Posting your profile

Your post is the public ad people find when they browse. Sitters describe what they offer; parents describe what they need. The wizard takes about ten minutes the first time and you can come back to refine it whenever you want.

Where the wizard lives

Open /my-post from the header avatar menu. If you've never posted before you'll land on step 1 of the wizard. If you already have a post, you'll land on its editor — the same wizard with your saved values pre-filled.

The wizard steps

The wizard splits the post into small forms — seven steps for caregivers, six for parents (the parent flow skips the birth-date step). Required fields are marked with an asterisk; everything else is optional and can be left blank to negotiate later. Tap Next to advance — values save into the form state but the post itself is only created when you reach the final step and submit.

Step 1 — Contact details

Email and phone for people who want to reach you outside the in-app chat. Country and City are required and power the location chip on your card. Address is optional and never shown publicly.

Step 2 — Experience and children

How many years or months of experience, which child age groups (newborns through teens), and how many children you can babysit at once. Sitters describe what they offer; parents describe what they need. All fields here are optional except picking months or years if you fill in the experience number.

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. Parent flow skips this step and goes straight from experience to education.

Step 4 — Education and languages

Your highest finished education, whether you've completed a sitter course or a first-aid course, and which languages you speak with families and children. The language picker has search — type a few letters to filter the list.

Step 5 — Offerings and expectations

A grid of switches covering pets, special-needs experience, in-own-house babysitting, 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.

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 this blank lets you negotiate privately — the card just won't show a rate chip.

Step 7 — Title, description, availability

Title shows up large on cards and search results — keep it short and concrete. Description is your free-form pitch. Availability is for shift patterns or specific days. The Submit button at the bottom is what actually creates or updates the post.

Adding your profile photo

Your post and your card use the same photo as your profile, and it lives on a separate page. Open /my-profile, drag an image into the slot on the left or use the picker, and the photo replaces in place — no separate save. We generate four sizes (thumb, hero, detail, original) so cards stay sharp without forcing a large download. There's one photo per account; uploading a new one replaces the previous.

Submit and admin approval

Submitting from step 7 saves the post in pending state. An admin reviews each new or edited post before it appears 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.

Editing later

Open /my-post at any time, scroll to the section you want to change, and use the Edit action. Each edit re-enters the approval queue, so a tiny tweak won't go live instantly — but the previously approved version stays visible to others while the new edit is pending.

Removing your post

Bottom of /my-post has a delete option. This removes the post itself; your account, profile, and any saved bookmarks stay. If you want to fully leave Siterka, see the account deletion section in /help/account.