Two-minute tour
A parent's view, the fundraiser, checkout, and the board's side — roster, announcements, volunteers and the treasurer's books. Real product, a sample school. No call required.
Easier to forward? The same tour is on YouTube.
Already have a tool this year?
Nothing has to move at once. Boards start with announcements only, keep everything else they're using, and bring signups and money over when each old tool's term ends. Ninety seconds.
Also on YouTube, if that's easier to forward to the board.
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Setup, step one: your school
It's September. You have a tool, a spreadsheet, a Venmo, and no time. Here's how boards switch to Homeroom without a project: nothing has to move at once. Setup is four short screens. First, your school and what your PTO is called.
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Step two: your year and your colors
Then your school year — the dates are guessed for you — and your colors. Paste your current website and it reads the palette and logo off it, or pick a pair. Continue.
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Step three: you
Last screen: your name and your email. No card, no contract. That is the whole setup, and it took about two minutes.
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Bring the roster, or don't
The roster can be a paste from any spreadsheet — choose the file, the columns map themselves, and importing twice never duplicates. Or skip it entirely: the join link lets families add themselves, and the roster builds as they arrive.
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Day one: announcements only
Day one, use it for one thing: announcements. Write it once, pick who gets it, send. Families open one link with no account and no app. Everything else you use this year keeps working exactly as it did.
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What a family sees
This is what a family sees from that first email. This week, what needs them, and their own kids' rooms. Nothing to install, nothing to remember.
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Week two: signups, when the old sheet ends
Week two, when the current volunteer sheet runs out, publish the next one here. Same no-login links, with waitlists. The old tool just stops being needed.
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Money when you're ready
Money moves whenever you're ready and never before: dues at the next drive, the fun run in the spring. When it does, the books fill themselves in. Until then, this is simply your communication tool — free.
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Free, and nothing to undo
No subscription, no contract, no migration. If it isn't for you, you've lost an afternoon. Start at ptohomeroom.com.
Most boards decide together. Leave your email and we'll send a short, forwardable intro — what Homeroom does, what it costs (nothing), and how a switch actually goes. One email, no drip campaign.
