What is Procare?
Procare stands out as the leading child care management solution, servicing child care centers, before and after school programs, and youth organizations, facilitating business operations, staff coordination, parent communication, and children's education with ease.
ADMINISTRATION
Oversee every facet of your center or multiple centers seamlessly using a single cloud-based platform that integrates all necessary functions.
COMMUNICATION
Ensure that staff and parents remain informed about key milestones and activities through various channels such as phone, email, text, or the app, fostering a high-quality child care environment.
BILLING AND PAYMENTS
Experience hassle-free automated billing and payment processing, offering convenience to parents while delivering real-time data and features for providers.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Gain instant access to a comprehensive overview of financials and receivables for your center through an integrated dashboard that updates in real-time.
LESSON PLANNING
Effortlessly design lesson plans, conduct student evaluations, and manage classroom lessons without the hassle of outdated paper methods.
MOBILE APP
Utilize a user-friendly app that is fully integrated for engaging both staff and families, ensuring ongoing connection between centers and families.
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This comprehensive approach is why Procare is the preferred choice for over 40,000 satisfied customers, continually demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing child care management.
Pricing
We understand that smaller centers and in-home daycare providers are operating on a tight budget, and that is why we provide a slightly scaled back version of Procare for the affordable price of just $25 per month. Let us handle the business of child care so you can get back to caring for your children.
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Procare Categories and Features
Student Information System Software
K-12 Software
Classroom Management Software
Child Care Software
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Procare review
Date: Oct 08 2024SummaryLove the app. It makes inputting data very fast. It makes taking care of several children, even wit several classes easy to check up on and enter data for.
PositiveThe ease and simplicity of the Procare app. It has several features/options that make it quick to input data without having to type little to nothing out manually.
NegativeCamera function. It occasionally says the camera function isn’t available. The picture quality isn't the best and is blurry which makes it hard to get pictures of children on the move.
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Procare makes Life Easier
Updated: Jul 17 2024SummaryThis is a great experience; the team quickly responds to meet all our needs.
PositiveI love the automatic payments, parent portals, and Teacher app.
NegativeAdministrative reports do not work with Kinderconnect.
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Procare Solution is The Solution for all Childcare Pros!
Date: Oct 07 2024SummaryOverall, this program has changed the way we run as a center. Information has never been easier to find on children, families and staff when using Procare Solutions. I cannot imagine going back to how we used to operate without this software.
PositiveI love the ease of tracking child enrollment, family billings, and account specifics. It also makes sign-in and out a breeze!
NegativeNot being able to see the parent-end of the program makes troubleshooting difficult at times.
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Easy to use
Date: Oct 04 2024SummaryProcare is very easy to operate, user friendly. I think it is the perfect software for our business.
PositiveProcare is user friendly. Help is always available and easy to contact. The cost is very reasonable.
NegativeAs of today, I have not found any cons to this product.
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Love, Love Procare Childcare Software!
Date: Nov 08 2024SummaryI've used Procare for probably 28+ years and many upgrades. I love the ease of the program and anytime we have an issue, customer service has been phenomenal!
PositiveThe ease of use, it was easy implement the software, customer support is by far the best to interact with.
NegativeNo cons, love this product and its the only childcare software that we have ever used.
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Efficient
Date: Jun 18 2024SummaryOverall, love this product and would recommend to any daycare to increase efficiency and decrease workload.
PositiveSwitching to Procare has allowed us to increase our efficiency in the office. The automated billing and parent codes to sign in and out their children makes this a seamless process.
NegativeThere are still some features not available such as automatic late fees.
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Procare Solution customer
Date: Jun 18 2024SummaryThe customer service has been amazing and quick to answer any questions. The program is very user friendly and has several options to implement. The customers love the ease of use and the features included.
PositiveEase of use and availability. Ease of implementation. The program has many helpful links that you can use for questions . The staff find this program helpful for communicating with families as well.
NegativeThe added cost for tuition express for payments . If this was included in the monthly fee that would be beneficial to many childcare programs.
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Good Child Care System
Date: Nov 08 2024SummaryOverall, the Procare system is easy to use and helps me to successfully navigate the accounting for my program. While there are a few things that I do not care for, it is a good software system to use.
PositiveI like that Procare has an easy to use dashboard that will help you to access the various components of their system. It is clean and clear while giving you the basic information that you need to get started for the day. The various functions such as the reports give you a variety of ways to track the accounting and attendance in your program without getting bogged down by endless clicking to find the right form.
NegativeAn issue that I have with Procare is how subsidy payments are managed in the system. For example, if a child on subsidy leaves the program, their personal information that ties them to deposits is deleted and you have to go back and reenroll the child in the program to make the final deposits. Another issue that I have is the options for the newsletter function. It is very basic and does not allow for much creativity. It also does not have a strong print or email function as information and pictures get distorted when trying to print or email a newsletter.
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Procare Billing is a Breeze!
Date: Nov 08 2024SummaryWe do not use Procare for anything but billing/tuition payments at our school, and except for what I mentioned above, I love it!
PositiveThe ease of keeping track of tuition and payments each month. We are also now able to accept online tuition payments because we are using Procare.
NegativeWe are not able to run a monthly tuition posting report to track how much tuition should be coming in, and we are also unable to completely delete a child/family from the system.
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Procare is so helpful for me as a Pre-K teacher!
Date: Apr 04 2024SummaryOverall, Procare is easy to use and very user friendly! It works perfect for what I need it for! Procare is very helpful in my day to day tasks.
PositiveMy favorite thing about Procare is that I can communicate with my students' parents about their day! I can send pictures, activity descriptions, and notes about her meals.
NegativeThere is nothing I don't like about Procare! It is very user friendly and a helpful part of my day.
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My expierence with Procare
Date: Jun 19 2024SummaryOverall I think Procare was well made, although we do not use all of the features the program has to offer we are still very please with the parts that we are able to use. The price is a little high but it was a small sacrifice to make to help the productivity of our center.
PositiveMy experience with Procare has been exactly what was presented to myself and the owner of our center in the initial meeting with the Procare Team. They are very good at answering their phone and helping in anyway they can.
NegativeThere are some helpful features I feel like the system is lacking, such as their child history records. But I think they do a fine job.
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Have used for 20years
Date: Aug 19 2024SummaryIt has so many benefits for reports and record keeping. All of the modules work together for seamless information.
PositiveProcare has been our system of choice in the centers I have Directed. From Oklahoma to South Caroline. We use all the products available. Desktop - check in computer and door opener. This last year we have used Learning Beyond Paper and the Procare Parent communication app.
NegativeThe fees for credit card processing through Tuition Express would be the thing that keeps it from being the perfect childcare software. But 4 stars is still really great.
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Meets our Needs
Updated: Oct 07 2024SummaryWhile we have experienced some bumps in the road that does not have an immediate fix, their customer service is quick to help you through the problem.
Overall, we are happy with our choice with Procare over the other platforms we considered.PositiveInvoicing and payments have become greatly improved. Student tracking and ratios are vital to our school.
We use the Staff timecard which has made payroll super convenient.NegativeCannot message teachers individually.
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Procare has helped our School!
Date: Oct 07 2024SummaryThis has automated our after-school program and has been really easy to use and navigate. I like the way that we can get our total counts per day.
PositiveI like the ease of billing and the reports that are available. I also like the ease of taking attendance.
NegativeI wish I could be able to get push notifications when a parent sends a message to me in the app. I also wish I could give partial refunds to parents instead of having to refund the entire amount of the payment.
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Fair Experience
Date: Oct 04 2024SummaryFair; does the basics of what I need. System features create more responsibilities for director rather than automated features
PositiveThe only thing I could think of would be sending messages to parents when they check in/out. This helps when I can’t get to them in person
NegativeNot user friendly, difficult to complete what I need to do
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Happy Customer
Date: Oct 04 2024SummaryI did have the chance to change platforms three years ago after using Procare for 12 years and decided to continue with Procare. The remaining team members made the move to Procare!
PositiveProcare Solutions has been helping me fulfill my administrative needs for over 15 years! I love the dashboard for the quick glance of all systems running along with the ease of locating records/data at your finger tips.
I can better forecast with classroom information from Procare and quickly see if a child is not present.NegativeMy only con would be the having to log back in after a time out. Would love it if the time would be a wider period of time or if I had the capabilities to change my sign out time.
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Great, but takes a long time to learn all that the Procare software offers
Date: Oct 07 2024SummaryProcare is a quality child care management system for keeping track of a ton of child and family information. It takes quite some time to learn all what Procare can do for your program.
PositiveThe online MyProcare Parent Portal is a great way for parents to add and update their children's weekly schedules. And it's super nice that they can pay their bills through the portal as well.
NegativeTuition Express frequently fails to post payments to random accounts when a parent pays online. This is a HUGE headache because you must go into the accounts and manually enter the payments and then generate a deposit report.
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Childcare
Date: Jun 17 2024SummaryGood experience in most aspects. It allows for me as a director to easily monitor the happens of the center and insure that children are be provided proper care.
PositiveGreat attendance keeping, scheduling, ratio monitoring. Love the waitlist option, it keeps things organized and right at your finger tips.
NegativeFeatures do not carry over from webpage to app and vise versa
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Procare is Good
Date: Dec 05 2024SummaryOverall it has been a good experience. Not great but good. There are still some issues to be worked out. Like what Icons mean, Subsidy billing issues, and enrolling students into two classrooms.
PositiveWe have been using Procare for a few years now. Customer service is quick and pretty helpful on most questions. I like that they will accept suggestions to make the software better from a user's end.
NegativeThe bugs that happen. There seems to be a few problems with the parents payment function that involves Tuition Express.
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Procare has been great
Date: Oct 07 2024Summaryit has been a great addition to our preschool. overall happy with all of the features and I know along the way it will just get better and better.
PositiveI like the communication feature, photos, billing and staff info. It's nice that everything is easily kept in one spot. wish that it had a budgeting side for supplies.
NegativeI wis that the photos and comments had a like feature. that way parents and teachers can confirm message received with out having to respond.
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