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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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