Nursly review
A focused toolkit for attendance, staffing ratios and compliance records.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Nursly brings attendance, staffing oversight and compliance records together for UK early years settings. Its digital child register records sign-in and sign-out times, while staff profiles track DBS dates, qualifications, First Aid and training. Weekly rota management includes actual-hours tracking, and parent and staff self sign-in support day-to-day operations. The product is aimed at settings that need a clearer operational record and ongoing compliance visibility, rather than a broad system for every nursery workflow.
Compliance is a central part of the product’s scope. Live staff-to-child ratio monitoring can be viewed by room or zone, with alerts for ratio breaches. Nursly also includes digital risk assessments, fire-safety records, and accident, incident, behaviour and complaint records. A live Ofsted readiness score and one-click compliance-pack export are available on Professional. These features may suit managers who want compliance information organized alongside registers and rotas; settings seeking lesson planning or billing workflows will need another tool for those needs.
Nursly has a free Starter plan with room registers, digital sign-in, staff profiles with DBS date tracking, a weekly rota and a mobile personal rota view. Professional adds unlimited children and staff, Ofsted readiness and export tools, live ratio breach alerts, digital risk and safeguarding records, and free migration. The service is cloud-based and web-based, with email support and GDPR listed. It also includes parent requests for extra days or later pickup, plus after-school pickup coordination across schools. Smaller settings focused on attendance and compliance may find its narrow remit appropriate; organizations seeking a wider nursery management suite should compare alternatives.
Nursly pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Digital sign-in records include child arrival and departure timestamps.
- Live ratio monitoring and alerts help track staffing by room or zone.
- Ofsted exports, safeguarding records and qualification tracking are included.
- Where it doesn't
- Billing and payments are not included.
- Lesson planning is not included.
- The platform is web-based, with email support listed.
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