Why Procare?
For more than 30 years, Procare Solutions has been helping early childhood educators simplify operations and create meaningful connections with families, so they can focus on what matters most – the children in their care.
Leverage professional communications with the easy-to-use child care mobile app and the opportunity for real-time updates from the classroom to enhance the parent and staff experience.
· Share child care activities and daily reports
· Streamline two-way family communications
· Share photos and videos
· Record and share student milestones
· Send and view news and events via easy-to-create newsletters
Procare includes:
CONTACTLESS SIGN IN/OUT : Parents can sign in-out students contactless using QR code or Curbside GeoLocation.
STUDENT ATTENDANCE: Replace paper sheets with digital SIGN IN-OUT. Record student attendance, absences (add notes) and transfer to different rooms. Generate BEST industry standard reporting from our website to satisfy childcare LICENSING needs. (Also has OFFLINE MODE to run without network)
PARENT KIOSK: Parents can drop off and pick up children easily (optional use of a 4-digit pin). Record SIGNATURES and capture answers with DROP-OFF form. Charge payments based on their HOURLY attendance and collect LATE FEE.
STAFF TIMECARD: Staff can CHECK-IN from the app using 4-digit pin. Build REPORTS of their timecard from website for PAYROLL.
TRACK RATIOS: Always be licensing-compliant. Track ratios in real time from the app for all your rooms.
PHOTOS and VIDEOS: Send any number of photos and videos, and tag students with one click on our child care app. Unlimited storage and sent to parents with one tap.
LEARNING: Record custom student activities and attach development skills like fine motor, social behavior, language and more.
DAILY SHEETS: Send daily activities for infants/toddlers and record Diapers, Bottles, Naps, Meals and Bathroom visits. Reports are sent to parents automatically.
BILLING: Create and send invoice to parents easily. Manage all billing transactions, payments, refunds and credits from the app.
INCIDENTS: Record all information related to any student incidents, send the report to parents and get their signature.
CALENDAR: Share upcoming events with parents easily for any day and month.
FAMILY COMMUNICATION: You can send a message, text or email to parents or guardians instantly. Have their phone number and call if needed.
MANAGE CENTER: Keep your entire student roster and family database in your fingertips.
REPORTS: Detailed reports for everything you do is available from website for student attendance, staff timecard, billing and entire roster.
INTEGRATIONS: Procare integrates seamlessly with all major SIS (student database) systems, QuickBooks (accounting systems), payroll systems and much more.
Complete child care management and daycare software features, e.g., student / family information, immunizations, reporting and more.
If you’re a parent that is anything like me, the decision to place your child in daycare is an unsettling one at best. Fortunately, I have a fairly flexible schedule and have always been able to figure out ways to accommodate our little girl. Unfortunately, she is now 2 and that accommodation has been getting increasing difficult as she no longer naps much and requires more time and attention in comparison to a well-fed sleepy baby. That change has made it incredibly difficult to still focus on the work I need to do while she is up and wants to play. It took my wife and I (yes, I am the father and writing this) several months to finally find a daycare that we felt comfortable with. Aside from the staff and cleanliness of the facility, a big reason for that comfort is as a result of this app. It has been so nice to receive updates throughout the day as to when and what she ate, if she had a nap and for how long, when diapers were changed, and pictures of her at play. The ability still stay involved and understand what’s going on has removed much of the anxiety we felt as parents leaving our little girl with virtual strangers, especially initially. If you’re looking for a childcare solution, I couldn’t recommend more finding a daycare that utilizes this app and ability, and if you’re operating a childcare facility of any kind I couldn’t recommend more that you get on board with its utilization as well as it will only enhance your clients experience.
I love this app!
poppysseed
My daughter is in her 2nd year of pre-k at our local private preschool. She loves school so much already! I love that this app allows me to know what she is learning during the time she is at school. From the time the children get to school they sign them in, and when you pick them up (or any pre authorized adult) they sign the children out. So you know when your child got to and from school! Which is great if you’re in my shoes because her father and I split so I love knowing that him and his family do their part in raising her correctly too. Depending on what your school does, they can post pictures, activities, announcements, and even private messages to parents of certain children that they need to talk to the parent about. I love being able to see what book they are reading, what they have learned in the day, fun crafts, snack time, music time, etc. the thing I like the most is one child can have multiple accounts. So my daughters father has his own & I have mine. He cannot read the private messages that her teacher and I discuss which is nice because I love having my privacy. Also, this app has made it so easy to make payments for tuition. 10/10 from me! Sure they may have a few issues but it’s once in a blue moon.
Needs a little TLC
MomoLovesGunner
This is my first year using the Procare app for my daughter’s school. Unfortunately there are a couple things that I don’t find convenient and more difficult to use. First one being, the app takes forever to open and load. When I use the Procare app, 95% of the time I’m driving from work to my daughters school. Realistically, you need the app to work as soon you open it to use as communication with your child’s school. There are other times that the app doesn’t even work. It’ll take too long to load or just crash and I have to try again. I’m not sure about other parents, but in my case it’s dire that the app is working properly because that is my only means to communication with my child’s afterschool program. My daughter attends an elementary school and no one is able to just walk inside the school after school hours. The doors are locked. I have no numbers to call since the only communication is through the app. And there’s no other way to call and alert someone of your arrival. If you’d think to call the main phone number, the staff has gone home by that time (I arrive at the school 5:45-6 PM).My other complaint comes to sending messages from the app. When I go to pick my daughter up, I send a message stating that I’m I here to pick her up. Like stated above, I’m driving 95% of the time having to operate this app. It would be so much EASIER if there was a copy text option or even an automatic reply to physically choose that you’re here to pick your child up.
Figure Out Your Troubleshooting by Yourself
Begowl
Update: Finally after 4 days, I was able to login and got the correct center. I had to figure out myself, and the steps include log out, delete app, re-download app, reset password and re-login. IF ONLY when you update features, you sent a proper notification messaging on how to troubleshoot, imagine the less frustrated parents be. ——————————————————— For the past two days, my procare app didn’t work and I keep seeing my old daycare that I left 2 years ago. This is the message I receive from my daycare admin today: Procare changed one of their features as of June 24th that no longer allows parents to “select” which location their child attends. From what I understand, they are working on the issue, but for now the only solution is to add a different email address to their account and have directors resend an invitation to the new email address. Isn’t this a dumb thing? How could this possible enhancing user experience? Who was the idiot decided on this? Why would I want to give multiple email address to manage my children’s schedule? Like life is not hard enough for parents. Whoever decided to remove the “switch school” for multiple location, did not think this through. The least you can do just automatically update the data with the most recent daycare and remove the older one. I DONT WANT TO REGISTER A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS! Fix this and I’ll re-review my rating.
Developer Response
We are aware of a recent access issue impacting some users and our team is working diligently to resolve. If you are a parent/guardian, please follow these steps to reset your password and verify that it shows the correct information: https://help.procareconnect.com/en/articles/8062994-inaccurate-blank-data-on-procare-online-mobile-app
Minor bug fixes and future feature enhancements
Version 6.4.9
The developer, Procare Software, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Procare Software, LLC
Size
59.8 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
