BloomzEnrollment & Payments
Admissions for a childcare center: inquiries, tours, the waitlist and open seats
Track every family that asks about a place, book tours, keep a waitlist with sibling and staff-child priority, and see week by week when a seat opens in each room. Who this is for …
Register and pay for a camp or program
Sign your child up for a camp, club, or program your school is running — and pay for it — from the same place. Before you start Your school needs to have Activities (or Recreation …
Billing
Create tuition plans from a template and assign them to many children
Set up monthly tuition once as a template, then put many children on it at the same time. Bloomz posts each invoice on the plan's schedule and families pay in the app, or automatic…
Bill by the hour or by the day from check-ins, and review draft charges
For drop-in and part-time care, bill families for the time their child was actually checked in: by the hour, or by the full or half day. Each night Bloomz turns check-ins into draf…
Charge an automatic late-pickup fee
When a child is picked up after closing time plus your grace period, Bloomz works out the late fee by itself and puts it in your review list. You approve it or waive it, so the dec…
One-time charges, cash payments, credits and a child's account
Charge a family for something outside their tuition, such as a summer program or a field trip, record a cash or check payment so reminders stop, give a credit, and see everything a…
Subsidies: record agency awards so families pay only their copay
If a state program such as Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) pays part of a child's tuition, record the agency and the child's award. Bloomz then takes the agency's share off e…
Bring your billing across from Brightwheel: opening balances, tuition plans, past invoices and autopay
After your children and families are in Bloomz, bring your money across: what each family owes or holds as credit, their tuition plans, and their past invoices. Then ask families t…
Attach a payment to a post
When you're writing a post — a field trip announcement, a club fee — attach a payment request right in the composer. The post announces it, and the fee reaches every family as a pa…
Attach a payment to an event
An event with a cost — a field trip, a dance — can carry its own fee, collected from the families you invite. Before you start Payments must be turned on for your school. The payme…
Send a form with a fee attached
Some forms shouldn't go through until they're paid for — a permission slip with a fee, for example. Attach a fee when you send the form, then turn on Payment required to submit and…
Payments
Pay a school fee
When your school asks for money — a field trip fee, tuition, a club charge — the request reaches you inside Bloomz, and you pay it there too. A fee can arrive attached to a post, a…
Pay for something from a post, an event or a form
A fee doesn't only show up in your Payments area — a teacher can attach one to a post, an event, or a form. An event shows a Pay Now button right on its detail screen; a fee sent w…
Set up a tuition agreement and autopay
Tuition in Bloomz runs on a billing plan the school office sets up for your child: each installment posts as an invoice on the plan's schedule, and with autopay turned on your save…
Split a bill between two payers
When two guardians share the cost of a fee, the school splits the charge between you when they bill it — each of you then owes only your own portion, pays with your own method, and…
Download a statement or receipt (PDF)
Every payment you make gets its own receipt, and your full payment history can be pulled together into one statement — both download as a PDF you can save or print. Before you star…
Ask for a refund, and what an NSF fee means
If you paid for something by mistake or a plan changed, your school can refund the payment — and if a bank payment bounces, this article also explains the NSF fee that can follow. …
Subscription & Billing
See your Teacher Premium subscription and payment history
Check whether your Teacher Premium subscription is active, when it renews, and what you've been charged for it — all from one screen. Before you start This screen shows your own su…
Upgrade to Premium
Teacher Premium unlocks extra classroom tools on top of the free plan. Upgrading takes a few minutes: pick a plan, enter payment details, and confirm. Before you start You need a p…