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Planning For Days Your Setting Is Closed

How to add 'Closure Days' in Famly

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Written by Josie
Updated over 2 weeks ago

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Closure Days in Famly

Closure Days let you record days when your setting is closed, such as bank holidays, training days, or other special closure dates. Using Closure Days ensures:

  • Parents are informed when your setting is closed

  • Registers and invoices are accurate, as children attending all year round will not appear on closed days

  • You can choose whether or not to charge for specific types of closure days


Adding a Closure Day

To add a new Closure Day:

  • Go to Settings

  • Open the General section

  • Select Closure Days, then click New closure day

  • Enter the date range and type of closure day (Bank holiday, Training day, or Closure day)

  • Click Save

💡 Closure Days can only be added for full days. If your setting closes for part of a day, adjust children’s bookings by scheduling a change and removing sessions for the affected period


Customising Which Closure Days Are Charged

You can decide whether children are billed for specific closure days. For example, you may want to charge for bank holidays even if children do not attend.

To charge for a specific closure day:

  • Create the Closure Day and select the correct type (e.g., Bank holiday)

  • Ensure the closure day is included in the Attendance Schedule

    • Closure days appear as padlocks in the calendar

    • Highlight in purple to include them in billing

  • In your Pricing structure, check the Charge for this session when it is booked on a: box to charge for that type of closure day on sessions, products, or packages


Billing for Closure Days

Actuals Billing

Children on actuals billing are only charged for sessions attended. To ensure they are not charged on closure days:

  • Go to Settings → General → Closure Days and add your closure days

  • Navigate to Settings → Finances → Pricing → Pricing Structure

  • Click a session and scroll down to the Charge for box

  • Untick the box for the closure day type you added

  • Repeat for all relevant sessions, packages, and extra charges

This ensures children on actuals billing are not charged on closure days when invoicing.


Annualised Billing

Children on annualised billing pay the same monthly amount, but you can give a discount for closure days if needed. You have two options:

Add a credit to each child’s plan:

  • Go to the child’s profile and click the Bookings tab

  • Click Add → Credit

  • Enter the amount to be deducted

  • The credit will reduce the total of the next month’s invoice

Adjust annualised billing calculations in bulk:

  • Go to Settings → Finances → Fundamentals

  • Select the annualised invoicing profile

  • Reduce the number of weeks billed to account for closure days (e.g., 52 weeks → 51 weeks for 5 closure days)

This allows parents to continue paying the same monthly sum while automatically factoring in closure days.

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