Cake desktop provides a complete set of tools to manage a childcare facility, and it is free. Cake Child Care provides tools to make childcare facility management easier and more efficient; the tools are available to administrators, parents, and employees.

Website: https://cakechildcare.com/

What Users Love About the App

“Easy to set and use. It has ALL the features you want and needs for pennies! The interface looks great and professionally designed, but still easy to navigate. Short video tutorials to guide you through each section of the software are available. The desktop-only version is free. Member-version is only 5 bucks a month and does not lack anything! The best $60 anyone in the child care business could spend! Definitely worth every penny, and then some!”

“This program is pretty easy to set and generally easy to use (you may need to play around for a bit with it, though). It looks great, and if you have a set fee it is FANTASTIC! They currently keep adding to it with new monthly updates. I love this program. Even though it is based in the US, and I am in Australia, it seems to be working well. Customer service is great and any questions I have asked have been answered in under 24 hours.”

“Initially, it was promising. All the features kept track of everything from attendance to meal plans and immunizations to training tracking.”

“It is easy to use, has pictures for each student and staff, and is a one-stop location for all our emergency contacts. Simple enough that even my husband could use it!”

“Customer service is great. Very intuitive. Easy to register. Easy to communicate with parents internally.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“The parent portal doesn’t work. Payment processing doesn’t work. It is very time-consuming doing everything manually.”

“Leaves a lot to be desired. Needs some work done before it can be truly useful.”

“This was awkward for me to use, not intuitive at all. I kept having to go back and redo things to get it right!”

“There is no way to delete a transaction in the account if you make an error.”

“The program filled my computer with viruses. It crashed and caused me to lose 3 years’ worth of information for my daycare.”