Packed with features you will love
Fair pricing thats great value for money
Parent app, child daily diaries, child journeys, registers, invoicing, enquiries, website forms, digital check in & more.
Parent app, child daily diaries, child journeys, registers, invoicing, enquiries, website forms, digital check in & more.
Recruitment, absence tracking, holiday approvals, timesheets, payroll, shift planning, job app & more.
10% discount for annual payments by direct debit
Choose a package for you
All Features
Parent App & Newsfeed
Designed to engage and collaborate with your parents
Lite
Up to 20 Children
Standard
Unlimited
Pro
Unlimited
Accident forms with body maps & digital signatures
All about me forms (child likes, dislikes & routine)
Birthday notifications
Book absence in app
Book extra sessions in app
Child diaries & newsfeed
Child diaries with likes & comments
Child learning journey observations & assessments
Child learning journeys with likes & comments
Child profiles with photos
Emergency contacts & collection passwords
Instant messaging
Invoice & payment history
Itemised Invoices
Medication forms (logs and digital signatures)
Newsfeed with photo & video updates
Observations from home
Pay in app with 
Parent profiles
Payment receipts
Photo & video updates
Photo album & download
Push notifications
Registration forms
Classroom Management
Easy to observe & assess children
Lite
Standard
Pro
Accident forms with body maps & digital signatures
Activity logs with photos, videos & messages
All about me forms (child likes, dislikes & routine)
Allergies & dietary requirements
Assessment flag customisation (on track, not on track, working towards)
Assessment tracker
Assessments & progress reports
Availability checker
Baseline assessments & 2-year checks
Child development records with next steps
Child development milestones
Child diaries (food, sleeps, nappies, meds, photos, videos, messages)
Child flags (SEND, summer babies, term time & more)
Child learning journeys with likes & comments
Child profiles with photos
Child registers with Ofsted Info (a-z, by room & by ratio)
Curriculum frameworks (EYFS, DM, CfE or custom)
DBS tracking
Emergency contacts & collection passwords
Events calendar
Fire registers app
First aid checks & renewals
Gender & ethnicity
Group observations
Health & medical records
Health declarations for children
Instant messaging with parents & staff
Keyworker checklist
Managers diary & events calendar
Meals & food menus
Medication form tracker
Medication forms (logs and digital signatures)
Milk & formula claims auto calculated
Nappy change record
Observation & assessment trackers
Observations records (simple, detailed & group)
Occupancy by room, ratio, FTE & revenue
Ofsted info report for children
Parent App usage
Parent permissions (customisable)
Parent profiles
Photo & video observations
Progress tracker
Room moves automated or manual
Room moves individually or in bulk
Safeguarding summary & logs
SEND details & logs
Spelling & grammar checker
School pick up list & driver register
Sleep records
Toileting logs
Wellbeing & welfare call logs
WOW moments
Business & Finance
Automate and simplify your early years business
Lite
Standard
Pro
2-Factor authentication (2FA)
Accounts integration
Aged debt history & reminders
Bill payer checklist
Booking patterns (fixed & flexible)
Business reports & insights
Deposits held & paid
Digital asset register
Digital registration forms (customisable & linked to your terms & conditions)
Discounts and premiums
Document library
Enquiry reports (conversion rates & data analytics)
Enquiry tracker & pipeline
Extra sessions & products
Fee forecast per child
Fee increase automation
Fee structures (meals & multi age price automation)
Financial reports & insights
Funding hours claimed (age, month & term)
Funding hours automation
Funding loop integration
Group attendance, enquiries, revenue & occupancy
Group availability with places not sold
Group instant messaging
Group reports & insights
Group safeguarding & SEND details
Invoice checker
Invoice preview & bulk send
Itemised invoices
Marketing reports & insights
Nominal account codes (transaction level accounting)
Online payments with
Payment dashboard
Payment plans
Payment transactions & receipts
Private logs (children, parents, staff, accounts)
Regional reports & insights
Registration forms (customisable & linked to your terms & conditions)
Revenue forecast
Support (telephone, email & ticketing)
System backed up daily
System user levels
Tax free childcare payments
Video training guides
Waiting list
Website & social media forms (visits, enquiries & registrations)
HR & Payroll
The easy way to streamline your HR, Payroll & Recruitment
Lite
Standard
Pro
Absence logs (all-day or timed)
Absence tracking
Attendance tracker
Back to work logs
Costed rota
DBS checks
Health declarations for staff
Holiday allocation forecast
Holiday calendar
Holiday requests & approvals
Holidays booked & remaining
HR dashboard
HR reports & insights
Instant messaging (private)
Interview scheduling
Job application form (website & social media forms)
Job board integration links for recruitment sites
Maternity tracking
Minimum wage report (stay HMRC compliant)
New starters & leavers
Ofsted info report for staff
Pay change automation
Pay ratio (revenue v staff costs)
Pay structures
Payroll additions & deductions coming soon
Payroll export
Recruitment pipeline & tracking
Room profile board
Rotas (daily & weekly)
Shift patterns (week, room & FTE)
Shift planner with variance checker
Skills & training matrix coming soon
Staff accident & incident forms
Staff app & private messaging
Staff app usage coming soon
Staff disciplinary logs (private)
Staff documents & approvals
Staff permissions (customisable)
Staff profile form & tracker
Staff profiles with photos
Staff training levels
Staff qualifications
Staff registers & ratio tracker
Staff roles
Staff welfare call logs
Statutory sick pay (SSP) coming soon
Surplus & agency staff management
Temporary & permanent transfers between sites
Time off in lieu (TOIL) coming soon
Timesheets & payroll export
Weekly rota & history
Work breaks
Doing more in less time
Adds great value to your business
Winning nurseries choose our nursery management software to manage their early years business so they can focus on what they love.
A great digital nursery management system will grow your revenue, simplify your admin, reduce operating costs and make your parents and staff lives easier to manage, which can only be a good thing for your early years business. It should also allow you to deliver the EYFS curriculum your way to deliver an outstanding education to our children.
What’s more, with cloud-based childcare software, you can manage your nursery from anywhere in the world with as many users as you need so you are always in control. Designed to be a simple yet powerful nursery management system you can rely on.
Nursery Owners, Managers, Parents, Staff
What nursery & preschool leaders say about us…
On average, the software saves me around £4,000 per month in secretarial and administrative costs across the sites – and that’s before I’ve accounted for the reduction in paper and ink cartridges.
We felt like we were just a small fish to the large corporate firm we were with, so we started to look around for an alternative and came upon Nursery in a Box. Our initial conversations with founders Dave and Milesh made us feel confident in moving to their system and we’ve not looked back.
Across three settings, we probably had a monthly ink and paper bill of around £150 to £200 per site. With Nursery in a Box, that cost was gone overnight as everything is contained within the new software.
I got in contact and spoke with the founder Dave Elebert, and after the initial conversation plus a trial I decided it was the way to go. We’ve not looked back. Nursery in a Box is user friendly, makes sense and most importantly I can speak to the team there.
Nursery in a Box ticks all the boxes for us. Everyone in the team uses it in some way and the parents do too. If I was to put a figure on it – I would say it saves us the equivalent of 2 or 3 admin salaries across the group. It lets our staff get on with what they love – caring for the children. Nursery in a Box most definitely pays for itself.
Great company always happy to help with any question and always updating the program to make it better, our parents love the online diary’s and pictures we send daily.
Frequently asked questions
Are you tied into a contract or subscription?
No, there is no initial contract tie-in. We offer you a 30-day rolling contract. Several nurseries and preschools understand that their childcare management system is business-critical and wish to sign a fixed-term contract, so their data is protected with business continuity and have the option of a two or 3-year fixed-price contract.
Pricing – What are the options?
Flexible packages with tailored options to fit every nursery and preschool needs, with fantastic discounts available. Nursery In a Box offers three software packages:
- Lite / 0-20 Children
- Standard / Unlimited Children
- Pro / Unlimited Children
The Lite and Standard packages have the same features, priced according to your nursery or preschool size. We wanted to offer as many features as possible, so it’s excellent value for money without paying for hidden extras.
The Pro package has all the standard features but with more HR functions. We wanted to offer nurseries a proper all-in-one package focussing on HR.
- Timesheets
- Payroll export
- Holiday management
- Shift planning
- Absence reasons
- Online Job application forms
- Recruitment
- Interview tracking
Do you offer a discount?
Yes, we offer a 10% discount for annual direct debit payments.
If you are a childminder with less than ten children, we can also offer a discounted rate of £39 per month with all the features required to manage your child-minding business.
Our philosophy is that you deserve the best management software to deliver an outstanding education to our children.
How is payment taken?
Subscription payments are collected monthly or annually by direct debit. Many local authorities wish to pay annually by bacs, which is also acceptable.
Can we upgrade to the Pro package?
Yes, you can upgrade to the pro package any time after your invoices have been sent via the lite or standard childcare management platforms.
Why should we upgrade to the Pro Package?
The Pro package has all the standard features but with more HR functions. We wanted to offer nurseries a proper all-in-one package focussing on HR.
- Timesheets
- Payroll export
- Holiday management
- Shift planning
- Absence reasons
- Online Job application forms
- Recruitment
- Interview tracking
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