This is a childcare management system designed for daycare and after-school activities. This cloud-based software provides features necessary for daycare owners to automate online billing, communicate with parents, share photos of kids with parents, enable online registration and sign in, and track attendance. With the Kinderlime app, developmental milestones can be created and tracked; this information can also be shared with parents or staff. Kinderlime is available as web and mobile software.

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What Users Love About the App

“I love that anything our preschool needs they are so willing and able to help us with. For example if we need a fix for the app they are so quick to want to help.”

“Kinderlime is a uniquely intuitive software which offers smart messaging and administration. It saves time, it saves money and it also saves your nerves. It’s a relief for daycare owners, staff and parents.”

“We love the availability to talk to parent at anytime of the day. If its about their child, items needed, billing and payments or just thanking them for choosing us as the provider. Helps keep the Director off the phone and hands on in the classrooms.”

“This has a great foundation of ideas. Student check in/out, Employee check in/out, billings, time tracking, payroll, general ledger. Truly an all in one for a small preschool. Too good to be true for sure!”

“I would be lost without this software. I love all of the features it offers and being able to run so many different reports, see future enrollment numbers, run tuition, see who is enrolled, quickly see which birthdays are coming up, being able to track employee times and get time cards, and so much more. Love the ease of the check-in process for parents and staff.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“The messaging system is really my biggest complaint. It is not easy to navigate or stay on top of easily. I like that everyone in the info circle gets the messages, but it’s difficult to answer a lot of parents when you have to leave incoming to check sent for each message, and check dates to make sure you are not seeing an older response.”

“Our biggest issues with Kinderlime have been over the messaging system. I don’t like that it doesn’t show the string of messages between the parents and staff. You can’t see at a glance if a staff member replied to a parent’s message and sometimes messages get missed and no one replies thinking someone else did.”

“I wish scheduling was configured differently for when parents register online. I’d like to be able to set a cap on the number of students who can register for a class on a given day and have the software disable additional registrations when a day reaches the cap. The software currently doesn’t have that feature.”

“So many of our parents and children are English Language Learners, and are new technology users. It would benefit our program greatly if there were more opportunity to directly engage with parents and participants through the app.”

“It’s missing some common sense elements – such as allowing families to enroll and complete all data for younger siblings. We have to do it on paper and enter the information manually. It is also missing some niceties such as preprogrammed signatures on emails – when you send them many times a day, it gets frustrating having to type a 3-4 line title each time.”