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Stop paying ActivityHero for clicks that never became a registration.
Everything you run your classes on, on Famlo's free plan. Built for homeschool co-ops, classes and microschools.
With Famlo, you can:
Yes Fill your classes with homeschool families nearby, and see what they want that nobody offers yet Yes Run registration, waivers, the roster and the door in one place Yes Get paid by card or by Step Up, and keep your full priceNo card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
ActivityHero or Famlo, side by side.
ActivityHero: three products on three price books. Demand is priced at 15%; the software is priced at 1.7%.
ActivityHero
Directory listing
free
Service fee paid by the family
$0.99 per registration of $20 or more
Famlo
To list and to run
$0
Paid by the family when they book, unless you cover it
3.7% + $1.79 a ticket
On scholarship money
nothing
Famlo: those tools in one place, on a free plan
You’re ready for Famlo if any of these sound like you
You collect the same allergy form on paper, every term
It is on the child once. Every later registration brings it with them.
A teacher needs the register, not the payouts page
Six roles. A teacher gets their own classes and register, and nothing about the money.
Half of them have registered and you cannot say how many have paid
A card registration is paid when it is made, and a payment plan collects itself on schedule.
Scholarship invoices are a spreadsheet and a calendar reminder
On the Scholarship plan Famlo raises them at checkout, one per child, and chases the unpaid ones.
Who is allowed to collect a child lives in a text thread
Authorized pickup sits on the child's record, with allergies and an emergency contact.
Take the register on the door, from the parent's own phone.
Attendance is per meeting, not per term. Parents check themselves in from a QR code, you get a nudge when a register has not been taken, and families nearby are told when you post something new.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
A child's allergy is not a spreadsheet column.
Allergies, medications, special needs, an emergency contact and who is allowed to collect the child sit on the child's own record — shown to the people running that activity and nobody else. Every look at one is logged.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
On the Starter plan you pay for clicks, not customers.
ActivityHero's Starter plan is $49 a month capped at 150 "engagements", then $0.35 for each one beyond that — and an engagement is a click to view your listing, not a registration. You carry the cost of traffic that did not convert.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
The complete homeschool platform
Everything a co-op, class or microschool runs on, and everything the families on the other side see.
famlo.co · Find
Riverbend Co-op · Local insights
famlo.co · Creek Day
Riverbend Co-op · Console
Riverbend Co-op · Check-in
Riverbend Co-op · Messages
Riverbend Co-op · Money
Riverbend Co-op · Scholarships
Your family · Records
Riverbend Co-op · Testimonials
“Ivy came home from science lab every Thursday with something new to show us. Lena makes it feel like a real lab.”
June Marsh · Science lab, fall term
“Registration took two minutes, and I never had to retype the allergy list. That alone sold me.”
Maria Reyes · Membership, 60 days in
A platform that moves as fast as your group
757 updates shipped since Famlo was rebuilt on July 18, 2026. About 60 a week.
Merged pull requests to Famlo's web and app codebases, with dependency and version bumps left out. Milestones are the dates each feature first shipped. Counted October 14, 2026.
Upgrade from ActivityHero to Famlo in three steps
Bring your families over in an afternoon, and keep ActivityHero until this term ends.
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1
Download your families from ActivityHero
Export your customer list from ActivityHero as a spreadsheet. Famlo needs:
- Each family's email
- A role for anyone on your team, if you want one
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2
Invite them in one go
Upload the file under People. Families already on Famlo join your group; everyone else gets an email to sign up and add their children once.
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3
Publish next term
List your classes free. They go on the map and your public page, and you send families one link. Stuck on a step? famlo.co/support opens a ticket with the team.
Questions about switching from ActivityHero
ActivityHero's software is only 1.7%. What does Famlo charge?
Your group pays nothing on Famlo's free plan. Families pay a booking fee when they book a paid class, or you cover it. SuperHero is $99 a year plus 1.7% for checkout on your own site, and the 15% plan is the one that brings you families; on Famlo, a family who finds you on the map pays the same as one who came from your own link.
Will Famlo list us in a directory like ActivityHero?
Yes, and at no extra cost — listing is free and families find you by searching location and category. There is no paid placement tier.
Where ActivityHero’s figures come from
Each one is ActivityHero’s own published number or wording, linked to the page it came from. Our build fails if any of them goes six months without being checked again.
Starter
$49/mo
Capped at 150 "engagements" a month, then $0.35 per engagement. An engagement is a click to view your listing, not a booking — so the meter runs on traffic you did not convert.
Source checked 18 July 2026
MarketingHero
$0/mo plus 15%
15% on paid registrations that originate on ActivityHero.com, plus card processing.
Source checked 18 July 2026
SuperHero registration software
$99/yr plus 1.7%
Charged on checkouts on the provider's own site. SuperHero Plus is $299/yr at the same rate.
Source checked 18 July 2026
Service fee paid by the family
$0.99 per registration of $20 or more
ActivityHero's own wording: "The purchaser pays the service fee." Effective 21 August 2024.
Source checked 18 July 2026
The Starter plan bills for clicks rather than customers: $0.35 per view of your listing beyond 150 a month, whether or not anyone registers.
Source checked 18 July 2026
Keep the tools. Drop the bill.
Set up next term on Famlo while this one finishes on ActivityHero. No credit card, no setup fee, no demo call.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
ActivityHero’s plans, prices and features are from its own website and help center, linked above with the date each was checked. ActivityHero is a trademark of its owner; Famlo is not affiliated with or endorsed by it, nor by Step Up For Students.