FetchKids 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

FetchKids

4.8

(24)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About FetchKids

FetchKids makes drop-offs and pickups smoother for parents, teachers, and administrators. With FetchKids, organizations have advance notice of parents’ arrival, streamlining the entire pickup process and increasing security and efficiency. Students are ready to dismiss as soon as a parent arrives–a welcome time-saver for both parents and school staff.

Our comprehensive, affordable dismissal and communication platform provides schools with all the tools they need to manage attendance and drop-offs, dismissal and pickups, student after school, extracurricular, and activity scheduling, and communications with parents about schedule changes.

Any organization that benefits from receiving advance notice of a customer or parent's arrival can utilize FetchKids. Current customers include preschools, elementary schools, special needs schools, and even doggy daycare and adult daycare facilities. Having advance notice of arrival allows for ample time to prepare the child, pet, or senior for pickup. Preparation may involve diaper changes, child/dog/adult clean up, clothing changes, dressing in gear for rain or snow, or gathering belongings. By integrating FetchKids into your dismissa...

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FetchKids Features

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Activity Dashboard
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Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Calendar Management
Classroom Management
Class Scheduling
Clock In/Out
Communication Management
Contact Management
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Email Management
Enrollments/Onboarding
Event Calendar
Faculty/Staff Management
Geographic Maps
Geolocation
Independent/Private
K-12
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Online Calendar
Parent Portal
Parent/Student Portal
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Registration Management
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduling
School District
Search/Filter
Self Service Portal
Single Sign On
Special Education
Student Information/Records
Student Management
Third-Party Integrations
Vacation/Leave Tracking

FetchKids User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

83%

17%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.6

Paul H.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Best School Dismissal Application Tested

The team is great, and onboarding was smoother than expected.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We helped research and deploy FetchKids in a few partner schools. They were the best-designed app for parents and schools to track complex schedules and authorized adults for pickups. We LOVED the arrival time functionality that allows us to line the students up in order of whose parent is first to arrive. In our daycares, it allows the providers to prepare the child and pack up their items for a smooth pickup as well. This app also has a broadcast communication tool; parents and dropoff/pickup teams can communicate in real time.

Cons:

They are still working on integrations into our bigger LMS providers.

Reasons for choosing FetchKids

It was superior in features and parents, and our staff loved it.

Reasons for switching to FetchKids

This app had everything in one and the features we wanted.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your compliments. We very much appreciate your taking the time to explain the benefits of FetchKids for your schools and to document your experience using our platform. It's immensely helpful for our school customers to hear about real use cases such as yours. In addition, it's helpful for us to know which features you enjoy using the most. Please contact us at any time with your suggestions or comments. We are always happy to hear from our users!

Replied March 2023

Crystal B.

Verified reviewer

Child Day Care Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2024

Great, affordable attendance solution.

Overall, this platform serves us well as a small after-school program. The communication team is open to our feedback and responsive to our questions.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We like that it is an affordable software system for our small organization. We also like that our account rep is very responsive to our needs and questions. The customer service via email is great.

Cons:

I wish there was a push notification option so we could message all enrolled or selected accounts. Generally the communication with accounts has areas where it could improve. We would love to see more user friendly or customizable reporting that we could do with the dashboard.

Reasons for choosing FetchKids

Customer service and cost were the two main factors that we considered.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for taking the time to review FetchKids. We are so glad to know that FetchKids is working out well for your organization. Regarding push notifications to all accounts or a subset, you are able to do this from the Broadcast page on the web. We also would like to know what additional reports you need, as we can add them to our list of updates for the future. Please email us with details on the reports you need, and also if you need further explanation on using our broadcast feature. Thank you again for your feedback, it is a great help to us.

Replied August 2024

Elias B.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed June 2022

We love Fetch!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The reason why we love fetch is because of how easy it is to have parent drop and pick up their kids!

Cons:

There are some features that are just simply not used for us but it is always good to know that they are still there!

Kim S.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2024

Great communication and tracking tool between center and parents!

We have had a great experience with FetchKids. We had been looking for a product to help manage our Mother's Day Out and After School programs that was simple to use for both our center and the parents. We also wanted a tool that allowed us direct contact with parents without having to make numerous phone calls and playing phone tag. FetchKids also allows us to communicate with parents via our personal cell phones without having to give our our personal numbers. It has been a great addition to our programs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As a child activity center, we like the variety of options we have for keeping track of our students and communicating with our parents. FetchKids has alleviated our phone traffic and given us a way to streamline communications with our parents. It also allows gives us an estimated time of arrival for pick ups so that we have the kids ready to go when the pick up arrives.

Cons:

There are some features that are unavailable in the app and must be done from a desktop computer.

Reasons for choosing FetchKids

We wanted the ability to contact parents through the app.

Vendor Response

Thanks so much for your thorough and detailed review of FetchKids. We are so glad that the communications features of FetchKids are easing the burden on your staff and enabling your center to operate more efficiently. We are so grateful that you took the time to share your experience with FetchKids. Your feedback will surely be helpful to other childcare and after school programs that are looking for a dismissal solution.

Replied August 2024

Fatima B.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for free trial

Reviewed August 2024

Arts Reaching Youth Director

10/10 Overall this has been a great addition to our program compared to the previous PikMyKid. I'm excited to see how it can improve our after school program.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

That we are able to see when parents are on their way to pick up students. That there is a direct messaging system to parents. How easy the parent app is for them to use.

Cons:

Some features you can only access on a desktop - creating new student profiles -marking students calendar (absent)

Reasons for switching to FetchKids

The cost & additionally we were having issues with parents getting signed up for the app.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your positive review. We're thrilled that FetchKids is helping to enhance your after school program and that its features are working well for your staff and families. Also, FYI, it is possible to mark Students absent from the school mobile app. We will send you instructions via email.

Replied August 2024

Traci W.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2024

FetchKids Has Been a Game-Changer

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

FetchKids has been a game-changer for the dismissal process of our after school program. Because parents can pick up their kids at any time within a 3 hour window, knowing when parents are coming has enabled us to have their child ready when they arrive saving everyone a lot of time and energy. The parents have provided overwhelming positive feedback on the efficiency of using the app. My late stay staff has reported they appreciate knowing when a child is getting picked up so they can assist the child in finishing homework, packing up or completing a task before leaving. There have also been times where it was incredibly helpful to have a record of who picked up a child. FetchKids' staff has been helpful, professional and reacts to our questions/need for help in a very timely manner.

Cons:

The only challenge to using FetchKids were for our Android users - often the predicted time of arrival was off by several minutes.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for taking the time to provide us with feedback on your experience using FetchKids. We greatly appreciate it. With regard to the timing for Android users, we will investigate this further on our end. It is device specific, which might imply that it's related to the user's specific Android phone, however we will do our best to resolve this issue.

Replied September 2024

Alaina L.

Verified reviewer

Child Day Care Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2024

FetchKids has been a lifesaver!

FetchKids is AWESOME for our camp use. With over 150 kids picking up within a 2 hour time frame, the app works wonders for limiting an excessive dismissal line and getting kids out the door quickly. We also use FetchKids for our after school program during the year. The app offers many different features (in addition to its real time dismissal function) that are very helpful such as attendance, alternative extracurriculars, broadcast messages etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best part of FetchKids is the ease of pick ups for both the parents and staff in our program by giving real time updates on parent arrival time.

Cons:

The website at times is not the most user-friendly, in the sense that it is hard to locate the function I am looking for.

Vendor Response

Thank you Alaina for taking the time to review FetchKids. We are thrilled that FetchKids is helping to streamline pickups for your after school and summer camp programs. If you need our assistance navigating FetchKids on the web, please reach out anytime. We're always available to help you 24/7!

Replied September 2024

melanie k.

Verified reviewer

Child Day Care Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2024

LOVE FETCHKIDS!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's super easy to use for families and us as a business. I also love that you can text a family from it as well.

Cons:

I love everything about this app and website!!!

Vendor Response

Hi Melanie - Great to know you are happy with FetchKids. It's our pleasure to work with your organization and we are so grateful for your feedback.

Replied August 2024

Shiela C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed August 2024

Amazing app!

My overall experience with FetchKids has been outstanding. The app is reliable, efficient, and extremely user-friendly. It has brought a new level of convenience to our daily schedule, making the pick-up process smoother and more organized. I highly recommend FetchKids!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I appreciate most about FetchKids is its ability to significantly shorten pick-up times while maintaining the safety for my child. The app is user-friendly and facilitates seamless communication between parents and the school, making it exceptionally convenient.

Cons:

Honestly, everything works well for my needs, so I don't really have a con for this app. It meets all my expectations and makes the pick-up process incredibly smooth.

Tara H.

Verified reviewer

Facilities Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2024

Great app and great support!

I love the app and the support from everyone that works there

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The app is so easy to use and very user friendly.

Cons:

Nothing. I really do love everything about the app.

Vendor Response

Hi Tara, Thank you so much for taking the time to review FetchKids. We're thrilled tnat you are happy with our platform and it is serving your needs. We look forward to working with you throughout the school year.

Replied August 2024

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