Real-time chat, email blasts, app push notifications, weekly newsletters, and SMS — all from one screen. Plus an Activity Feed — 14 starter post types and unlimited custom types you can build yourself. Stop juggling Mailchimp, WhatsApp, and a paper notebook.
Whether you’re sending a daily photo, a snow-day SMS, or this week’s newsletter — it all flows from the same screen.
A photo from today, a kudos for the toddlers, a snow-day alert, or this week’s digest. There’s a pre-built post type, or you can create your own.
Chat for back-and-forth. Push for instant. Email for long. Newsletter for weekly. SMS when it absolutely has to land.
Same audience, same message, the right channel. Read receipts, replies, and reactions land back in your dashboard.
Built for the real shape of daycare parent communication — not a generic email tool, not a generic chat app.
One-on-one and group chats with parents and staff. Read receipts, attachments, links to forms, links to events. Real-time, in-app.
Send to a class, your whole center, or a custom audience you build. Track opens, clicks, and replies. Templates for first-day, snow-day, weekly recap.
Post an activity, share an event, send an urgent note — parents get a tap on their phone the second it happens.
Pick a designed template — Field Trip, Holiday, End-of-Year, Community — or build your own from scratch. Brand it with your school’s logo and ship it.
Snow day, early closure, missing pickup — SMS reaches every family even if they don’t open the app or have notifications off.
14 pre-built types ship in — food, potty, kudos, incidents, and more. Build your own with whatever fields fit your center. No cap.
Parents can ask, “Did Maya eat?” You answer in seconds — with a photo, an attachment, or a link to a permission slip. One-on-one with any family, group chats by classroom or custom audience, and the same inbox shows you what was unread.
The newsletter feature is the one directors keep telling us they love. Pick a beautifully designed template — Field Trip Recap, End-of-Year Showcase, Holiday Celebration, or Community Newsletter — or build from scratch with a blank canvas. Drop in your photos and content, brand it with your school’s logo, colors, and signature, and ship it.
The feature parents won’t stop refreshing. Your staff posts a moment from the room — a kudos, a meal, a milestone, a photo. Parents see it on their phone instantly. At the end of the day, every activity for their child compiles into one beautiful daily digest, sent automatically. Pick from 14 pre-built activity types — or build your own. There’s no limit on the activity types you can define.
Most centers use Mailchimp + WhatsApp + a Google Form + a paper notebook. Communications replaces all of it.
Five: real-time chat (in the parent app), email, app push notifications, weekly newsletters, and SMS. You can pick the right channel for the moment — chat for a quick back-and-forth, push for an activity update, email for a longer announcement, newsletter for the weekly recap, and SMS for urgent alerts that need to reach every family right now.
Chat is real-time messaging with parents from your admin dashboard. You can have one-on-one conversations with a specific family, or group chats by classroom or any custom group you create. Messages can include photos, attachments, inline links to enrollment forms, and links to school calendar events.
14 pre-built types ship out of the box: Food, Potty, Note, Kudos, Meds, Name-to-Face, Activity, End of Day Report, Boo-Boo Report, Incident Report, Please Bring, Announcement, Log Observation, and Health Check. Each is a structured post with the right fields for that moment. And there’s no limit — you can create your own custom activity types with whatever fields fit how you run your center.
Yes. Email and SMS support sending to a whole classroom, an entire center, or a custom audience you build. Push notifications and announcements work the same way. Newsletters use ready-to-go templates with your school’s branding — you pick a template, fill it in, and send.
Two ways. Pick from a library of beautifully designed templates — Field Trip Recap, End-of-Year Showcase, Holiday Celebration, Community Newsletter — fill in the content, and ship it. Or build from scratch on a blank canvas. Either way, your school’s logo, colors, and signature go on every send.
Use SMS when the message has to land for everyone, even families who don’t open the app or have notifications off. Snow day, early closure, building emergency, urgent pickup needed. Push is great for daily moments — a new photo, a kudos post, today’s lunch — because parents who use the app see them instantly.
Yes — chat is two-way by design. Email replies land back in your inbox. SMS replies route to your inbox too if your number supports it. Push notifications open the parent app, where they can read, react, or reply. Newsletters are typically one-way, but they include links back to the parent app for replies.
Open MyKidReports free, invite your families, and start chatting. Push, newsletters, email, SMS, and the Activity Feed are already wired up — from day one.