With brightwheel's Sign-up feature, providers can send digital sign-up sheets to families in minutes—no more chasing down families or managing paper RSVPs!
Whether it’s parent-teacher conferences, program events, admission tours, sign-ups for classroom materials and snacks, or more, Sign-ups make coordinating simple and streamlined for both staff and families.
How Sign-ups work
Admins, Managers, and Staff with parent messaging permissions can create Sign-up forms with specific slots, then share it with parents.
Parents can sign up for a slot, add notes, and cancel if needed. Providers have full control to manage these forms by closing, reopening, duplicating, or deleting them.
You can customize your sign-up form with different slot types to fit your specific event or activity.
Create a Sign-up form
When creating a Sign-up form, you can add descriptions to slots if you need specific details from Parents (like what snack they're bringing). Families will always have the option to include a custom note when signing up.
Log in on the web
Click Paperwork in the sidebar menu > Sign-ups
Tap + Create new, then input details and available slots
When finished, click Save and take steps to share it with families
💡 Tip: When creating Sign-ups, you'll have the option to make slots visible to staff for extra help with planning and scheduling. Staff & Lead Staff can create and edit only the Sign-up sheets they create.
The family experience
💡Tip: You can also share the resource Sign up for program events & activities with families who need instructions signing up for a slot.
Once shared, families can click Sign up next to any slot and optionally add notes.
Once a family signs up for a slot, they will receive an email or text confirmation of their registration. They will also receive a notification if the provider cancels their sign-up or the entire event. Families can view and manage their sign-ups from their account.
Families cannot see who else has signed up, but they will see a 'Filled' status if all slots are taken.
View who signed up & responses
Providers can see who signed up, including their name, relationship to the child, and any notes the guardian provided. Admins and creators of Sign-ups will also receive an email once someone signs up or if they cancel.
Visit View & manage family slot sign-ups to learn more.
Types of Sign-ups
Item slotSign up for bringing items (e.g. supplies, snacks) | |
Time slotSign up for an event or activity happening on a specific date and time (e.g. party RSVPs, field trips) | |
Recurring slotSign up for events or activities that repeat regularly (e.g. open house/tour slots) | |
Time seriesSign up for events that have multiple times on a day (e.g. parent-teacher conferences) |
FAQs
What access do staff have?
What access do staff have?
While only Parents can use the Sign-up feature for program activities, staff can assist admins with creating and managing the Sign-ups. Admins & managers have full view & edit access to all Sign-ups created at their program. Staff access to sign-up forms depends on who created the sign-up and whether the “Visible to staff” setting is turned on.
Role | Create | Edit & manage |
Admins & Managers | ✅ Has full access to all Sign-ups | ✅ |
Lead Staff & Staff | ✅ | ✅ Only if they created the Sign-up they will have full access to edit and manage it. For signups created by other staff, they will only have view access if granted permission by the Sign-up creator or Admin. |
Staff without Parent Messaging | ❌ Does not have access to Sign-ups | N/A |
Can parents cancel their sign-ups?
Can parents cancel their sign-ups?
Yes, Admin can remove parents from slots and parents can cancel their sign-ups within their brightwheel account under Paperwork > Sign-ups.
Will sign-ups link to calendar events?
Will sign-ups link to calendar events?
This feature does not yet link to calendar events; however our product team is actively exploring this feature option.
Can I request a payment with a sign-up?
Can I request a payment with a sign-up?
No, we recommend sending individual invoices as you normally would.
Can I print physical sign-up sheets?
Can I print physical sign-up sheets?
Not yet, however, our team is exploring this as a potential addition to this feature.