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Registration is free and without commitment. You can also read and answer messages for free. Did you find a great family to babysit for and do you want to contact them first? Then you can get a premium subscription.

The fees are:

1 month: 19 CAD 

3 months: 39 CAD (13 CAD per month)

Your Premium membership will be automatically extended at the end of the membership, with the same period as the initial period you chose. You can cancel your membership at any time.

What you can earn with babysitting is depending on your age, experience, how many kids you’re babysitting and where you live. There is no fixed babysitting rate per age. It’s always best to start with the minimum wage and go from there. 

No. You can place the information you want to share with parents directly in your profile.

If you don’t have much experience yet, you’ll have to put in extra work to find a job. Parents like experienced babysitters. You can ask parents if you can help out with their kids when the parents are in the house, ask if you can babysit your younger siblings, nieces or nephews or the kids next door. This all will grow your experience and it will increase your chances to find a nice babysitting job.

If you're looking for a babysitting or nanny job online, make sure your profile is looking perfect. Tell the families who you are, what you're looking for, why you like babysitting and when you’re available. Also, add a nice photo as your profile picture. 

Preparation is the key: there is a lot of general information most parents will ask you. For example, they will ask you to tell them about yourself, why you like babysitting so much, or they will ask you about your experience. These are questions you can prepare at home. 

You may be protected in the event of an accident at work or of occupational disease. From April 6, 2022, you will be automatically protected in the event of an accident at work or

of occupational disease, if the person was remunerated by an individual for performing household chores, such as:

• assuming custody or care of a person or animal;


• performing housework or maintenance;


• performing any other duties of a household employee at the individual's dwelling;


• actingt as a driver or bodyguard;


• performing any other task relating to the private sphere of the individual.

However, the worker must provide a minimum work performance for the same individual, either:

• 420 hours over a 12 month period; Where


• 30 hours per week over a period of 7 consecutive weeks.

If this is your case, the individual who employs you is then considered your employer and should register with CNESST. If you do not qualify for automatic protection, you can subscribe to personal protection at any time. For more information, go to the Domestic workers page from our website, at www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca.

With Sitly, you can find a babysitter, nanny, or a home daycare provider family to babysit for in your area. You can easily contact them, plan an interview and make further arrangements. It’s up to you to decide what kind of babysitter, nanny, home daycare provider, or family is best for you, so you can make your own decisions about who to contact.

No. Registration is without obligations, free and without any kind of commitment. You can choose for yourself if you want to agree to an interview with parents, nannies, babysitters, or home daycare providers in your area. Arranging a babysitter or family is completely up to you.

You should look at Sitly as an online marketplace. Everyone can register or send messages. We don’t screen people beforehand, but of course we do check regularly if someone places inappropriate texts. It is up to parents, nannies, babysitters, or home daycare providers to make a selection of what they look for at Sitly. We do advise to carefully work on that selection, for example, to ask for references and plan an interview. This way, you’ll get the best picture of a potential nanny, babysitter, home daycare provider, or family.

Through the app, you can register, create a profile and search for your ideal babysitter/nanny/home daycare provider or perfect family in your area. The app is very user-friendly and offers more features than the regular desktop version. You can download the app through Google Play Store or via the Apple Store. 

You can talk to somebody by going to their profile and click on “Send message”. You’ll have to subscribe to a premium membership, first. As soon as you’ve sent the message, we will email that person and send a push notification through the Sitly app. The people to whom you’re sending a message can answer these for free. We will never share your personal data like address, email or phone number with other Sitly users. It is up to you to decide if you want to share those details.

Others can contact you when they have a premium subscription. When someone sends you a message through Sitly, you’ll receive an email notification about it, or a push message through the app. You can always respond to messages for free.

Log in, go to your profile and click at Account settings. You’ll see a link saying “Change password”. There, you can instantly change your password.

If you request a new password, you’ll receive an email with a link to reset your password. If it’s not in your inbox, check your spam folder. Didn’t receive any email? Then please contact our support team.

Go to "Profile". Below your availability you can find your current address and change it to your new one. 

Go to "Profile" and "Account settings" to change your email settings. You can set the "Updates about new matches" to "Never", and you won't receive the weekly emails anymore.

You can stop your premium subscription by logging in, going to your profile and clicking “Account settings”. There, you’ll find a link “Cancel subscription”.

When you've subscribed through Apple's iTunes, you also have to unsubscribe through your iTunes account. Apple works as an intermediary for payments between Sitly and her users. You can find the instructions on how to unsubscribe from any Apple subscription here:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202039

When you have subscribed to the premium membership through the Sitly Android app, you can cancel it in Google Play. You can find the instructions on how to unsubscribe from any Android subscription here: https://play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions

Please note: Deinstalling the app, or hiding or removing your account doesn't automatically cancel your subscription! You have to cancel your subscription in Google Play or iTunes.

Your Premium membership will be automatically extended at the end of the membership, with the same period as the initial period you chose. You can cancel your membership at any time.

Unfortunately, that’s technically not possible. The best thing to do is to remove your “old” profile first, and then register again as a parent, babysitter/nanny, or home daycare provider.

Go to “Profile” and go to your “Account Settings.” If you temporarily don’t need childcare, or if you’ve already found work, you can hide your profile until the next time you log in. Your profile won’t be visible to other parents, babysitters, nannies, or home daycare providers. But if you need a babysitter or a job in the future, you haven’t lost all your details which you would, if you were to delete your account.

As a babysitter, nanny or home daycare provider, only your first name, photo and age are visible for other users. As a parent, only your first name, photo and number of kids with their ages are displayed. Also, we will show your approximate location on a map, so that parents, babysitters/nannies or home daycare providers can see how close or far you live from them. Your exact location is not visible. Your address will be hidden and is not visible for other Sitly users.

We find it of the utmost importance to protect your personal data. That is why we protected our website with a so-called SSL-certificate. This certificate encrypts information that’s being send back and forth. You can see that the website is procted by the little lock in your browser.

Your address will be used to show other registered users approximately where you live approximately, by placing an icon on the map of your area. This way, parents, babysitters, nannies, or childminders can see that you live in the neigborhood, and approach you through Sitly. We will never reveal your street name or house number, nor will we ever share your address with third parties.

Sitly is an online market place where parents and babysitters, nannies and home daycare providers in the same area can find each other. You can more or less see where they live. When you meet a babysitter, nanny, or home daycare provider, you plan an interview and check their references, like you would when you'd find one through family or friends. In fact, it is just an expansion of your horizon: you'll see babysitters, nannies, and home daycare providers in the area that you didn't know before, but who might just live a few 100 meters away.



What does Sitly do about safety? We have manual checkups to see nothing is out of the ordinary and alerts on our platform that notify us if something other than usual is happening. We provide a secured environment in which you can send messages, and we give babysitters, nannies, and home daycare providers the opportunity to upload their references. We take all notions and messages about safety very seriously. So, do you have a question regarding safety on our platform, or did you receive a message that you think is not appropriate? Then please contact our support team at info@sitly.ca.