Private by design

Features built for trusted circles.

Sittership is for families and sitters who already know each other. No public marketplace, no browsing strangers, and no group-text scramble.

Sitter bench management

Invite and approve sitters in one private bench. Mark favorites, add sitters to your Village, and stay in control of who can see requests.

Household dashboard showing sitter bench management

Post a need once

Set date, time, children, pay, and sitter recipients in one flow. Choose how it goes out: notify everyone at once, offer to a preferred sitter first, or ask your Village first and escalate automatically.

Form for posting a babysitting need

First to accept gets booked

See statuses clearly as requests move from open to booked. The first approved sitter to accept is locked in instantly, with no double-booking.

Request status list with open and booked states

Messages, updates, and recaps

Chat with notified sitters before booking and with your confirmed sitter after. During the sit, sitters send updates and a recap so you stay informed without extra apps.

In-app conversation between a household and a sitter

Calendar for everyone

Track needs, jobs, and sitter availability in one calendar timeline to avoid overlap and confusion.

Calendar view with needs and availability

Sitter availability offers

Sitters can post open windows and families can book those offers quickly when timing lines up.

Availability card that a family can book

Warm intros and endorsements

Recommend a trusted sitter to another family with a private intro link — no public listing. Families can endorse a sitter only after a completed sit together, and sitters choose which endorsements appear.

A household's Village of trusted sitters

Sitter Pro tools

An optional upgrade for sitters: a verified sitter card backed by real endorsements, unlimited warm intros, an earnings export for taxes, calendar subscriptions, and one-tap payment reminders.

Sitter earnings summary with Sitter Pro tools

Recurring needs

Set a standing schedule and Sittership auto-posts upcoming requests for you.

Payment tracking

Mark sits paid or unpaid and send reminders. Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Cash, or cash.

Push notifications

Get notified the moment a need goes out, gets booked, or needs your attention.

Household settings

Manage your household name, address, time zone, and default notification mode.

Households approve their own sitters. Sittership does not vet, certify, or background-check sitters.

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