About Brightwheel.
Brightwheel focuses on early childhood education but is used by pediatric ABA programs for daily parent communication, attendance, and billing. Families get photos, notes, and reminders from their child's clinic inside a single mobile app.
How Brightwheel works.
Brightwheel is a cloud-based childcare management platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The software helps preschools, childcare centers, camps, afterschool programs, and clinical early education settings streamline their daily operations through integrated tools for tuition billing, attendance tracking, lesson planning, and real-time parent communication.
The platform enables teachers and caregivers to spend more time with students by automating administrative tasks. Parents gain deeper insight into their children's development through photos, notes, activity updates, and reminders delivered through a single mobile app. Administrators benefit from operational automation that reduces manual work managing what is a $100 billion early education market made up largely of small businesses.
Brightwheel serves thousands of early education programs across multiple continents with a team of approximately 500 employees. The company has been recognized by Forbes as part of the Cloud 100 for three consecutive years, reflecting its prominence in the early education technology space. In 2023, Brightwheel acquired Experience Early Learning, integrating a comprehensive research-based early education curriculum and assessment system into its platform.
Product details
- Pricing notes
- Brightwheel uses custom, quote-based pricing tailored to program size and needs. No publicly listed starting price. A free basic tier is mentioned alongside a paid Premium plan; some state partnerships (e.g., Kentucky, Kansas) offer Premium at no cost. Contact vendor at mybrightwheel.com/pricing for
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Free tier
- Yes
- Integrations
- Gusto, QuickBooks, Experience Curriculum (Experience Early Learning)
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