How Centrely works

You answer the same two questions all day.

What does it cost, and have you got a spot. On the phone, one family at a time. And a fair few of them turn out to want a room that's full, or days you don't run.

Centrely lets families sort that out themselves, on your website, before they ring.

What a family does

They tell you how old their child is. Centrely shows the rooms that suit that age, which days each one has open, and what a place would cost them after the subsidy once they put in their income and their days. Their number, not a range.

Marlo Street Community Preschool · Fitzroy North, Melbourne

One room, as a family sees it

Banksia 3 yr old preschool

Busy, hands-on days for our three-year-olds — painting, digging, worm-farm duty and their first taste of preschool routines.

Enrolling now Spaces Mon to Fri

$128 per day

Estimate your cost

Family income $80,000$120,000$160,000$200,000$250,000$300,000 Days a week 12345

A place in the Banksia room would cost you about

—a week

— a day, after a — subsidy. The room's fee is $128 per day.

Example figures — enter your details in the calculator for yours. Income is picked in bands and the rest of the household is held at our worked example — a partnered family on $120,000 a year with both parents working. How the subsidy is worked out

Book a tour

And then the tour. That same room, that same number — turned into a family in your diary. Try it: this is the real booking flow, on an example centre.

If it suits, they book a tour. Into a time you've already said yes to.

Marlo Street is a demonstration centre. Its rooms, fees and tour times are its own published page data, and the after-subsidy figures come from the calculator's engine as worked examples. A tour requested here is sent to the real booking endpoint, which refuses to store anything for an example centre.

The rest of the site

The rooms page is one of nine. The others are what families ask about before they ring — what's on the menu this week, what the programs look like, who'll be in the room, how settling in goes. Marlo Street wrote two of those pages themselves, including the one explaining that the families who use the preschool run it.

• Home
• Rooms & Fees
• CCS Subsidy
• Programs
• Enrolment
• Our team
• Menu
• Our committee
• Settling in

These pages come with Connect and Complete. Complete adds the home page and your own web address, so the whole thing is yours rather than bolted onto a site you already have.

What lands on your side

Not “someone asked about fees”.

Their name, the child's age, when they'd start, the room that fits, the days they want, and the tour they've booked. Your team opens it already knowing if it's a yes.

A few things worth knowing

• Your availability is whatever your team puts in. We don't guess it and we don't pull it from anywhere else.
• The cost figures are estimates. Services Australia works out what a family actually gets.
• This sits in front of your enrolment software, not instead of it. Our bit's done when they walk in the door.