Custom forms

Every form your setting needs, minus the paper — and the re-typing

Applications, permissions, accident records, trip consents. Build the form once, put it on your website or send it by email, and let the answers fill in the child's record for you to check.

No developer, no setup fee
Build it yourself

No developer, no setup fee

AI fills in the child's record
Answers → profile

AI fills in the child's record

Accident records checked before parents see them
Approval first

Accident records checked before parents see them

The form builder, with fields being arranged for a new form
Onboarding that runs itself

From a website enquiry to a finished child record

Getting a new child onto the system usually means typing an application in, posting out a stack of permission and medical forms, then typing every answer in a second time. Set it up once, and every new child afterwards arrives ready for you to approve rather than type.

1

Publish an application form

One link on your website's admissions page. Parents don't need an account, and spam is filtered out.

2

AI builds the child

The child, both parents and emergency contacts are read from the application and proposed beside it for you to check.

3

Follow-up forms send themselves

Permissions, medical and dietary forms set to auto-assign go out the moment the child exists.

4

Answers fill in the profile

Each completed form merges into the child's record with every change highlighted. Nothing is saved until you say so.

It only ever adds — it never wipes what you hold

The parent's answers sit on one side and the child's record on the other, with every suggested change listed and highlighted. A blank or “none” answer can never clear something you already have, and a page of health notes becomes a short summary staff will actually read.

  • Child, parents and emergency contacts in one go
  • Parents matched by email, so no duplicates
  • Consents and custom fields mapped to the profile
  • Every value editable before you save
A completed permissions form beside the child's profile, with the fields it will fill in listed for review
Manager approval

Checked Before It Reaches a Parent

An accident record is filled in by the practitioner who saw it, but a manager reads it before the family does. Staff submit rather than send; a manager or form approver checks the wording, adds their signature and sends it on — or returns it with a note.

  • Raised from the register, on the web or the app
  • One email to approvers listing everything waiting
  • Send back for changes with a note
  • Writing rules checked before it goes, e.g. "describe what happened factually"
Form submissions on the Awaiting Approval tab, with three accident records waiting for a manager

The building blocks

Everything you need to replace the paper version of any form you use today.

Build Any Form You Need

Text fields, dropdowns, checkboxes, date pickers, signatures, and body diagrams for marking injuries on accident reports.

No App, No Login for Parents

Parents get a secure email link and complete the form there and then. Public forms need only a name and email address.

Flexible Assignment

Assign to children, staff or any email address, in bulk, straight from the register, or automatically when a child is added.

Automatic Reminders

Set a due date and Pigeonhole chases parents for you, so nobody has to keep a list of who still owes a form.

Signatures, Saved

Parents sign on screen. Staff save their signature once and sign every form after that with one tap.

For Parents Who Aren't Online

Complete and sign any form on a tablet in the nursery, or print it. It's stored alongside everything else either way.

Perfect for Any Use Case

Start from a ready-made template or build your own. Staff can raise forms directly from the register during the day.

Enquiry and application forms on your website
Accident, incident and existing-injury records
Permission slips for trips and activities
Medical information and allergy forms
Staff evaluation and feedback forms
Quick assignment from the daily register

Field Types

Text fields
Dropdowns
Checkboxes
Date pickers
Time selectors
Yes/No toggles
Digital signatures
Body diagrams

Who Does What

Staff can view, fill in, or raise for approval
Managers and form approvers sign off
Parents complete their own sections
Approvers can return a form with a note

AI Writing Assistant

Your house style in plain English, checked against what staff write on forms and observations.

Funding Forms

Council funding declarations, pre-filled from the record you already hold.

See it on your own setting

30-day free trial · no card needed · see pricing

Part of Pigeonhole's nursery management software.