Childcare software, simplified
Self-serve for small US centers and in-home daycares. Attendance, billing, and a parent app you can stand up in minutes — not a six-week onboarding.
Built from the product roadmap — attendance through billing, parent app, and compliance.
Run the day. Get paid. Keep parents in the loop.
Ashby covers attendance, daily reports, enrollment, billing, parent messaging, compliance, and more — built for a teacher with a tablet, not a back-office admin.
Attendance & check-in
Staff- or guardian-mediated check-in with signatures, authorized pickup, and late pickup that feeds billing.
Daily & incident reports
Naps, meals, diapers, activities, and mood — bulk entry for a whole room, plus structured incident reports.
Roster & child records
Child and guardian profiles, emergency contacts, allergies, and authorized pickup lists — built for privacy.
Rooms, waitlist & enrollment
Rooms with capacity, waitlist position, and inquiry-to-enroll. Rooms collapse entirely for in-home providers.
Parent app
Phone-first parent PWA: today at a glance, daily reports, photos, payments, and multi-child switching.
Consent-gated photos
Photo sharing off by default. A child appears only when photo consent is on — trust before convenience.
Messaging & announcements
Center-to-parent threads scoped to guardians, plus center-wide announcements. Staff visibility follows rooms.
Billing & tuition
Stripe Connect, tuition plans, ACH and card, invoicing, autopay, dunning, statements, and year-end tax docs.
Subsidy & CACFP
CCAP and food-program reconciliation — the workflow most incumbents leave as manual spreadsheet work.
AI drafts
AI-drafted daily report text and parent messages from non-sensitive inputs, with human approval before send.
Compliance & ratios
Ratio alerts, licensing records, and audit-ready reports — compliance as product, not a manual export.
Staff timeclock & scheduling
Timeclock, timesheets, and scheduling. Payroll via an embedded provider — Ashby does not run payroll ourselves.
Calendar & permission slips
Center calendar for closures and events, with digital permission slips for families.
CSV import
Guided import of children, guardians, and tuition balances from incumbent exports — preview before commit.
Center website
Public marketing pages for your center on an ashbycare.com subdomain. No child data on the public layer.
Start now — be live in 5 minutes
Ashby is built for small US centers and in-home daycares. Open an account, set up your rooms, and run the day — without a long onboarding project.