Creating Wraparound Care in SchoolsBuddy

Instant Book and Pay is a good option if you want to allow parents or pupils to book immediately, particularly if upfront payment is needed. It works well for School Trips, Wraparound Care, and small After School Club programs (20 activities or below).

This option is suitable if you're comfortable allowing parents to self-select events for their children. You can control who can view and book events by applying filters, such as Year, Grade, or other group categories in the system.

This article uses Wraparound Care as an example, please see the article below for:

• Set up a container for your Wraparound Care
• Create groups inside the container for Wraparound Care (Breakfast Club, After-School Club)

• Create events for these groups with two options:

  • Individual drop-in sessions: Allowing parents to book individual sessions as needed.

  • Daily block bookings: Enabling parents to book recurring sessions on the same day (e.g., every Monday) for a period, such as a term or half-term.

• Publish Events

Step 1: Container Creation

1. Click the Activities, Clubs & Bookings Admin tab on the Homepage
2. Click the Instant Book & Pay container type 
3. Click Add to create a new container
   

Fill in the basic information for the Wraparound Care (please click on the images below the instructions to enlarge them)

1. Sign Up Title: e.g. Spring Term Wraparound Care - We would recommend setting breakfast clubs termly. 
2. Description: Any information that is relevant to all sessions
3. Allow Booking Cancellation/Auto Adjust Payments: Enter the number of days/hours before the event starts that parents can cancel their booking and add the option to auto adjust payments if appropriate.
4. Block Clashes: If switched on, this option will stop the booking from being completed if the pupil is already booked on to another event at the same time. If it is not switched on, a message on screen will advise that there is a clash, however the booking can still be completed.  
5. Maximum Bookable events per group: Leave this as 0 unless there is a limit for how many sessions each student can book.
6. Activities start/end dates/times: Set the dates for when you want the activities to occur, in this case for a term. You can re-use the container to add clubs as the year progresses. The times are not important in this case as they can be set for each individual event later.
7. Responsibility for confirmation: This is who will make the booking. Leave Parents only highlighted green, or switch to Students or Parents or Students only according to your School’s preferences.
8. Sign up opens: Date when sign up opens (when parents can start booking)
   Sign up closes: Date when sign up closes (e.g. if you are creating the container for the term/year, when is the last day that parents should be able to sign up for the Breakfast Club sessions)
9. Show select all button: This enables the parent/student to select all events in one go.
10. Use organisation block dates?: This defaults to on and will use your block dates that have been set at an organisational level. Don't use these if you want to run clubs during half term for example.
11. Accept Voucher Payments: This option is for UK schools/clubs only.  Only select this if childcare vouchers will be accepted for these sessions. If you select this option, you will have the choice to be able to limit which group can pay by childcare vouchers (please see this article about Restricting the use of Childcare Vouchers.)
12. Terms & Conditions: You can enter any terms & conditions that apply to all wraparound care. 
13. T&Cs additional info (URL): If you have your school T&Cs in a PDF file, for example, you can add a link to it here.
14. Booking Data Form: We can create a form for you to collect any other information you require of the student at the time of booking.
15. Transport Timeslot: If you have the transport module and wish to collect information about the bus a pupil is taking, you can add a form here.

    

    

    When the correct details have been entered click the green save button on the lower right of the screen.

Step 2: Group Creation 

From the left hand menu, click the Groups tab and then the blue + Add button at the top right.

Fill in the correct details regarding the Club.

1. Title: Title of the Group (Parents/Pupils will see this), e.g. 'Breakfast Club' or 'After Schoo Club'
2. Description: Description of the Group (Parents/Pupils will see this)
3. Available to: When selected, a pop-up box will appear to determine who can sign up for the Breakfast Club. Use the drop-down box and search bar to find the appropriate Year, Group, or Class that will have access. Once the correct option is selected, click 'Add' followed by the green 'Continue' button.
   Availability can be filtered by any group in the system. For example, if you only want a specific group like staff children to sign up, you can create a custom group and add those students. Only the parents or students in that group will be able to book. click here for how to create a custom group.
4. Gender: Gender of the Group
5. Lead Staff Member: Which Staff Member will be the Organiser of the group
6. Activity: This will not be visible to the booker so can be set as Other
7. Include in Sports Portal: No
8. Default Location: Location of the Breakfast Club
9. Group Code/Billing Code: If you have a code for each activity
   
   
   
   When the correct details have been entered, click the green Save' button.

Step 3:  Create Events

Now the group has been created it will appear in the container Groups tab.

Events must now be created for the group. To do this, click Create Events in the left hand menu and then the blue + Add New button.

Fill in the following information fields as follows:-

1. Title: The name of the event (eg Session)
2. Vital Information: any vital information surrounding the Club
3. Additional Information: any further information surrounding the Club
4. Booking Options: Please choose carefully
   • Individual: Each week's event needs to be booked separately; this means students can pick and choose which days they attend, and not necessarily join the activity every week. This article uses individual Booking as an example.
   • Block bookings: The events for each week are linked as a block; this means students are booking the entire series of the activity with a single booking. See more details for Block Booking at the bottom of this page.
5. Number of places: maximum number of places for the Club
6. Create for groups: select the newly created group
7. Location: this can either be the default location set above or a specified location from the drop-down bar
8. Event type: After School Club
9. Cost Type: Select Free or Chargeable
10. Price per session: The price per session (for example, £10 per after school club session)
11. Percentage to pay at time of booking/Deposit (%): The percentage required to pay when booking. Please enter 100 if full payment is required upfront; enter 0 if no upfront payment is required. 
12. Includes Tax: Check the box if applicable 
13. Payment Method: Default - Create Fees
14. Frequency: For this example of a term's sessions, it will be Multiple Days
15. Activities start/End date: First date and Last date of the club
    
16. Days of the week: select which days of the week
17. Start / End Time: Start and End time of the club 
18. Sign up opens in advance: This is optional. Leave blank to use the date & time set at container level
19. Click Create Rule 
    
    
    

Step 4: Publish Events

Now the events have been created, they must be published to be visible to users. Please go to the Publish Events tab. A summary of the events ready to create will be listed. At this point check all details are correct and check the last column Event Count is as expected.

1. Select the events you wish to publish once you've checked the event count is correct 
2. Click the I confirm tick box
3. Click Publish

When the events have been published and the sign up has opened, parents/pupils will be able to book the events.

Block Bookings 

If you selected Block Booking as the booking option, 

There are two additional options you can choose:

1. Allow joining part way through series: Check the box if you allow students to make bookings mid- term. 
   
2. Always Charge Full Price: Located just underneath the Cost Type
   If a student joins mid-term, the system only charges the student for the remaining sessions they have signed up for. If you wish to charge the students for the whole term, please check this box.
   
   

Please note that if you change the location of a Group after events have been created, this will not change the location of those events. This must be completed as well but the location can be bulk changed for all future events at once.

Please read the Editing part of this article for more information about how to do this: Editing, Deleting or Cancelling an event