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Child Journal

Daycare and pre-school management app covering attendance, invoicing and parent updates

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TrustList summary

Child Journal is an all-in-one online application for managing daycare centres and pre-schools. It moves daily paperwork into an app that staff and parents both use.

What Child Journal does

  • Sign-in and sign-out: a mobile app records attendance and shows room ratios in real time.
  • Online invoicing: bills parents and takes payment by card, bank transfer, cash or cheque.
  • Parent updates: activities, photos, videos and learning information shared instantly.
  • Record keeping: child records held in the app instead of on paper.
  • Reports: payroll, attendance, activity and finance reports, plus licensing reports.

Clients

Childcare directors, teachers and parents.

Key facts

  • Setup: data can be imported, then staff and parents invited.
  • Privacy: child data is visible only to the admin.

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

Categories & features

Rankings

Child Journal is ranked on 13 TrustList rankings: #3 on 3, #4 on 4 and #5 on 6.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Child Journal has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Child care software · 13 rankings

On 5 of these it sits behind QManager, ahead of Kindyhub.

  • #3of 8
    Calendar management

    It is one of 6 here listing billing & invoicing and communications management.

    Of the 8 here, 7 also cover immunization & allergy tracking and 7 also cover android.

    Behind QikKids, ahead of Kindyhub.

  • #3of 8
    Meal tracking

    It is one of 5 here listing employee management and payment processing.

    Of the 8 here, 7 also cover parent portal and 7 also cover daily reports.

    Behind QikKids, ahead of Kindyhub.

  • #3of 7
    Payment processing

    It is one of 5 here listing meal tracking and one of 6 here listing android.

    Of the 7 here, 6 also cover employee management and 6 also cover calendar management.

    Behind QikKids, ahead of myKidzDay.

  • #4of 9
    Iphone ipad

    It is one of 6 here listing calendar management and immunization & allergy tracking.

    Of the 9 here, 8 also cover meal tracking and 7 also cover billing & invoicing.

  • #4of 8
    Communications management

    It is one of 7 here listing daily reports and self Check-in/Check-out.

    Of the 8 here, 7 also cover self Check-in/Check-out.

    Behind QManager, ahead of myKidzDay.

  • #4of 8
    Immunization allergy tracking

    It is one of 6 here listing communications management and daily reports.

    Of the 8 here, 7 also cover registration management.

    Behind QikKids, ahead of iCare.

  • #4of 7
    Employee management

    It is one of 5 here listing communications management and meal tracking.

    Behind QikKids, ahead of iCare.

  • #5of 11
    Membership database

    It is one of 7 here listing employee management and payment processing.

  • #5of 11
    Web based cloud saas

    It is one of 7 here listing employee management and payment processing.

  • #5of 10
    Android

    It is one of 6 here listing employee management and payment processing.

  • #5of 9
    Billing invoicing

    It is one of 6 here listing calendar management and meal tracking.

    Behind QManager, ahead of myKidzDay.

  • #5of 9
    Daily reports

    It is one of 6 here listing calendar management and employee management.

  • #5of 9
    Self check incheck out

    It is one of 6 here listing calendar management and meal tracking.

    Behind QManager, ahead of myKidzDay.

As of 2026-11-05. Organic ranks only; sponsored placements are never ranks. How TrustList ranks

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