Befundo for parents

Befundo asks one thing at sign-up: adult or child. Choose adult. The same account can enrol you in classes, manage your children, and run a business later if you ever want to — nothing needs separating.

From your dashboard. Each child gets a name, a date of birth and optionally a photo, grade and interests. The date of birth matters: it decides which classes suit them and whether they can have a login.

Your address is used to sort classes by distance. Nothing about your children is public.

Classesfilters by category, age, format — in person, online or hybrid — and distance. Online classes never appear on the map, and they aren't dropped from a distance search either, since where they are doesn't matter.

The schedule, the price and how payment works, the age range, what the course covers, and who teaches it. Many providers publish an instructor page and a landing page for the business itself.

Only families who actually attended can review a business or an instructor, so what you're reading is from people who were there.

Choose which child — or yourself. If the class has a capacity or a registration deadline, the listing says so and closes when it's reached. A provider can also invite you by email if you arranged it directly.

Ask Befundo in the bottom-right corner answers questions about your own classes in plain words — “what's on this week?”, “which classes is she in?” It sees your family and nobody else's, it's free, and it can be wrong, so check anything you'd act on. See the Ask Befundo guide.

At the top of your dashboard: everything coming up across your own classes and all of your children's — classes, events, live sessions and anything due. “This week” runs Monday to Sunday and shows tomorrow onwards, so it never repeats what's already under Today.

Every class, colour-coded by whose it is — you, each child by name, and anything you teach. Two siblings in the same class show as two entries, because they're two people attending.

Their classes, their friends and their messages, in one place. From there you can open any class board they're in.

Ask questions, read announcements and reply. The instructor may limit who can start a topic. You'll see the roster — first names and photos, never other families' email addresses.

Each time the class meets gets its own page: what was covered, the material and homework for that day, and your own child's attendance. View all gives you the full history — useful for catching up after a missed week.

Assignments, forms and permission slips show what's due and which of your children still owes an answer. You answer for each child separately.

Online classes have a Join button on the class page and the meeting page. It opens 15 minutes before the start, and as soon as the instructor presses Start you'll see “Live now”. You can copy the link ahead of time from the meeting page.

Some providers turn on AI recaps, which turn the audio and chat into a written summary. You agree separately for each child, and until you do they can't join. No audio or video is kept, and the instructor reviews the summary before you see it. You can withdraw at any time.

You can still add an email address to their profile — for a school account, say — but it won't give them a login. They appear in classes, on the roster and on your calendar through you.

Edit the child, add their email and switch on Allow their own login. They get an invitation to set a password. Until they accept, nothing changes.

You can withdraw the login at any time, which locks them out immediately without deleting anything. You keep seeing their classes either way.

Someone under 13 who signs up alone is told they need a parent, and can't go further until an adult adds them.

Messaging is limited to people connected through a class or an accepted friend request, with daily limits on new conversations. You can see and moderate your child's conversations.

Anything on a class board or in a message can be reported. Class instructors can hide a message; hiding leaves a visible trace and can be undone, and only the author can truly delete their own words.

You pay the provider however you already do. Befundo doesn't take payments, doesn't hold your card, and won't chase you for money — it isn't party to the arrangement and can't verify it. Any payment reminders come from the provider.

Account → Notifications controls what reaches your bell: class activity, messages, schedule changes and when a live session starts. Reminders 30 minutes before a class are off unless you turn them on.