OWNA 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

OWNA

4.5

(107)

Pricing

Starting at A$1.49 per month

About OWNA

OWNA simplifies childcare management with Australia's only true All-In-One Child Care Management Software.

Our customisable app enables owners, educators and directors to manage their centres with ease, improve compliance and engage with families better than ever before.

Join over 3,000 centres who love using OWNA!

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OWNA Pricing and Plans

Starting price: A$1.49 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Premium (Early Learning)

A$1.49

per user, per month

Plan includes:

All Relevant Documentation for NQS Compliance
CCS & Billing
Everything From Freemium
Plus: Unlimited Parent Communication
Rostering & Payroll
Staff Communication

Premium OOSH/OSHC

A$99.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

All Premium Features
Bus Runs
Multiple Sessions for BSC/ASC
Plus: Casual Bookings

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

OWNA Features

Popular features found in Daycare
Alerts/Notifications
Billing & Invoicing
Daily Reports
Employee Management
Immunization & Allergy Tracking
Meal/Nutrition Management
Parent Portal
Payment Processing
More features of OWNA
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
API
Attendance Tracking
Calendar Management
Class Scheduling
Communications Management
Contact Database
Customer Accounts
Data Security
Electronic Signature
Enrollments/Onboarding
Milestone Tracking
Multi-Location
Records Management
Registration Management
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Wait List Management

OWNA Integrations

Mailchimp

Xero

MYOB Acumatica

OWNA User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

64%

24%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Verified

Reviewer

Accounting

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

Amazing application for the management our children & spend good time with our family, i really love

Owna , in my opinion amazing for my life family, i have nothing to say but it’s amazing 🤩

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OWNA is from the application who make your life easier with our family members, children are be careful in any times

Cons:

It’s just need to be in the life for anybody, amazing and better..!

Dena L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Love the customer service. Truly the best part of this system. It has a good interface and it seamless when it comes to the functionality.

Cons:

The features that should be improved is the parent portal; allowing them access to add emergency contacts (with center approval). It also should have an ability to print out a weekly attendance list with names under the days Monday through to Friday, without all the extra information, so it can fit one A4 page (landscape). This allows services to plan out their week at a glance. Not all services have enough ipads to do this. Also reports that can be added - a list of children names that attend each room for checklists etc.

Reasons for choosing OWNA

The promises that were made. And to be honest, the customer service.

Reasons for switching to OWNA

I wanted a system that integrates all three, but the others had more functionality.

Rita L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

My views on owna

- i think when we first began with OWNA the app/portal was more stable, we now constantly have issues with the app/portal and girls losing written work. -

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- it allows our centre to be paperless - app is easy to use - families are able to view their child's day easily - communication via families/educators and educators/educators is simple and effective

Cons:

- feel like i have suggested several ways that the app can be improved but its always placed on a waiting list such as making the linking of goals to posts via the app - we have several issues with girls losing their work via the app and portal - that only 20 photos can be uploaded at any one time

Reasons for switching to OWNA

As owna had all the features we were looking for

Vendor Response

Hi Rita! Thanks for your feedback. As you may be aware, we've been undergoing some rapid growth this year, and there was a period of time where our servers struggled to handle the amount of people on the app/portal. We've since increased our capacity and everything should be running smoothly now, so let us know if this is an ongoing issue and we can troubleshoot some stuff with you. Regarding losing work, the portal logs you out after 60 minutes of inactivity, so we encourage you to save your work before you leave your desk for any extended period of time. Thanks again for your feedback and don't hesitate to contact the support team for any ongoing issues you're facing. - Jack

Replied June 2021

Kylee S.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

OWNA made daily life easier

We have used other child care specific software in the past and OWNA is much easier to use. It provides all of the information and data collection we require in a logical and easy to use manner.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We use this software for our Long Day Care Centre. OWNA is easy to use, navigate and explain to others. It is quick to navigate between screens and the processes are logical. My daily tasks are easier and more streamlined thanks to this software.

Cons:

Reporting is completed by transferring data to Excel. Would be nice to just be able to print a formatted report in PDF from the software (eg: end of month figures for our accountant, Bond summary) Half days and absences do not show in daily number overview. Many families find invoicing confusing, however this is on par with other software we have tried.

Reasons for choosing OWNA

After trialling a number of products, OWNA was the most simple to use and seemed to have the most effective family communication.

Reasons for switching to OWNA

The lack of programming and communication with parents, available at the time.

Susie C.

Verified reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

THANK YOU for your great software

Your team are the best and I especially love the fact that the team always call back if they don’t have the answers to my myriad of questions. I have felt really supported and am so happy that I have made the switch.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Just want to give you a huge THANK YOU for your great software, but more importantly for the awesome help and support that your team have been providing over the past few months whilst our service has transitioned over from another software.

Cons:

I would like there to be an easy-print one page A4 daily rolls for admin purposes.

Reasons for switching to OWNA

I wanted more out of my software and OWNA ticked the boxes. I want to get support when I need it and not be told to send an email or worse, be left hanging on long telephone queues. I want to be able to custom my forms for my business and not be told that it will cost me more for simple improvements. Best of all, the team at OWNA are amazing and happy to walk me through the set up and explanation of areas of the program that I'm still getting to know. It is the availability of the team and willingness to help that have made the switch worthwhile. I am SO happy to have chosen OWNA as the software will allow me to focus on the children rather than the long hours that were previously spent doing paperwork.

Vendor Response

Thanks Susie! It means a lot to us that you've found the switch so worthwhile. Support is something we place a lot of importance on and it's good to see that we're giving you a good experience. Thanks again, - Jack

Replied August 2021

Tanya R.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Love Owna

Loving owna and would recommend

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love our owna app and so do the families We can record everything on one platform and families can also record information and interact with us as well We couldn’t do with put it now

Cons:

Same more features would be great like - Covid vaccination on visitor iPad when they sign in can tick off vaccinated - more regulate updates as we don’t seem to get them

Reasons for choosing OWNA

Easy to use Can be tailored to what we want

Reem A.

Verified reviewer

Individual & Family Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Happy Customer - would definitely recommend

Fantastic experience with OWNA. Friendly team and easy to use software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I cannot fault owna. I previously used another software but I am so glad i switched to owna. Its cost effective, everything is so customisable, its so easy to use for admin, educators and families. They also have amazing customer service and frequent training sessions and tutorials. I love OWNA!

Cons:

I cannot fault this software. I love it.

Reasons for switching to OWNA

Financial costs. Xplor was too expensive. OWNA has much more value for money.

Stephan T.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

Excellent Child Care Centre Application

We are quite happy with the OWNA product and the support team. We have not moved to the CCS feature because of concern with glitches. We plan to move in the future when the system is stable.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Parents have access to real time information (daily menu, curriculum, meal consumption, sleep times). The OWNA platform reduces the need for paper-based records and the educators have access to record information online (incident reports, checklists, medication records, hazard reports, evacuation drills, etc). Responsive support team.

Cons:

Rostering feature is not flexible so we do not utilise. The QIP feature is not well developed for our usage. Occasional glitches.

Reasons for switching to OWNA

OWNA offered additional features and real time information for parents.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the feedback Stephan. Good to hear you're enjoying the app, and appreciate you letting us know what's not working so well. Could you please contact support and explain the issue with inflexible rostering & QIP suitability? Regarding glitches - we've been growing rapidly this year and recently increased our server capacity to cope with this, so stability shouldn't be an issue anymore. Please contact support if you're still having issues. - Jack

Replied April 2021

Roy A.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Amazing software and even better support!

Amazing

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We are a brand new service and have been using OWNA for a little under a year. It's been amazing! Everything is built into the one product whereas i would have otherwise have had to purchase and pay for multiple products that would have been clunky to use and less feature rich. Whenever i have an issue, the support team 9/10 will answer the call on first ring, if not, they call you back soon enough. Got nothing but good things to say about OWNA

Cons:

Occasionally find a bug but it's never a significant issue and the support team fix it right away.

Reasons for choosing OWNA

OWNA was much more feature rich and for a fraction of the price

Brannan L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

The best move we made!

Everyone in our team is able to use it as it is so user friendly and not complicated even for our non techy staff.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We loved how everything we use was on one platform and how inexpensive it was. I also appreciated how amazing the customer support team is and nothing is every to much for them. We have also had so much more parent communication about the children's learning

Cons:

I find the billing side includes a lot of steps and the statements are difficult to read.

Reasons for choosing OWNA

We heard so many great reviews about it and loved the demo!

Reasons for switching to OWNA

We found Xplor to be rude and not helpful. They always said they would do something or fix a feature/glitch and two years later we were still waiting for it.

Vendor Response

Thanks Brannan! Really happy to hear about your increase in parent engagement, and always good to see compliments about the team. Appreciate the billing side can be a somewhat rigorous process. It's something we're looking to streamline as we refine the software this year. Any ongoing issues or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact the support team. Thanks again! - Jack

Replied April 2021

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