Use SMS integration to delight enquiring parents 💬
SMS is an efficient way to connect with enquiring parents. Messaging helps you reach parents directly and get quick responses.
Today illumine has brought SMS integration to help streamline workflows, personalise parent communications, and, ultimately, improve the parent experience while saving your team time.
Navigate to ‘Enquiries’ page to select enquiries and then select operation as ‘Send SMS’ to send message to individuals or groups.
Top 4 uses for SMS integration
SMS parents right from Illumine
Enhance current enquiries funnels by adding SMS
Use messaging as a trigger or action
Personalise messages by adding custom fields into SMS
Share voice notes with parents now! 🥳
We're excited to introduce a significant update, enhancing parent communication with the introduction of voice note . Now, you can engage with parents more dynamically by sharing voice messages, in addition to text updates, to keep them informed about their child's activities and progress. You can leverage this in
Activity Updates : Staff can now share voice notes with parents with each activity update, offering a more personal and expressive way to communicate about their child's activities and daily experiences.
Enhanced Messaging Features: We've also enhanced our messaging capabilities to include voice notes to communicate effectively with parents. Now, staff can send regular messages, and voice notes through the Messa
New Integrations 🎉
1. Quickbooks Fee Plan Integration
We're excited to announce seamless integration with QuickBooks, allowing you to effortlessly transfer your billing and payments data from Illumine to your QuickBooks account in real time. Say goodbye to manual data entry and enjoy streamlined financial management with QuickBooks integration.
2. WhatsApp Enquiries Integration
We're thrilled to introduce the WhatsApp Marketing feature in Illumine. Now, managing your childcare centre's marketing efforts through WhatsApp is easier and more effective than ever before. Reach out to our Sales team to learn more about this.
Billing Enhancements
Late Fee settings - Introducing the ability to add late fees per day. Administrators can now configure late fee settings to suit their centre's policies, ensuring accurate and efficient fee management.
View deleted credit / debit notes - Staff now had the ability to delete line items from credit and deposit pages, providing greater control and accuracy in financial transactions. Deleted credit and debit notes will always be available in view.
Add Refund as Credits - Easily manage refunds by adding them as credit to invoices, simplifying the accounting process and ensuring transparency in financial transactions.
Improved Leave Management
We have enhanced Leaves Management feature to accurately assigns leaves for weekdays considering weekends and holiday calendar, providing a more accurate representation of leave balances.
Customisable Email Templates in 15 languages
Administrators can now customise email templates in all supported 15 languages, enhancing communication with parents and staff members across diverse linguistic backgrounds. This feature is accessible under settings.
Introducing Tour Management System 🎉
We have built a comprehensive Tour management system to streamline the process of scheduling appointments with prospective parents. Tour management system allows you to share your available slots with parents, easy rescheduling and better team collaboration via shared calendar. Get detailed step by step guide here.
Newsletter Updates
Comments are now enabled in newsletters, allowing for more interactive and engaging communication with parents and staff members.
Onboarding Enhancements
Leads Bulk Onboarding: Simplify the onboarding process by bulk importing leads into the system.
Student Onboarding : Capture essential health and medication information during student onboarding for comprehensive care management.
Add additional fields to student profile across multiple centres
Addressing the need for flexibility and customisation, administrators can now add additional fields to student profiles across multiple centres, ensuring tailored data collection as per specific requirements.
AI Writing Assistant now available in iOS
You can now start using AI writing assistant in iOS
