Find co‑ops, classes and field trips near you.

Drag the map. That is the whole search.

• Only what the map is showing — no page two, no stale list
• Nothing close by? Pull out to 25, 50, 100 miles
• The same search on a phone, one thumb

Eleven filters, so nobody has to ask the awkward questions.

• Free only, or takes Step Up — say it up front
• Sensory‑friendly, neurodiversity‑friendly, wheelchair accessible, without emailing to ask
• Preschool through high school, so you stop scrolling past other people’s ages

For the night you google “homeschool near me” and get ads.

• A page for your state, your city and the kind of thing you want
• Nothing behind a login. Nothing behind a Facebook group
• Four sitemaps, so Google finds it before the ads do

One link that answers everything before anyone messages you.

• Schedule, teachers and photos, each on its own page
• A handle you can paste into a comment: famlo.co/@yourgroup
• Families who sign up get your dates in the calendar they already check

They hear from you without you posting into the void.

• An email the moment you publish something public
• Members‑only and unlisted never go out to followers
• Turn the emails off and stay following — nobody unfollows for peace

For the family who has not found anyone yet.

• An email address is the whole commitment — no account, no app
• Something opens nearby, they hear that day
• One link in the footer ends it

Your group is probably already on here.

• Claim it and it is yours to edit — you are not starting from nothing
• Staff check it, and the badge says so
• Until someone claims it, families can only follow it, not join

Set it up the way families will look for it.

• Tagged by category, so search puts it in front of the right families
• In person, online, or both
• Public, members only, or a link you hand out yourself

Set the Tuesday once. It keeps being Tuesday.

• Weekly, every other week, or monthly
• Rolled forward at 2am — nothing drops off the calendar in March
• Capped at 60, so a far‑off end date cannot run away with your listings

Where the semester lives, so it is not only in your head.

• Week by week, or in up to eight stages
• Week numbers and dates generate themselves
• Families read it before they commit their Tuesday

Names on the day, so it is not all on the coordinator.

• Assign who is teaching each session
• A teachers page, so families know who they are handing a child to
• Per session, so a substitute is one change, not a rewrite

Two kids, three groups, one week.

• Everything they are signed up for, wherever it is
• Week view or a plain list, whichever they read
• Opens on this week, not on whatever month you left it on

It lands in the calendar they already check.

• The family’s feed: everything they are booked into
• Yours: everything you run or teach, across every group
• Subscribe once — a time change updates itself, nothing to re‑download

The seat count is the waitlist. There is no second list.

• A seat frees up and everyone who saved it hears at once
• First to register takes it — no queue to argue about
• Nearly full gets its own nudge, before it is gone

Ask it at sign‑up, not at pickup.

• Five kinds of question, including how the child is registered
• Your terms, accepted before they are in
• Answers ride on the roster — you are not cross‑referencing a form

Three kids, one order, one price they can actually see.

• Several children in one go, not one form each
• The real total before they pay — and never a separate booking fee
• Discounts split across the right children, so a refund is never a fight

Charge the way your group actually charges.

• Five shapes: one‑off, a semester block, instalments, recurring, or a punch‑pack
• Per student or per family
• Second‑child rates that work themselves out

Stop doing the maths in the group chat.

• Hand out a code instead of a promise to sort it out later
• A cancelled session becomes credit that spends itself next time
• Everyone sees their own price before paying, so nobody asks you to check

Off‑platform money, on the record.

• Seven ways to record it: cash, check, transfer, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, other
• The money never passes through Famlo — nothing is routed through us
• Whoever keeps the books sees who has paid without asking anyone

A clean invoice the parent can hand in. That is the part we can fix.

• Invoices issued on the 1st, for the month that just ended
• A reminder every Monday while one sits unpaid
• Or run your own fund and award it yourself

Dues that renew without a reminder from you.

• Monthly or yearly
• The family fixes their own card
• Famlo chases the failed payment, not you

Your Stripe account. Your refund rule. No conversation.

• Money lands in your own Stripe account
• Set the refund rule once; it applies itself at cancellation
• Full refund up to 24 hours out by default, and you can change it

“Count us in” is not a head count.

• Present, absent, late or excused, per child
• A nudge in the app if nobody has taken it yet
• It becomes the child’s record that night — you never touch it again

Tape a code to the door and put the clipboard down.

• The parent scans and signs their own children in
• They only ever see their own family
• The roster updates while you are still saying hello

Who brought them, who took them, and when.

• Both ends recorded, with the name of whoever checked them in and out
• Who signed them out is on the record, not left to memory
• Named adults per child, held encrypted

One list, with the answers already on it.

• Everyone coming, with what they told you at sign‑up
• Export it when you need paper
• Export it to CSV when you need it on paper

Hidden until the moment somebody needs it.

• Notes, medications, dietary needs and special needs, encrypted at rest
• Nobody sees them by default — you reveal, then re‑lock
• Hidden again after a short while, on its own

One sibling yes, the other no. Both answers stick.

• Answered per child, by the parent
• Three answers — yes, no, and not asked yet
• Visible to whoever is holding the camera

Remove a child and the health data goes with them.

• Sensitive fields are purged once the restore window passes
• Nightly, not when somebody remembers
• Purged 30 days after removal, without anyone remembering to

Everyone in your group, in a list that stays current.

• Profiles and a short bio, up to 400 characters
• Members only — it is not a public list of families
• Six roles on the same list, so staff are not a separate spreadsheet

Hand over the money job without handing over your password.

• Owner, co‑leader, event manager, member manager, billing manager, member
• Each one opens only what that job needs
• The billing manager sees the money and nothing else

Approve, deny, or let it lapse. All three are fine.

• Five states, and a reason recorded when you say no
• Untouched requests expire after 30 days, so the queue is never a guilt pile
• Someone declined can try again after a week, up to three times

Three questions, answered before anyone is in the building.

• Up to three of your own questions
• Answered on the way in, kept on the member record
• 200 characters each, so they stay questions and not a form

Last year’s families, in one paste.

• A CSV up to 500 rows
• Resend to whoever has not opened it
• Revoke one that went to the wrong address

One channel of record.

• Every conversation in one place, with a lens per hat you wear
• Archive, mute, mark all read — it behaves like an inbox
• A digest at 8am for anything you missed

Tell the right 38 people, not the whole town.

• Five audiences: registrants, interested, members, all registrants, everyone
• It arrives as an email and a notification, not a post they scroll past
• It goes only to the audience you pick, never the whole town

Write the directions once.

• Up to 30 saved replies, 2,000 characters each
• Merge fields fill in the parent’s name, the class and the date
• Edit it before it sends, every time

The list is yours, and it can leave whenever you want.

• Export it as a CSV any time
• Or push it straight into Wix, every hour
• Only verified, joinable groups build one at all

You did nothing, and the family got a transcript.

• Built at 3am from the attendance you already took
• A paid booking counts too, so a family gets a record even if nobody opened the check‑in screen
• A thirty‑week co‑op is one line, not thirty

Hours per subject, for the year your state actually uses.

• Ten subjects a registrar recognises
• A parent can add what happened at home, beside what Famlo saw
• A credit suggested at 150 hours, and overridable because states differ

The documents somebody else is going to want to see.

• A printable diploma, and a certificate per course
• A verification letter and a school profile for applications
• Built from the record, not typed into a template

A card a museum desk can actually check.

• Student cards and educator cards
• A public link that confirms it without exposing the record
• Reissue or revoke it if it is lost

One click confirms the whole class.

• Hours and a mark for everyone at once
• Marked instructor‑confirmed, which carries more weight than system‑attested
• Your own policy, or per person

What the scholarship went on, per child, on one page.

• Every class the award paid for, itemised
• Per child, because the awards are per child
• Five award states, so “offered” looks different from “used”

Fifty‑one states and territories, six tiers, no guessing.

• Every state and DC, sorted into six funding tiers
• Every state programme named, plus three federal ones
• Eight kinds: ESA, voucher, tax credit, tax subtraction, charter, correspondence, scholarship, proposed

What your state requires, in plain English.

• Compulsory ages, notice and testing, state by state
• Filing letters ready in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and Texas
• Emailed to you as a filled‑in draft