More granular guardian permissions and roles has been one of the most anticipated family features. Families can now add in family members, selectively give access to billing, mark contacts as emergency only, and more. This helps answer questions like "How do I give Grandma access to billing?" ensuring that emergency contacts cannot see any student information, and ensuring that families feel comfortable bringing more guardians on to the Playground app.

Many programs have been using our AI beta with Camber, and based on the amazing feedback we are excited to bring Camber to general availability. Camber is not yet trained on Playground specifically, but is able to help with generally administrative tasks like lesson planning, meal planning, writing messages to families, and more.

One big safety and security feature that has been asked for a while now has been blocking staff access before/after school hours. This is a new setting that you can turn on to ensure staff are only on Playground during work hours.

Finally, we will soon be launching our CRM and marketing automation tool purpose built for child care. We will be updating you on all the things we are building before a beta launch, and you can keep up to date by joining our waitlist here.

Releases

• Guardian Roles — you can now give guardians more granular roles and permissions

• Camber is now generally available! Talk to your very own child care ai bot

• Can now block teacher access to Playground if not clocked in to school

Improvements

• Tags on enterprise are now default sorted alphabetically

• If a family has not yet signed up, invoice emails will include a sign up link

• All attendance reports are now significantly faster when ran on multiple schools

• Parents can now record multi-day absences at once on the mobile app

• Improved process of adding staff to payroll

• When adding paperwork with no recipients, it will now ask you to confirm

• Settings added to form creation modal — should be much easier to set up forms now

• Added more bulk import options at the enterprise level

• Added additional export options for payroll

• Daily staff hours reports now show missing clock out chip

• When using the engagement dashboard, you can now click into a student to see their feed in the sidebar

• Added payment status to the debits table

• Can now acknowledge posts on the web feed

Fixes

• Updated CACFP to report based on rule changes

• Removed payment methods from drop-ins that do not include pricing

• Fixed issue with form fields jumping around when trying to drag and drop

CRM — Coming Soon

• Added lead list views + kanban views

• Added lead detail view page with activity feed + details + note logging

• Added lead forms that can be embedded into your website