Hire SaaS Developer for Childcare
Senior, direct, no layers

Most childcare settings lose hours every week to administration that has nothing to do with looking after children: enquiries answered twice, waitlists kept in three places, paper registers copied into billing, and parent messages scattered across email, text and noticeboards. At the same time parents expect quick answers about places, fees and settling in, and they judge a setting partly on how easy it is to deal with.

The work also carries real responsibility. Attendance, authorised pickup, allergies, medication and safeguarding notes must be accurate and available to the right staff at the right time, while children's photos and records need careful handling. A system that is hard to use gets worked around, and workarounds are where mistakes happen.

For childcare providers, nurseries and preschools, a saas developer is useful in a specific way: a multi-site platform for rooms, staffing and billing if you run more than one setting. That is the work this engagement is built around — not a generic brief with an industry name swapped in, but the job as it actually runs in this sector, where a typical day runs on attendance at drop-off, room ratios, meals, sleep and learning observations, pickup authorisation, parent messages, and fee billing at month end.

Book a free discovery call and we will test the fit before any scope is agreed.

The build starts with the tenant boundary at child level, because one nursery seeing another's children or pickup permissions ends the product. Children, parents, rooms, staff and attendance are modelled per tenant from the first table, and tests deliberately try to read across tenants, including through siblings at two nurseries and shared staff.

Launch is proven on a real nursery week, not a demo list. A small group of real nurseries runs live attendance, pickup and parent messaging on subscription through a full week, and billing, room setup and support are fixed from what those nurseries actually hit before the product opens wider. Code, billing setup and hosting stay in the business's own accounts.

For a nursery manager, the product earns its keep at pickup: attendance, authorised pickup lists and parent messages sit on the day's record in order, so a handover is checked against the record instead of against memory, and child records stay visible only to the room staff, managers and parents whose work needs them. A new nursery can sign up, add its rooms and age groups, set its pickup rules and parent messaging and run its first nursery week without a developer setting it up, while each nursery's children and pickup permissions stay inside its own tenant. Growth comes nursery by nursery, with billing and support handled from one admin view.