Xplor acquires MyWaitList, deepening commitment to helping childcare centres increase occupancy across Australia
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- Australia’s most innovative early education software powerhouse expands offering for it’s 7,000+ services.
- Acquisition brings powerful new tools to help childcare operators build relationships with prospective families and fill their empty spaces.
MELBOURNE, Australia – 4 May, 2021— Xplor Technologies, a global platform integrating software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions for businesses in Education, Boutique Wellness,Health and Fitness, Field Services, and Personal Services, has today announced it has agreed to acquire Australian childcare wait list and CRM software platform - MyWaitList. The acquisition of MyWaitList will jumpstart Xplor’s efforts to help families and children gain access to education as they manage new ways of working in a post-Covid world. It will also see Xplor accelerate its plans to help childcare services increase their occupancy, boosting the industry average past 75%.
Founded in 2012, MyWaitList was created as a specialised tool to help Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) providers manage enquiries and enrolments more effectively. MyWaitList offers a range of features for operators, including smart lead capture forms, online tour scheduling, email marketing, waitlist automation and deep performance reporting.
The acquisition will see MyWaitList integrated with Xplor’s product suite, including Office, Playground, Home and Space,helping families to seamlessly find and connect with care for their children. Space allows parents to enrol directly to a childcare centre; helping to increase occupancy for centres of all sizes and saving parents valuable time.
“From the beginning, we have always set out to help make education great by removing unnecessary administration for parents,educators and services,'' said Xplor’s CEO of Education, Mark Woodland. “Today’s announcement of the acquisition of MyWaitlist with its powerful features and industry-leading platform, will help us give back more peace of mind to parents, and time to operators - so everyone can just focus on children.”
MyWaitList founder Stuart Rae confirmed, “I’ve always admired Xplor’s relentless commitment to positively changing the early education sector. I couldn’t be more excited by the opportunity to accelerate this positive change by helping to make it simpler and easier for childcare centres to focus on education.”
Available to services (subject to regulatory approval), and coupled with Xplor Space, Office and QikKids, increasing occupancy for childcare centre operators and families will become a whole lot easier.
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About Xplor
Advent International portfolio companies Clearent and TSG have merged to form Xplor Technologies, a global platform integrating software, payments and commerce-enabling solutions to help businesses succeed.
Xplor offers enterprise software solutions for businesses in five fast-growing‘everyday life’ industries: Education, Health and Fitness, Boutique Wellness,Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based processing platform that allows clients to seamlessly and securely process payments for their services.
With operations across North America, Australasia, Europe, and the United Kingdom,Xplor serves over 82,000 businesses that processed over $27 billion in payments, operating across 158 countries in 2020. Xplor Education serves 7,000+childcare service providers in Australia through its Xplor and QikKids brands.
To learn more visit: https://www.xplortechnologies.com/
About MyWaitList
MyWaitlist provides a sales and marketing software solution to Early Childhood and Education providers across Australia, from large national operators to local community services. Our software helps turn website visitors into leads and leads into enrolments. The software is simple to use and automates many manual tasks, allowing our customers to focus on delivering outstanding quality care and education.
To learn more visit: https://mywaitlist.com.au/
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