Built in BC, for BC child care
Daybook puts attendance, billing, subsidies, payroll and licensing compliance in one place on your own computer — with every child's records encrypted, backed up daily, and never sent to anyone's cloud.
30 days, every feature, no card, no signup.
Daybook replaces the binder, the spreadsheet, the invoice template and the wall calendar — the whole morning routine, in software made for it.
Check children in and out in seconds. Daybook counts who's in the building against BC's staff-to-child ratio bands and tells you the moment you're short an educator — not at inspection time.
Monthly invoicing per child, payment tracking, overdue lists, and printable statements parents actually understand.
Track Affordable Child Care Benefit amounts per child and see at a glance what's expected, received, and outstanding.
Staff clock in and out on screen. Hours flow straight into pay runs — no re-typing, no end-of-month reconstruction from memory.
Incident logging with the details licensing asks for, document expiry alerts, and a compliance view built around BC's requirements.
Allergy flags that follow the child everywhere their name appears, and meal logs kept the way licensing wants them kept.
British Columbia sets different staff-to-child ratios for every age band, and the mix changes every time a child is signed in or an educator steps out. Daybook recalculates continuously and shows plainly whether you meet requirements right now — and by how much.
Invoices, payments, subsidies and payroll live in the same system as attendance — so the numbers agree with each other, and month-end stops being an evening of cross-checking spreadsheets.
Security & privacy
You hold medical details, custody arrangements and family finances for other people's children. Daybook treats that the way it deserves: nothing is uploaded, ever, because there is nothing to upload to.
The entire database is protected with AES-256 encryption. A stolen laptop yields a file nobody can read.
Your records live on your computer and nowhere else. We couldn't look at them if we wanted to — there is no master key, by design.
A daily encrypted backup, plus one-click copies for a USB stick. A written recovery code brings everything back on a new machine.
The screen locks behind a PIN, can re-lock itself after inactivity, and every significant action lands in an audit trail.
Every plan is the full product — every feature, free updates, and email support. Start with 30 days free; pay only if it earns its keep.
Month to month, cancel anytime.
Works out to $37 a month — like getting almost three months free.
$43 a month — save 12%.
More than one location? Each additional licence is 20% off, forever.
Never held hostage. If a licence lapses, Daybook becomes view-only — your records stay readable and printable, always.
Prices in Canadian dollars. Applicable taxes extra.
No. Attendance, billing, payroll — everything runs on your computer, whether or not you're online. The only thing the network is used for is checking whether an update is available.
On your computer, in an encrypted database, and nowhere else. Daybook also writes an encrypted backup every day, and you can save extra copies to a USB stick or cloud drive from the File menu whenever you like.
You install Daybook on the new machine, restore your latest backup file, and type in the recovery code you wrote down on day one. Children, invoices, photos — everything comes back. This is why we nag you to keep a backup somewhere other than the computer itself.
No — and not as a policy promise, as a matter of engineering. There is no cloud copy, no account system, and no master key. We cannot open your files even to help you, which is exactly why the recovery code matters.
No — those screenshots show a centre after months of real use, so you can see what the software looks like doing its job. Your download opens onto a completely empty dashboard: no sample children, no demo invoices, nothing to clean out before you start. The first children on your screen are your own.
Not yet — Daybook runs on Windows today, and a macOS version is planned. If your centre runs on Macs, tell us — the Mac version ships sooner the more centres ask for it. Worth knowing: Daybook needs only one computer for the whole centre, so a single Windows machine at the front desk is enough even if everything else you own is Apple.
Nothing is wrong. Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" for any installer it doesn't recognise the publisher of. Click More info, then Run anyway.
After you buy, we email you a licence key. You paste it into Settings once and you're done — it works entirely offline. When your term is up, a renewal is a new key by email, thirty seconds to enter.
Daybook switches to view-only after a grace period. You can still open, read, print and export every record you ever made — nothing is deleted and nothing is locked away. We think holding a daycare's records hostage would be a disgraceful way to sell software.
The trial is the full product — every feature, no card, no signup. Install it, add your children, and run a real week with it.
The download starts right away, alongside a plain-English guide that walks you through every step.
On a Mac? Daybook for macOS is on the way. Leave your email and you'll be first to get it — Mac interest is exactly what moves it up the roadmap.
Heads up: Windows will say it doesn't recognise the publisher the first time you run the installer. Click More info, then Run anyway — that's Windows being cautious about new software, not a problem with your download.