Walkthrough — creating your advert

An advert is built on a single page split into three sections. The first is the only one you need in order to publish — the other two you fill in when you get to them. Most people finish in five minutes.

What's actually required

Four fields are required and all four sit in the first section. Everything else is optional and only shapes how easily people find you — fill in what you're comfortable sharing.

• Country and city — these drive the city filter and the location line on your card.
• Title and description — this is what people read on listings and on your advert page.

Email, phone, address, district, children's ages, languages, skills, education, rate, availability, date of birth — all optional. The publish button works as soon as those four fields are filled, whether or not the other two sections are open.

Before you start

An advert is published with your profile, so the advert form needs your profile saved first. If you don't have one, /my-post sends you to your profile (/my-profile) first — enter your name and a short bio and add a photo if you have one; once you save, we bring you straight back to the advert. Your profile photo is the one on your advert page, and your bio shows under the advert description when it adds something the description doesn't say.

Three sections instead of steps

This used to be seven separate steps. It's now one page. Basics stays open and holds every required field. The second section — Help parents find you if you're a caregiver, Help caregivers find you if you're a parent — and More detail are collapsed until you open them.

A collapsed section doesn't mean lost fields: anything you entered in it is saved with the form whether or not it happens to be open at the time.

Basics — location, title, description, contact

In order: country, city and, where one exists, district; then title and description; then email, phone and address. District only appears for cities that have one listed — Belgrade, for example — and never goes into your title or your advert's URL. Address is never shown publicly.

If you'd rather only be reachable through messages, tick Keep my contacts private. Your card still shows you exist; the email and phone rows are masked behind in-app messaging instead.

You write the title and description yourself

We used to fill the title and description in for you. Not any more — text that writes itself reads like someone else's, and search engines index pages poorly when they repeat one another. Both fields carry an example of what works: “Nanny Mila, five years' experience, available for preschool or school-age children and help around the house, Vračar”. Specific beats short.

Help people find you — the fields filters read

Engagement type (ongoing, occasional, one-off), children's ages and how many, weekly availability, education and courses, languages and skills.

This is the only section where an empty field costs you something. Filters read a blank as “doesn't apply”, not “we don't know” — if you haven't listed any languages, you won't appear when someone filters by language. That's why the section shows how many fields you've filled.

More detail — experience, start date, rate, date of birth

Nothing here affects whether search shows you. The rate is here on purpose: a maximum-rate filter still shows adverts with no rate, so leaving it blank hides you from nothing. Leave it empty and the advert simply shows no price, and the arrangement stays private.

The title changes, the URL doesn't

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 isn't added on this form but on your profile — open /my-profile and use Select photo. It saves itself as soon as you pick one. We generate several sizes so it stays sharp without forcing a large download. You can publish the advert first and add the photo later; cards without one render a quiet illustrated placeholder until you do.

Saving

The whole form saves with one button at the bottom. Until you press it, nothing is stored — don't close the page halfway through. After the first save the advert exists, and you can come back to it at /my-post whenever you like.

First save and approval

After the first save we take you to your advert's page, with an Awaiting review banner. Someone on our team reviews every new advert before it appears on /sitters or /sitter-jobs, usually the same day. Once we approve it, we email you that it's live.

Editing once the advert is live

There's a rule worth knowing here, because two kinds of edit behave differently.

• Doesn't touch approval: engagement type, availability, children's ages and numbers, languages, skills, certificates, education, experience, rate, start date, date of birth, district and every checkbox. Change them as often as you like — the advert stays published and never drops out of the listings.
• Goes for review: title, description, email, phone, country, city and other languages — plus your short bio, which you edit at /my-profile. All of it is text other people read, so an admin sees it before it replaces what is public.

The advert stays published and on the listings throughout — visitors keep seeing the last approved wording. When an admin approves your edit it replaces what's public; if they decline it, the previous version simply stays and the advert was never taken down.

We compare values, not whether you clicked into a field: open the title, leave the same text, and nothing goes for review.

What publishing unlocks

Once your advert is published (not just in review), you can do two things you couldn't before: start conversations with sitters or families and leave ratings. Without a published advert, those actions show a short note that takes you to the advert form. You can always reply to messages others send you. The reason is simple — the person you write to or rate should be able to see who you are.

If your advert isn't approved

If we can't publish your advert, we email you with the reason — most often contact details or links in the description, or claims we can't verify. The same reason is in the Not approved banner on your advert's page. Edit the advert on /my-post and save — it goes back to review automatically. The messaging guide also covers what we don't pass on in messages. If you're not sure what to change, write to us at podrska@siterka.com.

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