Our commitment to develop FirstSteps to meet the ever changing demands of our customers continues with the release of V11.

Aimed as always to enhance and streamline the day-to-day running of your business, we have introduced lots of new features in V11 that we are sure you will be delighted with.

We know FirstSteps’ flexibility is crucial to improving your effectiveness and productivity so we have implemented new features and expanded existing functionality in as many areas as possible with V11.

The major changes to grant funding allocation and reporting, together with a re-vamp of the staffing module should be enough to whet your appetite to upgrade, but we have also included as many customer requested enhancements as possible in this new release, as well as adding to our suite of FirstSteps services with FirstSteps Hosting option and Biometric door entry and security integration.

FirstSteps V11 has many new features and improvements:

Grant Funding

A number of new options are now available to help you cope with the move to 15 hours a week funding.
Multiple Grant Rates for different sessions; i.e. Daily, AM, PM, Hourly Rates.
Grant can be applied on the Booking Form; this enables mid-month changes to Bookings and Funding.
Funding can be shown on invoices as Number of Hours and/or a Financial Amount.
Funding Period can be limited to specific Hours, Sessions or Amount.

New Staff Module

The Staff Module has been improved in several key areas,including Rotas, Holidays and Absences.
Staff Rotas are now entered on booking forms similar to those for Children’s Bookings. This offers greater flexibility and ease of use.
Staff Registers can be produced on a weekly, daily or hourly basis.
Holidays, Sickness and Absence can now be recorded in days or hours. This is an ideal solution if Part Time Staff have a holiday allocation of hours rather than days.
Time off in lieu can be recorded on individual staff records or via Hourly Registers.
Staff Training Reports can be filtered on a number of categories, including Dates, Course, and Staff.
Monthly Staff Planner showing All Absences, By Room or for Whole Setting.

Email directly from FirstSteps 

Invoices can be emailed as well as newletters and any other communication

Integration with Quickbooks

Invoices and payments can be imported into Quickbooks from FirstSteps.

Fingerprint Access/Security

Use Fingerprint Authorisation to allow access to your setting and record attendance times for parents and staff.

FirstSteps Cover is the easy way to ensure you keep up-to-the-minute with software upgrades..
To check your cover status, call us now on 0845 470 0740.