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Phone systems for childcare and early learning.

The director is usually the one answering — and she is also on ratios. Hosted-X rings the office and the people who can pick up, keeps sleep rooms quiet, and puts the director on the mobile in the room or the car park. Parents who already attend get through. New enrolments do not die on voicemail.

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Parents who already attend

The floor stays with the children.
The phone still gets answered.

Nobody has to leave a room to answer a call. The system rings the people who can pick up, and catches the calls they can't.

Ring groups and a queue

The office and the nominated rooms ring together. If everyone is busy the caller hears: “We’re with the children — we’ll be right with you.”

Director on the mobile app

The centre number on her phone. On the floor, mid nappy change, or in the car park at pickup.

Silent ring in selected areas

Sleep rooms do not ring. The office still does. Do-not-disturb per handset, on a timer.

Clock-based routing

The 6:30am “are you open in this weather?” flood, drop-off, the sleep window, pickup, after hours. Each gets its own ring plan.

Late-pickup line

After close, the centre number rings the nominated mobiles only. Not the whole floor.

Missed-call SMS they can reply to

“Sorry we missed you. Reply here or we’ll call back.” Never dead air on a sick-child or late-pickup call.

Voicemail-to-text

A voicemail arrives as a text with the person who should see it — not in a box nobody checks.

Page between rooms

An educator presses one button to reach the office or the next room. Nobody leaves children to walk down the hall.

New enrolments

A missed enquiry call
is a lost place.

An enquiry that rings out goes to the centre down the road. Aria makes sure it doesn't.

Enquiry or enrolled family?

When the centre runs two queues or two numbers on the same system — one for families, one for enquiries — Aria knows which is which and handles the enquiry line without touching the family line.

What Aria collects on an enquiry

Child's age. Preferred start. Days needed. Parent name and number. Then a follow-up note to the director so a tour gets booked while the family is still keen.

After hours

Hours, fees and the waitlist, on the script the centre approves. Aria offers a tour time instead of “leave a message”.

Aria · The note-taker, not the decision-maker

The calls you are
expected to remember.

Absence. A different person collecting today. Medication phoned through. An incident follow-up. An allergy update. Centres take these calls all day and are expected to remember every one.

Aria can transcribe the call and summarise it: who called, which child, what was said, what action is needed. The note is emailed or copied to the room lead. Recorded in Australia, under your consent process.

Paper that still arrives · Groups

Action plans still
come by fax.

X-Fax for the centre inbox

Immunisation history, asthma and anaphylaxis action plans, paediatric letters. Some practices still only fax, and GPs fax centres more than you'd think. X-Fax lands them in the centre inbox — searchable, on Australian servers, no machine in the office.

More than one centre

One number per centre, all on the same platform. Each keeps its own greeting, rooms and late-pickup roster. Head office can take overflow enquiry calls when a centre is flat out. One platform, one bill.

Straight answer

The app does the day sheet.
We do the phone.

Xplor, OWNA, Kidsoft and QikKids already do photos, meals, sign-in and the parent feed. Pear does not replace them.

Integration with your management software when it can send or receive a message — we do not claim a named hook-up we do not have.

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What are you looking for?

A person in Australia replies the same business day. Your information stays with Pear. We don't share, sell, or spam — ever.

Questions centres ask.

Can sleep rooms stay silent while the office rings?
Yes. Hosted-X rings the handsets you choose, not every handset. During the sleep window the nursery and toddler rooms are set to silent. The office and the director still ring. An educator can still dial out from the room. Change the window in the portal when the routine changes.
What happens if a parent calls about a sick child and we are all on the floor?
The call rings the office and the nominated rooms, then the director's mobile app. If nobody can pick up in time, the parent hears a short message and gets an SMS straight away: sorry we missed you, reply here or we'll call back. They can reply by text, and the missed call and any voicemail land as a text with the person who should see it. Nobody is left on dead air.
Can Aria book a tour after hours?
Aria can offer tour times and take the booking details from the script your centre approves — child's age, preferred start, days needed, parent name and number — then send the note to the director for confirmation. Aria works from your script only; if a caller asks something outside it, she takes a message for a person.
Do we still need Xplor / OWNA?
Yes. Your childcare management software does the day sheet, sign-in, photos, meals and the parent feed. Pear does not replace any of that. Hosted-X does the phone: who rings, who answers, the SMS from your centre number, and the after-hours routing. Where your software can send or receive a message, it can work alongside Pear.
Several centres on one account?
Yes. Each centre keeps its own number, greeting, rooms and late-pickup roster on the same platform. Head office can take overflow enquiry calls when a centre is flat out. One platform, one bill.
Do we need new handsets?
Not necessarily. Compatible existing handsets can be reused. New Yealink handsets start from $285 to buy, or can be rented. A room that only needs to call out or page the office can use the mobile app on a centre tablet instead of a desk phone. We confirm what you have on the onboarding call.

Talk to a person in Australia.

Tell us how many rooms, how many centres and what pickup looks like. A person in Australia calls you the same business day. Or call 1300 007 327.

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