SkyChildCare is a cloud-based child care center management solution for small to medium sized child care centers. It provides online administration of child enrollment, staff scheduling, class management, tuition billing and center administration – all in one place.
SkyChildCare is an acclaimed cloud based product for US based child care centers and is accessible through any modern browser. SkyChildCare caters to the everyday child care worker by reducing their paperwork and allowing them to focus on caring for children. Each child’s daily record is updated daily by center workers and can be annotated with videos and pictures.
Center directors can electronically enroll children, schedule workers to ensure class coverage and notify parents of their children’s progress. It includes a robust tuition module that uses bank grade security to accept payments via credit cards, cash, check and ACH debits.
Free apps for the iPhone and Android mobile devices, allow for parents to keep track of their child’s progress and pay tuition using Apple Pay using a secure fingerprint. Centers can use a free iPad and Android tablet app to quickly capture attendance electronically at the front desk.
To make it accessible to small businesses, SkyChildCare is free to home day cares, and is priced at a modest monthly subscription basis to larger centers.
SpinSys saw the market need to develop an easy and affordable care center management solution that automated tedious administrative tasks for small to medium sized centers. While there are many client-server legacy applications that are expensive to procure, install and operate, there are few compelling cloud based solutions that enable the center to get to work without turning into an IT integrator.
Developed entirely in using Amazon Web Services technologies such as EC2, S3, CloudFront, and Glacier, SkyChildCare is a case study on how to quickly build successful products and companies in the cloud with minimum upfront infrastructure cost.
An Amazon technology partner, SpinSys, chose the AWS Cloud platform for SkyChildCare due to its: