Every feature your centre needs
An honest list of what Nine Pebbles does today — not a roadmap. Optional modules are marked as such.
Students & families
Everyone in one place
Student records, guardians, classes and intake forms — without the spreadsheet sprawl.
- Student profiles: contact details, year group, allergies, medical and dietary notes
- Multiple guardians per child with relationship and primary-contact flags
- Classes, sessions and timetables, with tutor and room clash warnings
- Shareable intake and consent forms, filed to the student record as a PDF
- Bulk CSV import (students, guardians, staff) with a preview before anything is saved
- Lesson notes with effort, behaviour and homework fields
- Safeguarding concern queue visible only to leadership and the safeguarding lead
Billing & payments
Get paid without chasing
Invoices, plans and schedules, with a parent pay-now experience built for phones.
- Billing plans and schedules per student, with optional automatic monthly invoicing
- Sequential invoice numbering per centre
- Card payments via your centre’s own Stripe account, with saved cards and auto-pay
- GoCardless Direct Debit set-up for parents
- Overdue reminders on a schedule you choose (e.g. 1, 7, 14 and 30 days)
- Refunds and partial payments
- Discounts, sibling discounts and bursaries applied automatically to invoices
Attendance & operations
Run the day, on the day
Registers, check-in and incident logging — the operational backbone.
- Registers and check-in / check-out from a tablet, phone or kiosk
- Staff:child ratios and a printable daily register (nursery mode)
- Incident and accident logging, with a parent-notified record
- Medications and dose log with a witness signature
- Meal menus with allergen checks against each child (optional module)
- Inventory: items, suppliers, purchase orders and loans (optional module)
Parent experience
A portal parents actually use
A mobile-first parent portal for invoices, attendance, lesson updates and messages.
- Mobile-first parent portal, installable on the home screen
- View invoices and pay online where the centre has card payments set up
- Attendance, lesson notes, homework and term reports in one place
- Direct messaging with the centre team and their child’s tutors
- Announcements by email to all families, parents only or staff
- Download your family’s data at any time (GDPR)
Compliance & reporting
Built for UK regulation
Registers, retention, audit trails and an inspection-prep export, built around UK requirements.
- OFSTED prep pack — one-click export of DBS, medications, incidents, consents, training and reports
- Data-retention policy per organisation, enforced automatically once you switch it on
- Two-year progress checks and term reports as PDFs
- Audit log of sensitive changes
- Subject access request and right-to-erasure workflows
- Aged-debt and revenue reports, and income-minus-expenses by centre
HR & staff
Manage your team without a second tool
Staff records, timesheets, leave, training and disciplinary in one place.
- Staff records with employment details and emergency contacts
- Time clock and timesheets with manager approval
- Leave requests with manager approval
- Training records with expiry tracking and renewal alerts
- Disciplinary records restricted to HR permissions
AI assistant
Routine work, done in a click
Optional AI features, switched on per feature by a manager.
- Draft parent messages in the tone you choose
- Turn a lesson note into a parent-friendly summary, or a weekly digest
- On-demand attendance and incident pattern checks
- Monthly spend limits per centre
- Per-feature on/off controls, with every request logged
Multi-centre & platform
Scales with you
From one centre to several, with each centre’s branding, settings and payments kept separate.
- Multiple centres under one organisation, with a one-click centre switcher
- Per-centre branding, settings and payment set-up
- Staff with access to one or several centres
- One parent login across siblings at different centres
- Organisation-wide data export
- Read-only API for students, guardians, invoices and attendance
Security & trust
Designed for sensitive data
Tenant isolation, audit trails and two-factor sign-in for the people who hold the keys.
- Row-level security on every table, so centres can only ever see their own data
- Two-factor sign-in required for owners, admins and managers, with a 7-day grace period
- Support access only with the centre’s approval, and logged
- Role-based permissions: owner, admin, manager, tutor, reception, parent
- Encrypted at rest and in transit by our hosting providers (Supabase, Vercel)
- Personal-data warnings before messages are sent, with overrides reviewed by managers
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