About
We were the people carrying the camera before we were the people writing the software
Preschool Gallery is built and operated by Stanley Studios. The company ran the studio side of school photography first — booking family sittings, sending crews into buildings, and working against lists full of children whose details were not ours to be casual with. Starting there is why this product is shaped the way it is.
Why an early-childhood centre gets its own address
Because you are not a small school, and being treated as one is most of what is wrong with the software you have been offered.
You do not have a district above you making the photo-release decision. Your instrument is your own enrolment agreement, which the family signed with you and can renegotiate with you. Your enrolment is rolling rather than annual, so there is no single week in October when everything happens. And the person who decides about photographs is usually the same person who does the invoicing, writes the newsletter and covers the two o’clock room when somebody calls in sick.
A product page written for a principal with a district procurement office behind them is not written for you. This one is.
What is working, what is early, what is off
Software marketing has a habit of describing planned work in the present tense and letting the reader sort it out. Here is the whole picture in one place, and every other part of this site is written to agree with it.
| What you would want to do | Where it stands | What that means exactly |
|---|---|---|
| Hold your pictures against your own room list | Working | A picture is attached to a child, not to a filename |
| Show each family their own child | Working | Resolved when they ask; no shared album address exists |
| Keep children off the open web | Working | Applied before any permission is consulted, with no override |
| Let families order prints | Early access | Live payment is not turned on; no checkout exists anywhere |
| Sort pictures by recognising faces | Off unless a parent turns it on | We advise against offering it at this age at all |
| Prove a stored face template was destroyed | Not finished | The cleanup raises an alarm rather than pretending; see what we can show |
There are no adoption figures on this site, no customer names and no testimonials. A product at this stage that displays those has usually manufactured them. The table above is what we have instead.
Things we will not do
We will not put a child from your rooms on the public internet. Not with a signed form, not for a good cause, not as a favour. There is no version of this product where that happens.
We will not sell your pictures or hand them to anybody as material to train something on. They sit in your own area of the system and they are yours to take away.
We will not tell you that you are compliant. We describe what the system does and refuses to do. The legal conclusion belongs to you and your adviser, and a vendor who offers you that conclusion in a brochure has told you something useful about the vendor.
We will not claim the part we have not proved. The face-template destruction chain is not demonstrated end to end and it says so on this site, in the same size type as everything else.
How this fits with the rest of it
Is this a separate product we would buy on its own?
No. It is one part of a platform schools and centres run on, with its own front door because early-childhood centres have their own problem and deserve to be spoken to directly rather than through a page written for a high school. The platform itself is at homeroom.software.
What happens when a child moves up to school?
They leave your centre and their record leaves with them, in the sense that your obligations to it end according to your own retention decisions. Their new school starts fresh. There is a sibling site for that band at elementaryschool.gallery, and it is a different site rather than this one with a word changed, because a principal with a district behind them is a different reader.
Can we keep our own photographer?
Yes, and most centres should. This is the centre’s side of the arrangement: the list the sitting runs against, the match back to each child, and what happens to the pictures afterwards. Who stands behind the camera is a separate decision and a centre that likes its photographer has no reason to change one to fix the other.
What does it cost?
The platform is free to the centre. There is no per-child fee and no seat licence for holding your own pictures, so nothing about your own photographs sits behind a payment. The intended income is the family store, which is early access with live payment not turned on — so today the honest answer is that the business model is described rather than running, and we would rather say that than quote a revenue line in the present tense.
Who actually reads it when we get in touch?
A person at Stanley Studios, and there is no form on this site because nothing here collects anything from you. What the first conversation looks like is written out on talk to us.