One educator's review on Brightwheel As an educator, this software is time consuming and very clunky. In order to create one row of a lesson plan it takes no less than 16 clicks - for one row! Keep in mind that one row includes ONLY Circle Time for the week. As an educator/administrator: think how many plans/activities a teacher creates for one day in an ELC. Also, it does not offer an integrated Assessment tool - a definite step backwards from our former program.

Our after school and summer programs… Our after school and summer programs have been using bright wheel and we love it. Parents can be alerted of their kids activities as they are completing them. The program also makes it easy to contact parents in any incident as well as generate detailed reports.

Confident I am more and more comfortable with Brightwheel. I am a premium client and have been for 6 months. My difference between giving 3 stars instead of 4 is while, you can email questions/ask for help, sometimes you need to speak live to BW. I do wish that reaching out live was more available. Yesterday, I had my first call and after 20 minutes I had many issues answered and I felt so much more confident in using BW...and since I feel more confident it will benefit my business tremendously!

Great IF you dont plan to use the… Great IF you dont plan to use the billing option App is fairly easy for parent contact- which is great to keep teacher personal information safe- and check in is fairly straightforward BUT the billing side- forget it! if you need help- they only answer via email- and it takes at least 1-2 days to hear back- then it's a copy/paste response from one of their "help articles" - they have no direct contact with their customers- and if a billing issue comes up- you are SOL in getting it sorted- talk about some angry parents

Best Childcare App Available As a childcare provider I have tried multiple tracking apps- Brightwheel is hands down the best one I’ve tried! The interface is extremely user friendly and easy to set up and parents love the real time updates on how their kiddo is doing throughout the day! The only thing I wish was easier was using the app to make lesson plans available for viewing by parents (in case their kiddo needs some thing specific for that activity such as water shoes) and easier tracking for potty training. Other then that I love brightwheel and will continue to use it for many years to come!