From sign-up to running your whole center
Pontis is three connected apps and a short setup. Here's exactly how the pieces fit together — and what your first day looks like.
Three apps, one shared source of truth
Directors work in the Portal, teachers work in the Staff App, and families live in the parent app. They all read and write the same data, in real time.
Pontis Portal
For directors and admins · web
The command center. Enrollment, billing, accounting, HR and payroll, rooms, reporting, and settings — everything you run the business on.
Pontis Staff App
For teachers and staff · tablet & phone
Built for the classroom floor. Check children in and out, log daily reports, capture photos, watch ratios, and clock in and out.
Pontis App
For parents and guardians · phone
The family window into the day. Live updates, photos, messages, invoices and payments, and contactless check-in.
Up and running in eight steps
Most centers are fully live in under a week — and the AI chatbot does the heavy lifting on setup.
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Sign up
Pick the plan that matches your center's size and pay right on the pricing page. Your account is created instantly.
See pricing - 2
Log in to the Portal
Head to portal.pontistech.co and sign in. This is where you'll set your center up and run it from.
Sign in - 3
Populate your data
Let the AI chatbot walk you through setup conversationally — or import your existing student and staff spreadsheets in one go. No manual re-typing.
- 4
Create your rooms and assign staff and children
Set up each room, then assign teachers and children to it. Ratio tracking starts working the moment you do.
- 5
Create the parents
Add parent and guardian profiles and link them to their children, along with approved pickup contacts.
- 6
Ask parents to download the Pontis app
Families get the Pontis app from the App Store or Google Play and see their child's day from day one.
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Or point them to your own appOptional
Already have a branded parent app of your own? Ask families to download that instead — Pontis runs behind it either way.
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Run your center
From here on it all lives in one place: accounting, HR and payroll, operations, learning, compliance — and everything in between.
Want to see it end to end?
Book a 20-minute walkthrough and we'll set the whole thing up on your center's own data — free.