Cut your staff scheduling costs I Famly

From early years ratios to weekly schedules

With a 10-in-1 staffing tool

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Complete flexibility

Plan staff hours, weekly schedules, and holidays, swap shifts and much more.

Easy compliance

Set age-specific early years ratios for down to 15 mins, and get ratio alerts.

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Painless payroll

Track accurate hours to send to payroll, including overtime and TOIL.

From ratio alerts to attendance tracking

The simplest way to manage staff hours

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build schedules & avoid overtime

Build and copy schedules in seconds

Drag, drop, build and copy weekly schedules, change in real-time, and see who’s available.

Build and copy schedules

Build, copy, and change schedules with exact hours, either for each staff member, or by room.

Avoid any overtime

See expected availability next to contracted hours, so you can assign hours and avoid overtime.

Bulk shift patterns & work tags

Automate tasks that take hours

No frantic spreadsheets. Set up reoccurring shifts, and label shifts to make payroll easier.

Weekly shifts & bulk edit

Set up weekly, monthly or daily shift patterns 1-by-1 or in bulk, delete in bulk, and much more.

Work tags

Label shifts to see admin time, or custom colours according to pay grades for easy payroll.

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Join the 6,300+ settings already using Famly

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early years ratios and notifications

Hit early years ratiosautomatically

See your early years ratios in real-time, and get notified of all open shifts and any shift conflicts.

Automatic ratios

Set age-specific ratios across each and every room - down to every 15 minutes.

Critical notifications

Get notified of shift conflicts, unavailable staff, incorrect ratios, and open shifts.

attendance tracking & payroll

And make payroll painless

Automatically get an overview of each staff member’s hours, and directly export for payroll.

Attendance tracking

Track all attendance, holidays, paid leave, TOIL and more, and export directly for payroll.

Overtime & TOIL

Add overtime straight to payout, or let staff use it as Time Off In Lieu. It’s flexible to suit you.

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Complete staff management

But it’s not just  staff schedules

Get every staff management tool you can think of.

Automatic early years ratios

Weekly schedules

Reoccurring schedules

Attendance logging

Holiday RSVP

Exact leave tracking

Staff sign-in/out

Digital staff profiles

Custom roles & permissions

Instant staff messaging

Staff qualifications

Observation reviews

Staff CPD

Out-of-office statuses

Attendance exports for payroll

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famly platform benefits

And it doesn’t end at software

Expect support
you can count on

Nursery management is a team sport, and we’re in it together. Get a dedicated account manager to onboard and support you, and instant in-app support whenever you need it.

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Top-class data
security

You work with sensitive information every single day. Rest easy knowing that information is safe, encrypted, and processed in compliance with GDPR and UK GDPR.

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And hundreds of
CPD materials

Completely free articles, step-by-step guides, videos, and interactive webinars on early years pedagogy - all to help you develop and share knowledge with your team.

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