What do you get with a free daycare website builder?
Everything. The website builder is part of CubbyBook's Free plan, and nothing about it needs Pro. You get thirteen sections to turn on and arrange, four designed styles with your own accent colour, hosting at a daycares.cubbybook.com address, and an enquiries inbox that collects contact and waitlist submissions from your published site.
The sections cover what a daycare page actually needs: a top banner, about us, programs and ages, your team, a photo gallery, opening hours, a map and address, parent reviews, common questions, a contact form, a waitlist sign-up, a closing invitation, and an announcement banner for timely notices. Your opening hours and location come straight from your daycare profile, so there's nothing to retype and nothing to forget to update.
What's the catch with a free daycare website?
There are two honest answers, and neither is a trial clock. First, your site lives at daycares.cubbybook.com followed by your site's name, and the footer carries a small Powered by CubbyBook link. You can't connect a custom domain.
Second, the website feeds the same app that runs your enrollment, attendance, and daily reports. That's why it can be free: a family who finds you through your site becomes an enquiry in your inbox, and later an enrollment you manage in the same place. CubbyBook wants your website to work, because the rest of the app is where you and that family will live. There's no ad on your page, no cap on submissions, and no expiry date on the plan.
Where does your free daycare website live?
At daycares.cubbybook.com followed by a name built from your daycare's name and city at the moment you create the site. That address is permanent. There's no rename later, so it's worth adding your city to your profile before you tap Create my website. If your profile has no city, the address simply leaves it out, forever.
Permanent has an upside: the link you put on a business card, a Facebook page, or a local directory keeps working. Taking the site offline, or switching the whole feature off, keeps the same address waiting for when you come back.
How do enquiries work on the free plan?
Your site can include a contact form and a waitlist sign-up. Both deliver to your Enquiries inbox inside CubbyBook, newest first, with an unread count in your sidebar. Switch on Send me an email and list up to five addresses under Send new enquiries to if you want a partner or co-educator copied. Either way, the enquiry is always saved to the inbox.
A waitlist sign-up collects the family's details plus the child's first name, birth date, and desired start date. One thing to be clear about: it's an enquiry, a family raising their hand. It doesn't create a child record or a place in a queue. You follow up and decide what happens next.
Spam protection is built in and quiet. Real parents fill in the form and never notice it; most junk never reaches you.
- ✓ An invisible bot check that only challenges visitors who look suspicious
- ✓ A hidden trap field that catches automated submissions
- ✓ A limit on repeat submissions from one place in a short window
Will a free daycare website show up on Google?
A published site is built to be found. It carries proper page titles, a description, social sharing previews, and structured data, and it appears in a sitemap. In the builder you can set the Title on Google and the Description on Google yourself, so the search snippet says what you want it to say.
Drafts stay private. A site you haven't published yet is marked so search engines don't index it, and a visitor who guesses the address sees a short page not found message. Nothing goes public until you press Publish changes.
How does it compare with other free website tiers?
Most free website tiers exist to advertise a paid tier. They put ads or a banner on your page, cap your form submissions, hold back the search settings, or quietly expire. The table below sets CubbyBook's free website against that pattern.
One concession up front: generic builders usually offer custom domains and CubbyBook doesn't. If owning yourname.com matters more to you than everything else in the column, a generic builder is the honest pick. If what you want is a daycare site that gets found, fills itself in from your profile, and delivers every enquiry to one inbox, this one is free without an asterisk.
What happens when a family wants to enroll?
The website's job ends at the enquiry, on purpose. When a family is ready, you send them a private enrollment link from CubbyBook. It's good for 7 days, they fill it in on their own time with progress saved, and they finish with an e-signature. You review, request a fix if something's off, and confirm. Confirming creates the child's record, links the parents, and builds the enrollment from what they typed.
So the story runs: your site captures the enquiry, you send the enrollment link, the family e-signs. No public form ever collects a child's records, and you never retype a thing.