Product

Everything to run a small center

Ashby is childcare management software with self-serve setup in minutes. Explore every feature area — from digital check-in to tuition autopay.

Features

Attendance, billing, parent app, enrollment, compliance, and more — open any area to dig in.

Staff- or guardian-mediated check-in with signatures, authorized pickup, and late pickup that feeds billing.

Naps, meals, diapers, activities, and mood — bulk entry for a whole room, plus structured incident reports.

Child and guardian profiles, emergency contacts, allergies, and authorized pickup lists — built for privacy.

Rooms with capacity, waitlist position, and inquiry-to-enroll. Rooms collapse entirely for in-home providers.

Phone-first parent PWA: today at a glance, daily reports, photos, payments, and multi-child switching.

Photo sharing off by default. A child appears only when photo consent is on — trust before convenience.

Center-to-parent threads scoped to guardians, plus center-wide announcements. Staff visibility follows rooms.

Stripe Connect, tuition plans, ACH and card, invoicing, autopay, dunning, statements, and year-end tax docs.

CCAP and food-program reconciliation — the workflow most incumbents leave as manual spreadsheet work.

AI-drafted daily report text and parent messages from non-sensitive inputs, with human approval before send.

Ratio alerts, licensing records, and audit-ready reports — compliance as product, not a manual export.

Timeclock, timesheets, and scheduling. Payroll via an embedded provider — Ashby does not run payroll ourselves.

Center calendar for closures and events, with digital permission slips for families.

Guided import of children, guardians, and tuition balances from incumbent exports — preview before commit.

Public marketing pages for your center on an ashbycare.com subdomain. No child data on the public layer.

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.