#1 childcare software for large and multi-site centers

Manage your growing childcare operations in one simple app

Manage your growing childcare operations in one simple app

Brightwheel helps you run large and multi-location centers with less stress. Keep your teams on track, stay connected with families, and manage your large enrollment with confidence.

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Why large and multi-site programs love brightwheel

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Quick insight into what’s happening

Make it easy to see how each location is running everyday.

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No headaches over admin tasks

Simplify cross-location billing, attendance, enrollment, and staff scheduling.

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Real-time parent-teacher communication

Always keep parents in the loop about their child, even when your centers are spread out.

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Effortless staff management across locations

Create consistent staff communication and management processes.

An image of review score and star rating

Quick insight into what’s happening

Make it easy to see how each location is running everyday.

An icon image of clock that represents the time-saving benefit of brightwheel.

No headaches over admin tasks

Simplify cross-location billing, attendance, enrollment, and staff scheduling.

An icon image of money that represents the billing feature of brightwheel.

Real-time parent-teacher communication

Always keep parents in the loop about their child, even when your centers are spread out.

An icon image of heart that represents the communication feature of brightwheel.

Effortless staff management across locations

Create consistent staff communication and management processes.

Trusted by thousands of leading early childhood education programs

Large and multi-site programs and directors: Brightwheel is for you

What large and multi-site educators are saying

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I love being able to see it on my phone, so no matter where I go I can simply pick up brightwheel and see what’s going on with each student, family and staff member at all 9 locations.

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I love being able to see it on my phone, so no matter where I go I can simply pick up brightwheel and see what’s going on with each student, family and staff member at all 9 locations.

Seamlessly switch to brightwheel from other childcare management software

 

Easy onboarding trainings

Get access to guided training through brightwheel Academy, a comprehensive learning tool to help you, your staff, and families master using brightwheel.

Speedy support team

Brightwheel has the industry’s largest support team and will ensure that you get quick answers through live chat whenever you need them. Brightwheel’s support team plays a pivotal role in enabling new users to maximize every feature of the software.

Roster and rate card upload tool

Switching to brightwheel is easy when you upload your student rosters and rate cards. The brightwheel team will import your student roster and tuition rates into your brightwheel account so you have all of the information you need for a quick, seamless set-up.

One simple, transparent price

You won’t pay more as you use more features on brightwheel. Your price is based on enrollment capacity and you get access to all features on the platform.

Brightwheel vs. Procare

For programs looking to grow, brightwheel provides powerful, integrated multi-site management tools for scale. Compare brightwheel’s multi-site management capabilities, such as organization-level dashboards and reporting, robust financial management, customizable user permissions and roles by site, and more.

Frequently asked questions about multi-site centers

Brightwheel supports multi-site centers with an organization-wide dashboard, centralized reporting, streamlined billing, robust staff management (including customizable permissions per site), efficient communication tools, and integrated curriculum management. In addition, centers benefit from centralized paperwork with shareable form templates across multiple sites and seamless student transferring between sites, making operations smoother and more connected across the entire organization.

The benefits of using brightwheel include real-time insights into operations, reduced administrative work, centralized billing and payments, consistent staffing processes, improved parent-teacher communication, and standardized curriculum delivery—all from a unified system.

As a Multi-Site Administrator, you can toggle between your different centers easily—on both the web and mobile app—without needing to log in and out separately for each site.

Yes, brightwheel offers robust user roles and permissions designed with multi-site centers in mind. As a Multi-Site Admin, you can centrally manage staff access across all your locations, assigning roles like Admin, Manager, Lead Staff, or Billing Only depending on each person’s responsibilities.

Brightwheel also provides multi-site–specific roles, such as Multi-Site Admin (with full organizational access) and Organization Reports (with reporting-only access across multiple sites). This flexibility ensures that owners of multi-site childcare centers can streamline operations, maintain data security, and give staff the right level of visibility at every location.

Yes. Brightwheel’s Multi-Site Reporting lets you generate aggregated reports—such as attendance, meals, and custom data—across multiple locations, offering insights into performance and trends at the organizational level.

You can trust that your center’s and families’ data is secure with brightwheel. We prioritize data security and adhere to the strictest measures to protect all information in our system. Our platform is also compliant with all applicable data privacy laws. To learn more about brightwheel’s security practices, visit brightwheel’s Security FAQs here.

Brightwheel offers transparent, all-inclusive pricing plans that scale with your program, often proving more cost-effective as you grow, with no hidden fees for essential features. Request pricing information to explore how brightwheel can benefit your program.

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