daycair takes you from “I want to open a child care” to licensed, funded, and operating — and then stays as your back office. It’s free: daycair is a Canadian not-for-profit, and our mission is more child care spaces, not revenue from the people creating them.
Tell daycair your province, whether you’re opening in your home or a centre, and how you’ll structure the business. You get the exact licence category (like BC’s Family Child Care or Ontario’s agency-routed home child care), the capacity it allows, every required step, and your city’s zoning and permit rules — each with the date we last verified it against official sources.
Start-up grants, wage enhancements, operating funding, and the $10-a-day (CWELCC) programs for your province — matched to your situation, with honest flags where a program excludes your business structure or has paused intake. Track every application, deadline, and renewal in one place.
A step-by-step journey per jurisdiction: home-readiness checks with your province’s space rules, inspection scheduling and outcomes, a document vault for certificates and clearances (including your police Vulnerable Sector Check), and renewal reminders before anything expires.
Enrollment and waitlists, attendance with live child-to-staff ratio checks against your province’s rules, daily reports and photos to parents, incident reports with acknowledgment, and compliance records ready for inspection day.
Invoices split automatically into what government funding covers and what families owe. Parents pay their share online by bank debit or card — deposited straight to your bank account through your own Stripe account. Reconciliation shows exactly what funding you’re owed versus what arrived.
Income flows in from billing automatically; log expenses with receipts, calculate your business-use-of-home portion, generate parents’ year-end child care receipts, and hand your accountant a clean summary.