Change the billed start and end time of a day on a draft invoice, and see the total update, without touching your register.
Childminders with a draft invoice that needs a small change, such as a child who went home early. Needs the Standard plan or a free trial. It takes about two minutes.
Sometimes a day doesn't go to plan. You can change the times a day is billed for right on the draft invoice. The totals update, and your register and daily diary stay exactly as they were.
Create or open a draft invoice, then tap View session and funding breakdown. Invoices that have been sent or paid can't be edited here.
Tap a day, or its Edit button, to expand it.
Edited days show a Changed badge, and a bar at the bottom shows how many days changed and the old and new total.
If a day has a late fee or overtime charge, you can also tap Waive, or change the minutes charged. This needs a late rate set in the child's contract.
Tap Apply to invoice. Hours, funded hours and the total are recalculated. Tap Discard instead to put everything back. Reset day clears the changes on one day.
Save the draft as usual. The parent sees the final times and amounts, with no marker to say they were edited.
The register is a record of what happened, so it should never be rewritten to fit a bill. Changing the invoice only means you can agree a one-off change with a parent and still keep an honest register.
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