Pigeonhole
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Pigeonhole, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Pigeonhole's own pricing page, checked 20 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pigeonhole | £49.56 | price by number of children, billed annually: up to £660 a year (181–200); above 200, £55 a month plus 20p per extra child · More than 200 children · all features included · Annual subscription; page lists £55/month plus 20p/month per extra child |
The facts
Each one read from Pigeonhole's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accounting integrations
- Invoices sync with Xero or QuickBooks, and payments can flow back to mark invoices paid.checked 12 Oct 2026
- AI assistance
- AI can draft observation write-ups, summarize forms and documents, and answer questions about a setting, with generated content subject to human review before sharing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Attendance
- The live register tracks check-ins and attendance counts across rooms.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Attendance and check-in
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Data protection
- The site says Pigeonhole is built for UK GDPR, hosted on Microsoft Azure in the UK, encrypted in transit and at rest, and permissioned by staff role.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Enrollment management
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Family communication
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Funding
- It generates digital parental declarations and funding claims from setting records, with council forms configured council by council.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Learning journals
- Staff can capture photos, tag children and learning areas, dictate notes, and share approved observations with families.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Notable limits
- Funding forms are configured council by council, and the Chrome extension fills only the portal fields it recognizes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other features
- Features include safeguarding records, occupancy and staff rotas, custom forms, parent portal, announcements, and finance reporting.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Pigeonhole is nursery management software for early years settings in England.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Customers can email support, and the maker offers onboarding help; terms say support is available during standard business hours.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Billing and payments
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Trial and billing
- The 30-day trial requires no card; subscriptions are paid yearly, do not renew automatically, and prices exclude VAT.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- A Chrome extension fills recognized fields in council provider portals and makes other claim figures available to copy.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- The maker is Pigeonhole Early Years Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 16263323.checked 12 Oct 2026
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