Every feature your centre needs
An honest list of what Nine Pebbles ships today — not a roadmap. If it’s on this page, it works in production.
Students & families
Everyone in one place
Student records, guardians, classes, cohorts and enrolment forms — without the spreadsheet sprawl.
- Student profiles: contact, year group, allergies, medications, custom fields
- Multi-guardian support with relationship and primary-contact roles
- Class and cohort management with timetables
- Token-gated enrolment forms — share a link, get a tidy intake
- Bulk CSV import wizard for migrations from other systems
- Lesson notes with effort/behaviour/homework ratings
- Safeguarding records with strict access controls
Billing & payments
Get paid without chasing
Invoices, plans, schedules, and a parent-facing pay-now experience that actually works on a phone.
- Billing plans + schedules: set fees per student, run billing monthly
- Auto-generated invoices with proper invoice numbering
- Stripe card payments — saved cards, auto-pay opt-in for parents
- GoCardless Direct Debit (Bacs) for predictable monthly collection
- Auto-chase for overdue invoices with templated email sequences
- Refunds, credit notes and partial payments — fully end-to-end
- Per-session pricing for drop-in clubs
- Discounts, sibling discounts and bursaries
Attendance & operations
Run the day, on the day
Quick check-in, live ratios, printable registers and incident tracking — the operational backbone.
- Attendance check-in / check-out from a tablet or phone
- Live staff:child ratios with a daily printable register
- Incident and accident tracking with parent acknowledgements
- Medications log with parental consent capture
- Meals planning with allergen flags
- Inventory: items, purchase orders, suppliers, loans
Parent experience
A portal parents actually use
Mobile-first parent app for invoices, attendance, lesson updates and direct messages to staff.
- Dedicated parent portal with mobile-first design
- View and pay invoices in a couple of taps
- See attendance, lesson notes, and progress reports
- Direct messaging with tutors and managers
- Broadcast announcements with audience filters
- Push notifications via Progressive Web App (no native install)
- GDPR data export at any time
Compliance & reporting
OFSTED-ready, by design
Built in the UK for UK regulation: ratios, registers, retention, audit logs and an inspection-prep bundle.
- OFSTED prep bundle — one-click export of everything an inspector wants
- Per-org retention policy with weekly automatic enforcement
- 2-year progress checks with PDF export
- Term reports with per-org PDF branding
- Audit log of every sensitive change, retained for 7 years
- Right-of-access (SAR) and right-to-erasure flows
- Aged-debt and revenue reports, P&L by centre
HR & staff
Manage your team without a second tool
Staff records, timesheets, leave, training and disciplinary all in one place.
- Staff profiles with employment data and emergency contacts
- Timesheets with manager approval workflow
- Leave requests and balance tracking
- Training records and certificate renewals
- Disciplinary log with discreet access controls
AI assistant
Routine work, done in a click
Optional AI features draft parent messages, summarise lesson notes, and flag patterns you’d miss.
- Draft parent messages with the right tone
- Summarise a term’s worth of lesson notes
- Attendance anomaly detection — flags concerning patterns
- Incident pattern detection across students and time
- Per-org spend caps so you never blow your budget
- Manager controls: enable per-feature, audit every prompt
Multi-centre & platform
Scales with you
From one centre to many. Switch between centres in one click, share staff, keep books separate.
- Multiple centres under one organisation
- Per-centre branding, settings and payment configuration
- Staff with access to one or several centres
- Cross-centre parents — one family, several siblings, several locations
- Tenant-level data export for departures or audits
- Public read-only API for accountancy and BI integrations
Security & trust
Designed for sensitive data
Row-level isolation, audit logs, MFA, and a runbook for the boring-but-essential operational stuff.
- Row-Level Security on every multi-tenant table
- Two-factor authentication with 7-day grace for new staff
- Tenant impersonation for support, fully audit-logged
- Granular role permissions: admin, manager, tutor, reception, parent
- Encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+)
- PII overrides and data minimisation tooling
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