Set up your whole centre free — add your learners and see it running with your real class list. You only pay when you're ready to go live.
It pays for itself the first time one unpaid parent finally settles up. WhatsApp fee reminders, the attendance register your district asks for, and every learner file on your phone — for DOE-registered, private and community crèches.
Built by Siyabonga Ndlovu, who runs a 114-learner crèche in Hazyview, Mpumalanga.
Not sure where to start? WhatsApp us — we'll import your learners and set up your centre with you, free.
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Running a crèche is hard enough. The admin shouldn't be the hardest part.
The DBE pays R24 per child, per day. But only if your register is correct, complete, and in the right format. One missing page costs you thousands.
Every month, the same parents. The same conversations. The same half-promises. Your collection rate stays stuck at 60% while you chase individually.
A parent asks for last month's fee statement. A learner's intake form is in a drawer somewhere. Your register is half in a notebook, half on your phone. Small admin tasks take 30 minutes to sort out.
Not mockups. A real 48-learner centre, mid-term, with fees half collected and a DOE register due.
Every unpaid parent, on one screen. Who owes, how much, and one tap to record the payment when it lands.
Parents get their own page. What they owe, how to pay, and the exact reference to use — so the money lands matched.
For DOE-registered centres, the subsidy only pays out if your attendance register is correct every single day. Miss a day and you lose the claim for that child. Zande takes attendance on your phone and builds the register automatically — in the exact format your province requires.
Every tool an ECD owner needs — from the first enrolment to monthly admin — in one clean interface. Works for DOE-registered and private centres.
Mark attendance on your phone in under 2 minutes. Zande builds the attendance register automatically, in the format your district accepts. Submit at month-end — no reformatting.
Full learner profiles, age groups, fee classes, enrolment dates, and every child's documents scanned and stored in one place.
Record payments, track outstanding balances, and send the statement straight to the parent on WhatsApp — by email too if they want it. Zande works out who to chase and writes the message, so you never chase manually again.
Track every document, certificate, and inspection date. Get notified 30 days before anything expires.
Log incidents, notify parents, maintain records. All timestamped and stored.
Staff records, roles, contact details and start dates — all in one place.
Monthly collection summaries, outstanding reports, and audit-ready records exported in one click.
Upload the statement PDF straight from your banking app — Capitec, FNB, Standard Bank, ABSA or Nedbank — and Zande matches every EFT to the right learner. No more mystery deposits or ticking a paper list by hand. On another bank? Send us a sample and we'll add it within a week.
Share one link. Parents apply online with their child's details and documents — applications drop straight into your pending list to approve, waitlist or decline in a tap.
Track each child against the Early Learning Development Areas (ELDA). Capture observations through the year and produce a progress report parents can see.
Log your centre's running costs and see income against expenses each month — the real picture of what your centre actually keeps.
Run several branches from one login. Each site keeps its own learners, staff and registers, and you see the whole group in one owner view.
Give parents a secure login to see their fees, invoices, statements and their child's monthly attendance — no more "what do I owe?" messages. They sign in with their phone number and child's name; it's read-only.
Every Growth centre gets a clean, mobile-friendly website — your logo, classes, fees and an online enquiry form — so parents find you on Google and apply. We build and host it for you.
Zande wasn't designed in an office park. It runs a real ECD centre every single morning.
"I run Bethel Crèche here in Hazyview, 114 children. I got tired of chasing fees and rebuilding DOE registers by hand, so I built the software I wished existed. Every feature has to work at my centre before it reaches yours. Zande isn't built by a startup that never heard of the DOE. It's built by a principal, in rand, for South Africa."
Zande runs the daily attendance, fee tracking, and DOE registers at a real 114-learner crèche in Hazyview, Mpumalanga — the centre it was built in. Every month-end register you export, we export too.
We didn't imagine these problems. We chase the same fees, reconcile the same unmatched EFTs, submit to the same district offices, and answer to the same DOE deadlines as you do.
Every feature has to survive a real morning at the centre — 6:45 drop-off, one phone, patchy signal, a queue of parents. If it doesn't work there, it doesn't ship.
Software from inside the sector, not above it. Get started free today.
Get started free →Nobody starts from nothing. Send us whatever you already keep and we set your centre up for you.
Excel, CSV, or a photo of the register. Whatever you actually keep. WhatsApp it to us.
We map your columns, set up your classes, and load your learners and fee history. Not a template you fill in yourself.
You open Zande and your centre is already there. If something looks wrong, we fix it before you pay anything. After that it is two minutes a morning to mark the register.
We recently set up a centre with over 300 children from a single fee spreadsheet — learners, classes, payment dates and eight months of payment history, loaded for them.
Start free →Import is free. Support is a WhatsApp message to a person in your time zone, not a chatbot in another country.
Across South Africa a place costs R250 to R370 a month, so R299 is one learner. It is also less than the DBE pays you for 13 children attending a single day. Set up your centre free, then unlock the full app from R99/month. No lock-in, no setup fees.
EFT, cash, or a SASSA grant — straight into your own Capitec, FNB, Standard Bank or ABSA account. Zande matches the deposits to the learners. Nothing changes for the parent.
Set up takes one afternoon. No card. No IT support. No training. Just you and your phone.
Get started free →Rather have help? WhatsApp us and we'll set up your centre with you — free.