This month's newsletter includes video walkthroughs from our Product Managers here at brightwheel — a closer look at the features we're building, what's already live, and what's coming next.
🆕 Raise your rates in bulk
🎉 Billing forecasting reports coming soon
📚 New Learning features overview
💭 Spotlight walkthrough
🎥 Watch our latest webinar on preventing behavior challenges
Take a look at bulk rate increases & the forecasting report
Matt, our billing Product Manager, walks through our new release bulk rate increases and previews the forecasting report coming soon.
💰 Raising tuition rates? Update rates for multiple students or billing plan templates at once with bulk rate increases — quick, and done in just a few clicks.
📈 Coming soon: Forecasting Report. Get a forward-looking view of expected billing revenue based on your active billing plans and any one-time invoices that fall into the period, with month-over-month comparisons
Not yet using brightwheel Billing? Discover Billing
A look at what's new in Learning
Watch our Product Manager, Stephen, walk through our newest Learning features, how to get the most out of Experience Assessments, and a glimpse of how Experience Curriculum's digital lessons show up in brightwheel.
📊 New: teaching and assessing tabs. No more digging to find supplies or figure out how to run an activity — the teaching tab has everything you need, and the assessing tab shows the skills covered, benchmarks, and how each child is progressing.
✅ Complete a learning activity in a few taps. Mark activities complete, share them with families or keep them staff-only, and log observations — all from one place.
A quick tour of Spotlight
Nothing slips through the cracks. Spotlight automatically checks your account across billing, enrollment, and more, then gives you a recommended list of what to act on so you can stay ahead. Not sure where to find it or what it's flagging for your program? This walkthrough from Lucas, our Product Manager, shows you exactly where to look and how it works.
Collect payments on the spot
When a family needs to pay in person — at drop-off, pickup, or a walk-in tour — you can take their card right on your phone or tablet with Tap to Pay. No card reader, no extra hardware.
🎥 Watch our last webinar
Child development expert Claire Lerner and Experience Curriculum's Kelly Trygstad on helping teachers build routines, language-rich interactions, and classroom systems that prevent behavior challenges before they start. Watch the recording
📋 Staff handbook checklist
Building or updating your staff handbook? Use this free checklist to make sure you've covered the essentials. Get the checklist
📝 Childcare enrollment templates
Ready-to-use templates to make enrollment paperwork faster for you and easier for new families. Browse the templates
✅ Childcare licensing checklist
A quick-reference checklist to help you stay on top of licensing requirements. Download the checklist
🎁 Refer a program, get rewarded
Know another program that would love brightwheel? Refer them, and you'll get a free month of brightwheel for every qualified program that signs up. See referral details
📰 Miss an update? Catch up anytime
Every month, we round up all the new features that launched, upcoming webinars, and more into a What's New PDF. Check here to see the latest one added each month, also shared in our private Facebook community for brightwheel customers. Get the July What's New PDF
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