Walkthrough — creating your advert

The wizard splits a single advert into small forms so nothing feels heavy. You can save partway and come back later — only step 7 actually creates the post. Most people finish in about ten minutes the first time.

What's actually required

We've kept the required fields short on purpose. Everything else is optional and shapes how your card looks on listings — fill in only what you're comfortable sharing.

• Step 1 — an Email, plus your Country and City. The country and city power the location chip on your card; email is the only contact we ask for at this stage.
• Step 7 — a Title and a Description. These are what people read on listings and on your detail page.

Phone, address, age groups, education, languages, rate, availability, birth date — all optional. Skip any of them if you'd rather negotiate later or fill them in another day.

Before you start

The wizard expects a profile to exist. If you haven't saved one yet, open /my-profile first — write your bio, add a photo if you have one. Then come back to the wizard. The photo on your profile is the same photo that shows on your listing card.

How the breadcrumb works

The bar at the top of the wizard tracks your progress. Tap any earlier step to jump back — values you've already entered stay put. Tapping ahead only works if every step in between is valid (the form gently nudges you to fix anything that's missing).

Step 1 — Contact and location

Email is required and goes on your card so people can reach you outside the in-app chat. Phone is optional. Country and City are required — they drive the location chip and power the city filter on listings. Address is optional and never shown publicly; we only use it as context for matching.

If you'd rather only be reachable through the inbox, tick Keep my contact details private at the bottom of step 1. Your card still shows you exist; the email and phone rows are masked behind the in-app messaging instead.

Step 2 — Experience and children

How many years or months of experience, which child age groups (newborns through teens) you're comfortable with, and how many children at once. Sitters describe what they offer; parents describe what they need. All optional — pair the number with months or years if you fill it in.

Step 3 — Birth date (caregivers only)

Just the calendar — picks your date of birth. We use it to show your age on the card and nothing else. This step is also optional. Parents skip this entirely; their wizard goes straight from experience to education and has six steps total.

Step 4 — Education and languages

Your highest finished education, whether you've taken a sitter course or first-aid course, and which languages you speak with families and children. The language picker has a search field — type a few letters to filter the list. All fields here are optional; pick what feels true.

Step 5 — Offerings and expectations

A grid of switches covering pets, special-needs experience, in-own-house babysitting, light cleaning, shopping, cooking, going out with the children, having a car or driver's license, and smoking. Sitters mark what they're willing to do; parents mark what they expect. Defaults are off; flip what applies.

Step 6 — Rate (optional)

Pick a currency and a rate unit (per hour, per day, per week, or per month) and enter the amount. Leaving it blank lets you negotiate privately — your card just won't show a rate chip. You can fill it in later from Edit any time.

Step 7 — Title, description, availability

Title is what shows up large on cards and search results — keep it short and concrete ("Evening sitter, Vračar — non-smoker, 5 yrs" beats "Available babysitter"). Description is your free-form pitch; a few short paragraphs is plenty. Availability is for shift patterns or specific days. The Submit button at the bottom is what actually creates or updates the post.

Title is editable forever — you can rephrase it next month and it'll update on every card. The URL is fixed at first save, though — we lock the slug so links you share today still work tomorrow even if you rewrite the title. You'll only ever notice this if you're sharing direct URLs.

Adding a photo

The photo lives on a separate page — open /my-profile, drag an image into the slot or use the picker, and it replaces in place. We generate four sizes (thumb, hero, detail, original) so cards stay sharp without forcing a large download. You can publish the post first and add the photo later; cards without a photo render a quiet illustrated placeholder until you do.

Saving partway and coming back

Until you submit on step 7, nothing is created in the database — values stay in the form only. After you submit, your post is saved and you can return to /my-post any time. Each subsequent edit re-enters the approval queue, but the previously approved version stays visible to others while the new edit is pending.

Submit and approval

Submitting from step 7 saves the post in Pending. An admin reviews each new or edited post before it lands on /sitters or /sitter-jobs. Most reviews happen within a day. You'll keep seeing your post on /my-post the whole time, with a banner letting you know it's pending.

What publishing unlocks

Once your post is published (not just pending), two things you couldn't do before become available: sending messages to caregivers or families, and leaving reviews on profiles you've interacted with. Without a published post, those actions show a small prompt asking you to publish first. The reason is simple — when you reach out to someone or rate them, they (and other readers) need a public page that says who you are.

If something gets rejected

If a post is rejected, you'll get an email with the reason. Open /my-post, fix the flagged section, and submit again — it goes back through the same review queue. Rejection reasons usually come down to contact details in the description (phone numbers, emails, social handles) or unverifiable claims; see the /help/messaging guide for what admins won't relay.

Back to the posting overview when you're done, or read about account-level settings next.