Week of 3 August 2026
Aistear on weekly plans, new year setup, news feed
2 August 2026
Parent-Facing Waiting List launches
Parents can now join your waiting list themselves, from a branded page, with a verified email confirmation before the child is pulled onto your list.
See the full release →
NewAistear areas on weekly plans. Tag each activity on a weekly plan to a specific Aistear area, so your curriculum coverage is visible at a glance.
NewEmail families who are not enrolled yet. Send to waiting list families, past children and camp enquiries without enrolling them first, handy for camp marketing and onboarding.
NewWaiting list children in the new year setup. Rolling over to the next school year now shows waiting list children alongside enrolled children, so you can place everyone in one pass.
ImprovedDiscounts carried into the new year. The rollover brings each child's previous discount through as a starting point, so you are checking figures rather than retyping them.
ImprovedBetter formatted weekly plans. Planning notes keep their formatting on screen and in the PDF you print or share with parents.
ImprovedTidier forms page. The forms page no longer repeats waiting list entries that are already on screen.
FixedNext year's schedules start on the right date. Building a schedule for the coming year now resolves the first day to next year instead of the current one.
FixedChild records update correctly during the new year rollover, emails send even when no external recipients are chosen, and a warning on the parent statement view has been cleared.
NewIn-app news feed. Post an announcement once and it shows up for staff and parents straight away, with a live view count so you can see who's seen it.
NewFormatted update emails. Emails to parents can now include bold text, links and lists, not just plain paragraphs.
ImprovedClearer email delivery reporting. If a send fails, especially one with attachments, you'll see exactly what happened instead of a generic error.
ImprovedSafer email previews. Previewing an email template before sending no longer runs any content server-side, closing off a class of injection risk.
FixedPolicy documents now open reliably from the parent portal, and a rare mismatch between a session's venue and its enrolment count has been resolved.
That's everything so far this month.