Easily Raise Funds as a Class Parent
Braid Money Pools help room parents by providing a hassle-free way to collect money to cover field trips, class parties, creative projects, teacher gifts, and more.
How does Braid work?
Start a Braid Pool
Use the pool to collect donations for your child’s classroom
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Share your Pool Link to collect donations
Other parents, caregivers, and classroom supporters can contribute with the Pool Link, no sign up required
Spend from the pool
Every Braid Pool comes with a free debit card. Use it to pay for your kid’s classroom needs—without spending out of pocket!
Braid Pools help class parents raise donations for their designated classroom
A money pool for classroom funds
Use money pools to collect money for class parties, field trips, projects, back-to-school nights, teacher gifts, and more!
Collect money easily with Pool Links
Anyone can contribute with a debit or credit card. You can set the donation amount or let contributors pay what they can.
Personalize your classroom’s Pool Link
Add text and images to tell contributors what you’re collecting money for. Send the URL to every parent of the class!
Keep classroom money all in one place
Braid is a seamless way to pool money to spend on classroom necessities. Suggest other parents send money to the pool to pay for classroom events, supplies, teacher gifts, and more. Invite co-room parents or teachers to help manage and spend the money with you.
View contributions as they happen
Get optional notifications whenever someone donates to your pool.
Pay for your classrooms’ needs directly from the pool
Spend from your pool with a Braid-issued debit card, and use it wherever MasterCard is accepted. Add it to Google Pay or Apple Pay for contactless payment.
Braid is safe and secure
We use best-in-class security and compliance practices to keep your money safe and your personal data private.
All payment and personal information are encrypted end-to-end using SSL 256-bit encryption.
Get spending notifications from your pools, and freeze your debit card anytime in the app.