CrecheWorksThe portal for SA ECD centres
Built for ages 0–6Crèches · playschools · Grade R

Run your ECD centre with a smile, not a stack of paper

Registers, daily reports, fees and parent updates in one friendly portal — made for South African crèches, playschools and pre-primaries. Works on any phone, even when the lights are off.

Register your centre — freeSee what it does
Free tier
15 children
Offline register
Yes
Card to start
None

Everything your centre juggles, in one place

Registers & ratios

Tap-tap morning register on a phone or tablet, and live class ratios counted from the staff who actually signed in — not the ones on the timetable.

Fees in Rand

Monthly invoice runs, per-child fees and sibling discounts, with arrears aged so you can see at a glance who to chase.

Families kept in the loop

Naps, meals, nappies and a line from the teacher, shared at pickup — plus notices, event RSVPs and messages in the language each family prefers.

Also included: applications and a waiting list families fill in from a phone, staff records and BCEA leave, SA payroll with PAYE, UIF and SDL, incident and hazard registers, safety checklists and drills, NCF activity plans and progress reports. See all of it.

  • Register works offline, syncs when signal returns
  • POPIA tools: consent per child, access and erasure requests
  • Parent app in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu
  • One centre, many rooms — or many centres, one login

Simple pricing

Start free. When you outgrow it, you pay for the children you actually have — a creche with eighteen and a group with a hundred and eighty are not the same business.

Free

For small centres finding their feet.

R0

Up to 15 children

Complete

Everything, for the whole centre.

R 99,00a month

plus R 10,00 for each child on your roll

A child who joins part-way through a month is charged only for the days they were there, and a child who leaves stops costing the day they go.

Never more than R 499,00 a month. The bill stops climbing at 41 children — every child after that is free, however big you grow.

What is included

FeatureFreeComplete
Child records
Classes
Attendance registers
Announcements
Daily reports
Parent messaging
Staff administration
Invoicing & fees
Health, safety & compliance
Teaching & learning
Data export

Get your centre online in an afternoon

Register your centre

Two minutes — name, province, and roughly how many little ones you care for.

Add classes & invite teachers

Set up your rooms and send each teacher a sign-in link.

Share an application link

Families apply from their phone without making an account, and land in your applied list.

Registered NPO or DSD-subsidised centre? Attendance is kept per child per day, and the registration requirements are scored so you can see what is still outstanding.

Ready when you are

Free to start, and your first 15 children cost nothing.

Register your centre — free