What's New
The short version of what's just landed on Wootzoo, newest first.
16 to 29 October 2026
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Meet Bwtty Bot
On Wootzoo Plus, Bwtty Bot keeps an eye on your observations and tells you on the dashboard: next steps ready to plan, observations with no next steps, and pathways nobody has covered lately.
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Work It
On Wootzoo Plus: type rough notes on a new observation and press Work it. Bwtty Bot writes them up for you to check. Owners, managers and staff all have it.
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Next Steps into Next Month's Plan
On Wootzoo Plus: in the Activity Planner, tick next steps from a month's observations and start next month's plan with the objectives and pathways already filled in.
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Observations Across Pathways
Pick two or three pathways on one observation and tap each one to tick its statements. A new observation also shows what has already been observed for that child.
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Flying Start Setup Wizard
Set up Flying Start one step at a time in Settings, under Funding: funded hours and rate, sessions, children and their eligible dates, term dates and how parents pay. Then check your answers before you save.
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The Same Amount Every Month
Charge parents an equal amount each month: a year of fees over 12 months, with Flying Start shared equally over the months it covers, and Childcare Offer too if you choose. Turn it on in Settings, under Invoicing or Funding.
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Getting Started, Step by Step
The Get Started card now shows one step at a time, with Skip for now. Start a step and a bar on that page takes you straight on to the next one.
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Choose Whether Parents Can Message You
Switch off messages from parents in Settings, under Emails & Notifications. Parents can still read your messages and comment on posts.
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The Day Sheet
Log meals, nappies, toilet, sleep, sun cream and a note for every child on one page. Tap to rate meals, mark children absent, holiday or sick, fix the time of an entry, and publish the whole day when you are ready. Choose which meals show in Settings.
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Hold the Day, Then Publish
Choose to keep daily updates back until staff publish them, so parents get one tidy notification instead of one for every entry. You decide which staff can publish.
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A Livelier Today's Children
Today's Children now shows room tabs with who is in, care icons with details on hover, who is asleep and since when, and a Nap time button to start sleeps together. It is on the staff screen too.
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Welsh Boxes Throughout
Nappy, toilet, feed, medicine, incident and moment entries, and their edit screens, now have Welsh boxes with translate buttons, for owners and staff. Editing an entry no longer wipes its Welsh text.
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Photos in Messages
Parents and settings can now send photos in one-to-one chats: tap the button, drag one in or paste it.
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Temperature Checks
Log a child's temperature from their profile. Parents are alerted automatically at 38ยฐC or above.
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Accident and Incident Analysis
Record the cause, area and group on accident and incident reports, then see the patterns by cause, area, day and time, and child. Useful to show a CIW inspector.
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Staff Hours Report
See each member of staff's hours from their sign-ins, with your break rule applied, and download it as a CSV.
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28 September 2026
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Advanced Welsh Translation for Plus
Plus settings now get AI-powered translation between English and Welsh wherever there is a translate button, written for early years wording. Always check translations before saving.
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21 to 24 September 2026
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Learning Overview and a Redesigned Initial Assessment
Each child's profile now has a learning overview card, and the initial assessment pages have been redesigned, with progress counted from the indicators you tick.
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A New Menu, With Your Setting at the Top
The menu is now built around the setting you are working in, with a switcher at the top, and Plus and SerenPass first. New accounts start on it. If you were here before, you stay on the classic menu until you choose to try the new one, and you can switch back any time from the account menu.
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Foundation Phase Funding
Record Foundation Phase funding for 3 and 4 year olds: 10 hours a week, term time, alongside CCOW and Flying Start.
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Edit a Child's Name and Absences
Staff can now correct a child's name from their profile, and edit or delete a logged absence, including its dates, reason and billing.
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Meal Descriptions in Parent Notifications
When you log a meal, the notification parents get now includes what was on the plate, and it opens the right page.
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Print the Activity Library
Print any activity from the library, and activities shared by the community are now approved automatically.
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One Child Collection Form for Every Setting
Every setting can now send parents the child collection form, and the answers feed the child's profile and SerenPass.
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Manager Accounts Stay Off the Money Side
Managers no longer see invoicing, payments or contracts. Give someone a Finance login if they need those.
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Invoice Dates Follow Your Invoice Day
New invoices now default to your setting's invoice day, and you can edit the dates on a draft invoice before you send it.
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Branded Receipts for Parents
Parents can now open a receipt for each payment, with your setting's details and a Wootzoo brand band.
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Sharper Setting Photos
Photos you upload for your setting, like the ones on your public page, now keep their shape and stay crisp instead of being cropped to a small square. Re-upload any older photos that look blocky.
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16 to 21 September 2026
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Staff Can View Completed Child Forms
Staff can open a child's completed forms to read them, without being sent to the provider login.
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Alerts for Failed Direct Debits
If a Direct Debit payment fails, or a mandate is cancelled, fails or expires, you are now alerted so you can follow it up.
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A Calendar for Parents (Plus)
Parents get a Calendar tab in the app showing your plans, events, closures and the classes they have booked. You can hide any plan from parents.
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Set CCOW Hours Right From the Contract
Set a child's Childcare Offer for Wales hours in a pop-up on their contract, and get a warning on the contract and on invoicing when the hours are missing.
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Finance Logins for Staff
Give someone a Finance login that only reaches the money side of Wootzoo: invoicing and payments, nothing else.
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Not Applicable on CIW Checklists
Mark any item on a CIW compliance checklist as not applicable to your setting, and it is left out of the completion figure.
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Free Stock Photos and Editable Plans
Search free Pixabay photos from the photo picker on activity plans and the library, and whoever created a plan can now edit it afterwards.
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Staff Absence Logging
Log staff sickness, holiday and other absences, with full add, edit and delete, so your ratios reflect who's actually in.
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CCOW ยฃ0 Excess Bug Fixed
Fixed a billing bug where some families were being charged ยฃ0 excess on top of their Childcare Offer for Wales hours instead of the correct amount.
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Editable Sign-In/Out Times on the SerenPass Report
Correct a sign-in or sign-out time directly on the SerenPass report, no need to redo it at the door.
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Stripe Connect is Now the Default
New settings are set up with Stripe Connect as their payment option from the start.
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Add Another Contract
Add a second contract for a child straight from their profile, no need to end the first one first.
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"Groups" is Now "Groups & Pickups"
Renamed in the nav to make it clearer where pickup arrangements live.
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"None" Allergy Fixed
Setting a child's allergies to "None" no longer falsely flags them as having an allergy.
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Medicine Section in Welsh
The medicine form and log are now fully translated into Welsh.
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3 September 2026
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Try Wootzoo Plus Free for 14 Days
Start a free 14-day Plus trial yourself, no sales call needed, to try the Calendar, Activity Planner and Activity Library.
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Parents Book Their Own Wraparound Sessions
Parents can book ad-hoc and wraparound sessions themselves, with live capacity and ratio checks, no more back-and-forth.
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New ยฃ20 Childminder Pricing Tier
A dedicated low-cost pricing tier for childminders, opening Wootzoo up to a setting type that didn't have a fit before.
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Childcare Offer for Wales, Fixed and Configurable
Fixed an issue where government-funded hours could be counted twice in what parents were charged, and you can now set your own CCOW rate.
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CIW Tools: Safeguarding, Supervisions & Checklists
Safeguarding tracking, staff supervisions, custom checklists, and a committee document library, all in one place for CIW compliance.
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Assign Children to Rooms
Rooms now work exactly like staff, assign a child straight to a room from the Rooms page, no extra steps.
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Real Staff Ratios, Per Room
Your dashboard's staff ratio now reflects each room's own ratio setting, blended by who's actually enrolled there, instead of one flat number for the whole nursery.
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Auto-Create Contracts from Requested Sessions
When a parent requests specific sessions, click "Add Requested Sessions" on the scheduler's Create a Contract panel and they drop straight into the contract builder for you. No more retyping what they already told you.
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Parents Can Report Absence
Parents can report their child's absence themselves, visible to the setting straight away.
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Standalone Invoices
Create a one-off invoice for anything outside the normal contract billing cycle: trips, deposits, whatever comes up.
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Flying Start Digital Form
The Flying Start consent form is now a bilingual digital form inside Wootzoo, no more paper for WG-funded onboarding.
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Subscribe to Your Setting's Calendar
Parents can now subscribe to your setting's events in Google or Apple Calendar, so nothing gets missed.
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Managers Can Bulk-Invoice Too
Bulk invoicing and marking invoices as paid isn't owner-only any more, managers can do it from the admin side too.
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Invite a Second Parent
Both parents can now have their own login, with a privacy toggle controlling what each one sees.
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Emergency Contacts, With a Photo
Add a photo to each emergency contact on a child's profile, so staff can recognise who's collecting in a hurry.
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Food Menus for Managers
Managers can now build and edit food menus directly from the admin side: create meals, assign them to days, and set the active menu, without needing the owner login.
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Help Guides Open Right on the Page
The little "Learn more" links dotted around the app now open the guide in a pop-up on the same page instead of a new tab, quicker to check and dismiss.
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