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Kindergarten Management System and Preschool Management Software

Your kindergarten's entire day at your fingertips — attendance, meals, naps, photos, messages and tuition in a single panel.

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Branded Parent Experience

Mini Kreş is a modern SaaS platform that runs every operation of kindergartens and preschools under one roof. Parents on mobile, teachers on the floor, admins in control — KVKK-compliant service across every city in Turkey.

Download our mobile app — for admins, teachers and parents

No credit card required
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Turkish support
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Mavi's Day

Today · Little Bees Class

✓ Started the day 08:24
🍽️ Breakfast: Eggs, milk All
💤 Nap: 12:40 - 14:10 1h 30m
🎨 Activity: Watercolor 3 photos
Real-time · View from the parent mobile app

Secure • Fast • Works in every city of Turkey

22+

Ready-to-Use Modules

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Mobile Friendly

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Cloud Access

KVKK

Focused Infrastructure

All your needs in one place

Everything you need to run your kindergarten in one place

We have brought together every tool admins, teachers and parents need on a single platform — paper, Excel and WhatsApp groups are now history.

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Attendance & Absence

Take attendance with one tap, parents are notified instantly via push. 14-day history, monthly absence report, class-based attendance % chart.

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Meal Tracking

Breakfast / lunch / afternoon snack — eating ratio for each child (all/half/little/none). Instant notification to the parent.

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Nap Log

Slept · slept little · did not sleep. The first thing parents wonder about, entered by the teacher in 10 seconds.

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Photo Sharing

Activity photos with watermark, automatically compressed to WebP. Delivered only to the parents in that class, KVKK compliant.

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Announcements & News

Whole kindergarten / specific class / single parent targeted announcements. Every announcement is delivered instantly as a push notification.

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Messaging

Two-way, auditable messaging between admin and parent. Read receipts, reply threads, instant alerts via push.

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Tuition & Collections

Monthly payment tracking. The moment the admin marks 'received', the parent gets an instant receipt notification. Monthly collection summary + Excel export.

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Bus Tracking

Routes, driver info, license plate, each child's stop. List of unassigned students + multiple routes.

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Pickup Security

Authorized pickup list for every child (mother/father/caretaker + national ID). Daily arrival/pickup log + secure QR handover.

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Health Tracking

Height-weight measurements, active medications + administered log, Turkey vaccination schedule + completion marking.

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Emergency Card

Allergies / blood type / family phone numbers for every student on a single screen. The teacher reaches them in seconds during an emergency.

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Development & Report Card

Development notes in 5 areas (language, motor, social, cognitive, art) + periodic report card. Teacher evaluation, sent to parents.

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Daily Tracking

Number of cups of water, restroom count, mood (5 emojis), day note — especially for ages 2-3.

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Birthday Reminder

Every morning at 08:00, an automatic push notification to the parents and teacher of the children whose birthday is that day.

Staff Shifts

Teachers check-in / check-out from their phone. Time-off, sick leave, excuse tracking. 30-day history.

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Reports & Excel

Date-range attendance report, tuition summary, students with the lowest attendance. One-click Excel download.

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Events & Calendar

Create an event, target a class or the whole kindergarten. Google/Apple Calendar iCal integration.

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Weekly Menu

Monday-Friday × breakfast/lunch/snack grid. Instantly visible to parents.

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Weather & Clothing Tip

Today's temperature in the parent panel + clothing advice for the child such as 'coat + fleece recommended'.

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PWA — Add to Home Screen

Installs Mini Kreş like an app on a parent / teacher / admin phone. A near-native experience.

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Instant Push Notifications

With OneSignal, every event (attendance, meal, nap, message, photo, tuition) reaches the parent's phone within seconds.

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SEO & Blog

Add your blog posts from the site admin and stand out on Google. Sitemap, meta, slug — all automatic.

🔔 Instant notifications to parents

Everything that happens at the kindergarten instantly to the parent

The teacher takes attendance and a notification lands on the parent's phone. A photo is uploaded and the parent sees it instantly. Every interaction is delivered via push notification.

12:04

🎒 Mavi arrived at the kindergarten

Attendance · Little Bees

12:40

🍽 Lunch · all eaten

Meal

14:15

😴 Slept well

Nap

15:30

📸 3 new photos

Activity

16:20

💰 Tuition received · 4,500₺

Collection

17:00

↗ Grandma picked up

Safe pickup

Tomorrow 08:00

🎂 Nisan turns 7 today!

Birthday reminder

08:30

☀️ 18° · Coat + fleece

Weather suggestion

Ready in 3 steps

Getting started is easy

No installation, no training required. Your kindergarten is digital within hours.

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Create your kindergarten

Set up your kindergarten in a minute, add your classes and teachers. All information is saved to the cloud instantly.

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Invite students and parents

Send automatic invitations to parents via SMS/email. They simply install the app and sign up.

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Share your daily flow

Take attendance, log meals and naps, upload photos. Parents are notified instantly and stay happy.

The Reality of Kindergarten Owners

The familiar 6 big challenges

We spoke with hundreds of admins working in kindergartens across Turkey. Here are the problems we hear most often — and how Mini Kreş solves them.

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WhatsApp chaos

200+ messages a day, 5 separate groups, lost announcements. Solution: Targeted announcements + auditable two-way messaging, working hours for teachers.

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Tuition tracking headache

Wire transfer receipts, late-payment checks and discount calculations scattered across Excel. Solution: Tuition tracking in a single screen, automatic late-payment reminders, overdue payment alerts.

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Photo sharing risk

Photos shared in WhatsApp groups create KVKK violations. Solution: Watermarked, sent only to that child's parent.

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Paper attendance

Lost notebooks, retrospective reporting impossible. Solution: One-tap digital attendance, instant parent notification, automatic monthly report.

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Bus uncertainty

Parents constantly call to ask "Did my child get on the bus?". Solution: Automatic boarding/alighting push notifications, live map support.

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KVKK audit stress

Not being ready for ministry audits, risk of high fines. Solution: Data on Turkey-based servers, disclosure text templates, audit logs ready to go.

Who Is It For?

An experience tailored to every role

Admins, teachers and parents — each has different needs. Mini Kreş is designed separately for each one.

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Kindergarten Admin

Manage every operation of the kindergarten from one screen. Students, staff, finance, reports — all under your control.

  • Multi-branch / class management
  • Finance and tuition control
  • HR records and payroll
  • Oversight of all communication
  • Monthly/annual reports
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Teacher

On the floor, with your phone, one-handed. Attendance, meals, naps, photos — done in 5 minutes.

  • One-tap attendance
  • Daily activity entry
  • Activity photos
  • Supervised messaging with parents
  • Working-hours boundary
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Parent

Live your child's day with them. Instant notifications, photos and messaging — all in your pocket.

  • Daily report on a single screen
  • Activity photo feed
  • Direct messaging with the teacher
  • Tuition and payment tracking
  • Calendar and menu access
Parent App

Parents experience their child's day in real time

Attendance, meals, naps, activity photos and teacher messages — all in your pocket, with real-time push notifications.

  • Daily report on one screen: attendance, meals, naps, activities
  • Secure photo and video sharing
  • Two-way messaging with the teacher
  • Tuition payments and receipt history
  • Calendar, announcements and weekly menu

Today · April 15

Mavi had a wonderful day today! 🎨

Attendance✓ Arrived
BreakfastFinished
Afternoon Nap1h 30m
ActivityWatercolor

Kindergarten Dashboard

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Students

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Teachers

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Attendance

Little Bees Class22/24
Cute Bunnies18/20
Colorful Fish15/16
Admin Panel

Run the entire kindergarten from one screen

Student and staff management, finance tracking, tuition collection, reports and more. Whenever, wherever.

  • Multi-branch and class management
  • Tuition tracking, automatic accrual and overdue alerts
  • Attendance, absence and monthly reports
  • Staff time-off, payroll and task tracking
  • Bus tracking and secure transport module
Next-Generation Platform

Why Mini Kreş?

Unlike software designed abroad, Mini Kreş was built from the ground up around the workflows, regulations and parent expectations of kindergartens in Turkey.

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Local & Turkish

The interface, support, invoices and email templates — all in Turkish. Designed around the real workflows of kindergartens in Turkey.

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KVKK-Focused Infrastructure

Data on Turkey-based servers, protected with SSL. Watermarked child photos + access only for authorized parents.

Usable in the Field

Teachers take attendance one-handed from their phone. Admins pull a monthly report in 5 minutes. Parents see everything on one screen.

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MEB Audit Module

Checklist, documents, gap tracking → an audit-ready kindergarten — unmatched in the industry

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Morning Traffic Assistant

A "leave now" push for parents — weather + traffic evaluated together

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Bus Tracking + Push

Instant notifications to parents when boarding/alighting the bus — rare among competitors

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Prescription Medication Tracking

Prescription number is mandatory by regulation — only on Mini Kreş

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Anonymous Satisfaction Surveys

Parent identity hidden from the admin, sincere feedback

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3 Platforms

iOS native + Android native + PWA — most competitors only ship 2

Guide

What is a Kindergarten Management System ?

A short guide to understanding where digital transformation makes a difference for a modern preschool.

What does kindergarten management software do?

A kindergarten management system is a cloud-based software that runs the daily operations of a preschool or childcare center digitally. With traditional methods, admins keep the attendance book by hand, track tuition collection in Excel, share photos in WhatsApp groups and pass on bus information by phone or SMS. This scattered flow leads to lost time and lost trust — and seriously jeopardizes KVKK compliance.

A professional preschool management software like Mini Kreş brings every one of these tasks together in a single central panel. The admin builds the class-teacher-parent tree, the teacher takes attendance with one tap, marks meal and nap status, and the parent follows their child's day live from their phone. Tuition collection, bus routes, push notifications and reporting all run automatically without any manual intervention.

Which types of institutions is it suitable for?

Mini Kreş is designed especially for private kindergartens, preschools, tutoring centers, childcare centers and daycares in Turkey. It scales from a boutique kindergarten with 30 students to multi-branch chains with 500+ students. Each kindergarten is fully isolated from the others through its own subdomain or panel identity; thanks to multi-tenant isolation, no kindergarten's data is ever visible to another's admin.

How do attendance, meal and nap tracking work?

The teacher opens their class in the morning and selects arrived / absent / excused for each student in the list with a single tap. The system automatically sends an instant push notification to the parents of any child who did not arrive. From the same screen, the teacher marks ate all / ate half / ate little / did not eat for breakfast, lunch and snack. Nap start and end times are recorded; on the home screen, parents can see how long their child slept. Water intake (number of cups), restroom/diaper changes and end-of-day mood are also entered from the daily tracking screen.

Health module and development report card

Height and weight measurements are recorded by date; parents follow the growth curve through the panel. The vaccination schedule is shown according to the age-based table of the Turkish Ministry of Health; completed and upcoming vaccines appear in a color-coded list. A prescription number is mandatory for medication requests — under kindergarten regulations no medication may be administered without a prescription, so this field cannot be left blank. When the teacher administers the medication a log entry is created; the parent receives a "medication given" notification on their phone. The end-of-term development report card rates the child's progress in language, motor, social, cognitive and art areas on a 1-5 scale, with a longer narrative from the teacher.

Parent communication and photo sharing

Our mobile app (iOS App Store + Google Play) gives admins, teachers and parents access to the same panel: parents follow their child's day live, teachers upload attendance and photos, admins open the dashboard from their pocket. Parents can message the teacher one-on-one, receive announcements instantly and see the event calendar. Class-level or kindergarten-wide shared photo galleries are made available with KVKK consent only to registered parents; each parent can toggle their own child's photo permission on or off. Satisfaction surveys are completely anonymous — the admin panel does not show who submitted them.

Tuition and financial management

An automatic accrual is created for tuition collection at the start of each month. The admin records the cash/transfer payment in the panel and the receipt is sent to the parent as an automatic notification. For overdue payments the admin can send a custom reminder. Exporting to Excel for the accountant is one click away. Mini and Pro plans are available for the kindergarten subscription, all of which you can try for free without requiring a credit card.

Bus and security

Bus routes are created by the admin, the students boarding at each stop are defined, and the driver's contact information is shown to parents. Information about who can pick up the child from the kindergarten (mother, father, grandparent etc.) is kept on the authorized pickup list; a 4-digit PIN can be required at handover for verification. All of this sensitive data is transmitted over an SSL-encrypted channel and stored in hashed form on the servers.

Mobile app or PWA?

Mini Kreş has both a native mobile app available from the App Store and Play Store and a PWA (Progressive Web App) version that installs directly from the browser. The native app delivers faster notifications, deep-link support (shared minikres.com links open automatically inside the app) and offline capability. The PWA version, on the other hand, installs in seconds via "Add to Home Screen" with no download step and runs even on the older phones some kindergarten staff carry.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you've been wondering

Do I need technical knowledge to use Mini Kreş?

No. It is fully cloud-based, with no installation. It works through a web browser or like a phone app via 'Add to Home Screen'. You will be ready to go after a 15-minute quick-start guide on first launch.

How many features are included?

22+ ready-to-use modules: attendance, meals, naps, photos, announcements, messaging, tuition, bus, pickup security, health tracking, vaccination schedule, development notes, report card, daily tracking, shifts, reports, weather, birthday reminder, iCal, Excel export and more.

Do parents have to install an app?

No. Parents log in through their browser and can use it like an app via 'Add to Home Screen'. They get an automatic push notification for every event (attendance, meals, naps, messages, photos, tuition).

Is our kindergarten data secure?

All data is KVKK compliant and protected with SSL. Photos are watermarked automatically (minikres.com) and only delivered to that child's parent. The pickup security module keeps the authorized pickup list under control.

How does tuition collection work?

The admin marks each student's monthly payment as 'received' from the panel (cash/transfer/card). The parent gets an instant receipt notification. Monthly collection totals + Excel report are ready.

I run a multi-branch kindergarten — do you support that?

Yes. You can run each branch as a separate kindergarten with its own admins/teachers and still pull a centralized report. Site admin sees every branch.

Will teachers find it easy to use?

The interface is designed for one-handed phone use. Attendance in 30 seconds, meals in a minute, photo uploads instantly via camera + gallery picker. Teacher shift check-in/out is on the same screen.

Which features are 'free' as part of the package?

Beyond your license fee, attendance, meals, naps, messaging, announcements, news, events, menu, tuition tracking, health tracking, vaccinations, development/report card, daily tracking, emergency card, pickup security, bus, shifts, reports/Excel, weather and push notifications — all included.

Are custom requests / customizations possible?

Yes. Direct contact with our Turkey-based developer team. E-invoicing, bulk SMS, custom integrations (Mikro/Logo/Paraşüt etc.) can be added on request.

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