Illumine

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Childcare app for End-to-End Digitising & Operations

About Illumine

About illumine Childcare Software:
Ranked as the #1 childcare management solution, illumine is a holistic platform designed to meet the diverse needs of early learning and childcare centers worldwide. Built with educators in mind, illumine helps optimize costs, increase admissions, streamline daily operations, and support learning and development. Whether you are managing a preschool or daycare, illumine offers the tools to handle everything from billing to child assessments—all in one place.
Illumine’s global presence spans over 450+ preschools and daycare centers, enabling educators to easily manage activities like child assessments, attendance tracking, and lesson planning. Parents benefit from real-time updates and insights into their child’s development, while owners can monitor operations seamlessly.

Childcare centers using illumine report:
- 70% increase in admissions with tools like WhatsApp marketing, lead management, and occupancy reports.
- 50% boost in parent satisfaction with seamless communication and real-time updates.
- Over 96% payment collection within 3 days of invoicing, thanks to automated billing.
- 1.7x increase in staff retention through intuitive staff management tools.

Everything You Need to Manage Your Early Childhood Center—In One Place. From billing to parent communication, our platform ensures you can focus on what matters most—providing excellent care and education.

Feature Highlights:
- Billing & Accounting: Making money is great, but it’s even better when invoicing, taxes, and financial reports are automated. Simplify your accounting processes with Illumine's intuitive financial tools.
**Most loved features: Automated invoicing, contactless payments, and simplified accounting.
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- Parent Communication: Seamlessly strengthen parent partnerships with unified messaging and open feedback channels. Keep everyone informed with less effort.
**Most loved features: Broadcast alerts, newsletters, and photo feeds.
- Learning & Assessments: Elevate your teaching with EYFS-backed learning systems and student reports. Leverage data-driven insights to optimize student outcomes.
**Most loved features: Cohort comparisons, progress insights, and milestone observations.
- Program & Staff Management: Optimize center operations with data-driven planning. Manage student-staff ratios and streamline administrative tasks effortlessly.
**Most loved features: Demand forecasting, space planning, and ratio allocation.
- Attendance & Leaves: Streamline attendance tracking with digital check-ins, automated leave management, and advanced space allocation analytics.
**Most loved features: Digital attendance, health notes, and leave monitoring.
- Enrolments & Admissions: Simplify the enrolment process with centralized tools and one-click payment options. Convert inquiries into enrolments using our CRM suite.
**Most loved features: Enquiry recording, campaign performance evaluation, and centralized dashboard.
- Safety & Security: Enhance center security with features like geofencing, facial recognition, and live CCTV feeds, giving you peace of mind that safety is a priority.
**Most loved features: Geofencing, CCTV recording, and facial recognition.
- Occupation & Capacity: Balance demand and optimize space with advanced analytics. Ensure optimal student-staff ratios while making the most of your center’s resources.
**Most loved features: Advanced analytics, space planning, and room monitoring.

illumine offers childcare providers everything they need to manage operations efficiently, drive growth, and foster strong relationships with parents. Ready to streamline your center's operations and improve outcomes? Get a personalized demo today!


Key benefits of Illumine

Key Benefits of Using Illumine Childcare Software:
- Streamlined Operations Across All Centers
Manage daily activities, including attendance, billing, and staff ratios, with ease. Illumine’s all-in-one platform simplifies administration, allowing you to focus on what matters most—quality care and education.
- Increase Enrolments and Boost Admissions
Illumine helps you achieve a 70% increase in admissions with tools like WhatsApp marketing, lead management, and occupancy reports, turning more inquiries into enrollments seamlessly.
- Improve Parent Engagement and Satisfaction
Provide real-time updates, photos, and communication directly to parents, boosting satisfaction by 50%. With an easy-to-use parent portal, keeping parents informed and engaged has never been easier.
- Automated Billing and Payment Collection
Say goodbye to manual invoicing and payment chasing! With Illumine’s automated billing system, childcare centers report 96% payment collection within three days of invoicing, making financial management stress-free.
- Data-Driven Insights for Smarter Decision-Making
Gain access to powerful reporting tools to monitor occupancy, staff ratios, and payments. Use these insights to make informed decisions and optimize your childcare center's operations and growth strategy.
- Flexible Curriculum and Learning Assessments
Support various teaching styles with Illumine’s curriculum-agnostic platform, offering over 25 preloaded frameworks including EYFS and Montessori. Track child progress in real-time and share assessments with parents easily.
- Enhanced Security and Peace of Mind
Keep your center safe with cutting-edge features like geofencing, facial recognition, and live CCTV feeds. Illumine prioritizes safety and security, ensuring you have complete control and oversight.
- Seamless Integration with Existing Systems
Plug n play your existing tools with Illumine’s open API, integrating your current software without disruption. Whether it’s accounting, HRMS, or third-party services, Illumine ensures smooth, automated data flow.
- Increase Staff Retention and Efficiency
Illumine’s intuitive tools support 1.7x higher staff retention by making administrative tasks easier, reducing burnout, and improving daily workflow for your staff.
- Multi-Center Management Made Simple
Manage multiple locations from one dashboard, ensuring consistent policies, communication, and reporting across all centers. Illumine offers bulk operations and unified analytics to optimize operations.


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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Love this app, Great to childcare program

Reviewed on 2020/03/17

Pros

Child GPS Tracking, Fee payment and Online Dairy

Cons

Few child care related functionality and UI

Nagham
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The most useful app i have ever used

Reviewed on 2023/05/14

Good experience

Good experience

Pros

The futures are very good and it’s updated daily And easy to use , and I always find support in any issue

Cons

I think overall my experience was good I didn’t find any problem

Bharath
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

Need improvement in the UI navigation

Reviewed on 2020/10/29

It was a pleasant experience

It was a pleasant experience

Pros

The facility to upload pictures and videos

Cons

When I want to see a particular day's dairy, all the dairy details will come up.

Mihaela
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

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Reviewed on 2023/05/12

It is fairly good product for both ends.

It is fairly good product for both ends.

Pros

The easy approach and the multiple variety of things to do in it.

Cons

When I receive a notification for a message from parent and I click on it, the app bugs, so I have to close the app and open it again to start woeking

Jason
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Life saver for online learning platform business

Reviewed on 2021/11/30

We are solving the problems mentioned above, re: excessive overhead / time spent doing what should...

We are solving the problems mentioned above, re: excessive overhead / time spent doing what should be built-for already on the backend in running an online education platform.

Pros

1 year ago, before we implemented Illumine, I as the CEO and my former Head of Marketing had to handle tons of customer support tickets ourselves; and then, we had to hire 2 then a 3rd Support rep at $3000/month nearly in the Philippines. Just for something we knew was resulting from customers struggling to get into their Zoom class each day. Customers left because they were tired of the technical difficulties and annoyance of having to ask Support for things daily. Illumine was an all-in-one automated, streamlined, simplified answer to all that.

Cons

The fact that it does NOT replace the need for Google Sheets, Stripe, and my CRM completely. I think if it enabled us to fully market, sell, manage classrooms / customer relations, and handle billing all in-house, that could be very valuable. But you can't necessarily expect too much from any 1 SaaS tool either...

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Illumine FAQs

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Illumine offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$1.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Illumine is free for new centers with up to 10 students and offers discounts for large centers with more than 80 students, after which the platform is available across 3 pricing tiers: Standard, Business, and Enterprise. Pricing starts at $0.50 / student / month and scales with each tier, outlined below: Standard: $0.50 / student / month. Designed for single centers. Features include apps for parents, teachers, and admin, unlimited staff accounts, and 20GB storage. Business: $0.99 / student / month. Designed for large centers. Includes all 'Standard' features + finance and billing, virtual classes, online payment, staff management, live streaming for up to 2 cameras, task management, bus tracking, and 100GB storage. Enterprise: $1.99 / student / month. Designed for multiple centers. Includes all 'Business' features + CRM system, live streaming for up to 16 cameras, curriculum and assessment, lesson planning, sharing and collaboration, and custom features and integrations.

Illumine has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Illumine supports the following languages:

Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, European Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai

Illumine supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Illumine integrates with the following applications:

Adyen, CCAvenue, Facebook Apps and Tabs, Google Forms, Instagram, Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Stripe, WhatsApp, Xero

Illumine offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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