Center Notes
For early learning
Center Notes handles the daily documentation — attendance, care logs, parent messages, and records — so your hours go to children, not clipboards. Twelve tools, one calm system, $5 a month flat.
Try every feature. No credit card.
Built by a childcare family, for childcare centers.
Four parts of the day where paperwork eats your time — and what Center Notes does about each one.
Ratios, meal counts, expiring credentials — the math your licensing visit asks about, done while you tap through the day. No end-of-month scramble.
Pickup questions, hard conversations, weekly updates — answered in minutes, not evenings. What you log during the day becomes what families read at pickup.
Medication doses, incident reports, developmental milestones — documented with the detail licensing expects, while it happens.
Turn a quick observation into a polished, print-ready learning record — and map the week’s curriculum to learning goals in one sitting.
Explore the twelve tools below. For a first look, follow the observation workflow using fictional details.
27 ready-to-send parent message templates — difficult conversations, handled.
Track developmental milestones against checklists, child by child.
Document incidents with care steps and signatures, ready for licensing.
Certifications, training hours, and expiry alerts for licensing compliance.
Lead pipeline from first inquiry through tour, waitlist, and enrollment.
No tiers. No per-child fees. No setup fee. We publish the price proudly because it is the whole story.
All twelve tools and your center portal. Cancel anytime. Start your trial in seconds — no credit card.
Try every feature. No credit card.
What the same center pays elsewhere — same 20 children, per month.
| Platform | Monthly cost | Per child |
|---|---|---|
| CenterNotes | $5 flat | $0.25 |
| Famly | $49–$199 (tiers by capacity) | from $2.45 |
| illumine | ~$20 (at ~$0.99/student) | ~$1.00 |
| TUIO | ~$42 ($500/yr per location) | ~$2.10 |
Competitor figures from public pricing pages and listings, Oct 2026. Your center’s actual quote may differ — ask each vendor for a written quote before deciding.
See the full side-by-sideThe objections we would want answered before trusting software with our center’s records.
Your working records stay in your browser on your own devices — that is the local-first design. Your portal account, center roster, and billing live on our secure servers. Drafts may stay local; accounts, payments, and hosted features use online services.
Only people at your center who sign in to your portal. We don’t read, mine, or sell child records — and we never sell data to advertisers or brokers.
Yes. Cancel from inside your portal in seconds — no email, no phone call. You keep access until the end of the billing month.
No. Fourteen days, every feature, no card. We only ask for payment if you decide to stay.
Export first — every tool prints or saves PDF, so your records leave with you. Then cancel. If you ask, we’ll delete your account data too.
No parent app to install. Family communication happens through print-ready daily sheets, message templates, and family-ready summaries, straight from your browser.
Never. No ads, no data brokers, no selling children’s or families’ information. Our only revenue is your $5 subscription.
If you want calm, affordable documentation — yes. If you need built-in tuition billing or a parent app, the honest answer is that we’re thinner there. See how we compare, side by side.
Try the existing Weekly Observation tool with sample data. No sign-in is needed to explore this workflow. Use fictional details, not real child information.
Sign in to the portal with your workspace email. If you are still exploring, try the sample observation workflow above first.
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