Check-in, attendance, timers, scheduling and parent updates — one system, built for Kumon and Mathnasium owners who are done with paper sign-in sheets.
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Sound familiar?
“The sign-in sheet is a mess and I'm retyping it after close.”
→Students scan themselves in. Attendance is already recorded, stamped on time or late, before you lock up.
“A parent calls asking whether their kid actually showed up.”
→They open the parent portal and see it themselves — this week, last month, on time or not.
“Payroll means adding up hours from a paper timesheet.”
→Teachers clock in and out on the same system. Pick a date range and the hours are totalled for you.
Everything it does
Panda Pod covers the whole loop — a student arriving, a teacher running the room, you scheduling and paying people, and a parent checking in from the car. Here is the complete list, by who uses it.
The front desk
Put an iPad by the door. Students scan the QR on their worksheet card and check themselves in — nobody at the desk has to do anything.
Your teachers
One screen for the whole session: who's expected, who's here, who's working, and who's running late.
You, the owner
Everything you'd otherwise keep in three spreadsheets and your head, in one place you can hand to a new hire.
Your families
The three questions you get every week — when is class, did they go, are they behind — answered before anyone picks up the phone.
Owner, teacher, parent and check-in tablet each get their own door. A teacher can't reach your rosters or payroll; the iPad by the door can't reach anything at all.
Bulk-import your existing roster from a spreadsheet on day one instead of typing a hundred names.
Welcome emails, temporary passwords and announcement sends are built in — you don't configure a mail tool.
Issue a staff or parent login in a click. They're required to set their own password the first time they sign in.
Evening sessions under classroom lighting are a lot easier on everyone. Follows the device, or set it yourself.
It's a website. Phones, iPads, the old desktop at the front desk — if it has a browser, it works.
The product
Real screens, real data — nothing here is a mockup. Drag, scroll or use the arrow keys.
Included free
Most centers either have no website or one nobody has updated since it was built. Every Panda Pod center gets a clean, fast page at its own address — and it stays current on its own, because it is fed by the system you are already using.
Your own address — paloaltostudentcenter.pandapod.app, yours to put on flyers, Google and the door.
Announcements publish themselves. Post a closure once; it appears on your page, in the parent portal, and in families' inboxes.
Hours, address, phone and a map link — the things parents actually search for, always right.
Parent sign-in built in, so existing families land in the portal from the same page new ones use to find you.
Nothing to maintain. No hosting bill, no plugin updates, no web person.
Included on both plans — no extra charge
Closed Monday for Labor Day
We reopen Tuesday at 3:30 PM. Worksheets go home Friday as usual.
Hours
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2100 El Camino RealPricing
Core runs your floor. Complete adds everything that touches money. No per-student pricing and no add-ons on either one.
Your first month is free on both plans
The daily rhythm of your center — check-in, the floor, schedules and families — running itself.
$49/ month
After your free month. Cancel whenever you like.
$539/ year
Billed once — 12 months for the price of 11.
Included
Everything in Core, plus the money: tuition collects itself, payroll adds itself up, and you see whether the center is growing.
$99/ month
After your free month. Cancel whenever you like.
$1,089/ year
Billed once — 12 months for the price of 11.
Included
Prices in USD. Your free month starts when your center goes live, not when you sign up — so setup time doesn't eat into it. Switch plans whenever you like.
Questions
No. It was built in a Kumon center, so the vocabulary fits — worksheets, levels, daily sessions — but nothing in it is Kumon-specific. Mathnasium, Sylvan, and independent tutoring centers run the same way: scheduled slots, students arriving after school, attendance that matters, and parents who want to know how it's going.
No, and that's deliberate. Students are records, not accounts — there is no password for a seven-year-old to forget and no child login to secure. They check themselves in by scanning the QR code on their worksheet card. Only you, your teachers, your parents, and the check-in tablet have accounts.
Any tablet with a browser and a camera, stood up by the door. An older iPad is fine. There is no app to install and no hardware to buy — you sign the tablet in once with a kiosk account and leave it on that screen.
Yes. Import your roster from a spreadsheet on day one rather than typing names in one at a time. If your list is messy, send it over during your free months and we'll help you get it in.
You pick a plan and billing starts — Core at $49 a month runs your floor; Complete at $99 adds tuition autopay, payroll and reports. Pay annually and you get 12 months for the price of 11. Your free month begins when your center actually goes live, not the day you sign up, so getting set up doesn't burn through it.
On the monthly plan you cancel whenever you like. Either way, your center's data is yours: ask and you get an export of your students, attendance and time-clock history in a spreadsheet format you can keep.
Each role has its own sign-in and only reaches its own part of the system. Teachers see the floor and their own hours, not your rosters or payroll. Parents see only their own children. The check-in tablet can do exactly one thing — scan — which matters because it sits unattended by the door.
No. It's a website that works on a phone. Parents get an email invitation, set a password, and that's it — no app store, no install, nothing to update.
A month is enough to run real weeks — enrollment, absences, a payroll run — and decide with your own center's data whether it's worth keeping.
Built and used daily in a working Kumon center.
