Free tools for PTOs · PTAs · PTSOs · Booster clubs
Run your parent group like you've done it for years.
Modern tools and plain-English guides for the work every board actually does — staff appreciation, budgets, handoffs, and the stuff nobody explains. No logins. No fees. No $9 PDFs.
Built from studying hundreds of real parent-group conversations — the questions boards actually ask.
The toolkit
One tool for every job that eats your evenings
Staff Favorites Collector
Every teacher and para's favorites — collected with one link, compiled automatically, printable for room parents. The end of the yearly Google Form rebuild.
Start collecting →The Year Wheel
What your board should be doing this month — deadlines, lead times, and reminders by role, so nothing lands on you the week before.
See this month →Handoff Binder
The transition binder your successor will actually thank you for — filled by your whole board through the year. No more starting from zero every June.
Start your binder →Bylaws Builder
A dozen plain-English decisions become complete draft bylaws — 501(c)(3) language, quorum, money rules, and a review checklist included.
Draft your bylaws →Budget Builder
Start from how real parent groups split their money — not a blank spreadsheet — with the guardrails treasurers wish they'd known.
Build your budget →Sponsorship Kit
Get local businesses to sponsor your school — priced tiers, ready letters, and a tracker so every promised banner actually gets hung.
Build your kit →Fundraiser Picker
Which fundraiser actually pays off for your school — ranked by real net dollars, with the vendor-neutral DIY-vs-vendor math.
Rank my options →Platform Chooser
Zeffy vs. Cheddar Up vs. Givebacks vs. Square, decided for your group — real fees, honest catches, zero affiliate agenda.
Find your platform →Welcome One-Pager
A clean "what is a PTO?" handout for your welcome table — your colors, your info, a QR to your signup. Printable in two minutes.
Make the handout →Just took the role?
Start with a checklist made for your job
President, treasurer, secretary, events, membership, or a brand-new group — get an ordered first-30-days path that threads every tool above, timed to the school year.
Open the Starter KitsWhy it's free
The tools are free because the tools are the point
Every other option in this space is a $4–10 printable you fill in yourself, or a membership site charging monthly for templates. We think the boring-but-critical work of running a parent group deserves real software — and that it should cost nothing, because volunteers are already donating enough.
We make our living from the newsletter and from honest recommendations, never from charging the PTA treasurer for a checklist.
2–3 min
for a whole staff roster to fill in their favorites
$0
forever, for every tool on this site
Paid products · à la carte
When a job needs a real system, not just a tool
Everything above is free forever. A few big jobs deserve real software — so we build focused products you buy on their own. One PTOKit account, one login, add only what you need. No bundle to buy into.
PTOKit Alumni
Reconnect the classes you have lost. Never lose another one.
Billed annually
Get started →Spirit Screen
The staff-room screen that keeps itself fresh — and proves it.
Billed annually
Get started →PTOKit Mini-Grants
Run the teacher grant program without the spreadsheet, the checkbook math, or the "did you get it?" emails.
Billed annually
See what it does →PTOKit Lost & Found
The lost-and-found bin every family can see from the parking lot — and the slips, tags and donation manifest that empty it.
Billed annually
See what it does →Teacher Appreciation
Run appreciation week without the spreadsheet.
One-time · seasonal
Advent Calendar
A 12- or 24-day countdown for your school community.
One-time · seasonal
Start free — create your PTOKit account when you're ready to turn one on. Add another anytime in a click; each is billed on its own.
The newsletter
Know what your board should be doing this month
One useful email a month — what your board should be doing right now. Unsubscribe anytime.
Privacy
We don't track you. Not a little bit.
Parent groups handle information about other people's children. That is a good reason to be careful, and a very bad reason to be vague — so here is exactly what this site does, in plain words you can check for yourself.
No analytics, no pixels
No Google Analytics, no Tag Manager, no Meta pixel, no session recording. Not one third-party script. View the source of this page and see.
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We don't log your IP, we've never sold or shared personal information, and there are no adverts to fund by doing so. Even the typeface is served by a host that keeps no logs.
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Enough to keep you signed in and submit a form safely — and nothing else. That's why you weren't shown a consent banner: there is nothing here to consent to.
Free tools need no account at all. For the paid products, your organization owns what it puts in, can export it whenever, and can have it deleted by asking.