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Center
Drop-In
Afterschool
Sold by total number of active children for all sites combined. There is no limit on number of sites.
Sold per site. Pricing is per site with max number of children attending per day with no limit on number of active children.
Sold by total number of active children for all sites combined. There is no limit on number of sites.
Capacity
Price $/Active Child
Capacity
Price $/Site
Capacity
Price $/Active Child
25 - 100
$2.50
0 - 100
$200.00
100 - 500
$2.00
101 - 250
$2.25
Over 100
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501 - 2000
$1.75
251 - 500
$2.00
2,001 - 5,000
$1.50
501 - 1,000
$1.75
Over 5,000
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1001 - 5,000
$1.50
Over 5,000
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Center Management Tools
A comprehensive management solution for your business.
FOR OFFICE: Registration, enrollment, waiting list, attendance, scheduling, billing, accounting, and recordkeeping.
FOR CLASSROOM: Journaling, activity notes, curriculum, and development guidelines and standards.
Family and Staff Database
A complete customer-relationship management (CRM) system that allows cross-linked families with multiple children and contacts.
It includes many fields and parameters to help you manage children’s needs, build relationship with parent, meet licensing needs, and manage any other data you need.
Manage staffing with enrollments, payroll, and tracking certificates, training, and records.
Multi-site Management
If you have multiple sites, iCare allows you to manage them individually or collectively easily without the burden of moving data.
Staff can be assigned to an individual site or the corporate site giving them ability to see data of their site or all sites.
Recordkeeping Automation
iCare automates the collections of many types of records – registration paperwork, immunization shots, medical records, and documents needed for licensing. It reminds parents to complete their records online.
If there is no report for the data or view of data you need, iCare allows addition of unlimited number of custom reports with very little effort.
The Custom Reports feature includes an easy to use Query Writer that auto-fills query text so even with little or no knowledge of database and query language you can write your own queries.
Or, you can simply request iCare Tech Support to write the query for you.
- Smart search
- Multi-criteria filtering
- One-click sorting
- Dashboard with tiles of quick data views
- Adding and removing report columns
- Pivot table tool for trends analysis
- Built-in individual and batch actions
- Report drilldown features
- One-click export to Excel
- Printer-ready formats and PDF versions
User-Defined Fields: Any type and any number of UDFs can be added in any number of collections (sections/pages).
Electronic Documents: Any number of documents can be set for parents to upload or fill.
Google Forms: You can also create Google Forms and integrate them into iCare.
Any of the above records can be tagged as required so iCare will automatically ensure that they are updated timely by the parents.
Several levels of roles can be set for admins, teachers, and parents giving you ability to control what people can see and do at a finely granulated detail.
Allows the main contact in the family to share different categories of their data with other contacts in the family including their account, option to pay, and profile records.
Parents can also choose to share their contact information with other cohort parents.
For important transactions, along with the transaction data, iCare also keeps the change history. It logs who did the transaction and when.
The change history is available through reports. For example, if an entry in the ledger is voided or an attendance record is modified, you’ll know who did that and when.
Free app for parents and staff to check in and out via their phone without touching anything. And you do not have to purchase anything – scanner, cards, or other devices.
Easy check-in solution that runs on any device – laptop, tablet, or phone. It can operate from lobby, bus, classroom, and for curbside pickup.
Signature & Photo Authentication
Available in the Lobby App. When turned on for every check in and out a signature and picture will be captured as authentication of that attendance record.
Requires purchase of wireless relay switch from us. When installed and connected to the electric door strike, it buzzes the door open automatically when people check in and out.
Can ask daily or onetime questions to parents through the Lobby App. Examples:
Daily Questions: Lunch choice for the day? Was you child coughing or have fever in the last 24 hours?
Onetime Questions: Would you like to send your child to the Children’s Museum next Wednesday? Will you attend the open house on Saturday, the 10th?
Feature allows teachers to check in or out a group of children at the same time. Examples: Afterschool children coming at 3 pm or children going to gym from home room at 10 am.
Rooms and programs are the building blocks of your business’s setup in iCare.
ROOMS: Rooms are physical spaces, which are licensed for capacity and age limits. Licensing also determines the teacher-child ratios for each room.
PROGRAMS: Programs are your offerings; for example, Pre-K 3 Day Full Time or Pre-K 5 Day Half Time. Both may be offered in the Pre-K room and subject to its constraints. Programs are made of many design factors but most importantly a schedule and the fees.
The Programs/Classes structure in iCare includes the following:
- Weekly scheduling model; for example, 5 Day AM
- Default bills; for example, weekly, monthly, hourly, or daily rate; billing by schedule, attendance, or a combination; and connection to a rate chart
- Capacity
- Options for parents
The programs schedule and bills are applied to the child’s profile when enrolled in that program.
Afterschool Manager
A complete system for managing afterschool care that includes:
- Scheduling and billing
- Monthly calendar format for picking a schedule of arbitrary or recurring days
- Special overrides for school closing and half days
- Rate chart modeler
- Capacity control
A deeply built solution for managing drop-in care including:
- Cashier role for quick POS transactions
- Rate chart modeler
- Pre-paid hours packages
- Pre-paid discounts
- Membership
- Handling of mommy’s day out type specials
- Combinations of fulltime (preschool like programs) and drop-in
- Coupons
- Management of drop-in licensing regulations
An easy way to pick up extra revenue for open slots. This lets parents find and book open slots.
Staff Scheduling Manager
An interactive, graphical solution for scheduling staff.
Staffing being the biggest cost for the center, optimal scheduling is critical for the success and profitability of the center.
CACFP Management
Maximize revenue with iCare’s accurate and full automated billing system, which includes:
- Start or stop the recurring bills anytime
- Flex period options – hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly, etc.
- Flat rates or rates connected to rate charts
- Schedule or attendance-based charges
- Overage charges when attendance is beyond scheduled hours and days
Automated recurring payment collection set by admin or parent. It includes the following features:
- Start or stop anytime
- Credit card or ACH option
- Flex period options – weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly
- Automatic updates of expiration dates*
More than 30 factors that can be set to calculate bills dynamically. Examples:
- Number of schedules or attended hours and days
- Number of siblings attending
- Bracketed income levels
- Age-based rates
- Program or enrollment type
- Membership type
- Special days or hours
For flat charges like weekly or monthly that have a set schedule, charges for attendance beyond schedules is automatically calculated and posted.
Charges for pickups after closing time or if payment is not made on time are calculated and posted automatically.
This action report allows you to pull future bills for verification.
With iCare you get a direct merchant account with the processing house. With no middleman involved you will save significantly on processing fee.
There are several batch processes in iCare including accounting. Batch processes allow you to make multiple changes in a set. For example, post special charges or credits for all or selected group of children.
Subsidy/Copay Management
Journaling is a highly developed platform in iCare, which presents an organized way to implement development standards and engage parents. It will make a huge impact on children’s growth.
From a data entry and accessibility perspective, its standout features are:
- With the autofill feature you can quickly enter activities and milestones reached without having to repeatedly typing the text
- Parents can choose to instantly access the notes at any time of the day or wait to receive the Daily Report at the end of the day.
Point your phone’s camera and just click and share photos of a child working, playing, or creating new art.
Parents can choose to instantly access the photos at any time of the day or wait to receive the Daily Report at the end of the day.
An operations integrated online meeting system like Zoom but with integrated features like attendance, billing, and curriculum planning.
Teachers simply click to start a class, parents receive a ding on their phones, and simply log in and join the class.
In the Virtual Class, people can share their screen, raise hand to speak, mute themselves, and show the work they are doing.
An ideal solution for online circle time, story time, art, math, and language classes.
Development Guidelines and Standards
Every state and Montessori recommended development standards and guidelines are digitized and populated as templates in the iCare Journal.
You can add any of the templates in your account with just a click of a button.
It is easy to create grade reports with subjects as columns and associate them with classes and programs.
You can then enter grade assessments by weekly, monthly, quarterly, or arbitrary dates.
Assessments can be of any type; for example, letter grade: A+, A, and B+, descriptive: excellent, good, fair, improving, or anything else.
Send individual or group emails. Choose one of many templates to quickly compose your email.
The Email Open Tracking Report will tell you who was delivered the email and who opened it.
iCare uses a carrier-based SMS service, which makes texting completely free for you.
You can send individual or batch messages.
This feature allows chat between teacher, parents, and admins.
Unlike social media, all chat content in iCare is open to you so you can monitor its appropriateness.
The calendar is a great way of keeping everyone informed about future events like open houses, teacher meetings, and concerts, etc.
Calendar events can be shared with all or specific groups.
Receive email notification regarding different activities that are happening. For example, a new family registered through your website, a parent made an online payment, or a parent enrolled a child in a class.
Parents love being able to log in and view their account and activities. Letting them enter required data has a big effect on reducing your work.
You have complete control or what they can see and do using Role Management.
Here is a quick list of what parents can do:
- Self-register
- Maintain their profile information
- Fill required documents including medical records and immunization records
- View their ledger
- Pay online
- Set up Direct Deposit for automated recurring payments
- View their child’s journal and see class photos
- Join a Virtual Class
- Be part of their children’s parents’ group
Instantly improve a teacher’s role and your parents-teacher engagement by giving log in access to teachers.
Here is a quick list of what teachers can do:
- Journaling – enter activity and development notes
- Share class photos with parents
- Check children in and out especially the before and after school children
- Curriculum planning
- Message or chat with parents or other teachers
Software Licensing
- * Charged by the number of active children. No limit on number of inactive/graduated children; all of their data is preserved and can be accessed at any time.
- * No limit on number of sites. Pricing is based on number of active children only and not number of sites.
- Support and Premiere Support Available Contact support@icaresoftware.com or call at 978-266-0224.
- Wide-ranging Training Videos and Knowledge Base
- Free-Trial/Sandbox is available Contact sales@icaresoftware.com
Licensing Terms
- ** Minimum billable capacity is 25.
- For special price quotes call 978-266-0224 or email to sales@icaresoftware.com
- Click here for the iCare Service Level Agreement
Door Security System
- Wireless Door Opener and Software: $245 (sold separately.).
- Secure your center using the iCare Door Switch and iCare Lobby. A secured check-in/check-out solution for parents and staff. iCare Door is accessible by authorized people only. Parents can check – in/out their children by accessing iCare Lobby with their unique Lobby Passwords. Digital Signature Capture is an optional feature added to increase the level of security.
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