Famly vs Parent

Lillio

brightwheel

Procare Solutions

Connect Childcare

ACADEMIA ERP / SIS

Ovivio

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Connect Childcare is an all-in-one, secure nursery management system for childcare providers in the UK. The software is easy to use, tracks and organizes every aspect of daycare operations, and provides nurseries with tools needed to run a daycare business. Connect Childcare provides features to manage child records, invoicing and finance, parent communications, grant funding, and more.

Ovivio is a complete solution that helps large and small nursery groups streamline their nursery operations, and manage children, staff, and finances from a unified dashboard.

Brightwheel is both a mobile app (Android + iOS) and cloud-based software built for childcare, daycare, and preschool programs. Brightwheel childcare management software offers digital check-in/-out, digital daily reports, paperless billing, robust parent comms, and free training and support.

Famly is a cloud and mobile-based daycare management software that assists with digital enrollment, automatic billing, instant message translation, and more.

Activity Dashboard

Activity Tracking

Alerts/Notifications

Attendance Tracking

Billing & Invoicing

Calendar Management

Check-in/Check-out

Class Scheduling

Communications Management

Contact Database

Customer Accounts

Daily Reports

Data Security

Document Management

Electronic Signature

Employee Management

Enrollments/Onboarding

Immunization & Allergy Tracking

Incident Management

Lesson Planning

Meal/Nutrition Management

Milestone Tracking

Mobile Access

Multi-Language

Multi-Location

Parent Portal

Payment Processing

Records Management

Registration Management

Reporting & Statistics

Role-Based Permissions

Student Information/Records

Task Management

Third-Party Integrations

Wait List Management

Famly

Android

Web-based

iPad

iPhone

early years manager

Famly have always been fantastic, the software is great, customer service are always able to help and really quickly.

Nursery Director

The app is so easy to use and such a great tool to share information with parents. Beautiful learning journeys for our children including videos that they will look back on.

Administrator

Overall we have had a great experience the past year, we hope for a long and positive relationship.

First Aid Trainer

I like the ability to message nursery staff directly from the app, but also the ability to message other parents - this gives it more of a community feel.

Deputy Manager

Staff can reply straight away. Great way to keep general communication with parents and staff and for good team communication too.

Practice Manager

This is especially important in the present pandemic as parents are not allowed in to the buildings. The newsfeed feature is great.

Director

Overall a very good app and i would certainly recommend it for any school or nursery.

warehouse office manager 

Only thing is that the push notification for an accident does not tell you what child it is about.

Coordinator

Sometimes staff in the sleep room change and it can be hard calculating 7 different wake up times from the time each child has been marked to have fallen asleep.

Nursery assistant 

I would love medicine forms to be on here and temperature checks. Very easy to use and do observations.

Manager / Director

Famly has been one of the best things we have purchased for the nursery. We have been able to communicate immediately when needed with all of our families throughout lockdown (and before).

Nursery manager 

We like the easy sign in options, quick and easy method to log meals, nappies and sleeps and the news feed is a quick efficient way of communicating to parents.

Admin Manager

The ease of use, we also pay for the staff attendance so feel we use Famly fully, making it worth the money.

Manager

If a child hasn't started but register and you make a mistake on the room moves this can be hard to amend without seeking help. Can this be made the same as children who are registered.

Office manager and teacher 

Easy to use, money saving, paper saving. Has really helped our business.

How long it takes for Famly to implement a new tool. Pulling off children's journeys when they leave.

Famly screenshot: Famly manage and automate the entire childcare center

Famly screenshot: Famly features

Famly screenshot: famly send out posts, photos, individual and group observations, daily activity reports and updates on each and every child

Famly screenshot: Famly get digital waitlists, custom enrollment forms, waitlist overviews and automatic child profiles, as well as a complete overview of all future available spaces

Famly screenshot: No need for an interpreter. Translate all messages, newsfeed posts and observations in seconds. Bring your community closer and connect with every family. ¿Habla español? Use the entire app in Spanish!

Famly screenshot: From one-click and automatic payments to payment reminders, never chase fees again. And everything is reconciled automatically.

Famly screenshot: With our award-winning customer support, get personalized care and 1-on-1 guidance every step of the way. At no extra cost.

Freelancers

Large Enterprises

Mid Size Business

Non Profit

Public Administrations

Small Business

Lillio is a cloud-based solution for parent communication, digital daily reports generation, and educational documentation in daycare, child care and preschool classrooms.

Procare Solutions is a cloud-based childcare management software that simplifies administrative tasks and enables contactless check-in/out, integrated tuition collection, business management, and more.

Academia ERP software for schools, colleges, universities, and training institutes. It comes with 30+ modules that assist the academic and administrative staff in managing, monitoring, and administering all the operations in an institute. Includes - admissions, attendance, examination, MIS, etc.

Simplify childcare with Parent: in-app payments, messaging, planning & more. All in one easy app that saves time and boosts family engagement.

Admissions Management

Assessment Management

Attendance Management

Bookstore Management

Class Registration

Communication Management

Credit Card Processing

Curriculum Management

Customizable Forms

Customizable Reports

Data Import/Export

Document Storage

Electronic Payments

Enrollment Confirmation

Event Calendar

Facility Management

Faculty/Staff Management

Financial Management

Housing Management

Learning Management

Library Management

Online Calendar

Online Payments

Online Registration

Parent/Student Portal

Progress Reports

Real-Time Reporting

Reminders

Reporting/Analytics

Scheduling

Self Service Portal

Student Management

Parent

Linux

Windows

Owner 

Parent is very easy to access we use it daily and the transition from a different app to parent was super easy the team at parent are very supportive and available to communicate with them anytime.

Principal 

Customer support is amazing. Friendly efficient feedback and the software does what it’s supposed to do.

Management/ teacher 

It is easy, handy and awesome way to go paperless on passing out documents to the parents. I find the support team is very helpful.

Assistant Director

Our experience with Parent has been successful, as we saw its full benefit during the COVID years.

Nursery principal 

All the features on the app are focused on early years education and is super easy to use.

Marketing Manager

We have saved so much of our budget from not having to print so much and now we can use that budget esle where. The app is definately worth it.

It is still beeing developed and minor defects have to be sorted out.

I absolutely love the inspirations library; it makes it so fast and easy to prepare activities and serves as a database for all our activities that we can easily find and use again.

Head of Early Years

They will always respond to any queries that we have and action immediately. I have used a range of apps for Early Years and Parent App is by far the most user friendly and effective.

Administrative Supervisor

The convenience of tracking children progress and status at ease.

Branch Manager

The application truly stands out for its simplicity and effectiveness.

Pædagogisk assistent/Kindergarten teacher 

It's easy to use and has a lot of possibilities and the opportunity to costumize.

It's simplicity and ease of use not only for our Early Years Educators but for our parents too.

It’s nursery /parent application so if the parent  don’t use it correctly  and doesn’t coordinate with us ,I think we will have lack on this apo.

Broken down many times and gave us trouble signing in many times.

Nursery Manager

Cause while creating the event calendar multiple messages goes to parents which sometimes annoys them.

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