These days, especially for working parents, sometimes the first person who knows about your exciting pregnancy news isn’t your family; it’s the nearest day school. When Allison and Brandon Harding found out that they were expecting their daughter, the two engineers immediately got to work on an Excel sheet, categorizing schools based on different criteria. “Do they offer summer care? What are their hours? Why is it so hard to find suitable schools when we both work typical 8 – 5 schedules like every other working family?” Their options seemed limited and simultaneously overwhelming. They waited outside multiple schools at 5 AM before work, only to lose out. As engineers, they knew there had to be a better way to optimize. Not only for the parents, but for the schools trying to navigate the overflowing waitlists to get children in the door quickly.
Out of this staggering experience, Toddly was formed. For parents, Toddly provides an easy-to-navigate “marketplace” to compare local schools based on important criteria, sign up for a tour, and register your child for a spot. No more DIY spreadsheets to compare data from 10 different websites. No more 5 AM lines. No more calling around.
For schools, Toddly allows administrators to accept or decline tour requests, automatically texts parents to accept or decline spots, manages student classroom placement, accepts tuition payments, and forecasts budgets. Countless hours typically spent calling down the waitlist to parents, waiting to hear back, are instantly eliminated. Parents text back quickly. Spots get filled.
Toddly has proven to be a win-win opportunity for parents and administrators in a broken system that leaves parents scrambling for childcare while day schools manually manage a complex waitlist.
As a small, locally-owned business, Toddly provides top-class service, including customization opportunities and flexible pricing packages, allowing day schools to choose which features matter to them.
If you’re a parent (or a soon-to-be parent!), consider using Toddly when you need to find the right childcare for your family. If you’re a day school, reach out to Brandon and Allison to discuss how Toddly can help streamline your processes and get spots filled efficiently today!
Customer Testimony from Laurie Miracle, Executive Director of Laurel Heights Weekday School:
“Toddly has been an unforeseen surprise this year. Since I started using Toddly the administrative time I have spent on enrollment has been greatly reduced. Parents have a professional and easy way to schedule tours and get on our waitlist. I am using Toddly to manage classroom schedules, and now Toddly is helping me to keep a moment-by-moment accounting of revenue coming in. Toddly has quickly become a tool that I cannot imagine living without!”
Visit www.toddly.app to sign up!
Brandon Harding
Founder & CEO, Toddly
brandon@toddly.app
Allison Harding
Founder & CXO, Toddly
allison@toddly.app
