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What parents can see and do

The family's own view of your academy. Knowing what is in it saves the front desk a lot of phone calls.

Students & families Front desk, owner 4 min read

Parents have their own login, separate from staff, to a portal showing their own children. Most "can you check for me?" questions can be answered by pointing them at it once.

What they see

selected at the top of the page.

instructor wrote, downloadable as a PDF.

ScreenshotThe parent portal showing a child's classes

What they can do

package they hold, which is why two families may see different options.

What they cannot do

They cannot pay online. Payments are still recorded by staff at the counter or against a bank transfer, so an invoice a parent can see is not an invoice they can settle themselves.

They also cannot see other families, other children, or anything about your staff.

Helping a parent who cannot get in

credentials as anything staff use.

that is the address the portal and every receipt uses.

One parent record per family. If a family has been entered twice, they will log in and see only some of their children, which looks like a bug and is really a duplicate. Merge the situation by fixing the students' parent, not by creating another login.

Why it is worth pushing

Every question a parent answers themselves is a call your front desk does not take. Progress and receipts are the two things they ask about most, and both are in there.

Related: Write a progress update · Find an invoice or receipt · Publish an announcement to parents.