Streamline updates, share resources, and enhance engagement with a customizable communication platform tailored for your school community


Design a communication hub that fits your school’s workflow. Add only the views and features you need, and adapt as your needs change.
Connect spreadsheets, messaging apps, and school systems with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a unified source for parent engagement.
Provide parents with a branded portal for personalized communication, access to updates, and essential resources—all in one secure place.
Parents can access the hub from mobile or desktop devices to view messages, updates, and resources at any time.
Parents can access the hub from mobile or desktop devices to view messages, updates, and resources at any time.
Integrate with school tools to automate notifications, announcements, and document sharing—no manual follow-up needed.
Set up separate access for different parent groups, enabling each family to see relevant communications and resources.
Control which parent groups can view announcements, event calendars, or student records down to specific pages.
Safeguard family and student information. Softr ensures SOC2 and GDPR compliance for all parent communications.
Support teams can ask AI for answers or insights—instantly, right inside your communication hub, with no extra tools needed.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Launch your parent communication hub in minutes with ready-made templates and drag-and-drop blocks.
Add features like announcements, messaging, or event sign-ups as your needs change—no rebuild needed.
Bring messages, calendars, and updates into one parent portal—no extra apps or tools to manage.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












A parent communication hub is a secure platform where parents can log in to access important information about their child’s school experience—like announcements, calendars, files, and updates from teachers and administrators. It centralizes all communication, so you don’t have to rely on scattered emails, paper notes, or messaging apps. This helps everyone stay organized and makes it much easier for parents to stay informed and engaged.
Softr makes it simple to build a parent communication hub that fits your school or organization’s needs. You can connect your existing data sources—like Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets, or other tools—and set up a hub where parents can log in to view updates, download documents, sign forms, and check schedules, all in one place.
You don’t need to code anything. You can start with a template or create your own layout, set user permissions, and customize the branding to match your school. It’s quick to launch, easy to update, and flexible enough to grow as your needs change.
You can build a variety of features into your parent communication hub, depending on how your school communicates. Some popular options include:
\- Secure parent logins – so each parent can access information relevant to their child
\- Custom dashboards – to display announcements, calendars, or activity updates
\- Forms – for permissions, feedback, or event sign-ups
\- File sharing – for distributing newsletters, report cards, or resources
\- Search and filters – to help parents find specific information quickly
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – for class schedules, teacher contacts, or assignments
\- Comments or status updates – for ongoing communication between staff and parents
\- Calendar view – for events, meetings, or important deadlines
\- Permissions and roles – so parents, teachers, and staff only see what they need
All features are built using Softr’s drag-and-drop blocks, so you don’t need to write code. If your communication needs change, you can easily update the hub at any time.
No coding is required. You can build your parent communication hub entirely using Softr’s visual editor. Everything from layout to user permissions can be customized without writing a single line of code.
Yes. You can manage multiple families or classrooms within a single parent communication hub. Each parent or guardian only sees the information and updates relevant to their child or class, based on their login and permissions. This is especially helpful for schools, daycare centers, or programs that work with multiple families or groups.
Softr supports a wide range of data sources. You can connect your parent communication hub to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. You can also bring in data from other platforms using the REST API.
You’re not limited to just one. You can integrate multiple data sources into the same hub and display them together—for example, sharing updates from both Google Sheets and Airtable. Most data sources support real-time, two-way sync, ensuring everything stays up to date automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how parents, guardians, and staff interact with your parent communication hub. You can tailor the layout, navigation, and content to fit your school or program’s needs. Each page or section can be shown or hidden based on who’s logged in, so each family only sees what’s relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, like parent, teacher, or administrator—and decide exactly what each role is allowed to view or change. For instance, parents can see updates and messages about their own child, while staff members can manage communication and records for all families. You can even create personalized experiences by filtering content based on the logged-in user.
This flexibility helps keep your hub organized, secure, and tailored for every family and staff member.
Yes, absolutely. You don’t need to have existing data in another system to get started with Softr. If you’re starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates seamlessly with your parent communication hub.
If you already have data in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, you can connect those as well. There’s also a REST API connector for bringing in data from other sources. No matter where you start, you have full control over how your information is organized and displayed for parents and staff.
Yes, you can fully white-label your parent communication hub in Softr. You can use your school or organization’s logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain to make the hub feel like a natural extension of your community. You can also remove all Softr branding, so parents only see your school or organization’s identity throughout their experience.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your parent communication hub. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page structure to align with your school or organization’s brand. You can also choose how each page is laid out, decide which blocks go where, and set what different users—like parents, teachers, or administrators—see when they log in.
To display your information, you can add different types of blocks depending on your needs:
\- Table blocks: to show structured data like event calendars, announcements, or student schedules
\- List or Card blocks: to highlight things like staff directories, resources, or news updates
\- Detail View: to show specific records, like a student profile or individual announcement
\- Forms: for collecting feedback or permission slips
\- Charts: to show attendance trends or survey results
\- Calendar blocks: to display upcoming school events or deadlines
If your content or design needs change later, it’s easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your parent communication hub is hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr apps also give you full control over who can see and do what in your hub. You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect sensitive information across your entire hub.
For hubs connected to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr doesn’t store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You’re always in control of your data and who can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep your information safe.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one parent communication hub with up to 10 users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your hub needs more users or features, you can explore Softr’s paid plans for additional capabilities: <https://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is built to make it easy to create fully functional, user-facing apps—like parent communication hubs, resource centers, and internal school tools—without needing to write code or rely on developers. What sets it apart is how quickly you can go from idea to working hub, and how well it connects with your existing data.
Unlike some no-code tools that focus on mobile apps or are more developer-oriented, Softr is designed for non-technical teams who want full control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build on top of real-time data from tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded hubs that parents, teachers, or staff can log into.
You can customize everything visually—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes things like user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to patch together multiple tools to launch something polished.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations so you can connect your parent communication hub to the rest of your tools. You can sync with platforms like Google Calendar for events, send notifications with Slack or email, and automate tasks using Zapier, Make, and N8N. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced workflows.
Whether you need to send updates to parents, trigger automations based on form submissions, or display information from other systems, you can build it into your hub, all without writing code.