Impacting more than 500 daycares, preschools and montessories

Illumine is used by more than 500 schools across the world

Mrs Duggar Owner & Director of Leap Year review how Illumine has saved her countless hours and helped her teachers communicate better with the parents

Little Elly,Bangalore

Program type

Child care center and preschool

 

Quick stats

135 centers, 469 teachers , 2435 students

Website

littleelly.com

Functionalities Used

We use nearly all features of Illumine. Check-in for staff and students, quick scan, photo sharing, messaging, daily reporting, lesson planning, immunisation tracking, billing, and ratios.

Life before Illumine

Before illumine, we struggled with timely tuition collection and spent many hours chasing 20% of our families for weekly payments. Before illumine, communicating with parents about their child’s day, was a constant challenge. Everything from daily attendance and staff check-in was done on paper, and it was painstaking to say the least.
We had disparate ways of communicating to get important information out to parents in case of emergency. Before illumine, we had multiple files for student record, assessments, billing, attendance records as well

Life since Illumine

The biggest value we’ve seen is prompt and consistent tuition collection. We no longer struggle with late payments or having to remember to send payment reminders. Communication has also greatly improved with parents, who love to see real-time photos of their child’s day and the ability to message with our staff.
Illumine has streamlined our emergency preparedness plans, and solidified our ability to instantaneously communicate with parents should an emergency occur. It has replaced multiple systems . We no longer have a separate billing software, communication software and no use of whatsapp and facebook anymore for communications. Illumine also allows us to leave the building with very little paperwork .
We have been able to track our school operations with the click of a mouse. We can now see at a glance what once took us days to research.
Staff members record their time worked, message parents, build lesson plans, and document attendance all within the platform.
It’s safe to say we’ve saved at least 25 hours of time each week.

Chesterbrook Academy Preschool,USA

Program type

Montessori

 

Quick stats

7 classrooms, 10 teachers , 42 students

Website

https://www.chesterbrookacademy.com/preschool/

Functionalities Used

attendance , billing , check-in checkout , inquiry managemennt

Life before Illumine

We like many other centers did most everything on paper. We had an array of communication issues which we tried our best to meet the needs of individual parents, email, texting, daily notes, newsletters, etc. We always seemed to have a few parents that still needed more. Illumine was our solution.

Life since illumine

When I first discovered illumine, I was a new business owner searching for an app that would allow me to take some of the guess work out of the business side of things. Having decided to make the transition from being a public school teacher to becoming a preschool provider, it was clear that my comfort zone was teaching and not so much business. Illumine gave me one place to record student information and set-up easy to use billing for parents. The billing feature is by far the best for helping me stay organized with tuition payments. Come tax time, it is easy to search through my students and provide each parent with an accurate record for tuition payments made for the year, regardless of which payment method (cash, check, online deposit) they chose to use. I am grateful I found illumine early on in my business venture and have been using this program from the start!.