🔒 The separate Sign-in Screen is available on our Premium and Professional packages. Read more about pricing here!
The Separate Sign-In Screen:
Besides signing children in and out via their room in the Famly app, Famly also offers a separate sign-in screen to allow parents, carers, and staff to sign themselves (and their children) in and out. Every sign-in and out is saved in the Famly app, providing you with an overview of when the children arrive and when they leave. You can find these details under Attendance → Child attendance.
The password for your sign-in-out screen can be found by:
Navigating to your Settings
Selecting Sign in/out
Clicking on Show password
To access the Sign in/out tab in your Settings, the following permissions must be granted:
Manage enabling/disabling features
Sign children in and out
You can use your Sign in/out screen on an iPad or an Android tablet, or a browser window on a laptop or computer. It'll look a little something like this:
Once you enter your password from your Sign-in/out settings, you're ready to get signed in:
This video will guide you through how to use the various Sign-in screen versions available for you to toggle on:
Setting up the separate Sign-in Screen
Select the type of device you want to use and you'll be ready to go within minutes:
To use the separate sign-in screen, the following permissions will need to be enabled in Settings → Staff → Roles and permissions → Compare roles:
Access to child information
Sign children in and out
Staff profile - View
Manage enabling/disabling features
💡 We also strongly recommend you update your device's software to the latest iOS or Android version to make sure your sign-in screen runs seamlessly.
Signing a child in on the separate Sign-in screen
Parents and staff can sign in, using the separate sign-in screen. To do this:
Set up and activate the sign-in screen
Click on the room the child or staff member is in, from the home screen
Once you're in the room view, click on the photo of the child you're signing in:
A new screen will open, where the person expected to collect can be entered, along with the pick-up time.
Once a child is signed in or out, this information will be recorded under their profile picture in the room overview. As well as any additional details such as whether the child is going home with another child that day.
If you'd like to sign children in without needing to enter an expected pickup time, you can switch this option off by clicking on the relevant room from your overview, and then accessing the room settings by clicking the cog icon in the top right corner. From here, uncheck the Parents are required to enter expected pick up box:
Please note, the pick-up times will still show on the sign-in screen, but they won't be mandatory to check.
Next click Sign in [the child's name]. The time of the child's sign-in will be registered and a green confirmation box will appear at the top of the screen:
Signing an employee in on the separate Sign-in screen
Signing employees in is a very similar process to signing a child in. Once you've logged into the Sign-in screen, employees just need to tap on the Staff section to sign themselves in or out.
Once in the Staff section, they'll need to find their name and select the Room to sign in to and when their expected Leaving time:
💡 If you don't need staff members to enter an expected Leaving time, this option can be toggled off in your Sign in/out settings
In your Sign-in/out settings, scroll down to the Staff should enter expected leaving time when signing in section and toggle off the switch:
Then, all there's left to do is tap on Sign in at the bottom. You can get an overview of how many staff members are currently signed in by looking out for the little banner on top of the staff section:
Good-to-knows
Here are a few helpful tips and tidbits about the separate sign-in screen:
Please make sure you have updated your device's software so you're running the latest version of iOS or Android - this will ensure your sign-in screen runs seamlessly.
In previous versions of the sign-in screen, you were able to add custom statuses. It is no longer possible to log custom statuses in the sign-in screen. But you can of course still do this in the Famly app via the room overview.
Parents who also have a staff role with the same email in the same setting can sign their children in and log themselves in as a staff member from the same screen
If you are using the open sign-in screen (meaning you do not have the PIN sign-in screen or the QR code sign-in screen enabled), you will see a birthday cake on children's photos when it's their birthday! 🎂