Recording attendance¶
The attendance register is what the whole day care centre rests on: it decides the forfait, the day price and the care. It holds one line per user and per day, with the arrival and departure hours.
The day’s register¶
Accommodation → Day care register opens the register of one day: every day care user whose stay runs that day. The days already recorded come ticked, with their hours.
Tick the users who came.
Enter their arrival and departure hours: without them, the day earns no forfait.
Click Save the register.
Unticking a user removes their day.
One day for one user¶
On the user’s file, Add a day of attendance opens a dialog for a single day — the right tool to catch up a fortnight for one person.
Choose the Date: today by default.
Check Arrival and Departure: they start from the centre’s hours.
If a hospitalisation or a death interrupted the day, choose it under Day Cut Short.
Read the verdict before saving: Forfait Due, or its Why Not Due.
Click Save, or Save and next day to move on to the following day.
A day already in the register is loaded, never doubled: saving updates it.
The next day always starts blank, on the centre’s hours.
A notification confirms each day saved, and says whether the forfait is due.
A day that earns the forfait¶
A day earns the forfait when the user:
stayed at least 6 hours, and
arrived by 12:00;
or when the day was cut short by a hospitalisation or a death, however short. Otherwise the register says why: Less than 6 hours, Arrived after 12:00, or Arrival or departure time missing.
A day that earns no forfait is still recorded: the user came, and the centre bills them its day price.
The 13:00 closure¶
Before 13:00, the register of the day is open.
From 13:00, it is closed to arrivals; departures can still be entered.
A past day can only be amended by a manager, and every change is kept in the audit log.
A line added after the closure is marked Recorded after closure.
Once the register has closed, its silence is an answer: a user who was expected and not ticked in did not come that day.
The history¶
Accommodation → Day care attendance lists the days recorded, with the filters Today, This month, Forfait not due, Recorded after closure and Centre closed that day, grouped by resident or by day.
A day recorded on a weekday the centre does not open is flagged, never refused: it is either a date typed wrong, or an exceptional opening.
What’s next¶
Billing a day care month — what the days recorded become on the invoices.
Care for a day care user — how the register decides the care of the day.