Set your attendance rules

Attendance rules are the settings behind every check-in and checkout. Directors and admins can change them.

On the web, open the School hub and choose Attendance rules. The page is titled Attendance settings. In the app, open the School tab and choose Attendance rules.

The page is one screen of cards. There's no Save button. Each change saves as you make it, and Saving… confirms. If a save fails, the change doesn't take and you see an error.

Pickup authorization

Mode decides what happens when someone not on a child's authorized list checks them out.

• Off lets any checkout through.
• Warn shows a caution, and staff can continue.
• Require blocks the checkout unless the person is on the list.

Require pickup person on checkout is a separate switch. Turn it on and staff must choose who is collecting the child every time. You can use it with or without the mode above.

Business hours

Enforcement decides what happens when someone changes attendance outside your operating hours. Off allows changes at any time. Warn shows a caution but lets the change through. Block stops attendance changes outside your hours.

The hours themselves come from your school profile, not from this screen.

Tap behavior

• Single-tap toggle lets staff tap a child's badge to cycle their status.
• Batch confirmation asks before any bulk action, so a sweep across the room doesn't happen by accident.

Absence categories

These are the reasons offered when a family or staff member reports a planned absence, such as Illness or Vacation. On the web, use the small x on a chip to remove one, and type in New category and select Add. In the app, tap Edit categories, make your changes and tap Done editing. Duplicate names are turned away.

Notifications

Late arrival alerts tell admins when expected children haven't checked in. Turn them on and set Minutes after opening, from 1 to 480. That's how long after opening Clear Day waits before flagging a no-show.

Daily summary email, which sends parents a checkout summary at the end of the day, isn't here anymore. On the web it's in School profile under Family communications, as an option of the end-of-day report. See AI-written family emails that send on a schedule.

Next

Staff use these rules every morning. See Daily attendance. To require parents to be near the school when they check in from the app, see Set up curbside check-in.