Batch Activity Logging & Quick-Tap Teacher Shortcuts
Enables educators to log meals, nap times, or outdoor play for an entire group of children simultaneously with just a few taps on classroom tablets.
Features · Parent Communication & Engagement
Parent Communication & Family Portal
Keep families connected to their child’s day without adding teacher paperwork. Share real-time daily activity logs, milestone photos, and emergency broadcast alerts through a dedicated family app—while giving parents self-service access to auto-pay tuition ledgers, tax receipts, and bus rosters.
- Real-Time Photo & Video Sharing
- Instant Emergency Mass Push
- 198+ Language Auto-Translation
- 100% Free Family App
Core features
One family app for the whole day
Private Digital Daily Sheets & Real-Time Activity Feeds
Delivers real-time updates on meals, nap durations, bottle feedings, diaper changes, and learning activities directly to parent smartphones. Replaces paper daily sheets with an interactive, searchable activity feed.
Instant Photo & Video Sharing with Privacy Controls
Allows educators to capture and share photos and video clips of classroom moments. Smart privacy controls ensure media is shared only with authorized family members and respects parent photo release preferences.
Centralized In-App Messaging & Communication Hub
Keeps all family-teacher conversations organized within dedicated child and classroom channels. Replaces scattered text messages and emails with a secure, searchable thread history, read receipts, and administrative oversight across every room.
Emergency Mass Broadcast Push
Dispatches instant broadcast notifications via ringing app push alerts, and email during facility emergencies, unscheduled closures, or urgent health updates.
More Parent Communication & Engagement Features to Explore…
Also: Multi-guardian profiles for co-parents & grandparents · Photo-release prevention alerts · Infant room timers for naps & bottles
“Parents love the app — they are able to get updates on their kids in real-time, pay from the app and more.”
— Leah Bevan, Area Director, Magic Mountain Child Development Centers
All-in-one child care management software & app
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Billing & Online Payments
Billing & Online Payments
Automate tuition, subsidies and NSF recovery with $0 in monthly software fees.
Bill families daily, weekly or monthly, split subsidies like CWELCC from parent copays, and collect by ACH or PAD with automatic NSF notices and tax receipts.
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Tours, Waitlists & Registration
Child Care Admissions CRM & Waitlist Automation
Keep every classroom full with online tours, paperless enrollment and waitlists.
Families move from web inquiry to tour, application and roster automatically, while age-transition forecasting shows where your next openings are.
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Attendance & Digital Kiosk
Space-Based Attendance & Touchless Check-In
Track ratios and child locations in real time, room by room.
E-signed drop-offs and pick-ups keep live ratios across rooms, playground and transit, with alerts before limits are breached and allergy and custody flags on every roster.
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Automation, Tracking & Reports
Digital Licensing Logs & Audit-Ready Reports
Replace clipboards and binders with automated compliance logs.
Immunization checks, CACFP claims, incident and illness logs, allergy alerts and e-signed medication records stay audit-ready without the paperwork.
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Staff Administration & Scheduling
Teacher Scheduling & Staff Compliance
Build ratio-compliant schedules, track credentials and sync timesheets to payroll.
Match shifts to child arrival times, clock in at the kiosk, export timecards to payroll and get warned before CPR or background checks expire.
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Parent Communication & Engagement
Parent Communication & Family Portal
One app for daily updates, progress, billing and messaging.
Families get daily sheets, photos, progress reports and incident notices, pay tuition and message staff directly, with no phone tag or paper slips.
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Classroom & Learning Tools
Classroom Management & Learning Tools
Plan curriculum, track milestones and build digital portfolios.
Create or choose lesson plans, record observations against developmental milestones and share portfolios, progress reports and calendars with families.
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Accreditation Compliance
Industry-First Digital Accreditation Hub
Swap three-ring binders for a digital NECPA accreditation workflow.
Tag evidence against NECPA standards with date-stamped photos, then give assessors a secure link to review your portfolio remotely.
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AI & Smart Automation Features
ChildFriendly Pro AI Assistant
Turn quick notes into learning stories and polish family messages instantly.
Pilot drafts journal entries, learning stories and report cards from teacher notes, and refines or translates parent messages.
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Onboarding & Easy Data Migration
Free, Fast, Careful Data Migration: Live in Days, Not Weeks
Switch from Procare, Lillio, Brightwheel, or your current system with zero setup fees, zero downtime, and dedicated coaching.
Your data is migrated, reviewed, and approved by you before go-live, handled end to end by a dedicated specialist. Most centers complete onboarding in 3–5 business days, with nothing rushed to hit a deadline.
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Platform Security & Setup
Enterprise Cloud Security & Data Privacy
Protect child and family records with Microsoft Azure encryption.
256-bit AES encryption, PCI-compliant payment processing and role-based permissions keep data secure and compliant with PIPEDA, FERPA and COPPA.
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Dedicated support
Immediate Help From People Who Know Child Care.
No ticketing queues. No generic responses. When you reach out, you connect directly with experienced operators who know how to resolve subsidy questions, ledger balances, and room ratios on the spot.
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers to common questions about ChildFriendly Pro’s Parent Communication & Engagement
Read more FAQsHow do parents communicate with teachers during the day?
Families can send direct, secure messages to their child’s classroom teachers for quick check-ins, routine notes, or questions. Staff can respond during designated classroom times without interrupting learning, keeping all conversations centralized in one organized, searchable thread.
Can educators send photos to parents without giving out personal cell numbers?
Yes, teachers take photos directly inside the ChildFriendly classroom tablet app. Media uploads securely to parent feeds without saving to personal phone camera rolls, preserving educator privacy.
How do batch shortcuts save teachers time when logging daily sheets?
Teachers select multiple children on classroom tablets and tap 'Log Meal' or 'Log Nap' once. The update applies to all selected student daily sheets in seconds.
What happens during a emergency facility closure or weather alert?
Administrators send an Emergency Mass Broadcast. The system dispatches simultaneous push alerts, and emails to all parents.
Are there any subscription fees for parents to download and use the app?
No, the ChildFriendly parent app is 100% free for families to download on iOS and Android devices. Parents, grandparents, and authorized guardians access all features at zero cost.
How does the app protect child photo privacy for families opting out of social media?
ChildFriendly Pro respects parent photo release settings. If a parent opts out of media sharing, the system flags the child's profile with prevention alerts when attaching photos.
How are daily nap, meal, and potty updates organized for infant rooms?
Infant daily sheets display interactive timers for nap durations and bottle feedings. Staff log fluid intake and diaper details with quick taps, giving parents live visibility.
Can parents invite grandparents or babysitting guardians to view app updates?
Yes, primary account holders invite authorized relatives or caregivers to download the app, granting custom view-only or pickup permissions.
Can directors publish digital newsletters with PDF attachments to parent feeds?
Yes, administrators can attach Newsletters and publish them directly to all family feeds.
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