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Finance 3: Funding

Set up children's regular funding in multiple ways with Finance 3. The way in which you set up depends on the invoice.

Written by Abbie
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Create your funding types

  • More > Settings > Finance > Funding > + Create.

    🌸Can’t follow the steps below? You might have an older version of our platform! Please follow this link to add funding if you are on the Finance 2 version of Ovivio.


  • Funding type name (e.g. 2 year old 15 hour funding)


  • Funding type

    • Select regular funding if this will be deducted from invoices

    • Select one-off funding if this will not be deducted from invoices (e.g. EYPP)


  • Funding period: This is only relevant if you use Funding Loop, a separate software that Ovivio is compatible with.


  • Funding invoice deduction: Choose the option that best suits how you apply funding to children’s invoices.

    • Deduct session hourly rate

      • Use this option if you apply the funding as free hours (e.g. A 15-hour funded child will pay £0 for 15 hours of sessions, and anything extra will be payable by the parent).

    • Deduct funding local authority (LA) hourly rate

      • Use this option if you deduct the LA hourly rate as a monetary value from the invoice (e.g. A 15-hour funded child will have your LA hourly rate x 15 deducted from their invoice).

        📌 If the wrong deduction type is selected, this cannot be edited once the funding type is saved. You will need to archive the funding type, then create a new one. See FAQs below.


  • Charge funding deficit: Leave this unticked unless you charge parents the difference between your LA hourly rate and your session rate.


  • Funded hours per week: (e.g. 15 hours for term-time funding, fewer if you stretch your funding across the year)

  • Max hours per day: This is the maximum amount of funding that will be allocated in one day (e.g. a full day session is 10 hours long, so my max hours per day will be 10).


  • Local authority hourly rate: This will be provided by your local authority

    • + Schedule Hourly rate change: click this if you know your LA rate will be increasing in the future


  • Redistribution rules for funded hours on untypical weeks: Select how funding is applied during untypical weeks (Note: Your closure days are set in More > Settings > Closure days)

    • Closure days (sessions chargeable): Apply, Do not apply, or Redistribute funding to other days within the same week

      • If you choose to apply funding, the session hourly rate will be deducted from the invoice on these days.

    • Closure days (sessions not chargeable): Apply, Do not apply, or Redistribute funding to other days within the same week

      • If you choose to apply funding, the LA hourly rate will be deducted from the invoice on these days.

    • Term time holidays: this field is only relevant for term-time children

      • If this is term-time funding for term-time children, select Do not apply funding.

      • If this is stretched funding for term-time children, select Apply funding.

    • Booking plan ends mid-week: This is relevant if a child changes their booking pattern mid-week. We suggest selecting Do not apply funding. Alternatively, to change a booking pattern from the start of a week.


  • Funding exclusion periods: Place exclusion weeks here if this is term-time funding for all-year-round children. This will ensure that funding will not be allocated during the weeks you have selected.


  • Invoice display options: Choose the options that show how you want funding to appear on parents’ invoices.


  • Remember to click ‘Save’!


Funding FAQs:

How can I delete/archive a funding type?

  • More > Settings > Finance > Funding > 3 dots: Archive.

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