Daycare Management Software in Montreal
Montreal is the largest French-Canadian childcare market and the most diverse: within one centre, families do not all speak the same language at home. A Montreal daycare needs software that follows that diversity without multiplying admin work.
KidSecure handles the child file, attendance, billing with Quebec taxes, tax receipts and parent communication. Automatic message translation, available from the Centre plan, helps you write to a family that reads neither French nor English fluently.
Regional context
Montreal runs on Eastern time, an hour behind the Atlantic provinces. That sounds trivial until a daily report, an arrival notification or an invoice due date lands at the wrong hour. KidSecure applies the daycare timezone, not the server one: your days start and end on Montreal time.
Language of service
Montreal is francophone, largely bilingual, and a significant share of families arrived in Quebec recently. In KidSecure, each parent picks their interface and email language, and messaging lets you translate a received message in one gesture. Staff write in French; the parent reads in the language they know.
On the ground
The RL-24 slip is a Quebec-specific obligation, produced every year for every child. KidSecure generates it from paid invoices and subsidies for the tax year, individually or for the whole daycare at once, in the format Revenu Québec expects.
What governs a daycare in Montreal
Subsidised spaces and the RL-24 slip
A Quebec daycare combines a reduced parental contribution for subsidised spaces with the annual RL-24 slip: fees paid, days of care, eligible expenses, subsidies received and net amount. That slip is what lets a parent claim the provincial tax credit.
Source : Quebec Ministère de la Famille
Taxes on your invoices
A daycare in Montreal bills parents with 14,975 % GST + QST, the Quebec rate. KidSecure sets it when the account is created, from the province you pick, and shows it on every invoice and tax receipt — you never think about it at entry time.
Timezone
In Montreal, your days, daily reports and invoice due dates follow Eastern time. The daycare timezone is what counts — not the server’s, and not a travelling parent’s.
Educator-to-child ratios
These are the ratios KidSecure proposes by default to a daycare in Montreal, following the Quebec framework. They stay editable room by room: your daycare keeps control of its own rules.
| Age group | Children per educator |
|---|---|
| 0 to 17 months | 5 |
| 18 months to 4 years | 8 |
| 4 to 5 years | 10 |
KidSecure recalculates each room ratio on every arrival and departure, and warns management as soon as a room in Montreal goes over the threshold — during the day, not in a month-end report.
What KidSecure changes for a daycare in Montreal
RL-24 slips produced in batch
Generate the RL-24 for one child or the whole daycare for the tax year, in the expected format.
GST and QST on every invoice
The Quebec rate is applied automatically, with the breakdown visible to the parent.
Writing to a family that reads neither French nor English
Translating a received message takes one gesture in messaging, from the Centre plan.
Your days on Montreal time
Daily reports, notifications and due dates follow the daycare timezone, not the server’s.
Our pricing
The same price for a daycare in Montreal as anywhere else: it follows your capacity, not your enrolment count. Free 14-day trial.
Home daycare
Up to 9 children
Pour les services de garde en milieu familial, jusqu'à 9 enfants.
Up to 9 children
2 staff accounts
Attendance, activities, photos and daily report
Real-time messaging and push notifications
Full billing, online payments and tax receipts
iOS and Android apps, FR/EN
Daycare
Up to 40 children
Pour les garderies jusqu'à 40 enfants : personnel, nutrition, kiosque et communications.
Up to 40 children
10 staff accounts, 6 rooms
Everything in Home daycare
Staff: schedules, timesheets, certifications, ratios
Nutrition, meal tracking and kiosk mode
Announcements, events, newsfeed, lesson plans
Centre
Up to 80 children
Pour les centres jusqu'à 80 enfants : tableau de bord financier, site web et facturation avancée.
Up to 80 children
25 staff accounts, 15 rooms
Everything in Daycare
Financial dashboard and aging report
Daycare mini-website
Multi-line invoices
Network
Custom capacity
Pour les réseaux de garderies : plusieurs sites, limites et contrat sur mesure, support prioritaire.
On quote
Unlimited daycares
Custom capacity, accounts and storage
Everything in Centre
Negotiated contract and pricing
Priority support
14-day free trial. Card required, no charge before the trial ends. Cancel in one click.
Let’s talk about your daycare in Montreal
A demo takes thirty minutes, in French or in English, at a time that suits you.
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