Website, billing, check-in, and parent messaging in one place. $69 a month, no per-child fees.
Free 3-day trial · Cancel anytime before it ends and pay nothing
Families pay your Stripe account directly, tuition never passes through ours. And nothing here is priced per child: one flat monthly plan, every family included, free for 3 days to try.
Our family has run a licensed daycare in Southern California for more than a decade. Every feature in DaycareSuite exists because we needed it ourselves: the tuition engine because chasing payments ate our evenings, sleep checks because licensing requires the logs, daily reports because parents deserve to see their child's day.
This is the software we run our own daycare on. If it doesn't work for a real daycare, it doesn't ship.
Most parents find childcare at 11pm with a sleeping baby on one arm. Your site is ready for them: warm, real, and honest, with a tour request form that goes straight to your inbox.
Pick a theme, add your photos and your words, publish. Every block is editable, no designer, no page builder rabbit hole.
See what the website includes →Set each family's rate and rhythm once, weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Charges post automatically, reminders go out the day before, and late fees apply by the rules you set.
Online card payments are optional. Families on checks, Zelle, or cash? Log the payment and the ledger stays just as clean, no parent is ever forced to pay by card. When you do take cards, the money lands in your own Stripe account. We never hold it.
How tuition billing works →Tap a name at the door and every arrival, pickup, and hour in care is recorded with a timestamp. Mount a tablet by the door and parents check their own child in on a big friendly grid. Late pickups are billed by your rules, grace period included. Missed a tap? Type the time in, and you confirm any late fee before it is billed.
When licensing visits, your attendance history is already organized.
See check-in and records →Meals, naps, diapers, activities, mood, and photos from the day, tapped in by staff as it happens. Send at pickup and every family gets only their own child's report, by email and in the parent portal.
The "how was she today?" conversation starts with the answer already in their pocket. Photos are compressed automatically and only reachable by that child's family.
See what parents get →Infant sleep checks, with a paper trail. One tap logs position, time, and staff initials on the interval you set, overdue checks turn red on your dashboard, and an inspection-ready export prints the log the way an inspector asks for it. Defaults follow California's documented 15-minute checks and every rule is configurable to your state's requirements.
And the rest of the office
Enrollment forms, parent logins, and the emails you send every season, all handled and written in your voice.
One system, not two
Website builders give you a site with no daycare tools. Daycare software gives you tools with no website. DaycareSuite is both, in one login.
| Website buildersWix, Squarespace | Daycare softwareBrightwheel, Procare | Using both | DaycareSuite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A real website parents can find | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| You have to build it yourself | Yeshours of it | Noneno website to build | Yes | Noprebuilt, add your photos |
| Tuition billing and late fees | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital check-in and check-out | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parent portal and messaging | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily reports with photos | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tour inquiries land in your dashboard | A form emailif you wire one up | ✗ | In two places | ✓ |
| Works with your existing website | Built init is the website | ✓ | ✓ | ✓keep it or use ours |
| Per-child fees | No | Yesyour bill grows with enrollment | Yes | Never |
| Typical monthly cost | ~$17 to $36 | ~$200 to $400 | ~$220 to $440 | $69 flat |
Competitor prices are typical published or quoted ranges and vary by provider, plan, and enrollment size. Daycare software is usually quoted per child.
Two systems also means two logins, two bills, and a website that has no idea who is enrolled. Typical daycare software runs $200 to $400 a month once per-child fees add up, plus $17 to $36 for the website beside it. DaycareSuite is $69 flat for both.
Simple pricing
No per-child fees, no tiers, no surprises, and a 3-day free trial to see it on your own business.
Set up your site and back office in an afternoon. Free for 3 days, cancel before it ends and pay nothing.
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