How do EZReports, EZChildTrack, and Attendly compare?
A California-first comparison for K-12 districts, charter schools, and county offices.
ASES, ELO-P, and Attendance Recovery have compliance requirements that national after-school platforms struggle to meet. This page is the operational comparison California program directors, business officials, and superintendents have surfaced when evaluating EZReports and EZChildTrack against Attendly.
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The core difference
EZReports and EZChildTrack treat California as a translation layer on top of a federal 21st CCLC product. Attendly treats California as the product.
Feature comparison
Three states across every row: supported, partial or manual, or not supported.
| Feature | EZReports | EZChildTrack | Attendly |
|---|---|---|---|
| California compliance | |||
| Built for California regulation, not adapted from a federal product ASES, ELO-P, LEAP, STAS, ASSIST, ADA P1/P2 as first-class entities | |||
| Auto-generated LEAP, STAS, and ASSIST reports No manual reconciliation across enrollment, attendance, and state files | |||
| CALPADS ELO-P upload file generated for the district CDE has not opened direct write-back for any vendor today | |||
| ADA P1 / P2 apportionment automation | |||
| Attendance Recovery module Recoverable-days roster, hour banking, in-app teacher attestation | |||
| CITE-approved Data Privacy Agreement | |||
| Federal 21st CCLC compliance reporting For California districts that also use federal 21CCLC funds | |||
| SIS integration | |||
| Native Aeries, PowerSchool, and Synergy integration API-level connection, not file drops | |||
| Nightly sync of roster, demographics, and eligibility flags FRPM, Foster, Homeless, custody, medical, and allergy flags stay current | |||
| Logged audit trail for sync failures | |||
| Parent experience | |||
| Registration without account creation Six clicks and a signature, no password to forget | |||
| SIS-prefilled multi-sibling registration in one flow | |||
| Ineligible programs grayed out with the reason at registration | |||
| Human-translated parent UI Not Google Translate output | |||
| Parents email vendor support directly District staff stop fielding password resets and account errors | |||
| Operations and analytics | |||
| Live attendance snapshot across all sites | |||
| Grade-band capacity and waitlist logic Cap TK-K without closing the whole program | |||
| Overdue-checkout and staffing audit reports | |||
| Full activity log with 30-day filter | |||
| Custom report builds included during the partnership | |||
| Support and pricing | |||
| Named support team that knows your district configuration | |||
| Daytime support coverage (M–F, Sat on demand) Not ticket-only, not night-shift tech | |||
| Per-student pricing, no mid-cycle hikes, honor system on counts | |||
| County consortium pricing | |||
Three places the gap matters most
For ASES and ELO-P operators, these are the workflows that decide whether a platform is doing real work or just storing data.
Attendance Recovery
EZReports and EZChildTrack have no Attendance Recovery workflow. Districts that want to run AR build their own spreadsheets, do the apportionment math by hand, and chase wet-signature teacher attestations on paper. Most do not run AR at all because the operational lift is too high.
How Attendly handles it
- Pulls absence data and applies district-specific absence codes to define recoverable days
- Filterable roster: remaining days, days recovered, grade, site
- Hour banking from July 1 with forecasted dollar recovery on the dashboard
- Credentialed-teacher attestation captured in-app with a digital signature
- Districts have recovered tens of thousands of dollars in the first six weeks of running AR through Attendly
State reporting
EZReports added a LEAP file export recently and it is still manual. STAS, ASSIST, and ASES participation require reconciliation between EZReports enrollment data and state reports. CALPADS ELO-P participation has to be re-keyed into the SIS. Districts spend many hours every quarter on reporting that should be automatic.
How Attendly handles it
- Auto-generates LEAP, STAS, ASSIST, ADA P1 and P2 apportionment, and semi-annual reports
- Each report explains what is in scope so the district can audit rather than rebuild
- CALPADS upload-ready file generated in the meantime while CDE keeps direct write-back closed to every vendor
- Attendly is actively lobbying CDE to open the CALPADS direct-write interface
Parent registration
On TKSA products, parents fill out a registration form and create an account. Account-creation and login failures are constant. A single missed configuration breaks registration the night it opens. Some districts have given up on digital registration entirely and reverted to paper.
How Attendly handles it
- No form to fill out — six clicks and a signature
- Data flows from the SIS, so parents never re-type information that already exists
- One parent can register multiple siblings in a single flow
- Ineligible programs are grayed out with a plain-language reason
- Acknowledgments, signatures, and human-translated text are stored for audit
- Parents email Attendly support directly — district staff stay out of the loop
Questions districts ask during evaluation
Where Attendly is still building, and how we talk about it up front.
Does Attendly write directly to CALPADS?
Not today — and no vendor can. CDE has not opened a direct-write interface to CALPADS for ELO-P participation. Attendly generates the upload-ready file so your team can submit in minutes instead of hours, and is actively lobbying CDE to open the interface.
Does Attendly write back to our SIS?
Technically yes, and we have been careful about turning it on. No district has pushed write-back into production yet because the SIS must remain the source of truth. We are scoping the workflow with current customers so the safeguards are right before we roll it broadly.
What can parents see in the parent portal today?
Registration, sibling enrollment, signatures, and acknowledgments. Full attendance and pickup visibility for parents is on the H2 2026 roadmap. If broader parent-facing visibility is a hard requirement for your district, ask us where it sits on the build queue.
Is there a county office admin tier?
Committed and in build for county consortium customers, not yet shipped. If you are a county office evaluating Attendly for consortium use, we will share the current build state and timeline in your demo.
Is there a native iOS or Android app?
No native app today. The web product is fully mobile and tablet optimized, and parents and staff use it on phones and iPads every day. If a native app is a procurement requirement, tell us early.
See Attendly run on your district's data
Bring your roster, your absence codes, and one program's worth of registrations. We'll show you ASES, ELO-P, LEAP, and Attendance Recovery running against real California rules — not a generic demo built for another state.
