Summer 2026 Product Update

It's a pleasure to bring you news of these great new features:

• AI Agent wraparound clubs: We have released a telephone number which parents can call to book, cancel or change their breakfast and/or after-school club bookings, as well as be able to ask other pertinent questions. This is entirely to help save hours of school office time, and becaue the AI can talk in almost any language, it will be a significant help to parents who sometimes struggle to communicate with the school.
  You can learn more and listen to a demonstration here.
• Council/Multi-Academy Portal: Local authorities and multi-academy trusts can now login to a portal which will provide statistics on their schools' Parents Booking accounts' meetings and bookings, while showing return on investment and other statistics, helping provide a deeper understanding of their Parents Booking usage.
• New 'Manage Attendance' page for wraparound clubs, which shows a summary of the bookings in each session and then, in differently-coloured tables, shows the bookings for each session. It's now even easier to take attendance and we also show more information here.
• iSAMS Staff single sign-on (SSO): Schools that use iSAMS can add a single sign-on button to their iSAMS that will let staff login to Parents Booking in one click.
• MySchoolPortal Parent single sign-on (SSO): Similarly, schools that use MSP can have parents login to Parents Booking in one click via a new single sign-on we have recently released.
• New calendar booking interface for wraparound clubs which makes it even easier to book wraparound clubs. 
• Schools can up-sell 'extras' such as snacks, lunches, busses, tutors and more to parents during wraparound club bookings/payments. This is a fantastic and novel solution for schools who either way to help parents book Extras of this type more eaisly and/or are looking for new ways to generate increased revenue.
• A better, easier-to-use date/session/cost/capacity interface when creating or editing wraparound clubs.
• You can now have different capacities for each wraparound session, rather than having to have the same capacity for all sessions.
• We've upgraded the password strangth requirements for staff logins.

What's next?

Every day our software developers are working on new features for Parents Booking. You can expect the below features to appear in future software releases:

• Improvements to our Arbor data sync, adding some new features and capabilities.
• Integration with the UK Government / HMRC's Tax-Free Child Care API, so that parents can use their balance to pay for wraparound child care.
• Two-Phase Booking features for wraparound child care clubs.
• Allow schools that use Xporter to import pre-admission students.
• A more automatic and sophisticated 'pay in instalments' functionality for wraparound clubs.
• Better remittance advice and downloadable transactions reports for 'payouts'.
• More advanced refund (automatically and manually) functionality.