Nursery Management Software for the Gulf & Middle East
Daily reports & photos to parents, QR check-in with ratios and incident logs, and fee collection — one nursery management system, in Arabic and English.
If you run a nursery, preschool, KG or daycare in the Gulf, Jordan or Lebanon — an early-years nursery on a British curriculum, an international nursery, or a group with several branches — the parents at your gate each morning are trusting you with the most important thing in their lives. What they want back is simple: to know their child is safe, happy and learning. What you’re stuck with instead is paper registers, a fee spreadsheet, and evenings spent typing the same updates into WhatsApp groups.
Skooly is nursery management software built parent-first. It runs daily communication, check-ins and fee collection for more than 4,950 schools and 19,950 teachers across 10+ countries, processing over US$10 million in payments — with a full Arabic and English interface and fee collection through MyFatoorah.
We set it up for you, with your real classes and fee schedules.
The nursery parent app is the product
Parents don't see your admin. They see what reaches their phone.
Daily reports and photos for parents.
Teachers share what each child did, ate and learned, with up to 4 photos per update, straight to the parent's app. Photos stay full-quality for 24 months. The 5pm “how was her day?” conversation starts with the parent already smiling at a picture.
A portfolio for every child.
Artwork, activities and moments build into a child portfolio over time — something parents keep, and the strongest re-enrolment tool a nursery has.
Milestones parents can see.
Record assessments and developmental milestones, and share progress in a form parents understand. When report time comes, the evidence is already there.
Announcements without the noise.
Newsletters, reminders and notices go through one app, not six WhatsApp groups — and every parent actually receives them.
Arabic and English, end to end
Skooly’s admin console and the free Skooly One parent app are fully localised in Arabic, right-to-left. Your team works in Arabic or English; every parent opens the app in the language they prefer — the same nursery, in each family’s language.
Announcements and daily reports go out in whatever language you write them, so a bilingual nursery keeps talking to parents the way it already does.
Safe, simple attendance — and the records inspectors ask for
QR check-in and check-out.
Daily check-ins and check-outs run from a tablet kiosk — QR scan, PIN or name search — or the teacher's app, with a live register of exactly who is in the building.
Staff-to-child ratios in the roster.
Ratios are enforced per class in the roster, so you know at any moment that every room is within the required ratio.
Incident and health logs.
Incidents are documented in the moment with photos and parent sign-off; allergy and medical flags surface on every screen that matters — at check-in, at meal time, on the classroom view; temperature and health checks are recorded at the door. Meals are logged with portions and dietary notes.
Safety built for young children.
Pickup and drop-off authorisation means a child only leaves with someone the parent has approved. Leave applications come in online, and visitor check-ins are logged too.
Attendance, ratios, incident reports and pickup authorisations are logged as they happen — so when the regulator asks, whether KHDA, ADEK or the Ministry, the records already exist.
Collect fees via MyFatoorah
Fees are where nursery owners lose their evenings. Skooly generates recurring fee invoices automatically, sends reminders before and after the due date, and lets parents pay online through the MyFatoorah gateway — directly from the invoice or the parent app — with digital receipts issued instantly. Depending on the methods enabled in your MyFatoorah account, parents can pay by KNET, mada, Benefit, Apple Pay or card.
Sibling discounts, subsidies, partial payments, and automatic late-fee and early-bird computation are all built in. Every payment reconciles against the right invoice on its own, so you see who has paid and who hasn’t in real time, without matching bank statements by hand.
An AI copilot for nursery owners
Skooly’s AI copilot reads your nursery each morning and tells you what needs attention — the fees that are overdue, the enquiries waiting on a reply — with the facts it checked shown alongside, so you can act on it in minutes instead of digging through reports. It is available as an add-on.
Bring everything across — we move it for you
The reason nurseries stay on spreadsheets is rarely that they like them. It’s that moving looks like a month of evenings. So we do it: bring the Excel sheets, the WhatsApp groups and the paper register, and on premium plans our team migrates your children’s records and fee schedules for you.
That happens during your free 14-day trial, before you decide to pay — so what you evaluate is Skooly running your actual nursery, with your children and your fees, not an empty demo account.
Your data, protected
Skooly encrypts data in transit and at rest, keeps each nursery’s records isolated with role-based access, and never sells or uses parent information for advertising. Parent and child records live in one secure system instead of on paper and personal phones.
Plans that grow with your nursery
Starter
Up to 50 children
Daily reports and photos, attendance, invoicing and the parent app.
Growth
Up to 100 children
Adds the Collection Suite (online invoices, automated reminders, auto-reconciliation) and the check-in/out kiosk.
Premium
Up to 200 children
Adds the child portfolio, assessments and milestones, and staff payroll.
Plans are published openly — no quotation meetings, $0 setup fee. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial — guided setup takes minutes, and the Premium plan includes done-for-you setup of your children’s records and fee schedules. The parent app is always free for parents. Full details on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
It's a system that runs the daily operations of a nursery, preschool, kindergarten or daycare — parent communication, daily reports, attendance and safe check-in/out, fee invoicing and collection, and child records — in one platform, replacing paper registers, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups.
Yes. The admin console and the free Skooly One parent app are fully localised in Arabic, right-to-left, and every parent picks their own language — Arabic or English. Announcements and daily reports go out in whatever language you write them.
Online, through the MyFatoorah gateway. Parents pay directly from the invoice or the parent app, with instant digital receipts. Depending on the methods enabled in your MyFatoorah account, that can include KNET, mada, Benefit, Apple Pay and cards. Invoices recur automatically, reminders go out on their own, and sibling discounts, partial payments and late fees are handled by the system.
Through the free Skooly One parent app. Teachers send daily reports with up to 4 photos per update, plus announcements, milestones and the child's portfolio — all in one place on the parent's phone, in Arabic or English.
Every child has pickup and drop-off authorisation: a child is only released to someone the parent has approved, and every check-in and check-out is time-stamped. Health checks, incidents and visitor check-ins are recorded too.
Attendance, staff-to-child ratios, incident reports with parent sign-off, pickup authorisations and health checks are all logged as they happen and stay available per child, per class and per nursery — so when KHDA, ADEK or the Ministry ask, the records already exist.
Skooly encrypts data in transit and at rest, keeps each nursery's records isolated with role-based access for staff and parents, and never sells or uses parent information for advertising. Your records sit in one secure system rather than on paper and personal devices.
Days, not months. Guided setup gets your nursery running in minutes — and on the Premium plan our team migrates your children's records and fee schedules for you.
No. The parent app is always free for parents, on iOS and Android.
Ready to give your parents a better day-end conversation?
Start your free 14-day trial or book a 15-minute demo — either way, you'll see Skooly running your real classes, not a slideshow.