Booking software for babysitters in Ireland.
The half-six text, the hours on the clock, and the money settled before you have your coat on.
Start with Google- Parents book evenings online
- Deposits lock in date night
- Automatic confirmation and reminder emails
- Every family and sit on record
- Paid by card, not doorstep cash
Online booking
Only the evenings you are free
Open the Friday and the Saturday, leave the school nights shut, and a parent who is already late books four hours with no reply needed.
Learn moreSmart scheduling
The same family, every second Friday
A sit set to repeat weekly or monthly puts the standing evenings in the diary ahead of you, for as long as it runs, free on any plan.
Learn moreTwo hours or six, on the clock.
Babysitting is paid by the hour, so a quiet evening after bedtime and a long one that runs to the small hours do not meet in the middle.
Priced by the hour
Set the rate once and the page totals the evening as the parent picks the hours, so the figure on screen is the figure you are owed.
Nothing open that suits
If the night they want is shut, the ask arrives as a request to accept or decline, rather than the family trying whoever replies first.
The address before the yes
The page takes the house first and checks it is somewhere you cover, so a sit two bus rides out is turned down before it is agreed.
Settled by eleven, no wallet in the hall.
The awkward part of babysitting is the doorway at the end of it. Send the card link as you pack up and the receipt sees itself out.
Cash is free to record
Note what was left for you against the sit, on the free plan. Cards are the one part of the money that asks for Pro.
A link, rather than a conversation
The parent taps it from the sofa. Nobody is hunting a cash machine at eleven at night and nobody is owed until Tuesday.
Into your own account
Card money goes into your own Stripe account. We never hold it on the way through, so there is nothing to wait on.
- Aoife ByrneP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer€380
- Cian MurphyP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash€240
- Niamh DoyleP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card€380
- Seán GallagherP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card€190
Any chance you could do tonight? Back by half eleven.
The ask at ten to six.
A night you have not opened arrives as a request in a thread, with accept and decline on the card itself.
Every second Friday, set once.
Weekly or monthly, at whatever spacing that family keeps, generated into the diary ahead of you and free.
- Cian Murphy2mCan you come Thursday instead?
- Bookables1hA booking request needs your answer
- Niamh Doyle3hRunning 10 late on the Stoneybatter job
One thread for each family.
The change of plan, the extra hour and your answer to it all stay in the same conversation.
Built for the evening
Every kind of sit you take
Friday date-night sit
Four hours from six, priced on the clock, taken off your page while the parents are still choosing somewhere to eat.
The half-six text
A parent whose evening has just fallen apart takes the next open slot themselves, with no ring-round and no waiting on you.
Bedtime-only sit
Two hours from the bath to lights out, then you sit downstairs. A short evening priced short rather than rounded up to a whole night.
Two under three
The second child goes on as an option while the parent books, so the fee is agreed before you are anywhere near the front door.
Christening-day sit
A long afternoon and evening while the family is at the hotel, with the late finish added by them rather than settled at midnight.
Midterm day sit
A full weekday in the break, on the clock from nine, in the same list as your evenings instead of on the back of an envelope.
Overnight stay
Ten at night through to seven, on the diary as one booking at its own rate rather than an evening quietly stretched.
Covering the usual sitter
A family whose regular has dropped out finds an evening that is genuinely free on your page instead of texting four people.
The standing Thursday
Same family, same night, set up once and put in the diary for as long as the arrangement carries on.
Children up, dinner party down
Upstairs with the children while the parents host. One booking, one record, and the hours counted to the last guest out.
The household on one card.
Where they live, the number to ring and what they have spent, instead of scrolling back through a year of messages.
- 15 AugEvening sit · 4 hrsBooked · €140
- 1 AugPayment received€140
- 18 JulBedtime sit · 2 hrsCompleted · €70
- 4 JulOvernight stayCompleted · €220
The same families, over and over.
Every evening you have sat for them in order, so the next booking is a repeat rather than a fresh form each time.
A whole evening on the board.
Your night from the first family to the last, on a window that starts when your work does rather than at eight in the morning.
One app for the whole job
Everything you need to run your babysitting business.
Priced by the hour
Babysitting is billed on the clock, so a short evening after bedtime and a long one running to the small hours land at the right fee.
Standing evenings
The family who has you every second Friday is set up once and put in the diary ahead of you, at no cost on whatever plan you hold.
The family record
Bedtimes, the allergy, which neighbour has the key and the number for nana, kept as notes on the family and never shown to them.
Starts free. Grows
only when you do.
Add your whole team and get booking for nothing.
As you grow with us you can go Pro.
Common questions.
Any evening you have opened, yes. There is a one-hour floor before the next bookable slot, so a half-six ask can take a half-seven sit but not a quarter-to. Anything tighter arrives as a request instead and you answer it in the thread.
Yes. Babysitting is priced on the clock, so a two-hour bedtime sit and a six-hour night at a wedding do not end up at the same number. A second child or a finish past midnight sits on the service as an option with its own price, chosen by the parent as they book.
On the family. Each child is a record under the household in their own right, and the rest of it — the nut allergy, which neighbour has the spare key, the number for nana — goes on as an internal note. Notes are yours alone, never shown to the family, and they are waiting the next time you sit.
It cannot, and neither can you on your own. The National Vetting Bureau is explicit that vetting is conducted on behalf of registered organisations only and not for individual persons on a personal basis, under the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016. So a sitter working for herself has nothing to show, and it is a family reference that usually does the work instead. Bookables runs the diary and the money and no part of any of that.
No. Set the sit to repeat weekly or monthly at whatever spacing that family keeps, and the evenings appear in the diary ahead of you. Move one and the pattern re-anchors from there. Standing arrangements are free.
Record it against the sit and the booking is settled, on the free plan, with nothing owed to us. Cards are the part that comes with Pro, and card money goes into your own Stripe account rather than sitting with us on the way past.
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