🤓 What you’ll do here
Check children or staff in and out
Add daily logs like naps or meals
Log holiday and sick leaves
✅ 1. Check children in
👉 Where: Home menu - Separate check-in screen OR Room overview
To get started, visit the Attendance tab in the Setup guide on your home overview. A few simple questions will help you set up your preferred check-in options.
Separate check-in screen
Set up a kiosk at your entrance for parents and staff to use. We recommend tablets, but laptops or other devices work too. Choose from:
You can choose between:
QR and PIN code: Parents and staff scan a QR code with their mobile app or use a unique PIN.
Location-based and PIN code: Check in via mobile phones within 0.25 miles of your center, or enter a PIN at the kiosk.
📖 Read more here: The check-in screen
Once you go through the questions in the setup guide follow these steps:
Go to Famly check-in link
Activate your kiosk
Start using your ckeck-in kiosk
Location based (GPS) check-in
Parents and staff check in via their mobile phones up to 0.25 miles around your center.
Printed QR code
Parents and staff scan a printed QR code to check in via their mobile app.
Room overview
Check children in directly from your room overview by selecting a child’s profile. You’ll see a counter showing how many children are checked in.
New tabs will pop up as you add statuses or logs to children, so let’s try that out in the steps below.
😴 2. Log a nap
👉 Where: Home menu - Room overview
One of the commonly used logs is a nap. You can add them immediately as children fall asleep or log past naps whenever it suits you.
Do the same to add waking up time.
🎦 Watch video: Recording daily activities
🔗 Read help article: Record when children sleep
🧻 3. Add diaper changes or a toilet visit
👉 Where: Home menu - Room overview
🔗 Read help article: Child Activity Statuses
🍼 4. Log a meal
👉 Where: Home menu - Room overview
Did your children just have a snack or maybe a full meal? You can log what they’ve eaten in the Room overview too.
Did Alex eat a whole mixed fruit bowl but Abigail only had an apple? You can specify what exactly and how much each child ate by logging their meals here too.
🔗 Read help article: Recording Children's Meals
👶 5. Review logs on child profile
👉 Where: Child profile - Activity tab
You can see everything that was logged for a child today and in the past. That’s also where you can add more logs from.
💡 Tip: Adding daily logs is a great way to keep parents in the loop about child’s day and help them feel closer to their little ones even when they’re away.
🎦 Watch video: Child profile
🔗 Read help article: Activity Tab
☀️ 6. Register sick day or holiday
👉 Where: Room overview
If any of your children or staff are sick or on holiday you can mark it here too - in this way you’ll make sure your today’s Expected count and ratios are correct.
📅 7. Plan ahead
👉 Where: Attendance menu - Child attendance
For planning ahead move on to Child attendance - at first glance you can see how many children are checked in, expected, sick or on holidays in each room in the next days.
Click on rooms to check out their detailed hours. Try selecting a child to check them in or add leaves. Your changes will be immediately reflected in the overview.
And once you have that in place you can calmly plan your staff shifts.
🎦 Watch video: Attendance
🔗 Read help articles: Child attendance
👨👧👧 8. Make sure you’re in ratio
👉 Where: Attendance menu - Room planner
To make sure you’re in ratio for upcoming days or weeks use Room planner in Attendance - it’s your digital register in Famly. Here you can see all expected children and staff required for each of the rooms. Try changing the breakdown filter to fit the way you operate.
🎦 Watch video: Room Planner
🔗 Read help articles: Room Planner