Features

One system that knows your whole program

From the first booking page to the last pick-up of the day, Sunup covers the operations that keep a children's activity business running — and skips the bloat that doesn't.

Activities & scheduling

Classes, camps, and everything you actually run

Set up classes, camps, events, workshops, drop-ins, and private lessons with the details that matter: age ranges, capacity, price, location, instructor, and registration windows. Schedules generate real session dates, so you and your staff always work from concrete days — not vague recurrence rules.

Classes, camps, events, drop-ins, and lessons in one catalog
Real session dates, not abstract schedules
Per-session capacity when one day differs from the rest
Public, private, or hidden listings — you choose what's discoverable
Schedule changes carry enrolled children to the new session, with history kept
Registration, forms & waivers

Registration that's complete the first time

Your booking page walks families through everything you require — profile details, emergency contacts, pickup permissions, your custom forms, your waivers — before the seat is confirmed. Common information lives with the family, so they enter it once instead of once per class.

Bookable pages families can use on any device
Custom registration forms with the question types you need
Waivers and policies as versioned documents — what a family signed is preserved exactly
Emergency contacts and pickup authorizations collected up front
Eligibility checks so the wrong-aged child can't grab a seat
Payments

Checkout that closes the loop

Families pay at registration through a secure hosted checkout — card details never touch Sunup — and the money settles directly to your own Stripe account. Behind it, every order tells the whole story: what was bought, at what price, what discount applied, what's been paid, refunded, or credited.

Online checkout at registration; free classes confirm instantly
Deposits, with the balance tracked and payable from the parent portal
Discount codes, percentage or fixed
Class packs: prepaid bundles of drop-in sessions
Refunds and household credit, recorded as history — never overwritten
Automatic receipts and painless failed-payment retries
No booking fees for parents, ever
Capacity & waitlists

Full means full — and fair

Sunup will not oversell a class, even when two families go for the last seat at the same moment. When a class is full, families join an ordered waitlist, and you promote from it deliberately when a spot opens.

Overselling prevention built into checkout
Ordered waitlists per class
Promotion is your call — capacity is re-checked, and paid classes collect payment before the spot is confirmed
Held seats count against capacity, so payments in progress can't collide
Rosters, attendance & pick-up

Know who's here and who's taking them home

Every session has a roster that can explain itself: who's enrolled, who's attending a make-up or drop-in, and who was cancelled and why. Attendance and check-in/check-out are quick to record and hard to corrupt — because they're safety records, not just checkboxes.

Accurate per-session rosters, with the reason each child is on them
One-tap attendance
Check-out records who picked up, including ad-hoc pickups recorded by name
Make-ups for missed classes and paid drop-in spots, without disturbing regular enrollment
Every sensitive lookup — health notes, pickup permissions — is access-logged
Staff view

Just enough app for the people running the room

Instructors open Sunup and see today: their classes, their rosters, and the safety details they're permitted to see. No revenue dashboards, no family billing history, no admin clutter.

Today-first, mobile-friendly class view
Pickup authorizations and permitted health notes at a glance
Staff and incident notes captured in the moment
Staff see what they need to run class — and nothing else
Parent portal

A portal parents actually trust

Families manage their household in one calm place: children's profiles, upcoming schedule, balances, receipts, forms, and waivers. Grandparents and co-parents can be invited with exactly the access you'd expect them to have — being in the household doesn't automatically mean seeing every child's details.

Upcoming schedule across every registration
Balances payable online, receipts always on file
Emergency contacts, pickup permissions, and health notes managed by the family
Household invitations with per-child permissions
Registration history preserved, not buried
Reporting

Answers, not exports (though you get those too)

See the numbers that run the business — revenue, enrollment, attendance, outstanding balances, refunds and credits, waitlists — without wading through a BI tool. Customer lists and form-status exports are there when you need the spreadsheet after all.

Revenue by date range
Enrollment by activity and attendance by session
Outstanding balances, refunds, and credits
Waitlist and customer lists
Form and requirement status exports
Financial views visible to managers only
Email

The right message, only when it matters

Sunup sends the operational email families actually want: registration confirmations, receipts, class reminders, and schedule-change notices. Nothing sensitive ever appears in a subject line, and nobody gets marketing they didn't ask for.

Confirmations, receipts, and refund notices
Upcoming class reminders
Schedule change and cancellation notices
Waitlist promotion and incomplete-registration nudges

Be up early

Sunup is opening to a small group of providers first. Tell us about your program and we'll be in touch as spots open.