Multi-site child care software that scales with your business

Whether you’re building new centers or acquiring existing ones, Playground gives you the control, visibility, and flexibility to manage every site with confidence.

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Run every location like your best one

Playground standardizes multi-site operations so you can grow faster with less overhead and more oversight.

Scattered systems

Disconnected systems across locations with billing here, forms there, marketing somewhere else.

One platform

All-in-one platform with unified billing, enrollment, communication, marketing, and reporting—centrally managed, locally flexible.

Inconsistent operations

No way to enforce consistency as each site runs things their own way.

Standardized guardrails

Enterprise dashboard applies global guardrails: standardized forms, billing logic, user roles, permissions, and branding across all sites.

Zero visibility

Enrollment and billing forecast chaos as families fall through the cracks and revenue is hard to forecast.

Predictable revenue

Predictive enrollment, automated billing, and revenue forecasting keep pipelines full and cash flow steady.

Compliance chaos

Compliance and licensing tracking lives in spreadsheets or nowhere.

Always audit-ready

Real-time attendance, digital paperwork, and expiration dates help you stay compliant without the scramble.

Manual onboarding

New site onboarding = copy/paste nightmare.

Instant site setup

Launch new sites in minutes with template duplication so settings, forms, and permissions are all cloned and ready.

Reactive

Visibility only after problems arise, if at all.

Live, org-wide insights

Live reports and custom dashboards show you enrollment health, staff ratios, and revenue drivers in real time.

Inside the tech stack powering one of America’s fastest-growing child care chains

With over 40 high-end preschool locations, Little Sunshine’s Playhouse needed a platform that could match their operational complexity and brand consistency. Playground gave them full visibility across the organization while keeping site-level staff focused on what matters most: families and classrooms.

Little Sunshine’s Playhouse Shares the Key to Scaling Successfully - YouTube

All your sites, always in sync

All your sites, one powerful dashboard

Stop juggling spreadsheets and logins. Playground’s enterprise dashboard gives you a unified view of your entire organization.

Organization-wide reporting for billing, enrollment, attendance, and more

• Drill into individual sites or zoom out for a high-level overview
• Set and enforce org-wide policies, pricing, and permissions
• Spot inefficiencies in staffing, collections, and engagement
• Eliminate double entry with real-time, connected data
• Fill more seats

Streamlined enrollment growth at scale

Fill spots faster without adding headcount or extra tools

• Automate lead capture, tour bookings, and follow-up across locations
• Embed branded inquiry forms into each center’s website
• Measure marketing performance across your organization
• Duplicate high-performing campaigns for new sites in seconds

Centralized enrollment with local flexibility

Create branded enrollment portals with unique flows per program

Save families time with autofill and sibling support Apply consistent pricing, paperwork, and permissions org-wide

Enterprise-grade billing without enterprise bloat

Standardize billing practices and ensure accurate, on-time payments

• Apply billing templates and recurring plans across all locations
• Control which sites can adjust discounts or charges
• Reconcile subsidy revenue automatically
• Sync billing with attendance in real time
• Close the books with confidence and lock past billing periods to prevent changes after reconciliation

Engage families your way at scale

A consistent, high-quality experience for every family

• Equip each site to engage families in a way that builds trust
• Send updates, photos, and daily reports from a shared system
• Monitor engagement per child/classroom
• Let families customize their notifications and view a full media gallery
• Maintain branding while empowering site-level voice and tone

Stay audit-ready without the stress

Guardrails, visibility, and peace of mind

• Stay ahead of audits and licensing with tools that run in the background
• Auto-collect forms with expiration tracking for each child
• Monitor ratios and staff check-ins live from your dashboard
• Generate CACFP, attendance, and subsidy reports with a few clicks
• Choose where to lock down settings vs. allow local changes

Visibility across every location

One unified console for complete organizational insight.

• Real-time data across enrollment, billing, attendance, and staffing
• Customizable reporting by site, region, or org-wide
• Track KPIs like utilization rates, family engagement, & subsidy collections
• Eliminate siloed systems and manual reconciliation

Standardize what works everywhere

Ensure operational consistency while enabling site-level autonomy.

• Apply org-wide forms, workflows, roles, and pricing policies
• Lock down charges and discounts; restrict ad hoc edits
• Maintain brand integrity and compliance at scale
• Enable smart defaults and flexible overrides

Accelerate site launches

Spin up new locations in minutes, not weeks.

• Duplicate settings from existing centers
• Customize where needed, preserve guardrails where it matters
• Fast, accurate onboarding with fewer errors
• Reduce training overhead and onboarding lag

Lean on us as your technology partner

Our customer success team supports multi-site organizations every step of the way.

• Full-service onboarding and data migration
• Dedicated success team with multi-site experience
• Strategic reviews to help you scale smarter

Software built to scale

Build smarter using the Playground API & MCP

• Connect Playground to the rest of your tech stack and move data in and out on your terms.
• CRM & Lead Capture
• Enterprise Reporting
• Billing & Financial Sync
• Student, Guardian & Roster Sync

How The Weston School plans to go from 5 to 20 locations

With a lean central team and growing footprint, they needed control without complexity to accelerate growth.

Multiply what your program gets done in a day

Camber handles daily admin work, captures and converts enrollment leads, and keeps your entire team aligned on compliance and policy.

FAQs

1. What does Playground do for multi-site child care organizations?
2. Why is running multiple daycare locations so hard?
3. How do you keep operations consistent across multiple child care sites?
4. How do you see what's happening at every child care location at once?
5. How do you grow enrollment across multiple child care locations?
6. How do you centralize billing across multiple child care sites?
7. How do you launch a new child care site without rebuilding from scratch?
8. How does AI help multi-site child care operations?

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