How Booking Works
Booking Time
Once the payment for the month has been received, reservations are made easily, from anywhere:
- Log into the Buddings Account.
- Choose the day.
- Set the hours.
- Confirm snack options.
Reservations can be done with as little as one hour’s notice and, upon completion, appear on the Booking Calendar. Guardians will not be permitted to book more than 40 hours of reservations in a single calendar month.
There is no penalty for cancelling a booking. Just hit the “X” next to the hour(s) you want to cancel and see the hours return to your bank. An hour already in progress cannot be changed or cancelled, but you can extend or shorten reservations with as little as one hour’s notice. Opting in or out of the daily snack may be done directly from the reservations page.
Snacks
Buddings provides a range of healthy and delicious snacks for the children in our care. These are not substantial meals and guardians who wish to provide full meals may do so anytime. Snack hours at Buddings are at 11:00am and 3:00pm. When making a reservation that includes one or both of these hours, guardians are asked if they will provide a snack or “opt in” to the daily snack. Daily snacks are healthy, delicious, and kids can participate in cooking. Opting in costs $2, which is added to the Incidentals Invoice, and paid at the end of the term.
Extending Bookings
Running behind? Log into the Buddings Account and see if there is a spot available in the following hour. If space is available, simply reserve the following hour and avoid late fees and penalties.
Late fees
There are two kinds of late fees at Buddings, based on the space available in the centre:
Simple Late Fee – $15/30 minutes: If there is a spot available in the centre, a late pick-up does not affect other families and a $15 Simple Late Fee will be applied after 10 minutes for every half hour that you are late.
Inconvenience Late Fee – $50/30 minutes: If the following hour is fully booked, the late-comer prevents a new-comer from leaving their child, as the centre would then be over-capacity. The late fee in this instance is a $50 Inconvenience Late Fee applied for every 30 minutes.
Please consider the other families. It is always best to log into the Buddings Account and check the availability for the following hour if you think you will be late. And ALWAYS always call the centre if you will be more than 30 minutes late!! We will be waiting for you, and will be worried if we don’t hear.
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