Attendance

A child is in or out at a time. If you bill subsidy, that time is the record a reviewer can match. A box that only says present is how programs spend a Sunday rebuilding a month.

Honeyfold keeps the in and the out. It does not turn a tablet tap into a legal subsidy claim. You still follow your state's rule for signatures and absences. The export is there so you are not retyping the day. The portal's columns are confirmed on a walkthrough, because they are not the same in Ohio and Texas.

Ratios

The only ratio that matters is the one on your license for that room. National posters are how programs in Massachusetts get surprised by software built around Texas, and the reverse.

You enter the licensed ratio. Honeyfold counts the children in the room and the staff assigned to it and says whether you are covered or short. It does not phone your licensor, and it does not invent a variance. The calculator does the same arithmetic with numbers you type.

Pickup

The list is the list. A grandparent who has always done Fridays still needs to be on it. A custody order in the file outranks a lobby conversation. A password whispered at the door is a weak control, and we will not pretend it is a strong one.

Honeyfold stores the authorized adults, the notes, and the order you uploaded. Your staff still look at the adult in front of them. Read the pickup guide before you treat an app as a lock.

Families

Parents want to know the day went fine, or that it did not. They do not want a phone call during nap unless something needs them. Teachers want to send that note without writing it three times.

A teacher can ask for a first draft from what the room already recorded: attendance, meals, a short observation. The draft sits until a person edits it and sends it. Honeyfold does not message a family on its own.

Meals

CACFP sponsors disallow counts that were rebuilt from memory. The count is taken when the meal is served, by child. An allergy changes the plate. It does not delete the child from the count.

Honeyfold flags the allergen and holds the point-of-service count. Your sponsor's form is still your sponsor's form. We are not a CACFP manual. The meal-count guide says what the software will not pretend to do.

The visit

A specialist asks for today first. Who is here. Which adults are with them. Whether the ratio holds. Then the children's files, the staff files, the drills, the incidents.

Honeyfold keeps those as files you can open, not as a score you can advertise. It does not know your state's form number better than your licensor does. State pages name the office and the quality system, and they tell you to confirm both.

Money

Honeyfold keeps the family balance and the invoice. The monthly software price is not a cut of tuition. Card fees, if you take cards, belong to the processor.

We will not claim a direct connection to every state payment portal. If your subsidy office wants a specific layout, we look at it on the walkthrough and tell you if the export matches.

People and leaving

Teachers see their rooms. A director sees the building. A multi-site owner sees buildings, and does not see another state's children mixed into this state's ratio. A family sees their child.

If you leave, you can export the records. A child care program should not have to ransom its own files. Pricing and the exit are both on the pricing page.