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Custom website for daycares
A custom website for a daycare costs from $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio, or $499/mo for 24 months with maintenance and hosting included. Unlike a template, it's designed around how a daycare actually operates — removing the manual touchpoints (Managing waitlists by age group in a notebook or spreadsheet) that template sites force on you.
A daycare website is where a parent decides whether to trust you with their child, so it has to do the reassurance work no template can. It should clearly show your program and philosophy, your staff's qualifications, your safety and health practices, and your licensing — the specific things a careful parent screens for before they'll even schedule a tour. A generic stock-photo site fails precisely the test that matters most in childcare.
It's also your enrollment engine. When demand exceeds spots, families judge you on how organized the process feels, because they equate administrative chaos with care chaos. A custom site that captures inquiries, manages the waitlist by age group, and books tours smoothly signals competence — and turns interested parents into enrolled families instead of losing them to phone tag.
The reality for most daycares
Enrollment and waitlist management is paper-heavy
Demand often exceeds spots, so centers juggle waitlists by age group, collect enrollment packets on paper, and track who's next by hand. This is slow, error-prone, and loses families when the process feels disorganized — parents equate admin chaos with care chaos.
Parents choose on trust and safety — the site must show it
A parent is trusting you with their child. If the site doesn't clearly convey your program, staff qualifications, safety practices, and licensing, families move on to a center that reassures them. Generic sites with stock photos fail the exact test that matters most.
Tour scheduling and inquiry follow-up leak families
Interested parents want to tour, but if booking one means phone tag, they contact multiple centers and go with whoever's easiest. Inquiries that aren't captured and followed up promptly become another center's enrolled family.
What does it cost?
One scoping pass, one fixed number — no hourly billing. Daily reporting and check-in run in childcare apps; the win is a site that wins families through enrollment, tours, and waitlists connected to that software — not a separate platform.
- Website — from $4,500 one-time (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included.
The monthly plan totals somewhat more than paying up front — that's the honest trade for spreading the cost and having us operate everything for two years. Details in the payment plan guide and on the pricing page.
Start a project — one scoping pass, a fixed number within one business day.
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Common questions
- How much does a website for a daycare cost?
- From $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included. One scoping pass produces a fixed number — no hourly billing.
- What should a daycare website include?
- Beyond presenting the business: the workflows that remove manual work — enrollment inquiry & waitlist and tour scheduling — plus the integrations daycares actually use.
- Who maintains the website after launch?
- We do. The Maintenance Plan ($299/mo, included in the payment plan) covers hosting, SSL, security, backups, updates, and small content changes — you never inherit a server login you didn't ask for.
- Is a template or website builder good enough instead?
- Sometimes — if the site just needs to exist and you're happy doing the manual work a template can't remove. The honest comparison is in our custom vs website builder guide.