Every other month, Premium brightwheel customers receive the Product Spotlight Newsletter, featuring expert tips on streamlining payments, strengthening connections with families and staff, enhancing learning, and efficiently managing early learning programs.
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2025
Uploading tuition rates into brightwheel, logging Staff Time Off, Graduation ceremony ideas, updates to Custom Forms & Fillable Documents
Expense Management, Admission fees in packets, Spring clean your brightwheel account, Experience Curriculum Newsletters
Year-end tax statements, Admissions updates are live, Enrollment tips, Lesson Planning in brightwheel
2024
2024
Marking messages as read/unread, strengthening communication with families, Staff evaluations, preparing for 2025 Admissions
Custom student profiles, scheduling one-time charges, time-off in mobile schedules
10+ new reports, edit bill plans, 2024-25 monthly curriculum themes
Back to School roadmap, meal type of bottles, staff without parent messaging
Back to School prep, attendance tracking, weekly billing digest
Annual & quarterly bill plans, pay periods, parent view of portfolios
Paperwork vs Shared Files, Billing only staff role, hiring staff webinar
Year-end statements, photo and video galleries, admin schedules on mobile
Tax webinar, incident reports, forms improvements, new staff profile
2023
2023
Longer videos, billing updates, tax season, & overtime rules
Payroll, diaper cream, message sort by unread, & EC monthly themes
Portfolios, brightwheel flyers (English & Spanish), fillable PDFs
Parent directories, payer-level autopay, & Spanish for staff
Billing plan templates, message attachments, & Friends of brightwheel
Billing reports, brightwheel in Spanish, & brightwheel Academy
Learning observation drafts, calendar on web, & Experience Curriculum
Performance evaluations, supporting your staff, & log activities on the web
Learning library, Teacher Appreciation Week, & the new subsidies experience
Account switching, log attendance on web, & update primary payers.
Charges report, custom enrollment notes, & messaging prospective families.
Custom reports, 1099-K for taxes, food tracking using menus.
2022
2022
Tax resources for families, bulk update homeroom & student status
Sibling payments, in-app newsletters, create custom forms
Revenue report, fall celebrations, waitlists
Menu planning, autopay, staff messaging
New billing updates, daily reports/SMS alerts, staff health screens
Billing flyer for families, Document Hub, mobile timecards & schedules
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