Urban Software
ChildCare

Software that gives staff time back

Enrolment, attendance, parent updates and billing in one place, so educators spend the day with children, not paperwork.

Minutes
Saved per child, daily
Instant
Parent updates
Auditable
Attendance & ratios

What makes childcare hard

Paperwork steals teaching time

Registers, incident forms, nap logs and invoices. Every minute on admin is a minute not with a child.

Parents want a window, not a newsletter

They want to know their child ate, slept and was happy: today, not in a Friday email.

Ratios and safeguarding are auditable

Attendance and staffing aren't paperwork for its own sake. An inspector will ask, and the answer must be instant.

Billing eats the manager's week

Sessions, absences, subsidies and late pickups make invoicing genuinely hard, and it's usually a spreadsheet.

What we build for you

Attendance & Ratios

Tap in, tap out, with staffing ratios visible in real time.

Parent Updates

Meals, naps, moments: sent as they happen, not weekly.

Safeguarding Records

Incidents and consents logged, timestamped and auditable.

Billing That Fits

Sessions, absences, subsidies and extras, invoiced automatically.

Staff Scheduling

Rotas that respect ratios instead of breaking them.

Child Data Protection

Photos and records with consent tracked per child.

  • Enrolment and waitlists without the paper trail
  • Attendance, ratios and safeguarding records
  • Parent app: updates, photos, messages, consent
  • Billing that understands sessions, absences and subsidies

Built to comply

KHDA / ADEK alignmentChild data consent trackingSafeguarding recordsStaff-to-child ratio evidence

Questions

Do parents need to install an app?
It helps, but a web portal covers everyone. Push notifications drive engagement, so most nurseries want the app, we build one codebase for iOS and Android rather than two.
Can it handle KHDA reporting?
Yes. Attendance, ratios and staffing records are structured so a report is a query rather than a week of someone's life.
What about photo consent?
Tracked per child, enforced at the point of sharing. A photo with another child in it doesn't go to the wrong parent, because the system checks before it sends.
We're a single nursery, is this overkill?
Possibly. If an off-the-shelf tool fits, buy it and spend the money on staff. Custom earns its place across multiple sites, or when your billing model breaks what you can buy.

Building for childcare?

Tell us what you're trying to ship. We'll tell you what it takes, and if we're not the right team, we'll say so.

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