Early Years Alliance works with 33 nurseries, each with different rates for full days, mornings, afternoons, age groups, and government-funded hours.
They had an Excel spreadsheet that technically worked – but expecting parents to download it, find the right nursery, and manually calculate their costs wasn’t realistic.
The alternative was a PDF fee matrix. Accurate, but nobody would read it.
Neither option helped parents answer the most basic question: “What will this actually cost me?”
We turned the spreadsheet logic into an interactive calculator on their website. Parents select a nursery, choose their child’s age and session type, enter their funded hours, and instantly see weekly and monthly costs with a full breakdown.
