Sign-in sheets → apps
Teachers check children in and out on phone or classroom tablet. Ratios and who is present stay visible without hunting for a clipboard.
What replaces the binder
Same jobs your paper system already does
You are not buying a giant suite. You are moving attendance, daily notes, and parent updates into apps your team can open today.
Meal / nap logs → Teacher app
Meals, naps, diapers, photos, and notes land in one place — then parents see them in the Parent app instead of after-hours texts.
Contact binders → roster
Emergency contacts and family details live with each child. Weekly digests flag gaps so licensing day is calmer.
Waitlist binder → Enroll
Add families to a waitlist, then enroll into a class with one tap when a seat opens — invitation email included.
First hour off paper
From clipboards to a live classroom
-
1
Install Admin
Tap Start on Free — email and password, no sales call, no credit card.
-
2
Name your room
Add location and class, or try a sample classroom to explore before entering real families.
-
3
Invite teachers & parents
Share WhatsApp / SMS links with invitation codes. Paste a roster if you already have names on a spreadsheet.
In the apps
What families and staff see instead of paper
Owner assessment
What paper costs you — and what DailyDotKids provides
Paper is honest and cheap until scale, licensing, or parent expectations change. Use this scorecard, then start Free and keep what works.
The paper tax
- Sheets get lost, wet, or left in a bag
- Parents text after hours for meals, naps, and photos
- Emergency contacts live in a binder that is hard to update
- Licensing day means scrambling files the night before
- Waitlists sit in a notebook with no clear enroll path
- New staff need a tour of “where we keep everything”
What DailyDotKids provides
- Start on Free today — Admin app, no sales call, no credit card
- Three live apps — Admin, Teacher, Parent on App Store & Google Play
- Classroom day covered — check-in, meals, naps, photos, reports, bulletins, clock-in
- Parents stay informed — dedicated Parent app with push updates
- Shareable invites — WhatsApp / SMS links with codes
- Waitlist → enroll — fill seats without rewriting binders
- Licensing visit path on Paid — checklist + export when you are ready
- Clear Free limits — 1 location · 1 class · 8 students · 2 teachers · 16 parents
| Owner need | DailyDotKids | Paper / clipboards |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance & who is here | Yes — Teacher app check-in / out | Sign-in sheets; easy to lose or miscount |
| Tell parents about the day | Yes — Parent app + push updates | Texts, photos in chat, or end-of-day verbal |
| Emergency contacts | Yes — on each child’s profile | Binder or folder; hard to keep current |
| Waitlist → fill a seat | Yes — enroll + parent invite | Notebook list; manual paperwork to start |
| Licensing visit day | Yes on Paid — prep + export packs | Pull binders the night before |
| Get started this week | Same day — Start on Free in Admin | Already “started” — but stuck when you grow |
| Cost to try | Free forever within published limits | Free materials — expensive staff time |
Paper got you this far. When parents expect updates and licensing expects a trail, Free DailyDotKids is the lightest next step — not a multi-month software migration.
Leave the clipboard in the drawer
1 location · 1 class · up to 8 students · 2 teachers · 16 parent accounts. No credit card. Centre data stored in Canada.
