Winter 2025 Product Update

Sunday 2nd November 2025

Read all about our great new features:

  • Apple single sign-on (SSO) for parents has been rolled out to all schools and appears on all parent login pages.
  • iSAMS single sign-on (SSO) for parents is now available for schools (that use iSAMS) to setup (on the Set Up School > Preferences web page in the Admin Area) and add to their parent login page.
  • Book Now, Pay Later: Schools can allow parents to 'book now and pay later', by turning on this feature when creating/editing an event, club and wraparound. Parents who use this will then be able to pay with vouchers or tax credits, where allowed/approved by the school, or can pay off their debt in installments or at their conveneince.
  • Finance: A new Finance page is shown to all Admins, at schools that use the Event, Club and/or Wraparound features. This section shows payments received and debtors.
  • Debtors: Admins can click on a debtor, to be shown their transactions (a ledger showing their bookings, cancellations, vouchers, credits and payments), and to add a voucher or create a manual credit. 
  • Invoices: All transactions now create invoices (which schools can set up VAT for in their Set Up School > Prerferences web page). Parents and Admins can click on an invoice/credit note number to show and then download or print their invoice or credit note.
  • Bug fixes:
    • A bug with the Staggered Breaks feature not showing all the possible 'break' times, for parents' evenings which had 2+ days, has been squashed.
    • If a parents' evening has 2+ dates, we now change the tecaher on all dates when a tecaher is changed on one day, on the Manage Bookings page.
    • A bug that was stopping cancellations being performed, where blocked out times were ticked, has also been squashed.

What's next?

Every single day we have developers coding new features for Parents Booking and we're already working on the below new fetaures for our next software releases:

  • Integration with My School Portal for a parent single sign-on (SSO).
  • Booking Pattern and Two-Phase Booking features for wraparound child care clubs.
  • Allow schools that use Xporter to import pre-admission students.
  • Download/print a QR code option for the 'share Manage Attendance' page.
  • Council and MAT login portal.
  • Book Now, Pay Later eligibility (to limit which parents can use this feature).
  • Button to refund a paid amount directly to the parent from within Parents Booking (rather than having to do this in Stripe, ParentPay or PayPal).
  • 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.
  • 'Extras' can be added to for wraparound child care bookings, such as lunch, snack or a bus.