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Amilia bills you before your first registration. Famlo bills you after.
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.
Amilia or Famlo, side by side.
Amilia: the highest all-in cost here: a subscription, a percentage on every invoice, card fees, and a four-figure implementation charge before you start.
Amilia SmartRec
Standard
$99/mo
Implementation fee
from $899 on Standard, from $2,999 on Advanced
Amilia service fee
1% on every new invoice item
Chargeback fee
usually $25
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.
You pay before your first registration, and again to refund one.
Amilia's implementation fee starts at $899 on Standard and $2,999 on Advanced, charged up front. A card refund costs the organization $0.30, and a chargeback is usually $25. Famlo charges nothing to set up and nothing to refund.
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 Amilia to Famlo in three steps
Bring your families over in an afternoon, and keep Amilia until this term ends.
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Download your families from Amilia
Export your customer list from Amilia as a spreadsheet. Famlo needs:
- Each family's email
- A role for anyone on your team, if you want one
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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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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 Amilia
Amilia is built for parks and recreation. Is Famlo comparable?
For a homeschool co-op or a class provider, yes — registration, rosters, attendance, dues and payouts. Amilia carries facility booking and municipal features Famlo does not, and charges accordingly.
Does Famlo have an accounting export like Amilia?
Not in an accounting-package format. Famlo exports the ledger, registrations, rosters and attendance as CSV. If your treasurer needs a direct import into accounting software, that is a real gap today.
Where Amilia’s figures come from
Each one is Amilia’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.
Implementation fee
from $899 on Standard, from $2,999 on Advanced
Charged before the first registration.
Source checked 18 July 2026
Amilia service fee
1% on every new invoice item
In addition to card processing.
Source checked 18 July 2026
Refund fee
$0.30 per card refund
The organization pays again in order to refund a family.
Source checked 18 July 2026
Amilia bills the organization rather than the family, but ships a first-class tool for passing the cost on to families.
Source checked 18 July 2026
Keep the tools. Drop the bill.
Set up next term on Famlo while this one finishes on Amilia. No credit card, no setup fee, no demo call.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
Amilia’s plans, prices and features are from its own website and help center, linked above with the date each was checked. Amilia SmartRec is a trademark of its owner; Famlo is not affiliated with or endorsed by it, nor by Step Up For Students.