Read students, parents, attendance, invoices, rooms and daily reports in CentreCareOS. For child care centers and preschools that run on CentreCareOS. Hosted by usefulapi — connect from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"centrecareos": {
"url": "https://centrecareos.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"centrecareos": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://centrecareos.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Other MCP clients (Windsurf, Cline, Zed and more): add the URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser. Do not add an Authorization header: see Before you connect.
List the check-in and check-out records of a day. Compare the result with the students of each room.
centrecareos_list_attendance centrecareos_list_rooms centrecareos_list_students
List the invoices with a pending status. Open one invoice to read its payment history and the parent it belongs to.
centrecareos_list_invoices centrecareos_get_invoice centrecareos_list_payments
Read the capacity and the staff of each room. Then count the students assigned to it.
centrecareos_list_rooms centrecareos_get_room
Get the daily report summary of a date, for example yesterday. Ask the assistant for a short overview.
centrecareos_daily_report_summary
List the waitlist entries and read the billing plans. Use them to plan the next enrollments.
centrecareos_list_waitlist centrecareos_list_billing_plans
List the incident reports and the school calendar events. Prepare for a staff meeting.
centrecareos_list_incident_reports centrecareos_list_calendar_events
The login page asks for your API key id and API secret.
Create them in CentreCareOS under API Settings (Enterprise plan). Give the key read scopes only. The secret is shown once. Your key is used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your API key id and API secret. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
Turn on the CentreCareOS connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
| Tool | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
centrecareos_list_students | read | List students List all children (students) of your school with enrollment status. Needs the students:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_parents | read | List parents List parent and guardian records of your school. Needs the parents:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_rooms | read | List rooms List classrooms with capacity and assigned staff. Needs the rooms:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_staff | read | List staff List staff members of your school. Needs the staff:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_billing_plans | read | List billing plans List billing plans and plan metadata. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_student_billing_plans | read | List student plan assignments List active billing plan assignments per student. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_billing_students | read | List billing summary by student List billing summary rows, one per student. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_billing_overview | read | Billing overview Get billing overview metrics of the school. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_waitlist | read | List waitlist List waitlist entries (admissions intake). Needs the waitlist:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_calendar_events | read | List calendar events List school calendar events. Needs the calendar:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_menus | read | List menus List menus and meal plans. Needs the menus:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_incident_reports | read | List incident reports List incident reports. Needs the incidents:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_forms | read | List forms List form definitions. Needs the forms:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_school | read | Get school profile Get the school profile. Needs the school:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_student | read | Get student Get one student record by id. Needs the students:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_parent | read | Get parent Get one parent with the linked students. Needs the parents:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_room | read | Get room Get one room with student and staff assignments. Needs the rooms:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_staff_member | read | Get staff member Get details of one staff member. Needs the staff:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_attendance_record | read | Get attendance record Get one attendance record. Needs the attendance:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_get_invoice | read | Get invoice Get one invoice with its payment history. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_attendance | read | List attendance List check-in and check-out records. Filter by date (yyyy-mm-dd). Needs the attendance:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_invoices | read | List invoices List invoices. Filter by status or student. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_list_payments | read | List payments List payment records. Filter by invoice. Needs the billing:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_daily_report_summary | read | Daily report summary Get the daily report summary of a day (yyyy-mm-dd). Needs the daily_reports:read scope. Read-only. |
centrecareos_usage_status | Usage status (free-tier meter) Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter. | |
centrecareos_request_feature | Request a missing feature Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the CentreCareOS tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter. | |
centrecareos_upgrade | Upgrade to Pro (unlimited*) Get Pro: unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 a month) on CentreCareOS (the free tier caps monthly usage). Plans: "monthly" — $9/month; "yearly" — $90/year (2 months free). Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. *A fair use limit applies. For heavy use (near Pro's limit): "plus" or "plus_yearly" — Pro+, $39/month or $390/year, unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 100,000 a month); an existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place (needs confirm: true; the price difference for the rest of the period is charged at once). Otherwise returns a short link to open in your browser (it opens Stripe Checkout); after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter. | |
centrecareos_cancel_subscription | Cancel the Pro subscription Cancel the caller's CentreCareOS Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run centrecareos_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter. |
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this CentreCareOS server only. Subscribe with centrecareos_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with centrecareos_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running centrecareos_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
See who is checked in today. Find pending invoices by family. Compare room headcount with capacity. Read the daily report summary. Review the admissions waitlist. Check incident reports and the calendar. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by CentreCareOS. The server calls the CentreCareOS API with your own CentreCareOS access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your API key id and API secret. See Before you connect for where to find them.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your API key id and API secret. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the CentreCareOS API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in CentreCareOS.
All 24 CentreCareOS tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this CentreCareOS server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run centrecareos_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run centrecareos_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run centrecareos_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with centrecareos_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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