Parent
Parent is a childcare management platform for centers handling enrollment, family communication, attendance, billing, and children’s learning journeys.
What Parent is
Parent is a childcare management platform for centers handling enrollment, family communication, attendance, billing, and children’s learning journeys. It is designed for childcare centers, including enterprise groups, franchises, and organizations with multiple branches. Educators can log meals, naps, and diaper changes, share photos and videos, and create daily summaries. A newsfeed and in-app messaging support family communication, with automatic translation in 198+ languages. Enrollment tools include digital waitlists, custom forms, digital signatures, and QR code or link sign-ins. The service also supports lesson planning, check-in, and billing. Parent works as a browser-based web app without a download and offers Android and iOS apps. Listed integrations include WhatsApp, Gmail, Office 365, Zoom, QuickBooks, Zoho, and Sage. Security features include SOC 2 Type II compliance, MFA, encryption in transit and at rest, and role-based access controls. Pricing is on request, with a free 14-day trial and no free plan. Parent was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Good
- Automatic translation in 198+ languages
- Digital waitlists, forms, signatures, and sign-ins
- Educators can share daily child updates
- Browser access plus Android and iOS apps
- Lists integrations including accounting tools
Watch out
- No free plan
- Pricing is available on request
Who it suits
Parent suits childcare providers that need to coordinate family communication, enrollment, attendance, and billing, including multi-branch organizations. Centers can use it through a browser or Android and iOS apps.
Verdict
Parent brings childcare administration, family communication, and child updates together, with options for centers of different sizes. Its pricing requires a request, but a free 14-day trial is available.
Plans and prices
From Parent's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | — | Instant messaging · Media sharing · Newsfeed · Children's scheduling · Child and staff check-in/out · Attendance reporting |
| Exclusive | — | Everything in Basic · Surveys · Automated invoice dashboard and reporting · Automated invoices and reminders · In-app payments · Designated customer advisor |
| Basic Plan | Priced on request | instant messaging · media sharing · newsfeed · child and staff check-in/out · attendance reports · daily reports · observations · preset curriculums · help center and chat support · translation |
| Exclusive Plan | Priced on request | everything in Basic · surveys · registration forms · Zoom · QuickBooks/Zoho/Sage · AI support · WhatsApp/Gmail/Office 365 · curriculum builder · agency billing · dashboards · calendar · permissions · compliance reports · waitlists · document center · Parent Pay · customer advisor |
The facts
Each one read from Parent's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI features
- Parent advertises AI assistance for drafting posts, observations, learning stories, follow-up ideas and family communications.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Attendance
- Digital check-in/out records children and staff, tracks attendance in real time and monitors room ratios.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Attendance and check-in
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Child updates
- Educators can log meals, naps, and diaper changes, share photos and videos, and generate daily summaries.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Communications
- The platform provides a newsfeed and in-app messaging, with automatic translation in 198+ languages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Curriculum
- The Curriculum Builder lets centers align activities with EYFS, Montessori, Reggio Emilia or blended frameworks and customize their pedagogy.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Daily reports
- Educators can record meals, naps, bathroom events, activities, incidents and observations for families.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- Google Play reports that Parent data is encrypted in transit and that users can request deletion.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The product provides an online help center, chat support, blogs, webinars, guides and an Early Years Academy resource library.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Enrollment
- The platform manages inquiries, digital waitlists, applications and enrollment forms across locations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Enrollment management
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Family communication
- Families receive real-time updates, photos, videos, secure messages, forms, permissions and billing information in the app.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Exclusive plan lists Zoom, QuickBooks, Zoho, Sage, WhatsApp, Gmail and Office 365 integrations; Stripe powers payments.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- The product is built for childcare centers, including enterprise groups, franchises, and multi-branch organizations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License model
- Terms grant customers a revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the app, indicating proprietary SaaS licensing.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Billing
- Parent automates tuition invoicing, payment reminders, subsidy tracking and agency billing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Billing and payments
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Lesson planning
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Company founding
- LinkedIn lists Parent as founded in 2015.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company identity
- LinkedIn identifies the maker as Parent, a privately held education-management company with 51–200 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2015checked 19 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- LinkedIn lists Copenhagen, Denmark as headquarters; Parent also lists offices in Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, the UAE and the United States.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: Apple app stability
- An App Store reviewer reported crashes, blinking screens and unusable controls after an update.checked 15 Oct 2026
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