Tired of losing families on your waitlist?
The waitlist process is time-consuming. Families sit in limbo, waiting to secure a spot for weeks, even months. Plus, your staff has to consistently communicate with waitlisted families to remain top of mind.
You need a way to make the waitlist process simple and straightforward. See how to streamline waitlist registration and follow up with the right child care waiting list template and these best practices.
Childcare facilities have limited capacities for how many children they can provide care for at a given time. Once your center, school, or program has reached full capacity, a waiting list is often created. You still want to give interested families the chance to enroll at your center when an opening is available.
Plus, families may end up on a waiting list for a few different reasons and situations such as:
Families want a fast but engaging process. It’s crucial to provide convenient options. In fact, 73% of Millennials (your #1 target audience) prefer to work with businesses that value their time. Make the waitlist process seamless and quick with speedy communications and a simple child care waiting list template or form.
Learn how to improve communication with ALL families - especially the ones on your waitlist.
To properly manage your waitlist and provide quick options; it's vital to ensure your child care waitlist form is simple to fill out. Ensure you're only collecting the important and legally required pieces of information. If it's unnecessary, leave that field out to keep the waitlist form succinct.
Plus, you'll want to look for ways to speed up the waitlist process. Often, this means offering convenient, digital options to save both staff and families valuable time.
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Did you know - most lead generation forms have an average of 11 fields? And forms with 11 fields most commonly see a 17% conversion rate. Take a look at this straightforward, brief child care waiting list template for families to quickly register. You want to start the waitlist process off on the right foot with an easy-to-fill-out form. See the free, downloadable form below!
Click here to download your free child care waiting list template
Your free waitlist email template can help you regularly touch base with families
With an automated childcare solution, you can create unlimited landing pages and web forms. These web forms will help you effortlessly manage each waitlisted family's information - all in one place. Regardless of the center, web form data seamlessly flows into your solution and attaches the updated waitlisted status and completed form information to your current family record.
See additional daycare waitlist content templates here.
Active families in your enrollment journey – especially waitlisted families – require a lot of lead nurturing and attention to ensure they don’t inquire for care elsewhere. The waitlist process can be lengthy, so it's vital to find ways to keep families engaged.
Waitlist communications should be personalized to help establish that interpersonal connection. This means that they need to include the parent’s name and/or child’s name either at the beginning of the email or within the body text.
Tip: with a childcare experience platform, you can customize and store waitlist email templates, and then automate when they’re sent out and to whom. Check out our suggested ideas for waitlist content to send your families below.
Keeping up with waitlists is tough work. No more - with LineLeader's unified childcare experience platform you'll effortlessly manage and scale your childcare business. Remain top of mind with a system that has your back and the power to transform your relationships with families.
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