Attendance Periods
In your settings, you can create attendance periods that will be selectable when creating children’s booking patterns.
Attendance periods can be all year round or multiple term time dates. You can then select the child's specific attendance schedule within their booking pattern.
How to set your attendance periods
Let's begin with the all-year-round attendance period:
More > Settings > Gettings Started > Attendance periods > Add > Input name (Example: All year round) > Select all year round > Save.
Next, are the steps for term time attendance periods:
More > Settings > Gettings Started > Attendance periods > Add > Input name (Example: Hertfordshire term dates) > Save & set dates > Filter by year & month > Click a start date and end date & ensure it has highlighted in green > Leave a gap for the holidays > Save.
Here are some of our top tips when setting attendance periods:
You can plan as far into the future as you wish, and term dates can be updated at any time.
If you notice term-time children missing from your register or items missing from their invoices, check: have you updated your term dates?
Avoid creating multiple term dates such as "Spring 2025" or "Autumn 2025," and maintain one term-time calendar and update it as needed.
If you have multiple sets of term dates, repeat the steps above for each set and differentiate the names. For example, "Hertfordshire Term Dates" and "Buckinghamshire Term Dates."
Next, it is time to set your closure dates.