Attendance in childcare - without rewriting the list.
Parents scan at the door. The tablet writes the list. You see live who is in - children and staff - and the daily report is ready in the evening. That is our job. Not observation sheets, not admissions.
By 2 pm the list at the door is already wrong.
Three children left early, two arrived late, a colleague is in training. Paper rarely catches that. In an emergency, that is exactly what counts.
Never real-time
Minutes to hours pass between the note and reality.
Kept twice
Children, staff, meals - three lists, rarely the same numbers.
Stuck inside
The list hangs in the group room. The last place you want to go during an alarm.
One scan. Attendance is done.
Kiosk tablet
At the entrance, fixed. Parents and staff scan the QR. Under two seconds, even with a child on your arm.
Live in the office
The dashboard shows who is in the building. The ratio updates with it - not at closing time.
Evening without retyping
Daily report goes out: attendance, times, proof. Audit-proof, not a Word file.
Attendance lives on the tablet at the door - not in an app on the phone.
Bienenstock Kita Kiosk is the device in the entrance: QR scanner, live status, works offline. The parent app is extra and optional. No kiosk, no automatic attendance.
- Device in the plan, preinstalled, LTE backup
- Same app all day - kiosk mode
- Children and staff on the same scanner
Attendance that other systems often skip.
Check-in without tapping
No attendance ticked off later. The scan is the record.
Children and staff
Same logic for both. Otherwise the ratio only works on paper.
List for emergencies
Who is in - on any device, not on the wall in the hallway.
Documentation by itself
Drop-off and pick-up times, daily report, export for providers and authorities.
We are attendance. Not the whole admin suite.
Famly, Little Bird and others do contracts, portfolios, admissions. Bienenstock sits in front: who is in the building now. You keep the rest.
| Topic | Bienenstock | Typical childcare software |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance, children & staff | core | often extra or manual |
| Live staff-to-child ratio | core | rare |
| QR with no parent account | core | usually a login |
| Observation sheets / portfolio | not our job | often the core product |
| Admissions & billing | not our job | often the core product |
How your state calculates the ratio.
Sixteen state laws, one question: how many specialists per child present. Bienenstock applies those values to attendance.
Ratios by German stateAttendance, quickly
Does the staff ratio count booked places or children present?
State law means the staff-to-child ratio. Bienenstock calculates it live from who is in the building - not from occupancy.
Does Bienenstock replace our childcare software?
No. It adds attendance and the live ratio. Records, contracts and pedagogy stay where they are.
Do parents have to install an app?
No. Check-in is QR at the tablet. The parent app is optional - absences and meals, with no account.
Is this staff time tracking for payroll?
You see who checked in and when. That is attendance for the ratio - not payroll.