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For UK tuition centres, nurseries and after-school clubs

The whole day at your centre, in one place.

Nine Pebbles keeps your students, registers, timetables, invoices and messages to parents together, instead of in spreadsheets, paper registers and group chats.

We’re opening to new centres in stages. Tell us about yours and we’ll be in touch.

Built around the kind of centre you run.

Tuition centres

Classes, timetables and billing plans.

  • Timetables with tutor and room clash warnings
  • Lesson notes with effort, behaviour and homework
  • Make-up lessons, lesson credits and prepaid lesson packages

Nurseries

Ratios, daily registers and children’s records.

  • Staff-to-child ratios enforced when you book, with a printable daily register
  • EYFS progress tracker against Development Matters, and two-year progress checks
  • Tax-Free Childcare and childcare voucher payments matched to invoices

After-school clubs

Bookings, check-in and payments.

  • Online booking with payment for classes, holiday camps and term blocks
  • Check-in and check-out from a tablet, phone or kiosk
  • Allergies, medical and dietary notes on each child’s profile

Nine parts of the job, kept together.

The everyday work of running a centre, in one system.

  • Students and families

    Profiles, guardians, allergies and medical notes, with consent forms filed to the record.

  • Classes and timetables

    Classes, sessions and timetables, with tutor and room clash warnings.

  • Registers

    Check-in and check-out from a tablet, phone or kiosk.

  • Invoices and payments

    Billing plans per student, and card payments through your own Stripe or Square account.

  • Parent portal

    Invoices, attendance, lesson notes and homework on a parent’s phone.

  • Messages

    Direct messages with parents, and announcements by email.

  • Inspection preparation

    An Ofsted preparation pack, exported in one click.

  • Staff and HRProfessional+

    Staff records, timesheets, leave and training renewals.

  • Accounts

    Expenses with receipts, bank matching, profit and loss, VAT and month-end close.

Nine Pebbles helps you prepare. It does not decide an inspection outcome.

Moving from another system? Import students, guardians, staff, enrolments, opening balances and invoice history, with a preview before anything is saved.

A day with Nine Pebbles.

Three moments from an ordinary day. The clock times are only an example.

08:45

Doors open

The register, taken at the door.

Check children in and out from a tablet, phone or kiosk.

14:00

Desk time

Invoices without the chasing.

Set a billing plan for each student and, if you choose, invoices are raised automatically each month. Overdue reminders go out on the schedule you set, and where you take card payments, parents can pay online.

18:00

After pick-up

Parents kept in the picture.

Attendance, lesson notes, homework and term reports sit in a parent portal that can be added to the home screen, with direct messages to your team.

Careful with families’ information.

  • Each centre’s data is isolated, and encrypted at rest and in transit.
  • Two-factor sign-in is required for owners, admins, managers and bookkeepers.
  • Our support team can open your centre only with your approval, and every access is logged.
  • Safeguarding concerns are visible only to leadership and the safeguarding lead.

See whether it fits your centre.

We’re opening to new centres in stages. Tell us about yours and we’ll be in touch.