In our mission to make incredible child care accessible to all, this week’s release further enables even greater inclusivity. You can now translate chat messages into your preferred language so you can break down any communication barriers and strengthen family relationship. In addition, we've shipped nearly two dozen improvements and quality of life fixes to make Playground smoother, faster, and more delightful to use.

Releases

• Chat translations – Instantly translate messages with AI to improve communication across languages.

Improvements

• Form builder saves more smoothly

• Lesson activity search is now much smoother

• Family portal pages (Billing, Calendar, Feed) load significantly faster

• Staff portal loads the initial feed more quickly

• Transaction table downloads now include paid amount and balance for debits

• Public events must now be shared with everyone to be visible

• Role editing now shows unsaved changes and displays a save button

• Teachers with permission can now edit food program information

• Aging and ledger reports load dramatically faster

• Staff schedules are now sorted by start time in the app

• Family revenue report includes additional details

• Recurring billing plan selection messaging is clearer

Fixes

• Paperwork tab now displays correctly for students

• Removed autocorrect from student search for simpler searching

• Fixed validation on student custom field form inputs

• Fixed issue with schedules on enrollment plans not saving

• Invoice previews now show the correct program name

• Custom fields are properly sorted in the mobile app

• Empty program names are no longer allowed

• Fixed enterprise paperwork search functionality

This week we refreshed the family billing portal to make it easier than ever to manage your account as a family. Families now enjoy a streamlined experience and updated look & feel in their portal. This week also saw the release of 9 new improvements and 4 fixes, as a direct result of feedback from customers.

Releases

• Family portal refresh – faster, clearer experience for families to view updates and pay tuition

Improvements

• Ledger table redesigned for improved readability

• Added Created date to the view credit details screen

• Able to import saved items for billing

• Added Created date to student columns

• Added a new hours report that can be exported for Paylocity

• Can now create new debits when bulk charging students

• Staff can now switch classrooms when checking in via kiosk

• Student attendance table is now paginated for performance

• CRM: Warns when trying to email an empty list

Fixes

• Partial absences now appear on the staff hours PDF

• Fixed bug when clicking student’s names on tables

• Improved logic for student custom fields in forms

• Enterprise admin sign-up now supports "+" in email addresses

This week we released conditional logic for your lead forms to streamline pre-enrollment and so your prospective families are only being asked for relevant information. We also refreshed the screen to create new invoices, introducing more clarity and fewer steps to create an invoice. In addition, close to a dozen improvements and fixes were put out to continue making your Playground experience better.

Releases

• Conditional forms on CRM — use conditional logic for your lead forms

• Faster payment creation — charging families got a new look, making it clearer and easier

Improvements

• Able to upload staff pins via roster

• Camp enrollment exports now have counts by classroom

• Overhauled graduating, dropping, marking inactive, and transferring students to other programs

• Able to change classroom for a drop-in

• Alerting when trying to navigate with unsaved changes on most pages

• View previous calendar events on mobile

• Feed post templates can now have attachments

• CRM: Search and filter templated emails and messages

Fixes

• Transactions tables have been sped up throughout the website

• Lesson plan approval emails now send out correctly

• Tooltips on inactive student badge shows properly

• Mobile web no longer overflows on the parent portal

Releases

• New reports screen — Search & Find the reports you need, quickly

Improvements

• Able edit time off requests as an admin

• New setting that allows staff hours to be rounded to the nearest 15 minutes

• Added a staff time off report

• Lesson plan overview now shows much more information

• Lesson plan creation got an overhaul to make it easier to create weekly lesson plans

• When charging a card on file, now shows if it’s the card used for autopay or used in the application

• Transactions tables have been overhauled and dramatically improved

• Refund modal has a new look with more information

• CRM: Changes save faster now

Fixes

• Drop-in care can no longer be booked if the school is marked as closed for the day

• Edit note now keeps settings for visibility

• Error messages are now more helpful when creating forms with conditionals