Procare Description
Procare is the most widely used child care management solution for child care centers, before and after school programs, and youth organizations to ease the burdens of running a business, coordinating staff, communicating with parents, and educating their children.
ADMINISTRATION
Manage every aspect of your center or multi-centers, all in one cloud-based, integrated platform.
COMMUNICATION
Keep your staff and parents connected on all milestones and activities, whether by phone, email, text, or the app, creating an environment of exceptional child care.
BILLING AND PAYMENTS
Automated billing and payment collection, making it convenient for parents while providing integrated, real-time data and functionality for providers.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Central real-time view of all financials and receivables for the center through the integrated dashboard.
LESSON PLANNING
Create lesson plans, student assessments, and manage lessons by classroom without the stress and time-consuming task of outdated paper formats.
MOBILE APP
An easy-to-use app that is fully integrated, for staff and family engagement, allowing centers to stay connected with families.
AND MORE..
That’s why over 40,000 customers choose Procare.
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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 Features and Options
Child Care Software
Classroom Management Software
K-12 Software
Student Information System Software
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We Love Using Procare! Date: Jul 29 2025
Summary: It has been an great experience working with Procare. We have been able to create personalized reports, streamline billing, manage attendance, and much more!
Positive: Procare is a great product and helps cover all kinds of different needs for our center! From billing to data collection/management to student sign in/out. So many features and so easy to personalize!
Negative: There are so many features, it can be difficult to find and adjust things, but the support website offers great tutorials!
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Procare Review Date: Jul 26 2025
Summary: Continue creating and innovating the childcare industry and bringing new opportunities for Teachers. Parents and Students
Positive: The best childcare system created for this industry it took time to create and build. I’m also a parent and back in the day we all experienced written reports about our children but never like this and this connectivity app had so much to offer
Negative: Hopefully a business hour messages can be invented soon for after hours
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Procare ProChoice Date: Jul 26 2025
Summary: Overall Procare is the vest choice for any childcare setting! It's easy to use & very self explanatory.
Positive: The simplicity about it. Eveything is straight-forward and easy to use. Whether you have previous experience with childcare apps or not!
Negative: Not being able to send photos directly through chat to parents
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Thoughts on Procare Solutions Date: Jul 09 2025
Summary: We have used Procare Desktop for over 15 years, and it has served us well. We are poised to move to the cloud version this month and are looking forward to it. Procare Solutions has provided the management features we need to run a successful child care business.
Positive: Procare Solutions has been easy to learn, easy to use. I've been especially please with the integration of billing with payments through Tuition Express. There are many training videos available. For the few instances something has gone awry, support has been able to get us back on track.
Negative: We are switching to the cloud version soon, so I am hoping the overall appearances improves. Though our need to call support has been fairly minimal, the wait time on hold could be better.
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Procare solutions Date: May 29 2025
Summary: I have been using Procare solutions for a while, always learning something new and it is very helpful and beneficial to my workplace.
Positive: Reports, tracking, parent communication, attendance, lesson planning, and calendar of events. Very helpful!
Negative: I do not like the reports generated with dates without being able to clear history or delete the past generated reports.
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Love Procare Date: May 27 2025
Summary: As a parent currently using Procare Solutions for my son’s daycare center, I’ve been so impressed by how smoothly everything runs. The daily updates and communication features have made me feel more connected and confident about his care. Seeing how efficient it is at managing billing, enrollment, and communication has inspired me as I prepare to open my own daycare center soon. I’m excited to implement Procare Solutions because I know it will help me provide an outstanding experience for families. I can’t wait to use it to ensure everything runs smoothly from day one!
Positive: • User-friendly interface that’s easy to navigate.
• Excellent parent communication tools, including daily updates and photos.
• Simplifies administrative tasks like billing and enrollment.
• Comprehensive reporting and tracking features for attendance, meals, etc.
• Responsive and helpful customer support team.Negative: • Initial setup can be a bit time-consuming, especially for larger centers.
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• Some features might require extra training to fully utilize.
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Preschool Program Usage Edited: May 23 2025
Summary: We are excited to make the switch and our teaching team is excited as well which is a large influence in my decision to select a program.
Positive: We are excited to make the switch to Procare after a recommendation from another program in the area. We take photos of the students for families and being able to upload more than 1 at a time is huge for our program. We also like the ease of messaging families, keeping track of tuition payments, possible new students, and being able to track attendance and print emergency cards is a huge time saver for us.
Negative: We haven't found anything about the program that would be a con for us at this time.
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Easy to Use Date: May 23 2025
Summary: Overall, Procare solutions meets the needs of my school by helping me to monitor attendance and ensure safe checkout.
Positive: I love being able to easily monitor my students being checked in and checked out each day, and safely see who’s picking them up!
Negative: I have experienced glitches with the message notifications, which is very inconvenient… Especially if it’s a time sensitive message from one of my parents!
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Procare for the win! Date: May 23 2025
Summary: Overall, I am so glad we decided to invest in our daycare by using Procare. For the small amount it costs us monthly, it pays for itself with time saved! Bonus is that the parents really like us using it also!
The time I save using the “Billing & Invoicing” recurring plan feature is priceless! Everything is entered in once & it repeats automatically as long as you need. It saves me from so much time sitting at a computer.
The Student Info & Records feature lets us have all of the information we typically store in a paper file, but available at our fingertips, without having to go into the office & into the filing cabinet to look for it.
The "Attendance Tracking" feature does exactly what it says! It makes keeping track of our kiddos by total attendance or attendance by room so much easier. Before we were doing all of this by hand, day by day, writing down sign in & sign out.
The "Communications Management" feature is one of the things the staff & parents like most. We're able to update the parents on their child's day easily, with photos. If there happens to be an accident or incident, we can let them know immediately.
Being able to have "Mobile Access" is another priceless feature. These days there is an app for everything & nearly everyone has their phone on them almost all of the time. Staff can provide immediate information & parents receive it moments later.
The staff, parents & I as the owner/admin appreciate the "Immunization & Allergy Tracking". The allergy cards are posted in every room, not only the kitchen. This helps the staff keep the kids stay safe & gives parents peace of mind.
I chose Procare because I felt like we would be more satisfied. The representative was very upfront with all information & features including offering the best pricing immediately. Brightwheel quoted a cost, then when I stated I decided to go with Procare, they came down on their cost in attempt to "beat Procare out". I just personally did not care for that approach to business. Also, there was no feature or capability that Brightwheel had that Procare did not. Plus, I preferred the layout and ease of use of Procare.Positive: What I like most about Procare is the ease of use. It was very simple to set up & very simple to get started using for myself, the staff and the parents. If we ever had any questions a representative was there to help us along the way.
Negative: If I had to pick a con about Procare, which is hard to do, it would be that some parents experienced minor glitches with setting up their automatic ACH payments. All in all, any of those were taken care of within days.
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Procare review Date: May 23 2025
Summary: I liked Procare and how organized it was if I was to go to another childcare I would definitely use it again
Positive: I liked how it organized the daily updates on a diaper changes, feeding and communication with the parents
Negative: How it was shut down at random times during the day
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Switch to Procare Date: May 23 2025
Summary: Procare is fantastic, especially if there are any issues. They have done a great job at helping with implementation and answering any and all questions. I *never* feel like a bother when I am asking for support and I feel like concerns and additions are valued by the company.
Positive: Easy to use, customer support is great, parents are happy with updates! Overall, Procare is a great system. The Billing is integrated so easily with other programs and there are few outages.
Negative: It’s hard to get new programs going. Desktop and online versions don’t always talk to each other and things need to be updated on both sometimes.
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Helpful and easy to use! Date: Apr 25 2025
Summary: Procare makes our day smoother and keeps parents in the loop. It’s been really helpful for our team.
Positive: It's easy to use and helps us keep track of kids, billing, and messages to parents all in one place.
Negative: The mobile app can sometimes be a little slow or glitch when uploading photos or switching between screens, but it’s usually fixed fast.
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Easy Procare Date: Apr 23 2025
Summary: Overall I am happy. I haven't felt the need to switch over to anything else and probably won't. It is pretty user friendly. We really liked when a representative actually worked with us to learn how to accept card payments.
Positive: I love that when I work with Procare it is like second nature. All of the menus are in a spot that are easy to find. It is also very simple to add in new menus or classrooms. I love that I am able to input all of my documents in the system and it will print me out things such as tax statements, allergy lists and even classroom rosters or birthdays.
Negative: It logs me out a lot and that makes it difficult when I am in a hurry to do something
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Procare is supportive Date: Apr 22 2025
Summary: We are happy and working on learning how to use the system to its full potential. We look forward to the trainings that we will be setting up and utilizing Procare to the best of it's abilities.
Positive: Being able to get most of my business functions taken care of in one spot. This program has supported us in learning how to manage everything and the care team is very supportive. We recently reached out about trainings and they were very supportive and helpful!
Negative: We would like to see better organization from Procare. We can't upload our incident/accident reports, because they would get scrambled with the important documents that we load. then it would become a hassle to find anything. We would also love to have categories for our communications, because not all communications are flagged important and some are mainly for curriculum with teachers. So being able to separate would be helpful.
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Procare has streamlined my workload Date: Apr 22 2025
Summary: Procare has streamlined my workload. All my information is in one place and right at your fingertips.
Positive: I’ve been using Procare for more than 10years and I love it! Procare helps me keep track of staff and children’s requirements/documentation. You can print a report for any information or data you need. It is fully customizable. Procare does so much and if I need help the support website is great. There you can find easy step by step directions/ videos. The phone support team is also very helpful. I use Procare for everything; attendance tracing for children and staff, data/required paperwork, tuition charges and payment, center expenses, parent and staff communication, children’s daily reports, and more. Starting in July, I plan to use the agency payment part of Procare. It will allow me to manage agency payment with a separate ledger under each family’s account.
Negative: Honestly, I love everything about Procare. Any concern or questions I have ever had/have are answered quickly by the support staff or website.
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