How Playground Can Help You Have the Best School Year Yet

Jessica Waldman

Make your families & teachers happier

All-in-one child care management platform with billing, attendance, registration, communication, payroll, and more!

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Make your families & teachers happier

All-in-one child care management platform with billing, attendance, registration, communication, payroll, and more!

5.0 Rating

See Playground

Is your child care business set up for success?

Playground is here to streamline your operational responsibilities. Save time on paperwork distribution, enrollment, billing, and more, so that you can focus your time on providing high-quality child care.

Here's how Playground can help you have the most efficient school year yet:

Digitize Paperwork
Leave behind paper clutter, indecipherable handwriting, and lost documents. Use Playground’s Paperwork feature to centralize your document management within a secure digital repository. Say goodbye to manual data entry with Playground's automatic autofill feature, minimizing errors and redundant tasks.
No more chasing after families for missing documents. You can use Playground to send automated email reminders, ensuring timely completion of required documents. Families can effortlessly submit documents directly through the platform, eliminating the need for them to make special trips or rely on traditional mail.
Most importantly, Playground prioritizes security, offering a secure electronic signature feature for legally binding documents.
Simplify Enrollment
With Playground, you can manage enrollment with ease. Set up your enrollment listing by adding all the important details for prospective and returning families to know, add the different enrollment plans you offer, attach the paperwork you need applicants to complete, set pricing options, and you’re done.
Your enrollment listing will automatically be turned into a landing page you can link anywhere on your website, social media, or other ways you share your details with your community.
As families apply or reapply into your listings, you will see their applications appear within your enrollment dashboard.
Set up automated and personalized emails to be sent to families as you move them from the enrollment flow from “applied” to “accepted,” “waitlisted,” or “rejected.” You only have to set these emails up once and they will automatically be sent to any application you move into this category.
You can use Playground to manage your waitlist and communicate with parents about availability and updates. Send out bulk email updates to applicants in different stages of your application process for ease of communication.
Streamline Billing
With Playground, you can automate your billing processes. As families enroll into your center, they will join their selected billing plan. As you configure these billing plans, you can set the amount and frequency you would like your families to be billed. Billing can also be customized at the individual student level since we know each family may be different. The benefit is you only have to set your billing process up once and it will be automatically managed for you.
You can set up automatic billing, accept credit card payments, and generate invoices with just a few clicks. Plus, Playground allows you to set flexible payment options, including prorating and sibling discounts, to make things easier for families. Playground also supports subsidy management, allowing you to easily track subsidies you have received from agencies and distribute them among your students.
Automate Attendance Tracking
Manually tracking attendance can be time-consuming, but Playground's automated attendance tracking feature eliminates the need for paper sign-in sheets. Parents can check their children in and out using a tablet or smartphone, and you can access real-time attendance records anytime, anywhere. This feature also allows you to quickly generate attendance reports for licensing and compliance purposes. You can filter attendance reports by the student, classroom, specific time periods, and more.
Simplify Communication
Playground offers an easy-to-use messaging feature that enables you to communicate with parents and staff quickly and efficiently. You can send messages, photos, and updates directly to parents via the mobile app in the form of push notifications, SMS messages, and email to ensure they are receiving your message. You can also use Playground to share activities, announcements, incidents, and other events that occur throughout your day, keeping everyone informed and up-to-date.

Get Valuable Insights
Playground's reporting feature provides valuable insights into your preschool's operations. You can generate reports on enrollment, attendance, billing, and more, helping you identify trends and areas for improvement. These insights can help you make informed decisions about your school or program's operations and future growth.

Playground can save you time, reduce stress, and improve the overall experience for parents, staff, and children. By using Playground, you can set your business up for success and have the best school year yet!

Is your child care business set up for success?

Here's how Playground can help you have the most efficient school year yet:

Digitize Paperwork
Leave behind paper clutter, indecipherable handwriting, and lost documents. Use Playground’s Paperwork feature to centralize your document management within a secure digital repository. Say goodbye to manual data entry with Playground's automatic autofill feature, minimizing errors and redundant tasks.
No more chasing after families for missing documents. You can use Playground to send automated email reminders, ensuring timely completion of required documents. Families can effortlessly submit documents directly through the platform, eliminating the need for them to make special trips or rely on traditional mail.
Most importantly, Playground prioritizes security, offering a secure electronic signature feature for legally binding documents.
Simplify Enrollment
With Playground, you can manage enrollment with ease. Set up your enrollment listing by adding all the important details for prospective and returning families to know, add the different enrollment plans you offer, attach the paperwork you need applicants to complete, set pricing options, and you’re done.
Your enrollment listing will automatically be turned into a landing page you can link anywhere on your website, social media, or other ways you share your details with your community.
As families apply or reapply into your listings, you will see their applications appear within your enrollment dashboard.
Set up automated and personalized emails to be sent to families as you move them from the enrollment flow from “applied” to “accepted,” “waitlisted,” or “rejected.” You only have to set these emails up once and they will automatically be sent to any application you move into this category.
You can use Playground to manage your waitlist and communicate with parents about availability and updates. Send out bulk email updates to applicants in different stages of your application process for ease of communication.
Streamline Billing
With Playground, you can automate your billing processes. As families enroll into your center, they will join their selected billing plan. As you configure these billing plans, you can set the amount and frequency you would like your families to be billed. Billing can also be customized at the individual student level since we know each family may be different. The benefit is you only have to set your billing process up once and it will be automatically managed for you.
You can set up automatic billing, accept credit card payments, and generate invoices with just a few clicks. Plus, Playground allows you to set flexible payment options, including prorating and sibling discounts, to make things easier for families. Playground also supports subsidy management, allowing you to easily track subsidies you have received from agencies and distribute them among your students.
Automate Attendance Tracking
Manually tracking attendance can be time-consuming, but Playground's automated attendance tracking feature eliminates the need for paper sign-in sheets. Parents can check their children in and out using a tablet or smartphone, and you can access real-time attendance records anytime, anywhere. This feature also allows you to quickly generate attendance reports for licensing and compliance purposes. You can filter attendance reports by the student, classroom, specific time periods, and more.
Simplify Communication
Playground offers an easy-to-use messaging feature that enables you to communicate with parents and staff quickly and efficiently. You can send messages, photos, and updates directly to parents via the mobile app in the form of push notifications, SMS messages, and email to ensure they are receiving your message. You can also use Playground to share activities, announcements, incidents, and other events that occur throughout your day, keeping everyone informed and up-to-date.

Get Valuable Insights
Playground's reporting feature provides valuable insights into your preschool's operations. You can generate reports on enrollment, attendance, billing, and more, helping you identify trends and areas for improvement. These insights can help you make informed decisions about your school or program's operations and future growth.

Is your child care business set up for success?

Here's how Playground can help you have the most efficient school year yet:

Digitize Paperwork
Leave behind paper clutter, indecipherable handwriting, and lost documents. Use Playground’s Paperwork feature to centralize your document management within a secure digital repository. Say goodbye to manual data entry with Playground's automatic autofill feature, minimizing errors and redundant tasks.
No more chasing after families for missing documents. You can use Playground to send automated email reminders, ensuring timely completion of required documents. Families can effortlessly submit documents directly through the platform, eliminating the need for them to make special trips or rely on traditional mail.
Most importantly, Playground prioritizes security, offering a secure electronic signature feature for legally binding documents.
Simplify Enrollment
With Playground, you can manage enrollment with ease. Set up your enrollment listing by adding all the important details for prospective and returning families to know, add the different enrollment plans you offer, attach the paperwork you need applicants to complete, set pricing options, and you’re done.
Your enrollment listing will automatically be turned into a landing page you can link anywhere on your website, social media, or other ways you share your details with your community.
As families apply or reapply into your listings, you will see their applications appear within your enrollment dashboard.
Set up automated and personalized emails to be sent to families as you move them from the enrollment flow from “applied” to “accepted,” “waitlisted,” or “rejected.” You only have to set these emails up once and they will automatically be sent to any application you move into this category.
You can use Playground to manage your waitlist and communicate with parents about availability and updates. Send out bulk email updates to applicants in different stages of your application process for ease of communication.
Streamline Billing
With Playground, you can automate your billing processes. As families enroll into your center, they will join their selected billing plan. As you configure these billing plans, you can set the amount and frequency you would like your families to be billed. Billing can also be customized at the individual student level since we know each family may be different. The benefit is you only have to set your billing process up once and it will be automatically managed for you.
You can set up automatic billing, accept credit card payments, and generate invoices with just a few clicks. Plus, Playground allows you to set flexible payment options, including prorating and sibling discounts, to make things easier for families. Playground also supports subsidy management, allowing you to easily track subsidies you have received from agencies and distribute them among your students.
Automate Attendance Tracking
Manually tracking attendance can be time-consuming, but Playground's automated attendance tracking feature eliminates the need for paper sign-in sheets. Parents can check their children in and out using a tablet or smartphone, and you can access real-time attendance records anytime, anywhere. This feature also allows you to quickly generate attendance reports for licensing and compliance purposes. You can filter attendance reports by the student, classroom, specific time periods, and more.
Simplify Communication
Playground offers an easy-to-use messaging feature that enables you to communicate with parents and staff quickly and efficiently. You can send messages, photos, and updates directly to parents via the mobile app in the form of push notifications, SMS messages, and email to ensure they are receiving your message. You can also use Playground to share activities, announcements, incidents, and other events that occur throughout your day, keeping everyone informed and up-to-date.

Get Valuable Insights
Playground's reporting feature provides valuable insights into your preschool's operations. You can generate reports on enrollment, attendance, billing, and more, helping you identify trends and areas for improvement. These insights can help you make informed decisions about your school or program's operations and future growth.

Playground is the only app directors need to run their early child care center. Playground manages billing, attendance, registration, communication, paperwork, reporting, and more for child care programs. 100,000+ directors, teachers, and families trust Playground to simplify their lives.

Learn more by scheduling a free personalized demo.