aid: brightwheel
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brightwheel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Brightwheel
kind: company
description: Brightwheel (mybrightwheel.com) is an all-in-one childcare and early
  education management platform used by childcare centers, preschools, and
  early-learning programs to run daily operations - attendance and check-in,
  digital daily sheets, tuition billing and payments, enrollment and admissions,
  staff/timecards, classroom (room) management, learning assessments, and
  real-time parent messaging and photo/video sharing. As of this catalog entry,
  Brightwheel does NOT publish a documented, self-serve public or partner
  developer API. There is no developer portal, API reference, API key signup,
  OpenAPI specification, or webhook documentation. The only Brightwheel API
  activity that is publicly acknowledged is bespoke, contract-scoped work built
  for individual government partners - for example a private API implemented to
  submit attendance and subsidy data to Iowa's childcare subsidy data system -
  and inbound integrations where Brightwheel pushes data into third-party
  products (e.g. staff timecards to Gusto for payroll). None of these expose a
  documented API surface that outside developers can build against. This entry
  is therefore an honest stub documenting the provider and its access model; no
  API definitions are asserted because none are publicly documented.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Childcare
- Early Education
- Preschool
- Childcare Management
- Attendance
- Billing
- Payments
- Parent Communication
- EdTech
- No Public API
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brightwheel-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://mybrightwheel.com
- type: SignUp
  url: https://schools.mybrightwheel.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightwheel
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/brightwheel
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.mybrightwheel.com/en/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://mybrightwheel.com/pricing/
- type: GovernmentPartners
  url: https://mybrightwheel.com/government-and-network-partners/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com