ParentZone is a secure parent communication app that helps nurseries and childcare providers build strong partnerships with parents. With real-time updates, photos, and progress tracking, it transforms how families stay connected with their child’s early years journey.
ParentZone integrates effortlessly with iConnect, our intuitive web app for nursery managers and early years educators. This parent app enhances parent engagement by helping families stay involved and informed throughout their child’s nursery experience.
Keep parents connected and involved
Keep parents connected and involved
Share detailed observations as they happen, giving parents a live view of their child’s progress and development.
Quickly share updates on nappies, sleep times, meals, and daily routines to keep parents informed throughout the day.
Notify parents instantly about medication, accidents, or incidents, and collect digital signatures or acknowledgements right away.
Work with parents to help children reach their learning goals
Work with parents to help children reach their learning goals
Parents can upload observations from home, giving educators a fuller picture of each child’s learning. This insight helps inform planning, track progress, and strengthen connections.
Enable two-way communication to build stronger bonds between parents and your nursery. Share achievements, behaviour updates, and learning milestones directly with parents.
A free hub packed with resources, tips, and activity ideas, ParentHub encourages learning at home and supports children’s development beyond the nursery.
Manage bookings, payments, and invoices easily
Manage bookings, payments, and invoices easily
Parents can request extra sessions and view all past and upcoming bookings directly in the app.
Parents see exactly what they owe, reducing the need for chasing payments. Invoices are received straight through the app, improving cash flow and saving staff time.
Parents can pay securely in the way that suits them. Cards, bank transfers, Direct Debits, wallets, TFC, and vouchers are all accepted.
Engage parents, streamline admin, and share updates instantly with the award-winning parent app.
Trusted by nurseries across the UK, Connect Childcare makes managing admin, attendance, and payments simple and efficient. Our feature-rich platform helps your team save time, stay organised, and focus on what matters most, supporting children’s learning and development.
Discover why ParentZone is the UK’s highest-rated early years app and see how it transforms parent communication and engagement in real nurseries.
We’re more than nursery software, we’re a community. Enjoy free early years resources, CPD opportunities, and ongoing support.
iConnect is an easy-to-use web app that reduces the workload of nursery managers and early years educators. Often called an online learning journal, it offers much more than that.
ParentZone is a parent app that keeps parents connected with their child’s nursery. It provides updates, messages, and payments all in one place, making daily communication effortless.
Connect Cashflow is our intuitive finance feature that helps nurseries handle invoicing, funding, and payments efficiently, taking the stress out of everyday financial management.
Great nursery management happens when everything feels connected. Our platform brings your team, families, and finances together so you can run your setting with ease and confidence.
Connect Childcare is our management system designed to reduce pressure on nursery managers. It supports admin, attendance, finance, and daily operations with ease.
iConnect is an easy-to-use web app that reduces the workload of nursery managers and early years educators. Often called an online learning journal, it offers much more than that.
Connect Cashflow is our intuitive finance feature that helps nurseries handle invoicing, funding, and payments efficiently, taking the stress out of everyday financial management.
Connect Childcare runs on Windows desktops (or on a Mac using Parallels) and is part of a suite of products designed to work smoothly together. You can choose the combination that works best for your nursery:
Connect Childcare: our nursery management system for handling admin and attendance.
Connect Cashflow: manage invoicing, payments, and financial reporting.
iConnect: our child development app for tracking learning and progress.
ParentZone: our parent app that keeps families informed and engaged.
Optional add-ons: for a fully integrated setup.
You can use any product on its own, or mix and match to suit your needs. For the smoothest experience, we recommend using all products together.
Onboarding with Connect Childcare is tailored to your nursery’s needs; there’s no fixed timeframe. Whether your team are tech whizzes or technophobes, we’ll have you up and running smoothly.
We take care of all your back-office admin, understanding your current processes and migrating everything into the system. Your dedicated onboarding manager will guide you through each step, ensuring the process fits around your team and schedule.
We never rush, and we’ll keep supporting you until your team feels confident and ready to transition to our standard support channels.
Connect Childcare is constantly evolving its products with new features and functionality. Customers receive newsletters, can access the upcoming product roadmap, join webinars, and participate in BETA groups to give feedback and help shape the software.
No, support and training are included! You’ll get access to free customer training sessions through Connect Academy and our 95.1% CSAT-rated support team.
Your onboarding and customer success managers provide guidance, plus 24/7 online help, phone and email support, and a user community on Facebook. If you need extra tailored training later, bespoke packages are available — but the included training covers full onboarding for your team.
ParentZone is our parent communication app that connects nurseries with families. Staff can share updates, observations, and important information in real-time, helping parents stay involved in their child’s early learning journey.
Parents can log in via ParentZone.me or through the ParentZone mobile app, making it easy to stay connected anytime, anywhere.
It also integrates seamlessly with iConnect, so all updates are synchronised and easy to manage.
When a child leaves your setting or moves on to school, you can easily export their Learning Journal. It includes practitioner observations, photos, and key developmental milestones. Parents receive an email or in-app notification and can view or download the journal through the Reports section in ParentZone.
Yes! Thousands of nurseries trust ParentZone to improve communication, streamline admin tasks, and strengthen parent partnerships. It’s also one of the highest-rated parent apps, with a 4.7 rating on Google Play and 4.8 on the App Store.
Absolutely. ParentZone is built with security and privacy at its core to protect both child and parent data.
With these safeguards in place, you can trust that family information is always kept secure and private.
Have a question we haven’t answered? Use this form, and a member of our team will be happy to help.
We’re more than nursery software, we’re a community. Enjoy free early years resources, CPD opportunities, and ongoing support.
Get help whenever you need it. Our friendly support team and Customer Success Managers are always on hand, and you can join our free customer training sessions whenever you need.
Stay up to date with our CPD materials. Access articles, downloadable guides, and expert-led webinars designed to help you stay informed about the latest developments in the early years sector.
Your nursery and parent data are protected with advanced security, GDPR compliance, and Cyber Essentials certification, giving you confidence that your information is safe.
We’re more than nursery software, we’re a community. Enjoy free early years resources, CPD opportunities, and ongoing support.
Get help whenever you need it. Our friendly support team and Customer Success Managers are always on hand, and you can join our free customer training sessions whenever you need.
Stay up to date with our CPD materials. Access articles, downloadable guides, and expert-led webinars designed to help you stay informed about the latest developments in the early years sector.
Your nursery and parent data are protected with advanced security, GDPR compliance, and Cyber Essentials certification, giving you confidence that your information is safe.