Every feature, in depth
The long walk through the building.
Everything that used to live on clipboards, sticky notes and worry — told the way they happen in a daycare: the morning ache you'd recognize anywhere, and how each one is quietly handled. Take the index on the left, or just walk straight through.
The front door · Attendance & safety
One-tap check-in & check-out
It's 9:40, the hallway is finally quiet — and you still couldn't say for sure who's actually in the building.
One tap at the door and the question is settled. Every arrival and every departure is stamped with the time and the person who marked it — so "who's in the building?" always has one true answer, the moment you ask it.
- Real-time arrivals and departures, each stamped with the time and the staff member who marked it
- Covers the whole real week: regular hours, early drop-offs, after-hours and Sunday classes
- A live roster the office and every classroom can see — who's in, right now, even who's out to the gym and back
- Feeds late-child alerts, meal counts and billing from the same single record
The front door · Attendance & safety
NFC tap cards for kids
A line at the door, a clipboard balanced on a knee, and names ticked off from memory.
Every child carries their own photo ID card — branded for your center, produced in batch for every location. They tap, the door knows them, and attendance marks itself before the coat is off. Even the littlest ones love the click.
- Children tap their own card — instant identification, instant attendance
- Branded photo ID cards, produced in batch per location, carrying your center's name
- The same card works at the door and on the bus — one tap, everywhere
- No clipboard, no line, no names ticked off from memory
The front door · Attendance & safety
Late-child alerts
A child who was supposed to come — and nobody noticed that she didn't.
When a scheduled child hasn't arrived, Tendi speaks up on its own — a clear sound at the desk, a text to whoever should know. No one has to remember to wonder; the system wonders for you. Nobody falls through the cracks, ever.
- The system notices on its own when a scheduled child hasn't arrived
- An audible alert at the front desk, a text message to whoever should know
- Knows the schedule — no false alarms on a day the child wasn't expected
- The alert closes itself the moment the child taps in
The front door · Attendance & safety
Allergy & health flags
The allergy note lives in a folder in the office — and snack is being served right now.
The moment a child checks in, allergies and health notes surface on the teacher's screen — right where the food and the child actually are. The note stops living in an office folder and starts living wherever the child is.
- Allergies and health notes surface automatically the moment a child checks in
- Shown on the teacher's screen — at the door, on the lunch list, on the bus
- Kept current from the child's one profile in the office — update once, seen everywhere
- No folder, no relying on memory, no "did anyone tell the substitute?"
The bus · Transportation
Live bus tracking, tap-on / tap-off
The phone rings again — "Where's the bus?" — and the honest answer is that you don't know.
Routes, stops, pickup times, drivers and attendants, seat capacity, the different Friday run — written down once, and every bus runs it the same way every day. Then the day plays out on a live map: every child taps on and taps off on board, and a child can only be marked at a stop the bus has actually reached. The office sees it, the parents get a text — or text in to ask — and the where's-the-bus calls simply stop.
- Full route management: stops, times, driver & attendant assignments, capacity, Friday variants
- Every bus on a live map in real time, with its location history kept
- Arrival-radius validation — a child can only be marked at the right stop
- Tap-on / tap-off on board — the office knows exactly who is on which bus, and a parent who texts gets the same true answer
The bus · Safety
No child left on the bus
The bus is parked, the driver has gone home — and somewhere in the back of your mind, the question you can never quite put down: was every seat checked, every single time?
Tendi answers it with arithmetic, not hope. Every child taps on and taps off, so the bus always knows exactly who it's carrying. At every stop the taps are reconciled against the headcount — and a route cannot close while a single child who tapped on hasn't tapped off. If one hasn't, the alert is sounding at the office before the driver has pocketed the keys. A forgotten child isn't merely unlikely; the route won't let it go unnoticed.
- Tap-on at pickup, tap-off at the stop — the bus knows who it's carrying, the whole ride
- Headcount reconciliation at every stop: the taps and the heads must agree before the bus rolls on
- An end-of-route check: the route cannot close while anyone who tapped on hasn't tapped off
- If a child is unaccounted for, the alert reaches the driver and the office at once — clear, loud, impossible to miss
The bus · Built for our world
Shabbos & Yom Tov-aware scheduling
Erev Yom Tov again — and you're rewriting every route and every pickup time by hand.
The heimishe calendar is built into the bones, not bolted on. Erev Shabbos early dismissal is a first-class concept with its own hours and its own bus schedules — and a route simply cannot run on a day the luach says it shouldn't.
- Erev Shabbos early dismissal as a first-class concept — its own hours, its own bus runs
- A route simply cannot run on a day the calendar says it shouldn't
- Friday-specific route variants, set once and followed every week
- Yom Tov closures and Sunday sessions flow through attendance, meals and busing on their own
The classroom · Daily care
Meals & bottle logs
"Did the baby take her bottle?" — and the answer is finding whoever happened to be in the room.
Breakfast, lunch and snack are logged per child as they're served, down to the menu items — with missed-meal reports so nothing slips quietly by. Bottles too: mother's milk or formula, how much, what time, by age. The answer is always one glance away.
- Breakfast, lunch and snack logged per child, down to the menu items
- Missed-meal reports — a skipped lunch never goes unnoticed
- Infant bottle logs: mother's milk or formula, amount and time, tracked by age
- Flows straight into meal & nutrition reports for the office and the programs
The classroom · Daily care
Naps, diapers & notes
A mother asks how the nap went today, and all anyone can offer her is a shrug.
Naps timed to the minute — start, pause, end — with the teacher's observation written while it's fresh. Diapers stamped as many times as the day brings, and the sweet moments captured as they happen: a note in Yiddish or English, a photo, a voice note. Nothing reaches a parent until you've reviewed and published it.
- Nap sessions with start, pause and end — durations and observation notes
- Diaper changes timestamped, multiple per day, never asked twice
- Notes, photos and voice observations — Yiddish or English, Yiddish keyboard built in
- Classroom photos tagged by child — and a draft-and-publish review before anything is shared with parents
The parents · Peace of mind
Text updates for parents — no portal, ever
The office phone rings all morning — "Did he get there?" "How was the nap?" — and somebody relays the same answers, one call at a time. The portals other systems offer? One more password nobody in this community asked for.
So there's no portal and no password — on purpose. Parents who opt in get a text message at the moments that matter: safely arrived, on the bus, off the bus. And any parent can text a question any time — "How's Shloimy?" — and the answer comes straight back from the day's live record, not from interrupting a teacher. It can, because every small act of the day is stamped on the tablets as it happens: onto the bus, off the bus, through the door, breakfast, nap, a fresh diaper, out to the gym and back.
- Opt-in text updates at the moments that matter — safe arrival, on the bus, off the bus
- Text in any time: ask how your child is doing and the current status texts right back
- Answered from the live record — every tap, meal, nap and fresh diaper, stamped as it happens
- Works on every phone — nothing to download, no passwords, no portal
The office · Admin & money
Billing & balances that reconcile
Two reports disagree and nobody knows which number is right.
Attendance flows straight into billing, so there's nothing to reconcile by hand. Invoices, payments in every form a family actually pays, balances and overdue tracking — split across parents, agencies and employers — and every number ties out the first time.
- Invoices and payment recording — cash, check, card, ACH, voucher
- Balances and overdue tracking, always current, never re-added by hand
- Responsibility split across parents, agencies and employers — each sees their share
- Attendance flows straight into billing, so the numbers can't drift apart
The office · Admin & money
Subsidies & program compliance
The program review is coming, and the paperwork lives in four drawers and somebody's head.
Vouchers, Head Start, tax-credit applicants, CAPS registry compliance — tracked per child, all year long, as the days actually happen. When the reviewer calls, the answer is already a tidy report, not a long night in front of four drawers.
- Vouchers, Head Start and tax-credit applicants tracked per child, all year
- CAPS registry compliance reporting for government programs, ready in a click
- Built on the same attendance record the day runs on — nothing retyped, nothing missed
- An audit trail of every action, so every answer can show its work
The office · Compliance
Inspection-ready, any day
The inspector is at the door — unannounced, the way they come — and the binders she'll ask for are half in the filing cabinet, half in last month's to-do pile.
With Tendi there's no scramble, because there's nothing to assemble. Attendance, ratios, enrollment records, staff files and every report are simply current — kept that way by the day itself as it runs. Whatever she asks for, you print it or export it while she's still taking off her coat. The audit stops being a season and becomes a non-event.
- Attendance, ratios, records and reports — always current, because they come from the day as it actually ran
- Print or export the moment they ask — PDF or Excel, on the spot
- Every number can show its work: timestamps, who marked it, the record behind it
- No "getting ready for the inspection" — the binder is, simply, always ready
The office · Trust
Their safety, on paper too
Families hand you their addresses, their phone numbers, their children's medical notes — and trust that the wrong eyes will simply never see them.
That trust is built into how Tendi is put together, quietly. Roles are enforced — a teacher sees her room and nothing more, and only the right people can open a child's file. Every action lands on the record: who looked, who changed what, and when. Your center's data is yours alone, kept apart from everyone else's. And every night, all of it is backed up — so nothing is ever one mishap away from gone.
- Roles, enforced — only the right people see a child's file; a teacher sees her room, the office sees the office
- Every action on the record — who looked, who changed what, and when
- Your data is your own: kept per center, never mingled with anyone else's
- Backed up every night, without anyone having to remember to do it
The big picture · Reports
Reports for everything
Someone asks a simple question about last month, and it costs you half a day to answer.
Attendance sheets, meal and nutrition reports, bus manifests, program and branch-movement reports — every type of report you'll ever be asked for, ready the day you're asked. Pick the class, the branch and the dates, and it's out as PDF or Excel — right the first time, because every small act of the day — a meal, a nap, a fresh diaper, the walk to the gym and back — was stamped on the tablets the moment it happened.
- Attendance sheets, meal & nutrition reports, bus manifests, program reports
- Branch-movement reports for centers with more than one building
- Filter by class, branch and date range — out as PDF or Excel
- Drawn from the one live record, so two reports can never disagree
The big picture · Multi-branch
The multi-branch dashboard
Three buildings, three sets of answers — and the full picture lives only in your head.
Each branch runs its own classes, buses and settings — and you see all of it from one quiet place: who's in, capacity, alerts, what needs you. And the experience your staff and families touch carries your center's own name and branding throughout — it's yours, and it looks it.
- Branches with their own classes, buses and settings — one dashboard over all of it
- Live at a glance: who's in, capacity, alerts across every building
- Your own branding throughout — on the screens your staff use and the cards your families carry
- A billing summary on the same screen is coming
In your hands · The tools
It arrives ready
A carton of electronics and a setup manual is the last thing a daycare has time for.
So the tablets we send don't need one. They arrive preloaded and signed in — your center's name on the screen, your classes already waiting. Hang one by the door, hand one to the driver, and the first tap just works. Already have devices you like? Bring them — your own tablets are every bit as welcome, and every bit as first-class.
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- Tablets from us come set up before they ship — unbox, plug in, tap
- Or bring your own devices — both ways are first-class
- The full hardware story, told plainly, on the Pricing page
Every weight, one calm place.
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