Straight answers, including the awkward ones.

Not yet. Bloomffy is in early access. The system is fully built and demoable against real scenarios, but there's no signed customer of record today. You'd be among the first crèches running it.

Yes. Attendance, staff presence, naps, nappies, meals, notes, observations, accident and incident reports, facility checks and handover notes all save on the room tablet and sync when the connection returns, without creating duplicates. The room board, with each child's allergies and emergency contacts, opens from its last copy and shows how current it is. Ratios are worked out from the synced record once the tablet reconnects.

€80/month covers the first 15 children — full Tusla/NCS/ECCE compliance from child 1, the same coverage whether that's your busiest room or your only one (the Minimum package). Reg 11 ratio alone is the highest non-compliance finding in Tusla inspections (46.2%); that's what the price is actually buying. Each additional child is €2/month, no cap. The Standard package (multi-room, multi-shift, waitlist) unlocks automatically at 40 children, with no separate plan to buy. For very large crèches, the Enterprise package is a conversation rather than a fixed price. Yearly billing is 10 months' cost for the full 12; 2 months free.

Compared to a spreadsheet and a paper folder, yes, it's a line item. But that comparison looks free right up until an inspection goes wrong: a lapsed NCS claim, a missed Reg 11 breach, or hours spent reconstructing records for an inspector on the spot. €80/month is what it costs to have that evidence already sitting there instead.

Rooms, staff, and your Tusla registration get set up first, usually inside a day, with us running the spreadsheet import for you rather than leaving it to your team. The one thing that has to be ready per child before they're properly ‘live’ is an emergency contact and an authorized collector on file; if your current records already have that, we pull it straight in. Deeper compliance data, vetting documents, insurance, policies, historical fee records, trails in over the following weeks and doesn't block going live: it's tracked as an ongoing checklist, not a wall you have to clear first.

No. Ratios, compliance thresholds, and the ECCE/NCS rules are rule-based and deterministic by design: that's an architectural and compliance stance, not a cost decision. There's no model anywhere in the path deciding what counts as a breach or what an inspector should see.

The compliance report templates are shaped directly against a real Tusla Early Years Services inspection notebook, not a generic checklist. The Tusla Readiness Dashboard is designed to be scannable in under 10 seconds, and every safety- or compliance-relevant breach is alerted on and logged; resolutions are recorded, never silently cleared.

No. Staff have no logins. They tap their name on the room tablet, which you pair yourself with a one-time code, so there's nothing on a personal phone and nothing to switch off when someone leaves. If a tablet goes missing, you reissue or deactivate it and the old session is cut off; until you do, it still works for its own room, so treat it like the crèche keys. Admins sign in with a second step (MFA), and reports can't be opened off the premises without your approver signing off.

Each child's eligibility is tracked against their actual attendance, including the under-attendance rules, and you get a list of NCS claims still waiting on a parent to confirm. The Pobal reconciliation report puts what was claimed, what attendance supports and what Pobal actually paid side by side, and Core Funding shows what was agreed against what's been paid. Neither Pobal nor the Early Years Hive expose a public API, so no crèche software connects to them directly; claim confirmations are kept up to date by your staff instead.

Yes, that's the default. A room tablet logs in once as the room's own device; individual staff pick their name before logging an action (attribution), which is separate from the device login itself.

No. Parents get a passwordless magic-link sign-in by email and use Bloomffy in their phone's browser, nothing to install or keep updated.

Families get the parent app on a free plan, and their child's day is never behind a paywall.

Your crèche's data is yours. Bloomffy is in early access and billing isn't automated yet, so cancellation and export terms are agreed with you directly rather than buried in a self-serve flow: email us and we export your full data within 48 hours, no questions asked. See our Terms, or ask us directly.