Getting Started
New to NestliCare? Start here. Set up your daycare, invite your team, and run your first day.
- overviewWelcome to NestliCareA quick overview of what NestliCare does, who each part is for, and where to go first.
- setupYour first week with NestliCareA setup checklist that takes a new daycare from signup to a fully running center.
- guideMove your data overUpload your roster, staff list, and records from your old system or paper, then set it up with NestliAI or let our team do it. Free.
- guideAdd your first familyAdd your first family with its children and parents in one form, then invite the parents to the app.
- guideInvite your teamAdd teachers and admins, give them the right role, and assign them to a room. Each person gets their own login.
- setupSet up billingCreate tuition plans, get online payments turned on, and send your first invoice.
- overviewFind your way around the dashboardA guided map of the web dashboard for new owners and admins. What each sidebar page and its tabs do, and where to go for common tasks.
- guideGet the mobile appsWhere to download the NestliCare app, who uses it, and how logging in decides what you see.
- overviewHow to get helpEvery way to reach NestliCare support, what each one is good for, and how fast to expect an answer. Includes the in-app support thread and NestliAI.
- overviewHow to evaluate NestliCareAn honest guide to deciding whether NestliCare fits your daycare — what to try first, who it's best for, and where we're deliberately not a fit.
- overviewPricing — what NestliCare costs (and doesn't)NestliCare is 100% free for daycares. No monthly fee, no per-staff or per-child charges. The only cost to a daycare is a standard online-payment convenience fee, the same kind every payment processor charges.
- overviewSecurity and privacy at NestliCareHow NestliCare protects child and family data. Encryption, who can see what, where data lives, backups, and what happens when you leave.
- guideSwitching from other daycare softwareA week-by-week plan for moving your daycare to NestliCare without losing records or disrupting your families.
- overviewWhere NestliCare works (countries, currencies, and local features)NestliCare is free for daycares in every country and bills in any currency; online parent payments are available in 25 countries and five currencies, and everywhere else you record payments you collect yourself.