The System Configuration is where you select the overall settings that affect Procare including settings for your Locations & Users, Data Mangement, Accounting Management and Program Customizaton. Each setting affects or controls a particular aspect of your data such as the people who may use Procare, your classroom names, accounting categories, and which reports are available for use. ... read article

Created on 8/17/2009 12:43:05 PM

Manage Region and School names and Set Overall Options on a Region wide or individual School basis. If you have just one location you’ll have a single Region (your city) with one School (name of your center). Each Region you define requires at least one School defined for that region. ... read article

Created on 4/27/2009 10:11:21 AM

Options are choices that affect a particular Region or School like the hours a location is open or how Child Time Cards should be rounded. Only persons in the System Supervisor User Group may set or change these options. ... read article

Created on 8/18/2009 12:32:28 PM

A custom pay period is any non-standard period of time outside the standards like weekly, every 2 weeks, twice per month, etc. You may select start dates for each period as far into the future as you would like. ... read article

Created on 6/22/2010 2:34:58 PM

The Default Filter determines which families (accounts) are displayed in the Family Data module when you have no filter selected or when you click the Clear Filter icon on the Account List toolbar. The default may be set to show All Accounts or just Visible Accounts. When Visible Accounts is selected families marked as "Hidden" will not be displayed.  ... read article

Created on 8/24/2009 12:01:48 PM

Choose your email settings for Procare. Email may be sent directly through Microsoft Outlook, or by using another email program that supports SMTP protocol. Procare itself is not an email program (known as an "email client") it simply communicates with your third party email program. You may need to contact your email provider for information on how to send SMTP email. ... read article

Created on 8/24/2009 10:43:24 AM

When sending email through Procare using your own SMTP mail server you may encounter an error if the option to use a secure socket layer (Use SSL) is set incorrectly. ... read article

Created on 5/7/2010 5:33:22 AM

Create groups then assign people who use Procare to a particular group. Groups may have limitations set to prevent people from performing certain tasks. A single center with just a few employees might only have two or three groups. A large center or child care chain might have dozens of groups. ... read article

Created on 8/18/2009 12:36:55 PM

Add the people who will use Procare, assign them to a User Group, and expose them to the locations to which they need access. The People you add as Procare Users are staff or volunteers who will have access to Procare. Some people may have multiple roles. An employee might also be a parent and an emergency contact for another family.
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Created on 8/18/2009 12:42:09 PM

If the same person is entered as a Procare User multiple times, you may merge the duplicates with the main user you wish to keep. This could happen if you mistakenly entered the user multiple times or through a conversion from version 9.1 to Procare v10, if you imported multiple locations. ... read article

Created on 4/3/2012 1:43:57 PM