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Childcare Apps: Make the first enquiry easier for families and staff

Put nursery visits, registration enquiries, term dates and parent notices in one clear place.

Arrange a nursery tour
Share child and start-date details
Keep families informed
Build Your Childcare App

Little Steps Nursery

Childcare • Local and independent

Book a Visit

Arrange a nursery tour

Book a Visit

Book a Visit

Enquire About a Place

Term Dates

Parent Notices

Term Dates
A view inside an independent childcare business

Little Steps Nursery

Term Dates: check the app for the latest details.

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Book a Visit
Available on the App Store, as a web app, and on Google Play

Parents call during the busiest drop-off hours?

Parents call during the busiest drop-off hours

Give customers a clear way to arrange a nursery tour without another missed call or message.

Visit requests get lost in a crowded inbox

Give customers a clear way to share child and start-date details without another missed call or message.

Term dates and closures need repeated reminders

Give customers a clear way to keep families informed without another missed call or message.

Families have questions before they commit

Give customers a clear way to share updates with families without another missed call or message.

Bring nursery visits and place enquiries together in one app under your own name.

Without App

  • • Parents call during the busiest drop-off hours
  • • Visit requests get lost in a crowded inbox
  • • Term dates and closures need repeated reminders
  • • Families have questions before they commit

With Your App

  • • Book a Visit
  • • Enquire About a Place
  • • Term Dates
  • • Parent Notices

What This Is / What This Isn't

This Is:

Book a Visit

Arrange a nursery tour; set up for your business in the app editor.

Enquire About a Place

Share child and start-date details; set up for your business in the app editor.

Term Dates

Keep families informed; set up for your business in the app editor.

Parent Notices

Share updates with families; set up for your business in the app editor.

This Is Not:

A marketplace listing

Customers see your own business, not a directory of competitors.

A replacement for your existing systems

Keep your specialist tools and choose which pages to use.

Ready-made business content

Add your own real prices, availability and policies before inviting customers.

A promise of automatic results

You decide what to publish and when to contact customers.

Made for the way childcare businesses work

Put nursery visits, registration enquiries, term dates and parent notices in one clear place.

Book a Visit

Arrange a nursery tour. Keep the details up to date from your own app.

Enquire About a Place

Share child and start-date details. Keep the details up to date from your own app.

Term Dates

Keep families informed. Keep the details up to date from your own app.

Parent Notices

Share updates with families. Keep the details up to date from your own app.

Customer Updates

Send relevant app notifications to people who have opted in, such as a change to opening hours or a new availability update.

Your Brand

Put your own name, logo and contact details in front of customers.

How It Works

Three steps to your own childcare app

1

Add your business details

Choose your app name, colours and logo. Add your website if you have one.

2

Set up your pages

Start with Book a Visit, Enquire About a Place, Term Dates; edit or remove anything that does not fit.

3

Invite your customers

Review your content, then share your web app. Store publishing is available separately.

Your prices, services and policies are yours to set and check before launch.

Plan your app around helpful information

Keep useful information and enquiries easy to find

Extra visits / weekSpend per visitWeeksIllustrative sales
2£1550£1,500
5£1550£3,750
10£1550£7,500

These are examples, not a forecast or a promised result.

Change the visit and spend assumptions to suit your business; costs and margins are not included.

Who this childcare app is for

Start with the parts of the app that fit your day-to-day work.

Independent Childcare teams

Nursery visits and place enquiries

Local teams

Share clear hours, contact and service details

Enquiry-led teams

Keep important questions in one place

Local community

Make trusted information easy to find

Push Notifications

Term dates and closures need repeated reminders?Keep your customers in the loop.

A timely update from Little Steps Nursery can reach customers who choose to receive notifications from your app.

Choose when and what to send. Notifications require customer permission and should follow your own policies.

98%
Average push open rate
7×
More effective than email
$0
Cost per message, forever

Source: industry avg., Airship 2024

Start Sending Push Notifications
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Little Steps Nurserynow

Term Dates: check the app for the latest details.

Start Free, Scale as You Grow

Free forever for up to 10 app users. No credit card required.

App users = the people who use your published app (your customers)

Start free or launch for $49 — scale your app without switching platforms.

Free

10 users

$0/mo

Forever free

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1,000 users

$49/mo
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Unlimited users

$99/mo
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All Plans Include:

Book a Visit
Enquire About a Place
Term Dates
Parent Notices
Your business branding
Optional customer notifications
Web app to share
App Store publishing options
Get Started Free

*Requires your own Apple Developer ($99/yr) and Google Play Developer ($25 one-time) accounts. Full refund if we can't get your app live.

Frequently Asked Questions

It starts with Book a Visit, Enquire About a Place, Term Dates, Parent Notices. You can change the pages and your content before launch.

No. Add and check your own prices, stock, availability and policies in the editor.

Yes. You can share the web app first. Store publishing is a separate step.

Yes, app notifications are available for customers who choose to allow them.

Yes. The starter pages are a starting point, not a fixed package.

You can start building on the free plan and review publishing options later.

Build your childcare app

Start with pages for nursery visits and place enquiries and make them your own.

Build Your App