Childcare & Early Learning Centres
We build enrolment and operations platforms that keep waitlists fair, attendance linked to subsidy claims, and parents informed in real time.
Overview
The operational landscape in this sector, and how Nali builds for it.
Childcare centres manage waitlists in spreadsheets, reconcile subsidy claims from paper attendance rolls, and handle incident notifications by phone — all while fee structures across age bands and session types make billing a manual calculation every fortnight.
We build childcare management platforms that rank and notify waitlist families automatically, link digital sign-in to subsidy records in real time, apply the correct fee per child from their enrolment profile, and push incident and medication notifications to parents the moment they are logged by staff.
Challenges & Solutions
4 operational gaps we close in childcare & early learning centres
Enrolment waitlists are managed in spreadsheets and families are contacted out of order.
Waitlist engine ranks by priority criteria and notifies the next eligible family automatically when a place opens, with a response window before the offer moves on.
Daily attendance is marked on paper and subsidy claims are reconciled manually at month end.
Digital sign-in links attendance to the subsidy record in real time so the claim reflects actual days attended without a separate reconciliation run.
Fee structures differ by age band, session type, and subsidy entitlement and invoices are frequently wrong.
Billing engine applies the correct rate per child from their enrolment profile and subsidy status so the invoice generates accurately without manual rate-checking.
Incident and medication records are on paper and parents are notified by phone call.
Incident and medication logs are recorded digitally at point of occurrence and a notification goes to the parent immediately with the staff member's sign-off attached.
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