoplift" your services. Paying after the fact doesn't excuse taking without payment in the first place.

Term...or lay down rock solid rules.

Good luck! I know it can be hard to do at times!

[tenderhearts]

That's the thing that's frustrating is mom says, "oh he forgot to leave payment and I didn't know" or other occasions she would be a little late and then say I had to go pick up the check because he forgot to leave it.

[Alwaysgreener]

This is why I choose to have the payment do at the end of the week before. I then know on Monday who has not paid, plus it is easier to get to the bank over the weekend.

I have on dcm that will forget and have to go home or run out to the car. Because I find myself easily distracted during drop off, I put out my receipt book as a visual reminder.

Do you have out a visual reminder? Like a note on the door?

Or in one of Tom webinars he said that one DCP put out a drop box / shoe box on the day payments were due.