Services · Mobile app development · Childcare apps
Codeeo provides childcare management app development Manchester providers can rely on from the first drop off to the last invoice of the term. We design and build parent apps, staff apps and admin dashboards for day nurseries, preschools, wraparound and holiday clubs, and childminders across the city. Families here cross borough lines constantly, from Salford flats to Didsbury semis, and parents include hospital staff on the Oxford Road Corridor and airport workers starting before dawn, so the software must handle irregular days as calmly as regular ones.
We work with Manchester providers remotely from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, where our team of 80+ is based. There is no Manchester office; planning, reviews and staff training are all run over video call.
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Capabilities
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs, and families do not stop at the boundary. A child may live in Stockport, attend a nursery in Manchester and spend after school hours at a club in Trafford. Funding is still claimed by the provider from its own local authority, which for settings inside the city means Manchester City Council, but parents expect one smooth experience wherever their child is.
Manchester also has a strong mix of settings: maintained nursery schools, private and voluntary nurseries, childminders working from home in Levenshulme or Chorlton, and clubs on primary school sites expanding to meet demand for wraparound care. The capabilities below reflect that mix. We pick the starting set with you during discovery, based on where the paperwork currently hurts most, and plan the rest as later releases.
Parents book breakfast club, after school sessions and holiday weeks against live capacity, with sibling bookings handled in one go. Clubs set cut off times, cancellation rules and session prices, and the school office sees who is attending each day without a separate list arriving by email.
Full sessions, fewer no shows and no double booking.
For parents on rotas at the city's hospitals or at Manchester Airport, the app accepts rota based patterns that change week to week. Managers approve requests against room capacity and staffing, and the next month's invoice reflects exactly what was booked and attended.
Care that follows the parent's rota, not a fixed weekly pattern.
A lightweight phone app for registered childminders, covering attendance, daily notes, photos with consent, accident records and invoices. It keeps working on a walk to the park or a bus ride without signal and syncs when back online, so nothing is lost and nothing is typed twice.
Professional records without evenings spent on admin.
The SENCO can record support plans, targets, reviews and involvement from health or education professionals, with access restricted to the people who need it. Where a child receives inclusion funding or the Disability Access Fund, the app keeps the supporting notes together for when the council asks for them.
Inclusion work documented clearly and kept private.
Universal hours, working parent hours and the two year old offer are tracked per child with code expiry dates, alongside early years pupil premium eligibility. The office produces Manchester City Council headcount figures from attendance already recorded, rather than rebuilding them from paper registers.
Every eligible child claimed for, every term.
Staff log accidents, injuries and first aid given, and parents acknowledge them in the app on the same day. Medicines need written parental permission before they are given, and each dose is recorded with time and witness, matching the EYFS requirements.
Health records complete, signed and easy to find at inspection.
As children move into Reception, key persons assemble a transition summary from observations, the progress check and any support plans. With parental agreement it can be shared securely with the receiving school, which matters when children from one nursery scatter to many schools across the city.
Schools receive useful information instead of a blank start.
Concerns are recorded once and built into a chronology for each child, visible only to designated leads. The structure supports the Greater Manchester safeguarding procedures that Manchester settings work within, and keeps a full audit of who read or changed each entry.
Patterns become visible early, and records stand up to scrutiny.
Managers build rotas that respect the ratios for each age group, counting only staff whose qualifications allow it. DBS details, paediatric first aid certificates and safeguarding training sit on each staff profile with renewal dates, and the rota warns when a planned shift would leave a room short or rely on someone whose certificate has lapsed.
Rotas that are legal before anyone arrives for the shift.
Room updates, closure notices for snow or burst pipes, and termly newsletters go out to the right families at once, with read receipts. Parents reply within the app, so the conversation stays with the setting rather than in staff members' personal phones.
Important messages read, and replies kept on record.
Good fits
Off the shelf nursery software suits plenty of settings, and we will say so if it suits yours. Custom childcare management app development Manchester providers take on usually comes from a mismatch: sessions too flexible for a packaged booking model, a club running on several school sites, a network of childminders, or a strong local brand that parents should see in their app store. If any of the following sounds familiar, a build of your own is worth a conversation.
You run breakfast and after school provision on more than one primary school site, and demand keeps growing. Each school has its own term dates, collection points and office staff. We build one booking and attendance platform that every site uses, with school specific settings, and reports for each head teacher and business manager. Parents with children at two schools manage everything from one account. With the government's wraparound childcare programme widening provision on school sites, the platform is planned to add new school sites without a rebuild.
One platform, many school sites.
Your parents are nurses, doctors, cabin crew and warehouse staff whose weeks never look the same. Standard weekly contracts frustrate them and leave rooms half empty on some days. A rota aware booking model, with clear rules about notice and capacity, lets you fill places efficiently while giving families real flexibility. Families can see available slots for the coming weeks before they submit a rota, which cuts down on back and forth with the office.
You coordinate registered childminders spread across several boroughs and need oversight of training, insurance, registrations and quality support. Childminders want something lighter than nursery software. We build a phone first childminder app and a coordinator dashboard, with shared templates for policies and records. Coordinators can see at a glance which childminders have renewals due and who might need support visits by video.
Lighter tools for people working alone.
You care for a high proportion of children with additional needs or English as an additional language, and the records you keep go far beyond the daily diary. We design SEND, language and family support records around your practice, with strict access controls, so the SENCO and key persons can work from one secure place. Interpreted conversations with parents can be noted against the child, so the next practitioner knows which language support worked.
Engagement options
A fixed scope build suits a single nursery or club with a clear first release. A retainer suits providers who want steady improvements each term. A dedicated team suits groups and networks with a longer roadmap. As childcare management app developers Manchester settings can hold to account, we put scope, ownership and acceptance criteria in writing at the start. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Every option includes a shared backlog you can read at any time, a named project lead and a demonstration of working features at the end of each release, so you can judge progress yourself.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We typically build a cross platform app for iOS and Android with a web dashboard, hosted in a UK region unless you prefer otherwise. Offline storage, encrypted sync and role based access are part of the foundation, and accounting or Direct Debit links use each provider's published API. Data can be exported at any time in standard formats, so you are never locked into our team.
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Parent, staff and admin apps planned as one system.
It covers discovery, design, development, testing, app store release and support after launch. The product usually includes a parent app for bookings, updates and payments, a staff app for registers and records, and a dashboard for managers handling funding, invoices and reporting. Which parts come first depends on your setting; a holiday club and a baby room need very different first releases. We also plan how your current records will move across so nothing is lost on switch over day.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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