Feature

Attendance

Mark status, sign children in and out, and keep a compliant record without pulling a teacher's attention away from the classroom.

Why It Matters

Built to disappear into the morning routine

Mark a status in one tap. Sign a child in with an automatic timestamp. Update a whole classroom at once. The record builds itself as the day happens, so no one has to reconstruct it later.

How It Works

Real-time status, for every classroom

Present, absent, sick, on vacation, or tardy - every child's status is visible at a glance, and updates the moment a teacher taps it. Grouped by classroom and program, so each teacher sees exactly the children they're responsible for.

Sign-In / Sign-out

A record that keeps up with the day

Every arrival and departure is timestamped automatically — including days a child leaves and returns more than once, like a mid-morning appointment. The full sequence stays on the record, exactly as it happened.

Bulk Actions

Built for busy mornings

Select a group of children and mark them present, or sign them in, in a single action. It's the same fast pattern used throughout Butterfli, so there's nothing new to learn twice.

Notes

The little things, without a separate message

Add a quick note for a child, whether its a mood, a reminder, something for the family to know - right from the attendance screen. Notes are timestamped, attributed to the staff member who wrote them, and can be included in your school's daily parent email.

Less paperwork, more presence

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this actually save time, or is it just a different way to do the same clicking?

Every action here is one tap – mark a status, sign a child in, or update a whole classroom at once. Schools that switch from individually updating each child’s profile see the biggest difference in the first week.

Children leave the classroom for appointments and come back. Does the system handle that?

Yes. A child can be signed in and out more than once in a day, and the full sequence of arrivals and departures stays visible on their record – nothing gets overwritten.

Will this hold up if we're asked for records by a licensing body or our board?

Yes. Every status and timestamp is recorded as it’s entered, and the Attendance Report compiles that into an exportable record for any date range, formatted for exactly this kind of request.

We're a daycare, not a Montessori school, does this still work for us?

Yes. Attendance, and the rest of Butterfli, is built Montessori-first, but it’s flexible enough to support daycares, early learning centres, and other private schools looking for a more organized way to track the day.