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For family child care homes

Run your child care home in one place - families, billing and the paperwork.

Enrollment, check-in, billing and autopay, and an app that keeps families close - sized for a provider who does it all. On the food program with a sponsor? That is built in too.

The ChildWatch family app on a parent's phone: messages from the provider, with Check-In and Billing tabs
Everything a home provider does

Less paperwork, fewer texts, paid on time

Enrollment

Inquiries and a waitlist, and enrollment forms parents complete and sign online - straight into the child's record.

Check-in and attendance

Parents check children in and out from the family app or a tablet at the door. You always know who is here and for how long.

Billing and autopay

Tuition, fees, subsidies and discounts on schedule, and statements that add up - no more chasing payments at pickup.

ePay

Parents pay a balance from their phone, or set up autopay, and the payment lands on their account.

Messages

Announcements and two-way conversations with parents, translated into the family's language.

The family app

The child's day, photos, menus, statements and messages in one app parents already have on their phone.

Billing in ChildWatch: amounts received, outstanding and accounts receivable aging
Billing and ePay

Get paid on time, without the awkward talk

Charges post on schedule, parents see their statement in the app and pay it there - once, or every time with autopay. You see what came in and who still owes.

  • Weekly or monthly tuition, fees and discounts
  • Subsidy agency payments next to what the family owes
  • Online payments and autopay from the family app
More about ePay
The week's menus in the ChildWatch family app, day by day for breakfast and lunch
Family eServices

Parents see what you post - on their phone

Menus, messages, the child's day and statements go to the family app, so parents stop asking and you stop answering the same text five times.

  • English and Spanish, and messages translated for each family
  • Check-ins, check-outs and absences, as they happen
  • Statements and payments in the same app
More about Family eServices
Optional - the food program

On the food program? Count meals on your phone - your sponsor sees them the same day.

If your home takes part in the CACFP through a sponsor, you record menus and meal counts where you cook and serve, and your sponsor reviews the month as it happens - so claim week is a check, not a scramble. Not on it? Leave it off; everything above works on its own.

For the provider

  • Menus and meal counts from a phone, in English or Spanish
  • Infant records for each baby, by meal
  • The children enrolled, their forms and renewals
  • See what the sponsor has reviewed and what it needs

For the sponsor

  • Every home's month in one list - who is up to date, who is not
  • Tiering, eligibility and the provider's own children handled by the rules
  • Home visits scheduled, recorded and followed up
  • Edit checks and state claim forms from the homes' own records
A sponsor's list of family child care homes in ChildWatch, with each home's tier, agreement and days left on its determination

See the new ChildWatch with your own home in mind

Tell us about your home - how many children, how you bill, whether you are on the food program - and we'll send you a demo video for your kind of program within one business day - watch it on your schedule. Questions after? We'll set up a short call.