Everything a photo day needs

KiddoCapture covers the whole job — before, during and after the shoot. Here's what's inside.

Before the shoot

Roster import

Upload the centre's roster straight from a spreadsheet. Children, rooms, staff and attendance days land in the right place — with duplicates and odd data flagged, not silently imported.

Parent self-registration

One QR poster per centre. Parents add or correct their child's details, choose photo days, request sibling and friend photos, and flag absences — all before photo day. Included in every plan.

Sibling groups

Siblings across different rooms are detected and grouped automatically, so sibling photos actually happen — without a photographer cross-referencing three lists.

Rooms & staff

Rooms with age groups and required stations, staff with roles and days. The structure of the centre lives in the app, not in someone's head.

Multi-day planning

Week-long shoots with per-room group photo days, staff photo days and day-by-day plans — visible to your whole team and to the centre.

Smart warnings

Possible duplicate children, name mismatches, missing details and data drift raised as warnings you can act on — before they turn into delivery mistakes.

On photo day

A photographer photographing two siblings at a childcare centre

Live check stations

Portraits, siblings, groups, staff — each a station with its own live checklist. Every tablet sees the same live state, so two photographers never chase the same child.

Field tools

Quick updates from the floor: mark absences, opt-outs, add a child who just enrolled, fix a spelling — without leaving the room or calling the office.

Group photo tagging

Tag who's in each group photo as it's taken. Row layouts and name order recorded on the spot, ready for production — no handwriting, no guesswork.

Visitors & movers

A child visiting from another room, a new starter, a staff member jumping into a photo — all handled in two taps without corrupting the roster.

Live progress

Room-by-room completion at a glance. Know you're finished before you pack the car — not after the centre calls.

Built for centre wifi

Designed as an installable app that copes with patchy connections — because centre wifi is what it is.

After the shoot

A centre director following live photo day progress on a laptop

Quality control

A dedicated QC pass to catch missing photos, unmatched children and anything that would otherwise reach a parent as a mistake.

Centre share page

A live, themeable link for the director: who's registered, what days are planned, what the centre still needs to do. Fewer phone calls, happier directors.

Exports

Clean, structured exports of children, staff, groups and tagging data — ready for whatever production system you use.

Power it up with add-ons

Optional modules for teams that want more. All of them free during your trial.

Event Chat $10/mo

A group chat per photo day for your team on the ground — photos, read receipts and push notifications, without the job spilling into personal WhatsApp groups.

Netlife Integration $20/mo

Run Netlife PhotoSuite? KiddoCapture creates jobs, syncs subjects, pushes group tagging and layouts, and keeps both systems matched — one-way, KiddoCapture as master.

Custom Branding $25/mo

Your logo and colours across the app and the centre-facing pages — so centres and parents see your brand, not ours.

Centre Portal Coming soon

Give each childcare centre its own secure login and a guided checklist: self-register, upload their children's roster (full names, or room names only if their privacy policy requires it), add staff and attendance days, download an auto-generated marketing PDF for their families, then follow photo-day progress on a live tracker. Fewer chase-up calls, a centre that does its own prep.

Communications Coming soon

Email to parents and centres, plus SMS to parents — with editable templates and a full log of every message sent. Automations run on what KiddoCapture already knows: a parent hears when their child has (or hasn't) been photographed, families who haven't registered get a nudge, and centres get chased through their prep automatically — a friendly confirmation when they're done, gentle reminders when they're not. Spam-Act-compliant with one-tap unsubscribe.