Home Daycare Desk

Your spots, your rates, your expenses. The math, done live.

Your enrollment

Sample numbers loaded. They show how the math works, not what anyone charges or earns. Replace every one with yours.
InfantsYour count and your rate
ToddlersYour count and your rate
PreschoolYour count and your rate
School-ageBefore and after school counts here too

Your monthly expenses

Planner sheet

Annual net before taxes$0

Your numbers stay on this device. Nothing you type is sent anywhere: no account, no email gate, no server. They also save here in this browser, so you can come back and adjust.

Capacity is licensed, not chosen. State licensing caps how many children one home may care for, and the counts and ratios vary by state, by the ages of the children, and by whether you have help. This planner does not know your state's rules and does not try to. Before you plan around one more spot, check your state's official childcare licensing site for the numbers that actually bind you.

How this calculates

Weekly gross revenue is spots x your weekly rate, summed across the four age bands. Annual gross is weekly gross x your weeks of care, so unpaid closure weeks come out of the total instead of hiding in it. Monthly figures are the annual figures divided by 12, which averages your closed weeks across the year the way a bank statement would. Expenses total your monthly entries, and net is gross minus expenses, before taxes; taxes depend on your situation and this page does not estimate them.

Net per filled spot divides monthly net by your total spots, so you can see what each enrollment actually carries. The one-more-spot line multiplies your own band rates by your own weeks of care: it is your arithmetic, not a projection, and it ignores the extra food and supply cost a new child brings.

Every number on this page is either a labeled sample or something you typed. The planner asserts no market data: it does not know what programs in your area charge, what any provider earns, or what your costs should be, and it makes no claim about any of that.

Guides for the paperwork side

The planner handles the numbers. These guides walk through writing the documents a home daycare runs on, section by section, with labeled samples you can adapt.

The Startup Paperwork Bundle

The planner handles the numbers; the bundle is the paperwork side, ready to fill in. A nine-section childcare contract template. A sixteen-section parent handbook template (19 pages as shipped, before your details expand it). And fifteen operating documents: enrollment form, emergency contact card, medication permission, incident report, late pickup policy, outing permission, daily report sheets, sign-in and sign-out, menu record, tuition ledger, expense log, tuition increase letter, withdrawal set, waitlist, and a substitute info sheet. Every dollar amount is a bracketed placeholder; nothing in the bundle suggests a rate or fee. Each template carries its own standing note: educational template, not legal advice, check your state's own required forms first. The bundle's rule throughout: have finished paperwork reviewed for your jurisdiction. Standard .docx files with no macros; they open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, and Apple Pages.

Get the paperwork bundle, $39

Instant download after checkout: one zip, under 1 MB. One program license: edit and print freely, no resale. Sold by Orion's Comet LLC. Not affiliated with any state agency. Templates, not legal advice.