Playground transforms childcare management with payroll

The Opportunity: Streamlining Payroll for Childcare Services

Understanding that childcare providers should be focused on the children and not on paperwork, Playground founders knew early on that they needed a platform that did it all. By creating an all-in-one solution, Playground can facilitate communication around shift changes, absences, schedules, and staff-to-student ratios—all critical for maintaining quality care. 

Playground customers were forced to rely on legacy payroll systems which added complexity rather than simplifying operations. A majority of the issues their customers faced were from multiple log-ins and manual data transfers. Playground founders saw an opportunity to improve their customer experience further with a payroll solution that kept everything in one place.

The Solution: Choosing Check for Payroll

While Playground considered integrating with third-party payroll providers, they ultimately chose to develop an embedded solution with Check. Their customers now benefit from saving time and simplifying operations with Playground payroll.

Playground utilized Check Components to speed up their build time and get to market faster. The total build time to create a minimally viable product took a single engineer approximately 250 engineering hours and the product went live in just 75 days from signature to launch. 

By partnering with Check to develop an embedded payroll solution, Playground has empowered child care providers to focus on what they do best—caring for children.