layDay
Rated 5 stars on the App Store and Google Play
RachelRainbow Hearts Daycare
I used to spend a whole Sunday on enrollment paperwork for one new child. Now I invite the parent to onboard, they fill in all the info in the app, and PlayDay completes all my licensing forms.
CarmenTiny Treasures Family Child Care
My parents love getting pictures of their child throughout the day. And the logs answer all their questions about naps, meals, and potty.
LinhLinh’s Little Learners
I was paying TOO MUCH for another app built for daycare centers! PlayDay is better and cheaper than others I’ve used.
Coming from paper, a spreadsheet, or another app? You don’t have to retype everything or do it alone.
Meals, bottles, diapers, potty, naps, medication, sunscreen and milestones are a couple of taps each — and the same meal or nap can be logged for the whole group at once instead of child by child. Prefer to talk? Say or type a quick note and PlayDay turns it into separate entries for each child.
Parents sign their child in and out on their own phone at your door — and can let you know when they’re on the way. Every drop-off and pick-up is time-stamped and signed, so your attendance record keeps itself.
Parents get one feed with their child’s whole day in it, so most questions are answered before anyone asks them. Message one family directly or send an announcement to everyone at once — and it all lands in the app’s inbox, not your personal texts at 8:40 on a Sunday night.
Send professional invoices from the same app you logged the day in, and see exactly where each one stands — due, overdue, or paid. Parents pay straight from their bank account or turn on auto-pay so tuition is collected on the due date — or put your own payment instructions on the invoice, like Zelle, check, or cash.
Food components are tracked as you log each meal — not reconstructed weeks later from memory. When the month closes, the record is already there.
Keep closures, holidays and events on one calendar, and everyone gets a reminder before each one — so no family shows up on a day you’re closed. You’ll also get a heads-up before each child’s birthday, with enough time to plan the cupcakes.
Schedule your assistants, and they confirm shifts and clock in and out on their own phones. If someone misses a clock-in, calls out, or hasn’t confirmed for tomorrow, you’ll get notified.
Build your own intake form from built-in fields and your own questions, then email new families a secure link. They fill it in from their phone, and PlayDay creates the child’s profile and links the parent account automatically. Switching from a spreadsheet, another app, or paper? Import your roster in minutes — and PlayDay can scan existing paper forms and pull out the child, parent, emergency contact and physician details for you.
Upload your state’s forms once. PlayDay fills them for any child on your roster using information you already entered — and tells you exactly which fields it wasn’t sure about. You’re reviewing finished documents instead of building each one from a blank PDF.
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Same account either way. Logs and messages are two taps while you’re on the floor with the kids. Invoicing, licensing forms and CACFP reports are easier to power through on a laptop once everyone’s gone home.
Brightwheel, Procare, and Playground are priced per enrolled child and built around directors, classrooms, and staff ratios. Here’s what changes when the software is built for a home daycare — you, plus maybe an assistant.
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