Nursery Website Design Prices
Fixed prices for nursery and childcare websites. A custom-designed nursery website starts from £2,400, a site where you update fees, menus and vacancies yourself from £3,900, and hosting from £20 a month. Here is what those prices include for a nursery, what moves a quote and how they compare with the alternatives.
What a Nursery Website Costs With DigitalPod
Our prices are published and the same whatever the sector. The difference is in what the site has to hold, and a nursery holds a lot that changes: fees each September, menus each term, vacancies, term dates, news and the latest inspection report. That is why the admin dashboard package earns its place for many settings, while a small nursery with stable content fits the starting price comfortably.
The starting price buys a custom-designed site of up to around ten pages, hand-coded to load fast on a phone, with the show-around form, rooms, fees, team, careers and Ofsted pages a nursery needs and the search engine foundations for "nurseries in [town]". The website with admin dashboard adds a secure area where the manager edits fees, menus, term dates, news and vacancies without waiting for anyone. Every figure is fixed before we begin.
Nurseries Website Design Packages
Startup Website
- For nurseries: rooms by age, fees and funding, Ofsted report and policies, team, careers and a show-around form
- Custom website design created around your brand and business goals, not a template
- Hand-built with modern technology (Next.js / React) for speed and security
- Mobile-friendly, fast-loading and search engine friendly from day one
- Contact forms, maps, galleries and the features a new business needs
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Website + Admin Dashboard
- For nurseries: update fees, menus, term dates, news and vacancies yourself, with show-around booking on scope
- Everything included in the Startup Website package
- Secure admin dashboard so you can update your own content
- Postgres database for your content, listings, bookings or members
- Ideal for blogs, directories, booking systems, SaaS marketing sites and member areas
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Optional Extras
Both can be added to either website package, or left out entirely. Hosting is only needed if you would like us to run the site for you, and logo design only if you do not already have a brand.
Managed Cloud Hosting
- Keeps the site fast for parents searching at midnight, with quick changes to fees, places and term dates
- Your website hosted in the cloud and completely managed by us
- Keeps your site fast and secure without you lifting a finger
- Quick updates to your website whenever you need them
- Optional: host it yourself and we hand over the complete code
Logo & Brand Design
- A friendly, legible mark for the sign, the polo shirts and the parent app icon, designed before the website
- Logo design with the files you need for web, print and social media
- Colour palette and typography that carry through to the website
- Designed by the same team that designs your site, so everything matches
- Ask for a combined website and branding quotation
Three Typical Nurseries Website Projects
New nursery opening in September
A launch site with home, rooms, fees and funding, team, careers and a registration-of-interest form, live months before opening so the baby room fills and the rota is hired, with the registered wording switched on when Ofsted confirms.
Established nursery replacing a software-bundled site
A rebuild for a single setting whose site came free with its nursery software: rooms by age, fees and funded hours, the latest Ofsted report linked, policies as readable pages, real photography, a show-around form and redirects from the old pages.
Nursery group with several settings
A group of three or four nurseries that wants a page, team and inspection report for each, show-around booking against each setting's slots, vacancies by site and an admin dashboard so every manager keeps their own fees, menus and news current.
What the Starting Price Includes for Nurseries
- A design created from scratch around your setting and the parents you serve, approved before any code is written.
- Up to around ten pages, typically home, rooms by age, fees and funding, a day at nursery, Ofsted report and policies, team, careers and contact.
- A show-around request form, a waiting list form and a careers application form, all tested so enquiries reach the manager and applicants get an acknowledgement.
- Your Ofsted, Care Inspectorate or CIW report linked with its date, staff qualifications shown properly and parent reviews pulled through.
- Fast, mobile-first pages with the search engine foundations for "nurseries in [town]" and "childcare [town]" and a structure that matches your Google Business Profile.
- Launch onto managed cloud hosting from £20 a month, or the complete code handed over if you would rather host it yourself.
What Changes the Price of a Nursery Website
- The number of settings: a group needs a page, team, report and booking for each, so three nurseries are a bigger build than one.
- Online show-around booking against live slots with confirmations and reminders, rather than a request form and a call back.
- A parent area or integration with your nursery management and communication software, quoted on scope.
- An admin dashboard so the manager updates fees, menus, term dates, news and vacancies, from £3,900.
- A careers portal with vacancies you post yourself and applications stored and sorted, which usually sits in the dashboard package.
- Logo and brand design, quoted alongside the website, and copywriting or photography if your team would rather we produced them.
Every website is quoted individually, so the final figure depends on what your nursery actually needs. Our website design brief template helps you list those needs so that we can give you an accurate fixed price.
How Our Prices Compare for Nurseries
Nurseries are offered a website in one of three ways: included with their nursery management software, as a template subscription from a website builder, or from a childcare marketing agency on a monthly plan. The bundled sites follow one pattern shared with many other settings, are hard to make your own and go when the software contract does. Subscriptions look small each month but add up over the years, and leave the design and the search work to you.
Agencies commonly quote £6,000 to £20,000 or more for a small business website, which is a lot of nursery places to fund it, and experienced freelancers and small studios typically charge £2,000 to £6,000. Our nursery websites start from £2,400, designed and hand-coded in-house for a fixed price, with the site, its design and its code belonging to you at the end. Our guide to how much a website costs in the UK walks through the whole range.
For a wider view of the market, read our guide to how much a website costs in the UK and our comparison of custom websites and website builders.
How a Project Runs
- Your requirements. On a call, you tell us about your business, your customers and what the website needs to do, and we give you a fixed quotation.
- Logic and visuals. We plan the site structure and create visual mockups for your approval before anything is built.
- Development. We build the website, keep you updated and give you a realistic completion date.
- Testing and launch. You review the finished site on a test server, we refine it, and then we launch it or hand over the files.
Most websites take three to six weeks from brief to launch, provided the content is ready. Our guide to the website design process explains each stage, and the timescales guide shows what a typical schedule looks like.
What Clients Say About Working With Us
"DigitalPod provided an excellent service in creating Rhino Play Ltd's website. We were able to discuss ideas and check different styles as we progressed and the end product could not have been better. DigitalPod also supplied us with stationery design work which we were very impressed with. We would not hesitate in recommending DigitalPod to anyone."
"From the very beginning of our discussions to the end of the project I found Digital Pod to be not only professional but always friendly and willing to resolve any issues."
"I used DigitalPod to design my 1st website after a personal recommendation from a business friend. I was not disappointed Mathew was easy to deal with, made revisions where required and delivered a prompt efficient service and an excellent website. I would highly recommend."
Nurseries Website Price Questions
Is £2,400 enough for a nursery with three rooms?
Yes. A page for each room, fees and funding, a day at nursery, the Ofsted report and policies, team, careers and a show-around form fit within the ten or so pages the starting price covers. The figure rises if you want live show-around booking, a parent area, several settings or the admin dashboard, and we fix it before we start.
Why do you recommend the admin dashboard for nurseries?
Because so much of a nursery site changes on a schedule: fees in September, menus each term, term dates, staff, vacancies and the news parents like to see. With the dashboard, from £3,900, the manager makes those changes in minutes without emailing anyone, and the waiting list and show-around requests live in the same place. A small setting with stable content can skip it.
What does show-around booking cost?
A request form, where the parent suggests times and the manager confirms, is within the starting price. Booking against live slots with confirmations and reminders, so a parent picks a Tuesday at ten without anyone calling back, is quoted on scope and usually sits alongside the admin dashboard package.
Are there monthly fees?
Hosting is the only one, and only if you choose it: from £20 a month for a managed cloud server, security updates and quick changes when you ask. There is no licence fee and no charge per enquiry or per place. The site, its design and its code are yours, so you can move it elsewhere whenever you choose.
How does payment work for a nursery that has not opened yet?
You pay a 50% deposit when the project starts and the remaining 50% on completion, when the site is ready to go live, which for a new nursery is usually months before the doors open and well before the first fees come in. Nothing else is due unless you choose hosting with us, and the finished website belongs to you from the day the balance is paid.
Our main prices page and FAQ cover payment terms, hosting and ownership in more detail. For what the website itself should include, see nurseries website design, or startup nurseries website design if you are launching a new business.
Guides to Website Costs and Planning
Other Sectors We Work With
Prices are the same whatever you do; the pages below explain what they buy in other sectors.
Get an Exact Quote for Your Nursery Website
Send us your requirements or book a call with our senior software engineer. We will tell you which package fits, what the extras would cost and how long the project will take, and we reply personally with a fixed price.