Discover—saving childcare centres time and effort

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Discover's Playground and Home Guide

With recent childcare software providers like APT Childcare shutting down, you may be looking for a new childcare management system to support your admin, teacher and billing needs. Adopting a new Student Management System (SMS) is a significant decision. But the right SMS provides numerous long-term benefits to your service, teachers and families. With the proper SMS, you can streamline operations, simplify communications, save time, reduce administrative tasks and improve overall efficiency across your entire operation.

Discover helps take the stress out of daily administrative tasks. You’ll enjoy round-the-clock dependability in an impeccably robust ecosystem made by Kiwis for Kiwis.

Discover is a true all-in-one platform. It combines an incredible set of reporting tools, rostering options and an SMS into a compliant software platform specifically tailored for the NZ ECE sector. We’ve compared Discover vs Infocare to demonstrate why Discover is the right SMS for you, thanks to its top-notch features.

Infocare vs Discover

Features / Benefits

Infocare

Discover

Platform
Cloud-based
✔
✔
Twilio integration for SMS
✘
✔
 
 
 
Parent app
Seamless communications
✘
✔
Automated payments
✘
✔
Financial statements in real time
✘
✔
Electronic attendance verification
✘
✔
 
 
 
Invoicing
Automated and manual invoicing options
✔
✔
 
 
 
Pay parity
Forecasting
✘
✔
Tracking
✘
✔
Reporting
✘
✔
 
 
 
Rostering
Multiple rostering options
✘
✔
Roster locking capabilities
✘
✔
 
 
 
Payments
Automated reconciliation capabilities
  •   Xero integration
Add-on
Included
Manual reconciliation
  •   Bank file upload
  •   Manual payments
✔
✔
 
 
 
Attendance
Parent app integration for EAV
✘
✔
Digital sign-in
Add-on
Included
Real time attendance updates
✘
✔
 
 
 
Enrolment enquiries
Widget-compatible
✔
✔
Digital enrolment forms
✘
✔
Waitlist (automated, built-in reminders)
✔
✔
Online enrolment widgets
✔
✔
 
 
 
Enrolments
MOE aligned
✘
✔
Digital enrolment forms
✘
✔
 
 
 
Debit-enabled
Direct Debit integration
✔
✔
Parent app integration as an individual feature
✘
✔
 
 
 
Dashboard alerts
Group-level reporting for multi-licence centres
✘
✔
 
 
 
Management stats reporting
Various reports available
✘
✔
 
 
 
Property details/inventory
Supplier list, leases, inventory, etc.
✘
✔
 
 
 
Room transition
Transition module for easy transfer
✘
✔
 
 
 
Fee structures
Multiple fee structures
Limited
Flexible
Multiple discount structures
Limited
Flexible
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Why is Discover the right choice?

Discover offers a multitude of benefits that make it the ideal choice for your childcare centre. Here are just a few:

  • In-depth Reporting—Discover’s reporting features are unparalleled in their depth and ability to support chain reporting or cross-centre reporting for multiple centres under one service.
  • Streamlined Enrolment—We’ve streamlined the enrolment process to make it a breeze for parents to enrol their children and for you to manage the process.
  • Transparent Pricing—Unlike some other childcare management platforms, Discover has no additional add-ons that come at hidden costs. We offer three packages—choose the one that meets your needs and budget.
  • Dedicated Local Support—Discover has a large, dedicated New Zealand-based support team.
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