Babysits Review

Saturday, March 6th

2021 Babysitter Agency Reviews

Babysits

• Cost: $19.99/month

Babysits is a platform that connects parents with childcare providers. They were founded in 2008 and now have over 1,700,000 people that use their services to find babysitters for their families or to find employment as a babysitter.

Not much customer feedback

There are over 28,000 cities in 38+ countries that have local caregivers available. Unfortunately, Babysits isn't as popular as some higher-ranked babysitting platforms, so they aren't ranked by the Better Business Bureau and don't have much customer feedback.

Straightforward 3 step process

The process of finding a sitter through Babysits is fairly straightforward. The following three steps give a basic overview of how their services work:

1. Search. View detailed profiles of candidates and read reviews from families they have worked for in the past. You can look for last-minute sitters, occasional help, or anyone looking for full-time or part-time jobs.
2. Connect. Parents can screen and interview the candidates before making their hiring decision.
3. Plan Appointments. Use the secure messaging service to find a time and date to get to know the babysitter you are interested in.

Lots of search filters

There are over 9,190 active babysitters to browse through at Babysits. By putting in your zip code, you can view a list of babysitters in your area. You can set a range from 3 - 30 miles around your location to get the biggest list of candidates possible. You can filter results by age, experience, type (nanny or babysitter), gender, household work requirements (pets, cooking, chores, homework), skills, availability, language, pay, and more. We always found at least a couple of babysitters to choose from that met our requirements in different cities around the U.S., but not as many as there are on some other babysitting sites.

Negotiate your own rate

Users on the Babysits site can create a profile, read community resources, search babysitters, and save searches for free. However, if you want to communicate with the babysitters or nannies you are interested in, the cost is $19.99/month. You can cancel at any time so that your fee does not recur monthly and even get a refund on your subscription within the first 14 days if you don't contact anyone. The hourly rate for the babysitter you hire is negotiated between you and them.

Hard to know

Without a lot of customer feedback, it's hard to know how satisfied families are overall. Babysits is not an agency and therefore they aren't the ones directly choosing caregivers for you. Rather, families can view babysitters looking for jobs and interview, negotiate terms, and do the hiring themselves. There is a dispute policy in place in the event that you are unsatisfied with the platform services. If a dispute arises, customers are asked to reach out to Babysits' management to work out a solution.

Room to improve

Overall, Babysits has a professional website that is easy to navigate. However, we didn't find very many babysitters to choose from around the areas we searched. We also don't feel like there is anything about this service that outshines higher-rated sites. Most disappointing of all is that there are no background checks conducted on candidates here, so there is definitely an issue of safety when it comes to hiring babysitters from Babysits. It might be worth checking out the potential caregivers available in your area here, but Babysits is not our first pick.