You’re the whole staff
Care, cooking, licensing paperwork, and parent replies all fall on you. There’s no front desk to catch calls.
Home-based & family childcare
Capricent for home daycare providers
You don’t have a marketing budget or spare staff. Capricent is enrollment help sized for owner-operators: look findable online, keep parent interest organized, and handle it in a few minutes a day.
The home daycare reality
Inquiries live in messy places
Facebook Messenger, texts, and voicemail don’t become a clear waitlist — especially during nap time.
Looking “professional” online feels heavy
Parents search Google before they message you. Building a site and managing listings isn’t why you opened a home daycare.
What Capricent helps you do
Parents can find you
A full parent-facing website and Google presence support so nearby families see a real program — not only a social profile. Inquiries go straight into your portal.
Inquiries don’t disappear
Leads and visit requests land in one portal you check when you have a quiet minute.
Follow-up stays light
SMS/email tools and a simple inbox help you reply without rebuilding your whole day around marketing.
Also included: keep enrolled parents informed
Capricent supports daycare alerts and notifications, child progress notes, and parent feedback — managed in the same portal. Parents open updates through your Capricent parent area. Enrollment stays the priority; parent communication is there so you need fewer extra tools.
This is not a classroom app for attendance and daily photos. Capricent is for getting and organizing enrollment — plus practical parent updates when families are with you.
How to promote a home daycare with limited time
- Be findable where parents search (Google + a clear page) — Capricent helps here.
- Give every inquiry a home (portal) instead of only Messenger.
- Confirm visits and follow up in short daily checks — not after a full marketing project.
Next step: Talk to Capricent or read the FAQ.
Home daycare enrollment by state
Each state page includes that state’s licensing agency contacts, home-care program types, subsidy/quality program names, and Capricent enrollment help for owner-operators.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Tell us about your home daycare
Share ages you serve and how parents find you today. We’ll follow up within one business day.