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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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