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Famly's Layout
Famly's layout has been designed to be intuitive, easy to pick up, and speedy to use. When you log in to the app, you will find your personal profile, notifications, messages, and the search function on the top right of the page. Your tools and features are all neatly stored in the five icons that run down the left-hand side of the page. Your actions then take place in the middle of the page.
The Home Icon
Overview
Your overview is your first stop. Here, you can view information about your rooms, children, and staff ratios.
Newsfeed
Your newsfeed is where you can share posts and photos with parents and staff.
Staff
This tab takes you to a list of your staff members. From here, you can view, delete, and add members of staff.
Documents
Here you can safely store all your internal documents in one place.
Calendar
Use your calendar to keep track of all planned events, and send invites out to parents and staff.
Meal Plans
Use this function to create menus and then share them with parents. You can also customise your meal options.
Reports (Famly Usage)
Here you can monitor how active your staff and parents are when it comes to their usage of Famly.
The Children Icon
Overview
Your overview of children is where you can come to create new child profiles, filter for withdrawn children, and send out parent logins.
Safeguarding
Your safeguarding tab is where you can securely log and store accident and incident forms. This is also where you can view and create Headcounts.
Lists
Lists is a fantastic tool to help you categorise children and staff by the details that have been input on their profiles.
Holiday RSVP
Here you can ask parents to RSVP to holidays, and easily plan your room occupancy accordingly.
Parental Permissions
Using this function allows you to request, store, and view what parents consent to.
The Attendance Icon
Room Planner
The Room Planner is your digital register. From here you can manage attendance and staff in each of your rooms.
Child Attendance
From here, you can oversee data on child attendance, sick days, and planned hours.
Staffing
The Staffing tab collects all information about your Staff schedules and attendance. Under Staffing, you'll find Staff attendance, Staff hours, the Staff ratio report and Staff leave.
Registration
This is an overview of your waiting list and potential starters in real-time. You can also see your future availability - useful to budget, plan for, and manage how many children you care for.
Reports
This is where you will find your occupancy report. You can use the occupancy feature to get an overview of booked care.
The Learning Icon
Overview
From your child development overview, you can manage all observations and assessments, including drafts and anything waiting for review.
What's Next?
This is where you can see and archive all of the “What’s next” items that have been filled out in observations.
Progress Report
Get an overview of the children’s assessments to understand their progress.
Tally
Get an overview of the number of observations that have been tagged to each area.
Two Year Checks
See which children have had their two-year check and which ones are still missing.
Activity Library
Get inspired by the hundreds of activity ideas on offer in Famly's activity library. You're also welcome to create your own activities to share within your setting, or add to our ever-growing library for other Famly users to try!
Activity Planner
From here, you can build and share your unique weekly activity plan.
The Finance Icon
Overview
Under the Overview tab, you will find information about your children's plans, and any ad-hoc purchases that have been requested or approved.
Invoicing
This is the tab you will use to send out your monthly batch of invoices.
Debt Collection
Here you can keep track of missing payments and send payment reminders to your bill payers.
Reports
Under this tab, you will see you have a few different reporting options. Using the Revenue tab, you'll be able to stay on top of incoming payments with your monthly overview.
The Public Funding report allows you to compare the funding you give with the funding your receive.
The In-app payments report is where you can find an overview of the status of any pending payments, as well as any processing fees that you will have incurred.