Built for Kumon center owners Get Back to What Matters

You opened your center to change kids' lives.
Not to drown in busy work.

Attendance is the easy part. The Center Book runs everything else: it brings new families in and keeps the ones you have coming back, gives your teachers a live view of every student and their progress on the floor, turns your center's numbers into business insights you can act on, and automates the busywork so it runs itself. One system that works alongside K-SIS and Kumon Connect, so your team gets back to what matters most: the students.

The Center Book attendance board
Text sent to parent
"Ariella is ready for pickup."
Bincy Sines
"I already had the pieces. An attendance system for the front desk, a website and funnel builder to bring families in, email campaign software to stay in touch. Separate tools, separate databases, none of them talking to each other, and not one worked the way real families do. What I actually needed did not exist: one system that brings families in, keeps them engaged, runs the center, and automates the busywork so I can get back to the kids. Now it does."
Bincy S. Kumon Center Owner

You're not just buying software. You're getting twenty years of a thriving Kumon center, built in.

Bincy's workflows, automations, and coaching, so the platform runs your center and shows you how to grow it. A coaching platform inside your software.

The playbook behind The Center Book
The whole center, not just the front desk

Most software runs your front desk. The Center Book runs all four parts of your center.

Pillar 1

Growth

Get found locally through a full funnel site on your own domain, with every inquiry landing in your pipeline.

  • Funnel site on your domain
  • Local SEO
  • Lead pipeline and CRM
  • Nurture email
  • Public lead forms
Pillar 2

Retention

Keep families enrolled, engaged, and progressing, and see the whole picture as an owner.

  • Live Class session tracking
  • Parent text alerts
  • Portal dashboard and center pages
  • Progress meetings and level-ups
  • Business insights dashboard
Pillar 3

Operations

Run the daily engine in real time, from check-in to the classroom floor.

  • Barcode check-in
  • Attendance kanban
  • Scheduling and timeclock
  • Student records
  • Lobby board
Pillar 4

Automations

Get hours back. The little things run themselves in the background.

  • Pickup and touchpoint SMS
  • Auto level-ups
  • Meeting prep and follow-up
  • Annual grade increase
  • Task routing

Most tools cover Operations. The Center Book is built for all four, and the automation layer, the part that quietly runs your center in the background, is where other tools stop.

Operational from day one Done For You

You don't set it up. We do.

This is not a login and a blank screen. We build your center's site with your content, photos, and program, load your student and family data, and configure the whole system so you open fully running. No build-it-yourself site. A real system, set up for you.

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The Center Book running on desktop, tablet, and phone
Pillar 1 of 4

Growth

Fill your center. Turn the families already searching into enrolled students.

A family playing together outdoors
It starts with a family looking for the right fit.
A full funnel site, built in Get Found Locally

Get found by families already searching.

Your Center Book parent portal comes with a public page that works as a full funnel site: built to rank locally for the tutoring, math, and reading searches parents are already doing, and to turn every visitor into an inquiry that flows straight into your pipeline. It works alongside Kumon's own marketing, adding a second stream of local families that all lands in one place.

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The center public page: family hub and lead form
Pipeline + Enrollment
Inquiry to Enrolled. Connected.

One pipeline. No spreadsheets.

Lead management, public enrollment forms, onboarding automation, and a task inbox. Prospective records convert into real student profiles when families commit.

Lead pipeline kanban
Stage counts, stagnation indicators, drag-to-advance
Public lead form
Token-linked multi-student intake to your real database
Onboarding automation + task inbox
Multi-step dispatch, staff routing, automated task rules
One record, inquiry to classroom
A lead becomes a real student profile on enrollment, no re-typing anything
Lead pipeline board
"I can't tell you how much confusing paper used to float around, notes and ideas everywhere with no consistent way to organize any of it. Communication between staff, admin, and parents got so mixed up that we could never get ahead of anything. Now it all lives in one place, everyone works from the same information, and we can finally be proactive instead of putting out fires."
Amy T.
Amy T. Instruction Manager
Pillar 2 of 4

Retention

Keep your center full. Every student seen, every family engaged, every month.

Students and families at a tutoring center
Then every student is seen, week after week.
Live Class Nobody Slips Through

Every student is seen. Nothing is missed.

Live Class tracks how every student's session is going in real time: levels, session timers, teacher notes, in-class flags, and checklist items. No student is invisible and nothing gets missed. That daily attention to each child is what keeps families enrolled.

Per-student session tracking
Levels, timers, and progress for every child, live on one screen
Teacher notes and flags
Anything needing attention is captured in the moment
In-class checklists
Recurring items so nothing gets skipped, student by student
See It Live
Live Class per-student session view
The family hub Give Parents a Home Base

A private portal that keeps families engaged.

A private portal for every family, with their own dashboard: their child's levels and progress, text alerts for pickups and updates, all your center's forms, and internal center pages for awards, events, your leadership team, the method, and resources for success at home. The reasons families stay, in one place.

A dashboard for every family
Their children's progress, levels, and center info in one private place
Parents manage their own details
Self-update contact info and media-release consent, with an audit trail
Co-parent visibility
Each guardian sees the children they are linked to, resolved securely
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Parent portal family dashboard
Parent Communication
Stay Connected Without the Chaos

Parents stay informed. Staff stay focused.

Automated texts, two-way messaging, consent tracking, milestone celebrations, and progress meeting workflows. Every message logged and connected to the right student.

Automated pickup + 5-min reminders
Parent Touchpoint and bathroom-request alerts
Two-way SMS inbox
Per-contact threads, manual send, no personal phones
SMS consent tracking
Immutable consent history with automatic STOP and START handling
Level-up emails + progress meetings
Parents self-book with Zoom and calendar sync, with a full history trail per student
Two-way SMS inbox
Automated pickup text a parent receives
Configurable alert routing
Curriculum + Analytics
Track Progress. See Results.

See exactly where every student stands.

A per-student progress view that brings it together: current ASHR tier for Math and Reading, recent test pass-rate trends, and level velocity measured against your center's cohort. Every number reads live from your own records.

ASHR tier position
Where each student sits on the medal scale, Below Grade through Platinum, for Math and Reading
Pass rate and level velocity
Recent pass-rate trend next to months-per-level pacing, benchmarked to your cohort average
Live, from your own data
Every chart reads straight from your records in real time. No exports, no spreadsheets.
Test recording and placement
Log passes, retests, and borderline results, and set a baseline level on intake
Insights and analytics
Business Insights See What Time Really Does

The longer they stay, the further ahead they get.

Your business insights turn your own data into a clear picture of how students and the center are doing, from enrollment and retention to performance. Here is one view: length of enrollment plotted against above-grade results, real and anonymized. No spreadsheets to decode, no digging through five tools.

Above vs below grade by length of study, real center data

Real data from a live Center Book center. Individual students are never identified.

Pillar 3 of 4

Operations

Run the floor on autopilot, and cover the attendance tracking Kumon requires.

Students and families at a tutoring center
A full center, running without the chaos.
Operations The Daily Engine

Run the whole floor, without the busywork.

Staff-operated check-in, a live view of your whole classroom, and an attendance kanban that reconciles every week. This is the attendance tracking Kumon requires, done deeper: duplicate check-in prevention, no-show flagging, and a lobby board for parents.

Staff-operated check-in
Barcode scan with medical alerts and pickup contacts
Attendance kanban
Status columns, no-show flagging, and weekly reconciliation
Lobby board
A parent-facing display of who is checked in
Make-up scheduling
Reason-coded absences with make-ups, and a vacation range that expands to each class day
Weekly attendance reconciliation
Present, made up, excused, absent, or off schedule, settled every week and honoring closed dates
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Whole-class live view
Student Management
Every Student. Every Detail.

One profile with the full picture.

Complete student records with real multi-to-multi family relationships. Class planning, student tasks, attendance data, notes, goals, and communications, all on one page.

Full student profiles
Enrollment, medical notes, flags, and audit-tracked permissions
Multi-to-multi contacts
One parent, multiple children, separate billing and communication
Class planning and student tasks
Per-student plans and recurring to-dos that carry into check-in
Student attendance data
Each student's own attendance history and patterns
Student profile
Scheduling + Staff
Schedules, Shifts, and Time

Student schedules, staff shifts, and time tracking. One place.

Per-student, per-day schedules with weekly overrides. Staff shift management with conflict detection. Timeclock with CSV export. Booking calendar for progress meetings.

Student scheduling
Per-day recurring schedules with per-week overrides
Staff shifts + coverage grid
15-min precision blocks with conflict detection
Staff timeclock
PIN/barcode entry, overtime split, CSV export for your payroll provider
Booking calendar
Progress meetings with create, reschedule, and cancel
Staff coverage grid
Capacity utilization
Pillar 4 of 4

Automations

Give yourself hours back. The work that used to be manual, now handled.

Students and families at a tutoring center
So your hours go back where they belong, with the kids.
Automation Set It and Forget It

The little things happen on their own.

Dozens of jobs run in the background so no one has to remember them. Here is what runs on a schedule, what fires the moment something happens, and what your staff triggers with a single click.

Runs on a schedule
No human involved
  • Progress-meeting outreach sweep (invite, nudge, follow-up, reminder)
  • Birthday card task to a chosen staff member, plus a birthday badge on the Live Class card at check-in
  • Annual grade increase, fully reversible
Fires on an event
The moment it happens
  • 5-minute pickup text, armed at check-in
  • Auto level-up when a test is passed
  • ASHR tier auto-classification
  • Branded level-up celebration email
  • Portal invite when a lead is enrolled
One click by staff
A person decides, the system does the rest
  • We-missed-you text on a no-show
  • Pickup touchpoint text
  • Bathroom-request permission text
"I work with our early learners, and the row view changed how I teach. I used to dig through folders for notes, figure out when a child last came and what they were struggling with, and scribble reminders on sticky notes before they left. Now each child's card shows the notes from past sessions, a checklist and flags for exactly what they need that day, and a timer that warns me when they are down to their last five minutes. I add notes and record test results right there, and it all saves to their record. When the owner preps for a progress meeting, it is already in the system, not in my memory. I get to actually teach."
Nicole E.
Nicole E. Instruction Teacher, Early Learners
Built on a proven center The Playbook, Not Just the Tools

Twenty years of a top Kumon center, built into your software.

The Center Book is modeled on a Kumon center run successfully for over 20 years. Owners reach out all the time to learn how it is done. This is that method turned into a system: the workflows, the automations, and the step-by-step, ready to run in your center. You get the playbook, not just the tools.

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Bincy Sines receiving her Kumon 20-year award with her daughters

Bincy with her daughters, receiving her 20-year award.

Who The Center Book Is For

If students walk through your door, this was built for you.

High-Volume Centers

  • Large, growing enrollment
  • Multiple staff and shifts
  • Families with more than one child
  • Daily check-in and check-out
  • Classroom session management

Multi-Subject Programs

  • Math, reading, or both
  • Level-based curriculum
  • Placement testing on intake
  • Progress tracking per subject
  • Per-student scheduling

Kumon Center Owners

  • Works alongside K-SIS and Kumon Connect
  • Covers Kumon's attendance requirement
  • Math, reading, or both subjects
  • Progress meetings and level-ups
  • Independent centers welcome too
See If It's a Fit
Built to be trusted with your data

Your center's data, protected and yours.

Isolated database per center

Your center's data lives in its own database, never mixed with any other center's.

Audit trail on every change

Logins, record edits, timeclock, shifts, and permission changes all land in one activity log.

Soft delete with restore

Students, contacts, and staff records archive instead of vanishing, so nothing is lost by accident.

Everything. Included.

The complete platform. All built. All yours.

One subscription replaces your website builder, forms, CRM, email service, SMS tool, parent portal, booking tool, and ops software. One database, one system, your entire center. Here's everything you get:

36+
Built-in Features
Not integrations. Built into one platform.
1
Dedicated Database
Your data. Your center. Complete isolation.
0
Other Tools Needed
No duct tape. No third-party apps.
Operations
Staff-operated barcode check-in
Live classroom + row assignments
Attendance kanban + reconciliation
Public lobby board (TV display)
Installable tablet app (PWA)
Real-time multi-tablet sync
Library circulation
Student learning apps
Communication
Automated pickup SMS + reminders
Two-way SMS inbox
Level-up celebration emails
Progress meeting workflow
Notifications + alert routing
Parent portal + email campaigns
Students + Data
Multi-to-multi contact management
Student journal + goals
Curriculum + level tracking
Placement testing + insights dashboard
Lead pipeline + enrollment CRM
Public lead forms
Onboarding automation
Task management + inbox
Platform + Admin
Center website + funnel
Student + staff scheduling
Staff timeclock + hour export
Booking calendar
Staff "Me" dashboard
Roles + permission matrix
White-label + center settings
Dedicated database per center
Holiday + closed-date management
Here's Why We Built This

She didn't open her center to fight with software.

Our first client runs a large franchise tutoring center. She got into education for the kids, but found herself spending more time managing broken tools than working with families.

She wasn't on paper. She'd already invested in real platforms: all-in-one marketing tools, funnel builders, CRM systems that promised to handle everything. Thousands of dollars across multiple platforms.

But every platform had the same fundamental flaw: one-to-one data relationships. One parent email, one child. A mom with three kids needed three separate accounts. That's not how families work. No amount of custom fields could fix a structural data problem.

The marketing tools were great at selling online courses. The CRM systems were built for sales pipelines. None of them understood that a tutoring center has hundreds of students walking through a physical door. They were digital-first tools being forced into a physical-operations world.

So we built it differently. The Center Book starts with the database: real multi-to-multi relationships where one parent connects to multiple children, billing and communication contacts are separate, and every piece of the platform reads from the same source of truth.

The problems we kept seeing

Paper sign-in sheets and manual check-in No instant access to medical alerts or session history
No real-time classroom visibility No way to see progress without walking the room
Pickup texts from personal phones No automation, no consent tracking, no records
Student data scattered across systems Some in spreadsheets, some undocumented
Every system required one email per child Families forced into duplicate accounts
The common thread?
Great educators spending their energy on tools instead of students
Limited Availability

Be one of the first.

We're opening The Center Book to a small group of Kumon centers who want to be first. Early partners work with us directly: we build your site and load your data for you, and lock in preferred pricing from day one.

Lock in your rate

Early partners get a lower monthly rate that stays locked in, even as the platform grows and the price goes up.

Shape the platform

Your feedback directly influences what gets built next. You're not just a user. You're a partner building what your center needs.

The full platform from day one

Operations, communication, scheduling, analytics, website, portal, and email. All built. All included. One system.

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Limited spots. Each center gets a dedicated installation built from the ground up.

Students at the center
Ready to See It?

You didn't get into education to manage spreadsheets.
Let's get you back to the kids.

Compliance is table stakes. Growth is the opportunity. Book a call and see the whole platform running a real Kumon center, live.

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