Keep your team aligned and families engaged
Everything it takes to communicate with families, schedule your team, and run your classrooms, from a native teacher app and in-app messaging to live ratios, supply requests, and a parent portal.
- Native classroom app
- Live staff-to-child ratios
- Parent portal
One app for the people side of your center
A native classroom app, communication, daily reports, scheduling, supplies, payroll-ready export and the parent portal, all working from the same record.
Family communication
In-app messaging keeps teachers and parents on the same page, with emergency SMS broadcasts when minutes matter.
Daily reports
Log meals, naps and moments once and publish a clean daily sheet to every family, with photos attached.
Staff scheduling
Plan room coverage against live staff-to-child ratios and a 7-day forecast that warns you before a gap appears.
Classroom management
See who is in each room, which ratios are healthy and where coverage is thin, all from one back office.
Native classroom app
Teachers run the room from a native app: check-in and out, photos, meals, naps, incidents and supply requests, flowing straight to families.
Supplies & inventory
Pull-based supply management: teachers flag what is low, par levels drive replenishment, and stock updates as orders are received.
Payroll-ready export
Turn tracked hours into a payroll-ready CSV in ADP, Gusto or Paychex format. No re-keying spreadsheets.
Parent portal
A mobile-friendly portal where families pay, sign, view records and follow their child through the day.
Build trust with families, one update at a time
Send photos, daily sheets and announcements through in-app messaging (each family reads them in their own language across 10 supported languages) and reach every family at once with emergency SMS broadcasts when something changes.
- In-app messaging between directors, teachers and families
- Messages and daily updates auto-translated into each family’s language
- Daily sheets with photos, meals, naps and bathroom logs
- Center-wide announcements and emergency SMS broadcasts
Classroom coverage
Live ratiosStaff every room with ratios you can see
Plan coverage against live staff-to-child ratios and a predictive 7-day forecast, so you know where a gap is forming before it becomes a problem. Your AI co-director proposes ratio changes from your state's regulations for you to approve.
- Build weekly staff schedules room by room, or one-click Smart Fill a compliant week
- Live staff-to-child ratios with a predictive 7-day forecast
- Director-approved ratio changes guided by your AI co-director
Hours to payroll without re-keying
Track scheduled and worked hours by center, then export a payroll-ready CSV in ADP, Gusto or Paychex format. hayway prepares the file in the layout your provider expects, so you can hand it straight to your existing payroll run.
- Track scheduled and worked staff hours by center
- Payroll-ready CSV export in ADP, Gusto or Paychex format
- Reconcile coverage against the rooms you actually ran
CSV export in the ADP, Gusto and Paychex format. This is a file export, not a direct integration.
A portal families reach for
A mobile-friendly portal where parents pay, sign, view records and tax statements, and follow their child through the day on any device.
Pay and self-checkout
Invoices, wallets and statements
Sign and submit
Forms, consents and records
Follow the day
Daily sheets, photos and live video
Built for the phone in a parent's hand
Biometric or passkey check-in via WebAuthn is opt-in, with a PIN and QR fallback, so families can drop off and pick up in seconds.
One score, and the next dollar to chase
A director-facing improvement board scores your center across revenue, funding and compliance, then surfaces the single highest-dollar fix to make this week. Watch the score trend over the last 90 days, and follow any number straight to the record behind it. Where there's no data yet, it says “not yet measured” rather than inventing one.
- A single 0–100 Center Improvement Score across revenue, funding and compliance
- The highest-dollar fix to make this week, surfaced first
- A 90-day score trend so you can see the line move
- Every number deep-links to the real record behind it
- Reads “not yet measured” instead of a fake number when the data isn’t there
Center Improvement Score
This weekIllustrative sample. Your score is computed from your center's live operating data.
Bring your staff and families onto one app
Set up messaging, daily sheets, and scheduling, then open the parent portal, all from a single system built for modern childcare. No long-term contracts.