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by Uriel Mann 9 min read

To invite them to the parent portal just head over to the FAMILIES tab in Sandbox, select the drop down with the four lines and select SHOW ALL. This will put all of the families on one page. Then select the top red dot on the left hand corner, this will select all the families in your center.

Full Answer

Where can I find the sandbox Parent App?

If you are using an iOS device, you can find the app in the App Store by searching for Sandbox Parent App. If you are using an Android device, you can find the app in the Google Play store by searching for Sandbox Parent App. Most of your interaction as a parent will happen through the Parent App or the Parent Portal.

How do I Manage my child's activities in sandbox?

Share all of the children's activities throughout the day in the Daily Logs section of the Parent App. Allow parents to update medical details to ensure that the child information in Sandbox is always up to date. You can also require approval for updates if necessary.

What are Sandbox e-payments and how do they work?

With [Sandbox E-payments] your parents can pay outstanding invoices quickly and easily through the Sandbox Parent Portal. There’s even the option for parents to authorize automatic withdrawal, so that payments can be processed immediately after their invoices are created.

Is sandbox teacher an update to the existing teacher app?

No. Sandbox Teacher is a whole new app and not an update of the existing teacher app. To start using the app you can download Sandbox Teacher from the iOS App store or Google Play Store. How do I communicate with Parents using this App?

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What is Sandbox Parent Portal?

Sandbox Parent App enables parents to: - View pictures and updates of their children through the Newsfeed and Daily Logs section. - Communicate directly to the center administrator as well as teachers in their children's classes. - View invoices & tax receipts.

What is a Sandbox portal?

The Sandbox Parent Portal enables teachers and admin to communicate directly with the parents, including daily activities, pictures and messages. Parents can also manage their account information and pay their invoices online.

What is sandbox and how it works?

Sandboxing is a cybersecurity practice where you run code, observe and analyze and code in a safe, isolated environment on a network that mimics end-user operating environments. Sandboxing is designed to prevent threats from getting on the network and is frequently used to inspect untested or untrusted code.

Where are sandbox portals?

Where can I find these portals? Initially, these portals will be present on LANDs owned by The Sandbox or partners. Eventually they may become more widespread, for example, allowing the fast-travelling to the corners of the map.

Help Parents Stay Connected

The questions most parents ask when picking their kids up from child care are “How was your day today?” “What did you do?” and “Did you learn anything new?”. Most children are unable to answer these questions with much detail, and parents will often hear responses such as “It was good” or “Not much”.

Enable Parents to Pay Online

Chasing payments is typically one of the most frustrating tasks for businesses. Operating a child care center is no different, and many owners/operators spend significant amounts of time chasing parents for payment.

Easily Update Family Information

Now through the Sandbox Parent Portal, parents can easily update their child and family information themselves. Addresses, phone numbers, contacts, allergies, medical conditions, immunizations - all the information that you need to track for families at your center can be updated by parents directly through the Parent Portal.

How to invite parents to sandbox?

1. Invite Parents to the Parent Portal: In order for parents to log into the app they will first need a parent portal login. To invite them to the parent portal just head over to the FAMILIES tab in Sandbox, select the drop down with the four lines and select SHOW ALL. This will put all of the families on one page.

How to navigate through parent app?

Navigating through the Parent App is pretty simple. To get started, just click on the top left-hand menu to navigate from one section to another. It is possible that not all tabs will be available to you since what is displayed is based on how you configured the settings in the Settings tab of your account.

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Welcome to our child care center. We are so glad that you have chosen us to entrust your child (ren) with. It is our goal to make your experience at our center as great as possible and in order to do so, we have included Sandbox Software as a service to our center and families.

Final Notes

It’s my hope that this guideline will help your center as you introduce each family to Sandbox. I know from personal experience that it can sometimes be difficult to communicate to parents. I can assure you that with the use of the Parent App and Parent Portal, this will make it much easier.

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