Looking for a Tapestry alternative?
Tapestry is loved for EYFS observations and learning journals. If you want that plus invoicing, staff rotas, live ratios and the rest of running your setting in one place, Taylormade Care brings it together.
Tapestry is an excellent learning-journal and observation tool, and rightly popular. But it focuses on observations — many settings still run invoicing, registers, rotas and compliance somewhere else. Taylormade Care covers the whole day in one system, so you're not stitching tools together.
Why settings choose Taylormade Care
Observations and the learning journal
Capture observations with photos, tag them to the EYFS areas, track milestones and the 2-year progress check, and export a learning journal as a PDF.
Plus the business side
Invoices, funded hours, contracts and a parent app — the money and admin an observation tool leaves you to handle elsewhere.
Staff rota and live EYFS ratios
Build the rota, assign staff to rooms and check EYFS ratios and qualification mix live — something dedicated observation tools don't do.
Compliance in one place
Accident, incident and medication logs, policies, risk assessments and fire drills — all date-stamped and inspection-ready.
One flat price
£9.50 or £29 a month for the whole setting, with no per-child fees.
If all you need is observations and a learning journal, Tapestry does that one job beautifully. Taylormade Care is for settings that want that and everything else in one place.
Common questions
Does Taylormade Care do EYFS observations like Tapestry?
Yes — photo observations tagged to the EYFS areas, milestone tracking, the 2-year progress check and a PDF learning journal.
What does it add beyond observations?
Invoicing and funding, contracts, registers, a staff rota with live EYFS ratios, the Single Central Record, kitchen and food-safety records, and a parent app — all in one login.
Can children's records come across?
Yes — get in touch and we'll help you set up your children and start fresh records quickly. Your data always stays yours.