Childcare Billing Software · Australia
Invoice the gap fee, take the payment, and keep every family record straight — without the spreadsheet.
Enrolment CRM, recurring parent-fee invoicing and statements, online payments, bookings and parent comms — built for childcare centres, family day care educators and OOSH services. All-in-one for $0–$69/mo. Pairs with your CCS-approved system — OneBookPlus does not submit CCS.





Run billing, payments and parent comms from one app instead of a spreadsheet, Xero, a payment tool and a separate SMS service.
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6Everything Your Service Needs
From enrolment to the gap-fee invoice, payments, bookings and parent messages, OneBookPlus handles the everyday admin so your team can focus on the children.
Hold every child and family in one record — enrolment forms, parent and emergency contacts, authorised pick-ups, allergies and medical notes, immunisation dates and booked days. The full history is one tap away when a parent calls.
Raise recurring fee invoices and clear family statements showing the gap fee parents actually owe. Bill per-session, per-week or per-fortnight, apply discounts for siblings or extra days, and keep every family's balance straight.
Parents pay fees by card from the invoice link, and gentle automated reminders chase overdue accounts so you're not having the awkward money conversation at pick-up. Less arrears, far less admin time on the phone.
Let families request a place, book casual or vacation-care days, and add extra sessions online. A branded booking page captures new enquiries 24/7 and feeds your waitlist instead of leaving voicemails unanswered.
Send fee reminders, closure notices, term dates, excursion permission requests and waitlist updates by SMS and email — to one family or your whole list. Keep parents informed without printing another note for the bag.
Fee income is categorised as it's billed and your reports stay up to date, so you can see occupancy revenue, outstanding family balances and a BAS-ready GST summary without a spreadsheet at quarter-end.
Free plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Free Website Included
Stop paying $30–80/mo to Wix or Squarespace — and skip the $1,500–3,000 up-front for a designer. Every OneBookPlus childcare service gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? $15/mo and we host it for you.
your-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-businessyourbusiness.com.au— custom branded domain, we host the siteA parent submits an enquiry or requests a casual vacation-care day at 9pm, long after the office is closed. It lands in your dashboard with the child's details and the days requested, ready to add to your waitlist tomorrow.
Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.
Long day care $135/day. Before & after school $32/session. Vacation care $75/day. Customers see prices before booking — kills the price-shopping phone calls.
70%+ of childcare searches happen on phones. Your booking page is built mobile-first; loads in under 2 seconds on 4G.
Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Booking Website app ($15/mo) and point your domain at the booking page we host for you. We don't sell domains — keep yours wherever you registered it.
Schema.org markup for childcare services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'childcare in [suburb]' searches.
Childcare services website cost — typical
Website builder
Wix, Squarespace or similar
Web hosting + SSL
Bundled in builders; separate if custom site
Designer (one-off)
Only if you want a custom-built site
Bookings on Calendly
Separate from your website
Typical recurring total
~$60–100/mo
+ $1,500–3,000 up-front if you hire a designer
With OneBookPlus
Your total
$0–15/mo
See it in action
Not mockups — these are the real product screens for your day-to-day.
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly — set once, OneBookPlus handles the schedule, reminders and invoices.

Per-clean invoices or end-of-month consolidated billing. GST-compliant, Stripe Pay Now.

Contact timeline shows every clean, photo, feedback and invoice. Notes stay with the customer.

Effortless Setup
Get your service set up and invoicing families in under five minutes — here's how.
Add your rooms or care types — long day care, family day care places, before/after-school and vacation care — with daily or sessional fees. Build your branded booking and enquiry page.
Capture each child's enrolment, parent and emergency contacts, authorised collectors, allergies, medical and immunisation details, and the days they're booked — all in one family record.
Raise recurring fee invoices for the gap parents owe, send statements, and let families pay online. Automated reminders chase late accounts so you don't have to.
Send closure notices, term dates and reminders by SMS and email, work your waitlist for casual and vacation-care days, and watch occupancy and income on one dashboard.
Most services start invoicing families within minutes of signup
24/7
Online enquiries and casual-day bookings — even when you're closed
$0
Free to start — no lock-in contracts
1 app
Enrolments, billing, payments and parent comms together
5 min
Average setup time to start invoicing families
Childcare pricing
Start free, upgrade when your family list justifies it. No contracts, no setup fees, no per-seat tax. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Invoice your first family today — no credit card.
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces your spreadsheet + Xero + a payment tool + your SMS service.
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Plus
$49/mo
Outgrowing the basics — unlimited contacts & bookings, advanced reporting.
Growth
$69/mo
For busy centres chasing occupancy, waitlists and arrears.
Prices in AUD. Child care by an approved or registered service is generally GST-free; some incidental goods/extras may be taxable. OneBookPlus does not submit CCS. Stripe processing fees apply to card payments (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards). Full plan comparison →
Still billing from a spreadsheet?
Export your family list and contacts as CSV from your spreadsheet or current tool, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, set up your fees and recurring invoices, and you're billing families from the next cycle. Keep running your CCS-approved system for subsidy submission alongside it.
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Built-in AI
You're teaching — the phone rings out and the enrolment enquiry quietly moves on.
OneBookPlus
AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Do you have room for beginner lessons?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it — Trial lesson · Sat 10:00am — and texts a confirmation.
Built in Melbourne, AU
ATO-ready from day one
256-bit encryption
No credit card needed
Common questions about childcare invoicing and billing software.
Childcare invoicing software handles the business side of running a service — enrolling families, billing parent fees, taking payments and keeping family records straight. OneBookPlus brings enrolment CRM, recurring fee invoicing and statements, online card payments, bookings and waitlists, and SMS/email parent communications into one Australian app, with BAS-ready accounting on top. It runs free for a small list of families and scales as you grow, so a single family day care educator and a multi-room centre can use the same platform.
No — OneBookPlus is business and billing software, not a CCS-approved Child Care Software (CCS System) provider, so it does not submit session reports or claim Child Care Subsidy through the CCS System on your behalf. CCS is administered by Services Australia, and subsidy submission must go through a provider's approved CCS solution or the Provider Entry Point. What OneBookPlus does is the part those tools often leave clunky: invoicing the gap fee a family actually owes, sending clear family statements, taking online payments, chasing arrears, and keeping your enrolment records and accounting in order. Many services run a CCS-approved system for subsidy reporting alongside OneBookPlus for everyday billing and family management — confirm your CCS obligations with Services Australia.
Yes. Family day care educators run a small business — enrolling families, billing fees, taking payments, keeping records and communicating with parents — and that's exactly what OneBookPlus is built for. Hold each child's enrolment, contacts, allergies and booked days in one record, invoice the gap fee, take card payments, and message families about closures or schedule changes, all from your phone. CCS reporting still happens through your approved family day care service or CCS System; OneBookPlus handles your billing and family administration.
Yes. Outside School Hours Care (before-school, after-school and vacation care) lives on permanent and casual bookings, fluctuating attendance and end-of-week or end-of-term invoicing — all of which OneBookPlus supports. Take casual and vacation-care bookings through your branded page, invoice families for the sessions used, send payment reminders, and message parents about pupil-free days and program details in one place.
Child care provided by an approved or registered care service is generally GST-free under the GST law, while some incidental goods and extra services can be taxable. OneBookPlus lets you set GST-free and taxable lines per invoice so your records and BAS reflect the correct treatment without manual sorting. This is general information, not tax advice — confirm how GST applies to your specific service with your accountant or the ATO.
Kinder M8, Xplor and QikKids are established childcare platforms with deep CCS reporting, sign-in and educational-program features built specifically for the sector. They're the right tool when CCS submission, attendance and compliance reporting need to sit inside your software. OneBookPlus is the simpler, more affordable option for the billing and family-management side: enrolment CRM, parent fee invoicing and statements, online payments, bookings, waitlists, parent comms and BAS-ready accounting, from $0/month. If you handle CCS in a dedicated, CCS-approved system, OneBookPlus is a genuine everyday-admin alternative for the rest; if you need CCS submission built in, keep a sector-specific platform for that part.
About the author
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. He has worked with childcare centres, family day care educators and OOSH services across Australia, helping them simplify enrolment, fee billing, payments and parent communications.
A childcare service runs on a rhythm: families enquire and enrol, children attend their booked days, you invoice the fees parents owe, parents pay, and you keep everyone informed along the way. OneBookPlus supports every stage of that everyday-admin rhythm — from the first online enquiry through to the reminder that clears an overdue family balance — sitting neatly alongside whatever CCS-approved system you use for subsidy reporting.
Families find your service through Google, your website or word of mouth and submit an enquiry through your branded booking page — available around the clock, so a 9pm enquiry doesn't become a missed voicemail. New families complete a digital enrolment capturing parent and emergency contacts, authorised collectors, the child's allergies and medical notes, immunisation dates, and the days they want. When you have a place, you move them off the waitlist and into a booked schedule. Every detail lives in one family record, so when a parent calls about pick-up arrangements or an allergy, you have the answer in front of you rather than digging through a folder.
Child Care Subsidy is administered by Services Australia and is submitted through a CCS-approved Child Care Software (CCS System) provider or the Provider Entry Point — that part stays in your sector platform. What parents actually pay you is the gap fee: the portion of the fee left after any subsidy. OneBookPlus is built for exactly that gap. Raise recurring fee invoices on the cycle you bill — per-session, weekly or fortnightly — apply sibling or extra-day discounts, and send each family a clear statement of what they owe. Child care provided by an approved or registered service is generally GST-free, while some incidental goods or extras can be taxable; OneBookPlus tracks GST-free and taxable lines per invoice so your records and BAS stay correct without manual sorting.
Parents pay their gap fee by card directly from the invoice link, and payments reconcile against the family's balance automatically. When an account falls overdue, gentle automated reminders go out by SMS and email, so chasing arrears stops being a stack of awkward conversations at pick-up. The arrears view shows which families are behind and by how much, so a small balance gets followed up before it becomes a large one — protecting the cash flow your service relies on.
Keeping parents informed is half the job. From one screen you can send closure notices, term dates, pupil-free-day reminders, excursion permission requests and fee notices by SMS and email — to a single family or your whole list — without printing another note for the bag. Families can request casual or vacation-care days online and add extra sessions, which feeds straight back into your schedule and billing. For OOSH and vacation-care programs especially, this turns the constant churn of casual bookings into a tidy, billable flow rather than a pile of texts.
Growing a service comes down to filling your places and keeping the families you have. Your dashboard ties it together — bookings, enrolments, occupancy, outstanding balances and BAS-ready financials in one place — so you always know where the service stands. Your booking page doubles as a lightweight website showcasing your care types, fees and how to enquire, and waitlist and enquiry campaigns help you fill openings as they come up. Throughout, OneBookPlus keeps your enrolment records, billing, payments and parent communications in order, while your CCS-approved system handles subsidy submission — confirm your CCS and National Quality Framework obligations with Services Australia and your state/territory regulator.
Enrol families, invoice the gap fee, take payments online and keep parents informed — all while your accounting and BAS run on autopilot. Free to start, and it pairs with your CCS-approved system.
Get Started FreeLast reviewed and updated: by Bishal Shrestha
Authoritative sources
Childcare in Australia sits across early-childhood regulators, the Child Care Subsidy system and state working-with-children rules. We cite the primary sources for every claim on this page so you can verify directly.
Tools & Apps
Free for family day care & small services
60-sec sign-up · No card · GST & BAS ready
Who it's for
Whether you're a single educator or a multi-room centre, OneBookPlus adapts to how your service bills and manages families.
Caring for a small group from home. Needs simple enrolment records, gap-fee invoicing, online payments and parent messaging — all from a phone.
Running rooms across age groups with permanent and casual places. Needs family CRM, recurring fee billing, statements, waitlists and daily reconciliation.
Before-school, after-school and holiday programs with fluctuating attendance. Needs casual bookings, per-session invoicing and parent comms about pupil-free days.
Term-based enrolments and program fees. Needs enrolment forms, term invoicing, payment reminders and a clear view of every family's balance.
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Real-world scenario
How an educator uses OneBookPlus on a typical week
Priya checks her OneBookPlus dashboard at 6:30am — five children booked today, plus a casual day a parent requested overnight through her booking page. The request landed with the child's details and the day they need, so she adds it to her schedule and replies in two taps.
Through the morning, a new family enquires about a permanent place. Priya opens a family record, captures the parents' and emergency contacts, the child's allergies and immunisation dates, and the days they want — everything in one place for when she has an opening.
At the end of the fortnight, she raises gap-fee invoices for each family for the sessions they used, with a clear statement of what's owed. Most parents pay online from the invoice link within a day; the two who don't get an automatic reminder, so Priya never has the awkward money conversation at pick-up.
When she needs to close for a training day, she sends one SMS and email to every family at once. Her CCS reporting still runs through her approved family day care service — OneBookPlus keeps her enrolments, billing, payments and parent comms in order. Come BAS time, her GST summary is already up to date.
How we compare
See how we compare on the billing and family-management side. Sector platforms still own CCS submission.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Kinder M8 | Xplor | QikKids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrolment & family CRM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Parent fee invoicing & statements | Yes | Yes |
| Yes |
| Yes |
| Online card payments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automated payment reminders | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bookings & waitlists | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SMS & email parent comms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GST-free / taxable invoicing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Accounting & P&L | Yes | No | No | No |
| BAS-ready tax reports | Yes | No | No | No |
| CCS submission to Services Australia | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan available | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | Custom | Custom | Custom |
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