Parents, Family, and Approved Pick-ups | Brightwheel Help Center

Overview: Using brightwheel as a Parent, Family, or Approved Pickup

Get started using brightwheel as any contact type. Brightwheel is a crucial tool to communicate with the provider and watch student progress

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Getting Started for Parents

Sign-Up for brightwheel as a Student Contact

Create a brightwheel account when invited by a student’s daycare provider to view the student’s profile.

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Activities Feed for Parents

Subscribe to Daily Reports

Receive a summary of logged activities for connected students via email each day.

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Student Activity Feed

View daily activities, notes, and updates as a student contact and schedule daily feed reports directly from the app.

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Download Photos & Videos

Brightwheel allows users to save photos and videos posted on a student's feed and share directly to social media.

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Parent Photo Uploads

Parent contacts can upload photos of activities, milestones, and more!

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Messages and Notifications

Messaging the Childcare Provider

Parent level Contacts can send messages directly to the teachers of the student’s classroom. Communicate easily with the center anytime!

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Push Notifications

Receive notifications whenever a new action or activity is logged on a student’s feed. Notifications can be configured as desired.

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Manage Account and Child Profile

Complete Forms with brightwheel

Contacts with parent-level access can complete and submit paperwork for their provider with brightwheel Forms

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Add Additional Student Contacts

Contacts with Parent permissions are able to add and edit Parent, Family, Approved Pickups, and Emergency Contacts on a student’s profile.

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Remove a Student’s Profile

Student contacts with Parent permissions can remove an unneeded student profile from their account without contacting the provider.

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Update Student Contacts Login Credentials

The credentials used to log into brightwheel are completely controlled by each user and can be modified at any time as needed.

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Using brightwheel as both a Student Contact and Teacher

Learn how to set up accounts so that users who are student contacts and staff members can operate in the two different accounts and roles.

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Switching to a new program

Contacts can access a child’s profile from a new program without losing access to the old profile.

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Brightwheel Billing

Parent Billing Overview

Brightwheel’s simple billing platform empowers families to stay in control with the at-a-glance balance view and transparent account history

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Payment Methods and Settings

Add payment method(s), set defaults, and manage the autopay settings to pay student balances in accordance with the program’s policies.

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Understanding Statements

Statements operate as a snapshot of all billing-related activities that occurred on a student’s account in the specified billing period

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Make a Payment

Brightwheel has created the easiest parent payment platform in early childhood education. Make a payment any time, anywhere, for any amount.

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Student Transaction Summary for Parents - For Tax Season

Parents can export a summary of all transactions by date range that includes charges, payments, dates, and School EIN & address.

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Who should parents contact with billing questions?

This guide will help parent contacts determine which questions brightwheel can help with and which should be directed to the provider

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