Bounce

Start by turning your center’s messy spreadsheets and paper folders into a single, working system. Create rooms, set child-to-staff ratios, and assign roles for admins, lead teachers, and aides. Import rosters from a CSV or add families one by one, then send invites by email or QR so parents join in minutes. Set tuition plans, sibling discounts, and billing cycles; enable card/ACH payments; and switch on automatic reminders for upcoming invoices and overdue balances. With roles and permissions in place, each person sees exactly what they need—nothing more.

Once the day begins, teachers open the classroom view to handle check-in and check-out with a tap or QR scan and instantly see who’s expected, allergies, and authorized pickups. Capture photos and short clips as activities happen, tag them to learning goals or events, and share with one child’s family or the whole room. Log meals, naps, diaper changes, and medications without leaving the activity stream; create incident and behavior notes using templates to save time. If the group steps outside or moves rooms, update locations so staff can confirm headcounts and maintain ratios. Parents get real-time updates while teachers keep teaching.

Administrators run operations from a central dashboard. Build recurring invoices, apply subsidies or promo codes, and post credits for holidays or closures. Batch-send statements, accept partial payments, add late fees automatically, and track every transaction in a clear ledger. Generate attendance summaries, room occupancy, staff coverage, and meal counts in a few clicks. Export financials to your accounting tool and download year-end statements for families. Use scheduled announcements to post calendar events, field trips, or closures to every classroom at once, and keep a clean audit trail of all messages and documents.

All family and student information lives in organized digital profiles: emergency contacts, authorized pickups, ID documents, health forms, immunizations, allergy plans, and medications. Drag-and-drop uploads replace filing cabinets; renewal reminders help you collect expiring forms before deadlines. Quick search surfaces a child’s details, recent notes, and media in seconds—handy during pickup questions or licensing visits. At day’s end, send a daily digest to families, reconcile attendance with billing, and archive media to the child’s timeline. When a new session starts or classrooms change, move students in bulk, onboard a new teacher with predefined permissions, and keep the entire community in sync without a single paper packet.