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Free during the betaEvery feature includedUnlimited children and staff

Run your whole center. Free during the beta.

Enrollment, attendance, daily reports, billing and messaging in one app, with a parent app your families will love.

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No card, no contract, no trial clock.

The director's dashboard in the Saplyn demo center: rooms, children checked in, and what needs attention today.
The home screen of the Saplyn parent app: today's photos, the daily report and messages from the classroom.
One app for the whole center

Everything your center runs on, in one place.

From the first tour to the last pickup of the day, one connected system for directors, teachers and families.

  • Enrollment & waitlist

    An online application parents finish on their phone, a waitlist ranked by your priorities, and offers families accept in a tap.

  • Check-in & attendance

    A kiosk at the front door, a live headcount for every room, and authorized pickups on file for every child.

  • Ratios & licensing

    Live ratios for every room, checked against your state's licensing rules as children arrive and leave.

  • Daily reports & photos

    Meals, naps, diapers, photos and activities logged in seconds and sent home as one warm daily recap.

  • Messaging & announcements

    Conversations, announcements and requests for families each get their own place, so nothing gets buried and parents get more done.

  • Staff & scheduling

    Shifts, a time clock and timesheets, with hours and pay ready to export for your payroll provider.

The parent app

Families will love it.

Everything about their child's day, on the phone already in their pocket.

  • Their child's day, as it happens

    Photos and moments arrive through the day, and a warm daily report is waiting before pickup.

  • Everything in one place

    Messages, the calendar, paperwork and the monthly statement sit right beside the photos. Paying tuition takes a tap.

  • Multi-language

    Each family picks their language, and the whole app and every email Saplyn sends follow it. English and Spanish today, with more on the way.

Note from Ms. Dani · 2:14 PM

She led the morning song today!

A parent whose center isn't on Saplyn yet? Send them this page. Email your director a note

A child's daily report in the parent app: meals, naps, activities and photos.
Daily report
The parent app's home screen in Spanish, for a family that chose Spanish.
In each family's language
Family billing in the parent app: one balance for two children, with a sibling discount and autopay.
One bill for the family
Saplyn AI

It writes the busywork. A teacher always has the last word.

Saplyn AI turns the day's check-ins, meals and naps into a warm daily recap, drafts replies to families and the monthly newsletter, and turns a teacher's spoken note into writing. A person reads it over before a single word reaches a family.

  • Drafts every child's daily report from what was already logged in the room
  • Drafts replies to families and the newsletter in your center's voice
  • Turns a teacher's spoken observation into a written note on the daily report

Free while Saplyn AI is in beta. It may become part of an optional paid plan later, and nothing you use changes without at least 30 days' notice. Terms §2.2

See a report awaiting review in the demo
The Notes for parents box on a demo daily report, with a draft written by Saplyn AI from the day's logged entries and a reminder to review before publishing.
Billing

The families you actually have, billed the way they actually pay.

Every way a family pays, in one ledger that is never rewritten. A correction is a new line, so an audit is easy.

Open the Hall family's ledger in the demo
Balances by payer for the Hall family: two payers, each with their own allocated, settled and outstanding amounts.

The Hall family: one child, two parents, each billed for their own share.

Balances by payer for the Parker family: the family's copay on one card, the Utah Office of Child Care's agency share on another.

The Parker family: the subsidy agency carries its own balance, separate from the family's copay.

What Saplyn bills

  • Sibling families

    One statement for the whole family, with sibling discounts applied.

  • Split households

    Each parent is billed for their share and sees only their own.

  • Subsidies and copays

    The agency gets its own invoice and balance, apart from the family's copay.

  • Employer sponsors

    A company that covers part of tuition is billed as its own payer.

  • Any schedule

    Weekly, every two weeks, twice a month, monthly, quarterly or yearly.

  • Mid-month starts

    Prorated automatically, by the rule you choose.

  • Fees and deposits

    Registration, deposits, late pickup, drop-in days and field trips.

  • Every way to pay

    Autopay by card or bank, with cash and checks recorded alongside.

Switching from another app?

Switch in an afternoon. Leave the contract behind.

  1. 1

    Export your roster

    Download your children and families as a spreadsheet from the app you use today. Our guide shows you where, with screenshots.

    How to export from your current app
  2. 2

    Upload and review

    Saplyn matches children, families and contacts, and a second upload brings in each family's opening balance. Nothing saves until you've checked the preview.

  3. 3

    Invite your families

    Each family gets an invite in their language. Most are set up within a week, and you can run both systems side by side until then.

No contract to sign and nothing to cancel. Close your account from Settings whenever you like, and take all of your data with you.

How switching works, step by step
Pricing

Free during the beta. Every feature, every center.

Every feature included, no card to start, and at least 30 days' notice before anything you use costs money.

  • Unlimited children, staff, families and centers
  • Every module: enrollment, attendance, reports, billing, messaging, staff, compliance and kitchen
  • Saplyn AI, free while it's in beta
  • The importer and opening balances, so you can switch in an afternoon
See full pricing
$0
per center, per month

Every feature included. No setup fee and no surprises.

See it for yourself

Walk through a real center before you sign up.

The demo center is a working Saplyn account, full of rooms, children, daily reports and bills. It's read-only, so click anything.

Explore the demo center
Questions

Straight answers.

Yes, during the beta. Every feature is free for every center, with unlimited children, staff and families, and no card to start. Today Saplyn charges nothing for the software. We've announced a flat $2 fee per bank payment, which starts only after 30 days' notice. Post-beta pricing isn't set yet; when it is, every center gets at least 30 days' notice first.

Full pricing →

Try it with your own center.

Free during the beta, every feature, no card. Import your families this afternoon and send the first daily report home tomorrow.

Create your free accountOr explore the demo center first

No card, no contract, no trial clock.