Users · Families & Parents
Daily Activity Tracking & Tuition Portal for Families
A single mobile app for your child’s early learning journey: follow live daily logs, photos, development milestones and progress reports. Manage auto-pay tuition and tax receipts, and access event calendars, weekly lesson plans, absence reporting, and school bus rosters.
- 100%Free for families
- 198+Languages auto-translated
- 1-tapTax receipts & auto-pay
Highlights for Families
Confidence, transparency and true peace of mind
Real-Time Classroom Activity Feeds & Photos
Stay connected to your child's day through private, real-time activity updates. Track meals, nap durations, and diaper routines, development milestones, progress reports and view classroom photos and videos shared through secure, privacy-protected channels.
Parent Self-Service Wallet & Instant Tax Receipts
Review itemized tuition balances, schedule pre-authorized bank or card payments, and split billing between separate households effortlessly. When tax season arrives, download official annual child care tax receipts directly in the app.
Interactive Calendars, RSVPs & Absence Notices
Keep track of program closures, theme days, and field trips from a single mobile calendar. Submit sick days, planned vacations, or transportation changes with a quick tap to keep classroom teachers and kitchen teams informed in advance.
Mobile Bus Rosters & Transport Tracking
Never worry about afternoon pick-up confusion again. Update your child's transport schedule inside the app, giving drivers real-time boarding rosters and confirming safe drop-offs with timestamped check-ins.
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Billing & Online Payments
Billing & Online Payments
Automate tuition collection, government subsidies, and NSF failure recovery with $0 in monthly software fees.
ChildFriendly Pro processes family ledger billing across daily, weekly, and monthly cycles, automating subsidy splits for CWELCC and state child care assistance vouchers alongside parent copayments. The system executes ACH direct debits and pre-authorized debit (PAD) transactions, flags NSF rejections with automated collection notices, and generates digital child care tax receipts without per-transaction software surcharges.
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Tours, Waitlists & Registration
Child Care Admissions CRM & Waitlist Automation
Keep every classroom at full capacity with automated tours, paperless enrollment, and waitlist tracking.
ChildFriendly Pro models center capacity across infant, toddler, preschool, and after-school rooms by tracking birthdates against age-transition thresholds, upcoming withdraws and new enrollments to keep classrooms full. The admissions pipeline eliminates paper forms by automating the entire enrollment sequence—transitioning families from initial web inquiry, scheduled tour, and digital application directly into the registered roster or priority waitlist with automated email updates at every step.
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Attendance & Digital Kiosk
Space-Based Attendance & Touchless Check-In
Enforce real-time room ratios and track child locations room-by-room across classrooms, playground and transit.
ChildFriendly Pro tracks classroom occupancy via time-stamped, e-signed guardian drop-offs and pick-ups. The system calculates real-time staff-to-child room ratios across rooms, playground and transit vehicles, issues alerts before licensing ratios are breached, and displays visual roster indicators for food allergies and legal custody pickup orders.
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Automation, Tracking & Reports
Digital Licensing Logs & Audit-Ready Reports
Replace clipboards and binders with automated licensing logs, CACFP claims, and customizable daily compliance workflows.
ChildFriendly Pro replaces physical center paperwork with a fully automated compliance hub. Beyond evaluating immunization records against state and provincial health mandates, the platform automates CACFP food program documentation, incident and illness logs, digital allergy alerts, and e-signed medication administration workflows—among dozens of daily operational tasks designed to keep centers audit-ready.
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Staff Administration & Scheduling
Teacher Scheduling & Staff Compliance
Build ratio-compliant shift schedules, track mandatory staff credentials, and sync timesheets to payroll.
ChildFriendly Pro simplifies child care workforce management by aligning staff schedules directly with real-time child arrival curves to prevent overstaffing while protecting mandatory teacher-to-child ratios. Beyond shift optimization, the platform centralizes digital timecards with direct payroll export, enforces kiosk-based punch-ins, and tracks CPR certifications, background checks, and professional development hours with automated renewal warnings before documentation expires.
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Parent Communication & Engagement
Parent Communication & Family Portal
Connect families to daily classroom activities, progress milestones, billing, and direct center messaging.
The ChildFriendly Pro parent app centralizes daily family engagement into a unified hub, eliminating fragmented communications. Guardians receive real-time digital daily sheets, media updates, developmental progress reports, and incident notices alongside self-serve access to attendance records and tuition ledger payments. Two-way direct messaging and email broadcast tools include standardized message templates and multi-channel delivery to keep staff and families aligned without phone tag or paper slips.
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Classroom & Learning Tools
Classroom Management & Learning Tools
Customize curriculum, map developmental milestones, and build digital portfolios with shared classroom calendars.
ChildFriendly Pro equips educators to build custom, standards-aligned lesson plans or select from pre-loaded learning activities tailored to program goals. Teachers capture real-time classroom observations, tag developmental milestones, compile media-rich child portfolios, and generate formal progress reports for family conferences. Integrated classroom calendars, shared photo journals, learning documentation, and newsletters keep daily room schedules organized and curriculum progress accessible to parents.
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Accreditation Compliance
Industry-First Digital Accreditation Hub
Replace physical three-ring binders with an integrated digital workflow for NECPA accreditation standards.
ChildFriendly Pro replaces heavy three-ring compliance binders with a digital self-assessment platform built around official NECPA accreditation standards. Staff tag and organize classroom observation evidence, curriculum plans, and educator credentials directly against accreditation rubrics. Uploaded documentation photos are automatically stamped with unalterable site IDs, room numbers, and dates, while secure, time-limited portal links let external assessors review complete evidence portfolios remotely.
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AI & Smart Automation Features
ChildFriendly Pro AI Assistant
Turn brief teacher observations into framework-aligned learning stories and refine family messages instantly.
ChildFriendly Pro Pilot streamlines daily documentation by polishing parent emails and messages for tone, clarity, and professionalism while providing instant multi-language translation. The assistant transforms teacher field notes into detailed classroom journal entries, standards-aligned learning stories, and formal student report cards with minimal manual writing. Built strictly for early childhood privacy compliance, all child data, developmental records, and center communications operate inside isolated, secure environments that never train public AI models.
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Onboarding & Easy Data Migration
Free 24-Hour White-Glove Data Migration
Switch from Procare, Lillio, Brightwheel, or your current system with zero setup fees, zero downtime, and dedicated coaching.
ChildFriendly Pro eliminates the friction of switching platforms with a full-service, 24-hour migration guarantee managed directly by dedicated data specialists. Our team extracts, cleans, and re-formats existing child rosters, guardian profiles, and family billing ledgers from legacy child care management systems or spreadsheets without disrupting daily operations. To ensure complete financial accuracy, ledgers are run in parallel prior to launch, while role-based video training modules quickly get directors, lead educators, and parents up to speed.
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Platform Security & Setup
Enterprise Cloud Security & Data Privacy
Protect child and family records with enterprise Microsoft Azure encryption and strict regulatory compliance.
ChildFriendly Pro safeguards sensitive child care data through Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure featuring 256-bit AES encryption at rest and in transit under a 99.9% uptime SLA. Tuition payments and bank accounts are protected within PCI DSS Level 1 certified vaults, ensuring zero local storage of raw financial details. Granular, role-based user permissions restrict document access to authorized personnel, maintaining compliance with PIPEDA, FERPA, and COPPA data privacy mandates backed by unalterable security audit logs.
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“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
Is the ChildFriendly Parent App completely free for parents to download?
Yes, the ChildFriendly Parent App is 100% free for families to download on iOS and Android devices. There are zero subscription fees or hidden costs for parents.
How do parents receive daily photos and activity updates from school?
Parents receive real-time push notifications whenever teachers log photos, meals, nap times, or milestone updates. Updates appear in a private, searchable timeline feed.
Can co-parents and authorized grandparents maintain separate app accounts?
Yes, multi-guardian profiles allow co-parents, grandparents, and authorized pickups to maintain individual accounts with customized notification settings. Privacy controls ensure data security.
How do parents pay tuition through the mobile app?
Parents view itemized balance statements and pay via credit card, debit card, or bank account (PAD/ACH) with one tap. Auto-pay can be enabled for hands-free monthly billing.
How do parents download annual child care tax receipts?
Parents navigate to the 'Financial' tab in the app to download official verified end-of-year tax summary PDFs instantly. Eliminates waiting for paper receipts from center staff.
Are photos and child records secure inside the app?
Yes, all daily sheets, photos, messages, and child records are encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption and hosted on secure enterprise cloud servers. Media is never shared publicly.
How do parents notify the center if a child is sick or absent?
Parents tap 'Log Absence' in the app to notify teachers and directors of planned absences or illness before morning drop-off. Rosters update automatically.
What should a parent do if they forget their app password or PIN?
Parents tap 'Forgot PIN' on the login screen to receive an instant password reset link via secure email. Parents can view their PIN directly in that app. Support is available 24/7.
Your child’s day, in your pocket.
Ask your center for an invite, or download the free ChildFriendly app on iOS and Android.