#1 Alberta-Specific Childcare Management Software
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Built for Alberta’s childcare providers, ChildFriendly Pro helps you streamline operations, stay compliant with licensing regulations, and reduce administrative hours—so you can focus on what matters most: the children.
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AUTOMATED
Billing & Financial Management
Effortlessly sync financial records with QuickBooks and other systems. Streamline billing with automated invoicing and payments, including PAD/ACH and Credit Cards.
Customize invoices, email receipts, and empower families to manage finances directly from their app.
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SMART
Registration & Waitlist Management
Guarantee your program stays full, with built-in forecasts of future space availability, automatically enrolling or waitlisting children as needed.
Go digital with registration forms embedded on your website and policies featuring electronic signatures. Enhance efficiency further with tailored onboarding checklists, deposit options, and more!
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STREAMLINED
Classroom & Learning Management
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Customize curriculum and lesson plans to meet your educational objectives. Track milestones, compile portfolios, and generate progress reports seamlessly.
Enhance educator-parent communication with shared photos, documents, and journals. Stay organized with classroom calendars and newsletters for streamlined coordination.
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POWERFUL
Attendance & Touchless Check In
Automate attendance, hours, and location tracking for simplified administration.
Organize safe school transportation efficiently. Prioritize safety with secure, contactless check-in/out.
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Seamlessly transfer children between groups to maintain ratio compliance.
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EFFECTIVE
Staff Scheduling & Management
Efficiently manage payroll reporting with streamlined integration into your Accounting Software. Track staff hours and task assignments with precision, preventing over-logging for accurate record-keeping.
Maintain compliance effortlessly with a comprehensive database of staff information and document expiration tracking.
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ENGAGING
Explore our parent app for easy access to classroom updates, progress reports, incident records, messaging, attendance, payment management, and more—all in one convenient place!
Utilize our messaging and email platform with short cuts for seamless communication.
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ChildFriendly has been amazing for our childcare centers. It’s packed with features that help us manage multiple programs. Our staff scheduling is significantly more efficient now too as we can easily see where staff are at all times and if we are over or under staffed at different times throughout the day so that we can plan our schedule accordingly. There are so many other features too. We are completely digital and probably the best part is that we don't have to rely on front office staff to ensure our programs stay full. ChildFriendly takes care of it automatically. Its great! They really understand the needs of organizations like ours. We’re very happy with it!
CORiNA JEPPESEN, COO OF ACTIVE START CHILD CARE
~1500 CHILDREN
ChildFriendly is fantastic for our small preschool. It’s super easy to use and helps us keep track of attendance, milestones, report cards, fees and parent communication. The reports are great for parent-teacher meetings. Plus, their support team is always helpful. OH and their Quickbooks integration is amazing. Highly recommend!
Debbie Rausch, Accounts Manager for Footprints for Learning Preschool
~75 children
ChildFriendly has made a huge difference in our daycares. With over 900 children across multiple centers, keeping track of everything used to be very difficult. Now we are fully digital. We were able to get rid of our filing cabinets and everything is so organized, easy to manage, and easily accessible. Fee collection is now a breeze. We used to be constantly tracking and trying to figure out which families owed, then follow up with collecting. Now all our fees are up to date in real time and at a click of the button we are able to process payments instantly for all families. It is so easy! Parents love the app too – they are able to get updates on their kids in real-time, pay from the app and more. I don’t know how we managed without it!
Leah Bevan, Area Director of Magic Mountain Child Development Centers
~900 children
ChildFriendly has made a huge difference in our daycares. With over 900 children across multiple centers, keeping track of everything used to be very difficult. Now we are fully digital. We were able to get rid of our filing cabinets and everything is so organized, easy to manage, and easily accessible. Fee collection is now a breeze. We used to be constantly tracking and trying to figure out which families owed, then follow up with collecting. Now all our fees are up to date in real time and at a click of the button we are able to process payments instantly for all families. It is so easy! Parents love the app too – they are able to get updates on their kids in real-time, pay from the app and more. I don’t know how we managed without it!
Leah Bevan, Area Director of Magic Mountain Child Development Centers
~900 children
ChildFriendly is fantastic for our small preschool. It’s super easy to use and helps us keep track of attendance, milestones, report cards, fees and parent communication. The reports are great for parent-teacher meetings. Plus, their support team is always helpful. OH and their Quickbooks integration is amazing. Highly recommend!
Debbie Rausch, Accounts Manager for Footprints for Learning Preschool
~75 children
Built for Alberta’s Daycare Operators: Here’s How We Help You Succeed
The Challenge
The Solution with ChildFriendly
❌ Keeping up with Alberta’s strict childcare licensing requirements is overwhelming and time-consuming.
✅ Meets Alberta Licensing Standards – Digital forms, compliance tracking, and audit-ready reporting.
❌ Managing payments, grants, and subsidy tracking manually leads to errors and wasted time.
✅ Automates Payments & Grants – Handles Alberta childcare grants, flat rates, optional service fees, OSC subsidy tracking, and grant reconciliations.
❌ Tracking attendance, ratios, incidents, and medications manually is inefficient and prone to mistakes.
✅ Simplifies Compliance & Attendance – Tracks ratios, medications, incidents, and daily logs, fully compliant with Alberta standards.
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❌ Most childcare management software isn’t designed with Alberta-specific regulations and needs in mind.
✅ Built by Alberta Operators – Practical, easy-to-use solutions designed by industry experts.
❌ Parents expect real-time communication, but phone calls, emails, and paperwork take up too much time.
✅ Enhances Parent Communication – Digital registration, real-time updates, and waitlist management.
Affordable Plans Designed for Alberta Daycare Providers
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Start with a Free Account (Lite Version)
Upgrade to Pro for advanced features, including PAD & Credit Card Payments.
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Our pricing is simple, transparent, and designed with your daycare center in mind. With our Lite Account, you can access essential childcare management features at no cost, as it does not include the secure online payment feature.
Once you enable online payments, you’ll automatically switch to the Pro Account, where a merchant fee applies to each PAD/ACH and credit card transaction you process. However, you have the option to automatically pass these fees through to families, ensuring ChildFriendly remains completely cost-free for your center. No hidden fees, no surprises—just clear, predictable pricing.
Our software includes Alberta-specific forms, templates, and reporting tools to make compliance easy.
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