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Grow Your Childcare Business

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Targeted Marketing.

Get your childcare offerings in front of actively looking families.

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Save time.

Recommending you to families based on your preferences and availability.

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Save money.

Grow your business without hiring an entire back-office team.

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Optimal flexibility.

Set your own hourly rate by service. Choose how to get paid.

Our services

Premium Jobs Platform

We match you with actively searching families, handle booking and interview logistics, and automate payment.

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Payment Tools

From guaranteeing payments to collecting tip$, we have all your payment needs covered.

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Key Features

  • ✔ Show off your skills, expertise, reviews and certifications.

    ✔ Our built-in search helps families to find you online, easily.

    ✔ Use your profiles on other platforms like Care.com, Urbansitter and SitterCity and put all your bookings in one place.

  • ✔ Let families see when you are available for bookings.

    ✔ Smart calendar that automatically blocks with each booking and re-opens with each cancellation.

    ✔ Intelligent booking system that adds a travel time buffer in between each job.

  • ✔ Text-to-app notifications of pending job and interview requests

    ✔ Automated text and email messages to inform your clients of your booking acceptance or decline.

    ✔ Nightly text reminder to you of next-day appointments so you never miss a job again.

  • By choosing to accept credit / debit card payments, we help you

    ✔ Preauthorize payments before sessions so you are guaranteed payments.

    ✔ Automated weekly payouts across all families serviced. No need to chase for payments anymore.

    ✔ We gently remind families on your behalf to add tip$ for you!

Why Apiari

Our platform and tools have helped care providers manage and process over
$3M in bookings.

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 “Working with Apiari has made it easy to balance my busy schedule. After placing my availability up on the user-friendly platform, wonderfully warm families were led to my profile, and I began working with them right away.”

- Allison M.

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“Apiari has been a tremendous blessing. I’m a single parent so it’s crucial for me to have flexibility in my daily work schedule. Plus, I appreciate the environment of mutual respect, understanding, compassion and love.”

- Nicole B

FAQs

Got more questions? See more answers here!

  • You won't have to! With our Premium Jobs Platform, once your profile is activated, we automatically match you with jobs meeting your preferences.

    You only need to reply 'Yes' or 'No' to family requests.

  • Currently, providers with wide availability during the week are getting booked within 2 days of their profile activation.

  • Providers set their own hourly rates.

    Depending on your availability, you can earn as much as you are available.

  • To manage your own clients and automate payments, there is no sign- up fee for our Standard Payment Tools. When your clients pay you via Apiari, we deduct a 10% fee to cover booking automation and payment processing fees.

    If you want to be matched with new family clients, you must pay a monthly subscription of $29.99 for our Premium Jobs Matching Platform. You can cancel anytime based on your job search status.

  • Below are the most frequent types of bookings:

    • Regular part-time help during the week

    • Full-week infant care during the day / overnight

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