I am looking at changing my rates or how I charge my rates. I started out with daily rates and liked the simplicity but I had families dropping off and showing up without letting me know and it was driving me nuts. Two years ago I switched to hourly rates which I liked for awhile but now I have one family that is here 30.5 hours/week and here 5 days. Due to the hours they are here per day I can't fill another spot to make up for their hours (Either 7:30-3 or 9:30-3). Anything I come up with though for charging differently, increases their rate by $10 or more per week. Maybe I'm just being too picky with things? I know I need to pick a way to charge and stick with it. I don't want to keep switching but I haven't found a system that works for me. How do you charge and what has worked for you? Going on my 7th year and I would like to figure this out and just leave it...

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