6 Reasons Why You Should Digitize Your Childcare Centre

Running a childcare centre or daycare involves a lot of working parts. Juggling day-to-day operations and communication with parents while focusing on maintaining the best educationally conducive environments for the children in your care can be a challenge. 

 

But with the aid of modern technology and digital innovations, tackling these components of your business can be made simple. 

 

Taking your childcare centre management online can give you a leg up on other daycare providers. Streamlining everyday administrative management through an easy-to-use and accessible platform can save time, money, and labour—so you can focus on fostering learning, creativity, and happiness in your children. 

 

How is your childcare centre approaching its digital transformation? Here are a few of the key benefits you can achieve if you digitize your childcare centre.

 

1. Access Extensive Reporting and Analytics

Moving your centre operations to an online management platform can help create automatic analytics so you always know how your business is doing. Here you can track trends on child attendance or generate reports on specific or regulatory data whenever you need to. 

 

Available right at your fingertips, you can get an overview of the health of your centre and manage all types of information accurately and quickly. KinderPass comes packed with enhanced analytics and reporting functionality, including:

  • Timesheet reports (scheduled hours vs. actual hours)
  • Children attendance (check-in and check-out times)
  • Amount due (including late payments)
  • Allergies
  • Designated pick-up and drop-off times
  • And more

 

Being able to see what your strengths are and where there is room for improvement can make troubleshooting and growing your business a more proactive and strategic process. 

 

2. Enhance Communication and Engagement With Parents 

With a childcare management platform, you can maintain a strong and open dialogue with parents on how their kids are doing. Instead of merely interacting face-to-face with parents when they pick up or drop off their kids, they can feel involved and connected with educators online through engaging features of the app. 

 

Upload photos of the classroom so you can share child updates and achievements in real-time. Or, build confidence with parents by showcasing a safe and fostering learning environment that’s accessible online wherever they are. 

 

Parents can also track a child’s development with milestones and other statistics, making it easy for them to see their child’s natural progression as they play, learn, and develop lifelong skills.

 

By digitizing this communication with parents, you can give them peace of mind that their kids are under great care and keep them involved in their child’s success.

 

3. Organize Centre Management In One Convenient Platform

With the age of technology, managing paperwork has never been so easy. For your childcare centre, you can synchronize client information pertaining to dietary restrictions, allergies, incident reports, and much more—from one platform.

 

And when it comes to administrative data, you can organize calendars, employee information, and scheduling as well.

 

With KinderPass, our childcare centre platform caters to your unique business and labour needs. Allow automated algorithms to optimize staff hours depending on your centre’s schedule and enable digital payroll so you can organize employee compensation all in one place. 

 

4. Accurately Streamline Finances, Billing, and Payments

With numerous clients, facility costs and everyday expenses, it can be hard to keep track of finances. However, managing your accounting digitally can save you a lot of time, labour, and stress. 

 

Online billing makes it easy for you to track, send, and organize invoices and petty cash that are part of day-to-day operations. Likewise, with the popularization of banking online and the various digital payment methods available, payment from parents can be a contactless and cashless process. 

 

Making sure finances are in order is vital to the health of a business. That’s why with an intuitive childcare management platform, you can be confident accurate reports and records are being kept and are easily accessible when you need them. 

 

5. Improve Staff Productivity at All Levels

Keeping your staff organized plays a huge role in the success of your facility. With so many new COVID-19 tasks and guidelines to follow, it’s important that you have a system in place to stay organized. 

 

With KinderPass, management can easily track staff hours through the app, providing a detailed look into your labour totals, staff allocation, and other important day-to-day metrics.

 

KinderPass is rapidly developing a new feature that will allow you to use the platform as a planning tool for class activities and learning plans. This will allow for easy assignment of tasks and goals through a virtual agenda and implementation of learning strategies that pertain to each child. 

 

6. Going Digital Is Environmentally-Friendly 

Dealing with filing loose papers and documents is a hassle on its own, but can also cost a lot in everyday expenses and the impact on the environment. By switching to a digital platform in managing your documents, you can alleviate these issues. Going digital can save money on paper and stationery costs and reduce your waste and carbon footprint. 

 

While we teach young learners and future leaders about the impact of climate change, we can also do our part in moving towards sustainable and environmentally-friendly solutions in how we operate day-to-day.

 

KinderPass: An Easier Way to Take Your Childcare Centre Digital

Whether you use an Android or iOS app, taking your childcare centre digital and managing your key everyday processes digitally is made to be intuitive and accessible to everyone. 

 

With KinderPass, it is. Our centralized daycare management platform lets you aggregate finances, administrative tasks, and educator tools while maintaining accessible communication with parents and meeting government regulations.   

 

The KinderPass team has over 30 years of combined experience working in childcare centres throughout Canada and the Middle East. Our team of education specialists has unparalleled insight into what your business needs to run smoothly and grow. 

 

Let us show you how our platform can simplify your key management and day-to-day tasks, so you can focus on providing a robust learning environment and great childcare. Visit our website and book your demo today.