Through our experience empowering many of our clients with a trusted financial partnership, our team at Hopscotch Accounting has skilled up with the early childhood centre management app OWNA. This understanding of a sector specific app, is quite unique to the Hopscotch team.
If you manage a kindergarten, childcare centre, daycare centre or OSHC service, and you are currently using OWNA, unlike most accountants, Hopscotch Accounting can easily jump in and assist with your billing of parents, payroll and accounting.
Why Most Accountants Struggle with OWNA – And Why Hopscotch Accounting Doesn’t.
OWNA is built specifically for the childcare industry, it’s brilliant for managing enrolments, CCS, daily attendance, and parent communication. But when it comes to the financial side, many accountants find themselves lost. Why? Because OWNA isn’t just another bookkeeping tool, it’s a sector-specific platform with its own quirks, workflows, and data structures.
OWNA handles CCS submissions and adjustments but if you don’t know the rules and timing behind CCS claims, it’s easy to misinterpret what’s in the system. This can cause delays, missed funding, or reconciliation headaches.
OWNA is Built for Operators, Not Accountants. Childcare operators find OWNA intuitive for daily tasks, but for accountants, the workflow isn’t always logical. Unless you understand both childcare operations and financial management, key details can be missed.
Our team at Hopscotch have a deep understanding of how OWNA stores and processes information, allowing our team to pull accurate reports by knowing exactly where to look (and which report to trust).
The Hidden Benefits of Having an Accountant Who Knows OWNA Inside Out.
An accountant fluent in OWNA knows exactly which reports to run, how to extract accurate data, and how to reconcile it with your accounting system without endless back-and-forth which frees up your admin team allowing them to focus on running the centre, not chasing numbers.
Without OWNA expertise, it’s easy for accountants to misinterpret CCS payments, overstate or understate revenue, or miss adjustments entirely, delaying parent statements, creating shortfalls and reworking reports. An OWNA-proficient accountant knows the quirks of subsidy timing, adjustments, and reporting, which means preventing costly mistakes.
Not All Accounting Software Speaks Childcare — But OWNA Does (And So Do We)
Most accounting systems are built for general business. They don’t understand enrolment cycles, CCS payments, attendance data, or the unique funding rules that childcare centres deal with every day. OWNA does and it’s designed specifically for childcare centres. The challenge? Those details don’t automatically translate into the clean, compliant financial reports your board, funding bodies, and auditors need. That’s where Hopscotch Accounting comes in.
We act as your interpreter, taking OWNA’s childcare specific data, reconciling it with your accounting platform, and turning it into clear, accurate financials you can rely on. The result? You get the best of both worlds: OWNA’s operational precision and professional, audit-ready accounting.If you are a kindergarten, childcare centre, daycare centre or OSHC service and looking for a finance partner who speaks OWNA fluently, so your numbers are always accurate, compliant, and stress-free, give our team at Hopscotch a call on 📞 1300 HOP 123 or visit our website at www.haccounting.com.au
