Hughes Technology productIndoor play places & kids’ venuesEnrolling founding venues

Jumpstead

One screen for the whole front desk of an indoor play place.

Admissions priced by age, visit timers that run themselves, waivers, memberships, parties, and a care profile for every child, on the iPad at the counter. Built from the counter of a busy Saturday outward.

Jumpstead indoor play place software showing the iPad front counter with a family, care alert, and cart
Design target: door to play for a new family
< 2 min
Design target: door to play for a new family
Fees added to parents’ bills, ever
$0
Fees added to parents’ bills, ever
Waivers, staff logins, and counter devices
Unlimited
Waivers, staff logins, and counter devices
Child care profiles, every view logged
Encrypted
Child care profiles, every view logged

The challenge

Most soft play centers, play cafés, and trampoline parks run on a stitched-together stack of tools built for gyms, tours, or classes: a booking site, a waiver app, a till for coffee, and a booking fee their parents notice.

It holds up until Saturday at 10am. Families re-sign waivers the counter cannot find, visit timers live on a whiteboard, overstays go uncharged, and the one staff member who knows about a child’s peanut allergy is on break.

What we built

We designed Jumpstead around a single bar: a brand-new family of three from the door to the ball pit in under two minutes. Find or add the family, tap what they want, and admissions price themselves by each child’s age. A missing waiver opens signing on the iPad instead of an error, and payment starts every child’s visit timer automatically.

Around that counter sits the rest of the business on the same families: memberships with failed-payment follow-up, parties and classes on one calendar, texts and email, loyalty, inventory, reports, and a booking API for the venue’s own website. Every child gets an encrypted care profile, and venues pay one flat subscription with no fees on parents.

Key features

iPad counter and POS

Admissions priced by age, retail, café, deposits, and extensions in one cart, paid on a Stripe card reader, cash, or split.

Visit timers and live floor

Every admission starts a timer; the floor view sorts children by time left, warns at five minutes, flags overstays, and sells extensions in two taps.

Care profiles for every child

Allergies with severity, medical needs, emergency plans, sensory and communication needs, and mobility, encrypted at rest with every staff view logged.

Waivers on the child, not the booking

Sign once on the iPad, a text link, or the venue website; versioned waivers track who needs to re-sign, with unlimited signatures.

Check-in and self-service kiosk

QR keychains, NFC fobs, the iPad camera, or any scanner, with a member self check-in kiosk and a capacity cap.

Memberships that recover failed payments

Recurring plans billed through Stripe; a declined card triggers email and text follow-up with a pay link and a past-due banner at check-in.

Parties, classes, and online booking

Rooms with deposits and guest waiver pages, class series with waitlists and roll call, one calendar with clash detection, and a booking API for the venue’s own site.

Messaging, loyalty, stock, and reports

Automated texts and email, campaigns, points and rewards, inventory with reorder lists, and CSV-exportable reports across multiple locations.

Technology

  • Browser-based iPad app
  • Stripe Terminal (WisePOS E / S700)
  • Stripe Billing & Checkout
  • Encrypted care data
  • SMS & email messaging
  • Public booking API

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