What's New
The short version of what's just landed on Wootzoo, newest first.
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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 £20 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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