Guide
Kindergarten is a school year here.
If a child care product leads with the word kindergarten in the United States, it is often a translation. Families and licensors hear a different building.
The words, used the way directors use them
Child care and daycare cover infants through school-age, in a center or a home, for the day a parent is at work. Preschool usually means a program for three- and four-year-olds, sometimes part day. Pre-K often means the year before kindergarten, sometimes inside a public school and sometimes inside a child care center that holds a grant.
Kindergarten, in ordinary American speech, is the grade at about age five, run by a school district. A 'kindergarten app' search in the US is a mix of people looking for that grade and people translating from a language where the same word means the whole early childhood center.
What Honeyfold is for
Honeyfold is for the child care day: ratios, attendance, pickup, meals, family notes, and the licensing file. That includes preschool classrooms inside a center. It includes care before and after the bell for children who are already in school. It is not a student-information system for a school district's kindergarten grade.
School-age rooms have their own ratios and their own late-bus problem. They still need to know who may pick the child up. A district grade book will not do that job, and a preschool daily sheet will not do the district's job.
If you run a preschool, start with preschool software. If you run the day around public school, read school-age care.