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Follow new updates and improvements to ChildFriendly Pro.

🚀 Product Update: October 30th, 2026

📚 Dashboard

Overview

  • Expanded Registration snapshot to show group capacity, current and pending enrolment, daily averages and weekday totals, with date filters and horizontal scrolling;

📚 Reports

Overview

  • Added download options to Merchant Invoice and Payment reports;

  • Added an SK Monthly Attendance report for Saskatchewan centers, with attendance, age categories, editable fees and PDF export;

📚 Staff

Schedule

  • Cell actions now save automatically, making it easier to update breaks, flags and notes;

  • Added name search when selecting covering staff;

  • Added controls to hide and show header groups while preserving their schedule data;

  • Updated flag labels to “Flag” and “Flagged” and displayed full time ranges for schedule blocks;

📚 Attendance

SignIn

  • Added select-all controls to each section of the student Sign In screen, with confirmation for larger selections;;

🛠️ Platform Optimizations & Bug Fixes

  • Dashboard: Fixed ratio warnings so rooms at capacity remain in ratio, improved the default landing page for administrators, and corrected Learning Plans counts to exclude groups without enrolment;

  • Staff Schedule: Improved column widths, date-picker indicators, header management and cell editing, and fixed unexpected navigation during horizontal scrolling;

  • Attendance: Fixed approved time edits to keep attendance logs and Payroll totals consistent;

  • Messaging and Calendar: Improved separation of staff and parent messaging and reminders when accounts share an email address;

  • Notification Settings: Fixed saving administrator push preferences and clarified message notification options;

  • Message Sounds: Prevented duplicate sounds when the mobile app is in the background while preserving foreground and urgent-message sounds;

  • Medication Dashboard: Improved card readability, made signed-out children easier to identify and clarified medication outcome labels;

  • Reports and Finance: Corrected Illness Records exports, Live Roll Call times, Processed-page dates and invoice display, and improved ledger and memo layouts;

  • Admissions: Fixed archiving inquiries after family deletion and removing tour records after registration;

  • Mobile Experience: Improved Android keyboard visibility and app startup, and restored the selected-module highlight in the administrator sidebar;

  • Time Zones: Improved center-local time handling across the system.

🚀 Product Update: October 23th, 2026

📚 Dashboard

Overview

  • Redesigned the main Dashboard to bring key center information, items requiring review and frequently used actions together in one place;

📚 Messaging

Message Sound

  • Added in-app notification sounds for regular messages, announcements, staff discussion comments and reactions where supported;

  • For staff, sounds are muted while the relevant conversation or discussion is open. For parents, sounds are muted while the messenger is open on the same tab. Urgent messages continue to use their own sound;

  • Staff and parents can preview the sound and choose which platforms and activities play it, independently of pop-up notification settings;

  • Urgent messages and critical alerts retain their distinct sounds;

📚 AI Writing Assistance

  • Added AI writing assistance for Journals, progress report notes, activity plans, lessons, emails and messages;

  • Users can review suggestions, view changes, apply suggested wording, undo changes or try again before saving or sending;

  • Journal personalization can create individual drafts for selected children using a shared note and optional child-specific highlights;

🛠️ Platform Optimizations & Bug Fixes

  • Time Zones: Improved support for center-local IANA time zones across system services;

  • Adjustment History: Preserved previous adjustment versions and updated the Supplemental Parent Fees report to show separate entries for each effective date ranges;

  • Staff Schedule: Fixed gaps when applying 30- or 60-minute templates and restored early-morning and evening shifts. Corrected template total hours and aligned PDF category headers with the web schedule;

  • Journal - Incident Reports: Added clearer instructions and examples, while preserving existing resolution text and the 1,000-character limit.

🚀 Product Update: October 16th, 2026

📚 Tax Receipts

Signature Uploads

  • Added HEIC image support and improved signature storage. Saved signatures appear on newly generated admin and parent receipts;

📚 Enrollment and Registration

Registration Improvements

  • Fixed Waitlist and Onboarding status updates;

  • Updated public registration while preserving applications for multiple children, deposits and confirmation emails;

  • Consolidated redirect settings under Custom > Online Registration;

🛠️ Platform Optimizations & Bug Fixes

  • Fixed clipped journal headers on iPhones and iPads;

  • Updated medication reminders to reflect sign-in and sign-out changes;

  • Updated login and password-reset flows; full-day session continuity still needs verification;

  • Removed legacy Meals dashboard code and unnecessary student-list data;

  • Improved handling of cancelled requests to reduce service interruptions;

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