Built for Parents — Track Daycares & Search Together as a Family
Finding a daycare is a two-person job. Wee Queue now makes it a shared one. Day 5 of Multi-List Launch Week: the Daycare Contact Tracker and linked family accounts — so both parents can track every call, every tour, and every waitlist position together.
Day 5 of 5 · Wee Queue Multi-List Launch Week 🚀
This week we’ve talked a lot about what Wee Queue does for daycare operators — landing pages, analytics, multi-program capacity, automated offers. Today we’re closing out launch week by talking about the other side of the equation: the parents doing the searching.
Finding a daycare is one of the most stressful things new parents do. You’re contacting a dozen places at once, getting put on waitlists, following up weeks later, trying to remember who you called and what they said. And if both parents are involved in the search — which they usually are — you’re doing all of this twice, in parallel, without a shared record of any of it.
We built two new features to fix this: the Daycare Contact Tracker and linked family accounts.
The Problem: The Daycare Search Has No Memory
Most parents searching for childcare are doing it across months. They contact a daycare in January, hear back in March, tour in April, get a waitlist offer in September. By the time that offer comes in, they’ve contacted forty other daycares and can barely remember which programs this one runs.
There’s no good tool for this. Parents use notes apps, spreadsheets, shared documents, text threads. None of it is connected to the actual daycares, none of it has a map, and none of it is visible to both parents at once.
That’s what we set out to fix.
The Daycare Contact Tracker
The Contact Tracker is a dedicated page on Wee Queue — at /contacts — where parents can log every daycare they’ve reached out to, and track the status of each one over time. It’s a one-time $10 flat fee — no subscription, no monthly charges.
Logging a Contact
Adding a daycare to your tracker takes about thirty seconds. Search by name, set how you contacted them (📞 Phone, 📧 Email, 🏠 In Person, 🌐 Website), set the date, set the status, and add any notes you want to remember later.
The status options match how a daycare search actually progresses:
- Contacted — you’ve reached out but haven’t heard much back yet
- Toured — you’ve visited in person
- Applied — you’ve submitted a formal application or waitlist registration
- Waitlisted (External) — you’re on their list but managing it outside of Wee Queue
- Rejected — they don’t have a fit right now
- Accepted — you have a spot 🎉
Each status gets a colour-coded badge in the table, so you can scan your list and see exactly where things stand without reading every row.
The Map View
Above the table, every tracked daycare is plotted on an interactive map — colour-coded by status. Green pins are accepted daycares, red pins are rejections, amber pins are toured, and so on. You can click any pin and see the daycare name and current status in a popup.
This is particularly useful when you’re trying to understand your geographic reach — whether you’ve been casting a wide enough net, or whether a cluster of daycares in one neighbourhood keeps turning you down.
Flagging While You Browse
You don’t have to contact a daycare before you can track it. Every daycare listing — on the homepage and in search results — has a small 🚩 flag button next to it. Click it on any daycare that catches your eye and Wee Queue adds it to your Contact Tracker with a status of “To Contact”, so you have a built-in shortlist to work through later.
The flag button turns orange once a daycare is flagged, so you can see at a glance which ones you’ve already earmarked as you scroll through results. It’s the fastest way to build your call list without switching between tabs or copying names into a notes app.
The Automatic Prompt
When you tap the Contact button on any daycare listing to call them, Wee Queue asks if you want to log it. One tap, and it’s saved to your tracker — pre-filled with today’s date, method set to Phone. Add a note if you want, or skip it entirely. The phone call happens regardless.
This means you don’t have to remember to track anything. The moment you reach out, the system prompts you to record it.
Linked Family Accounts
The Contact Tracker is useful for one parent. It’s transformative for two.
Linked family accounts are completely free — no purchase required. Once you link your account to your partner’s, you get a shared view of everything — one unified record of the entire search, with both parents’ activity visible in one place.
Linking Accounts
Go to Settings → Family. Create a family (give it a name, like “The Knauersmith Family”), then invite your partner by email. They’ll receive an email with an accept link. Once they click it, you’re connected.
That’s the entire setup. No apps to install, no new accounts. Just a link.
Shared Contact Tracker
Once linked, you’ll see a toggle on your Contact Tracker: My Contacts and Family Contacts.
Switch to Family Contacts and you see everything — every daycare either of you has tracked, with an “Added by” label on each row so you know who logged what. The map updates too, showing all of your family’s contacts plotted together.
If one parent tours a daycare and updates the status to Toured, the other parent sees it the next time they check. No syncing, no sharing spreadsheet links, no “did you update the doc?”
Shared Waitlist View
The same toggle lives on your waitlist page. Switch to Family Waitlist and you see all active and enrolled waitlist entries across both accounts in one view — including which parent registered for each one and their current position.
This matters more than it might sound. It’s easy for both parents to independently register for the same daycare’s waitlist. It’s easy for one parent to get an offer and the other not to know about it. The shared view makes all of that visible, in one place, without any manual coordination.
What This Looks Like in Practice
Say both parents have been searching for a few months. Parent A has called six daycares, toured two, and is on two external waitlists. Parent B has registered on three Wee Queue waitlists and has an active offer pending on one of them.
Once linked, they open Family Contacts and see all six of Parent A’s tracked daycares on the map. They open Family Waitlist and see all three of Parent B’s waitlist positions — including the pending offer, front and centre. Nothing is missed. Nothing is duplicated. The whole search, in one view.
Pricing
| Feature | Cost |
|---|---|
| Linked family accounts | Free |
| Daycare Contact Tracker | $10 one-time |
Linking accounts with your partner costs nothing — create a family, send an invite, done. The Contact Tracker is a single $10 purchase that unlocks the tracker, map, flagging, and contact prompts permanently. No subscription, no renewal.
The Key Message
The daycare search is stressful enough. Wee Queue gives parents a shared home base — track every call, every tour, every waitlist position — together.
This wraps up Wee Queue Multi-List Launch Week. All five days:
- Day 1: Landing Pages & Google Visibility
- Day 2: Analytics You’ll Actually Use
- Day 3: Multi-Program Spots & Automatic Graduation
- Day 4: One-Click Spot Offers
- Day 5: Built for Parents ← you are here