Is this your whiteboard?
The scheduling app for home daycares and childminders. $9/month flat — you and up to four helpers included, unlimited families and weeks of care.
1 month free. No card.
Your free month
It fits, because somebody makes it fit.
Tell us how you run things. We build the rest.
First
Start the free month
Your email and your business name. That is the whole signup. 1 month free. No card.
Then
Write to us in the app
Talk to Anda is a screen in the app, and a real person reads it. Say what is missing, how you colour your calendar, which screens you never use. Several of the screens on this page began as one customer writing to say what she was missing.
Rather not start with an empty calendar? Send your client list, a spreadsheet, or a photo of your paper diary to contact@tendmatehq.com, and we set it up for you before you log in. Included in the price.
By the end
An app that fits your business
What you ask for gets built, free, and it arrives for everyone. Your job types, your colours, only the screens you use. $9 a month after, you and up to four helpers included.
One price. That is the whole pricing page.
$9per month, flat
1 month free. No card.
- You and up to four helpers. More are $1 a month each.
- Unlimited clients, unlimited visits. No appointment caps.
- Phone and laptop, always in sync — and it works with no signal.
- Your schedule fills itself in from how often each client is due.
- Setup done for you, free — send your client list or a photo of your spreadsheet.
- One-click export, no contract, cancel any time.
Already in another app, or in a spreadsheet?
Send it to us as it is: an export, the sheet, or a photo of your diary. We bring your clients, how often each one is due, your prices and your history across before you log in. It is free, and your old app keeps working while you decide.
Founding members keep $9/month for good. We expect to settle at $12.
Before you start
Questions people ask
Does it text or email my clients?
Not yet, and if you want it, ask: a feature a customer asks for gets built, and it is free. Emails to your clients would cost you nothing. Text messages would be a small package, because the SMS providers charge for every message sent, not us. Today TendMate keeps the schedule and the records, and you message your clients the way you already do. For somebody who asked for a price it keeps the message you sent and what they replied.
Can my clients book online?
Not yet. Your work is the same clients coming round again and again, so the calendar fills itself in from how often each one is due, and a new enquiry is written down as a lead with the day to come back to them. If your clients want to book themselves, say so: a calendar you share with your free days, where a client picks one, is the kind of thing we build for the person who asks, at no extra cost. We will work out together what suits your business best.
What does a helper see?
The schedule, the addresses and the notes for the work she is sent to, on her own phone. Not your prices, your expenses or your totals. You choose, screen by screen, what each helper can open.
What if I have more than four helpers?
Contact us. Extra seats are $1 a month each, and we add them for you. Tell us how you run them too: if you want them in teams, or there is something that would make managing them easier, that is exactly the kind of thing we build for you, free.
Does it work without signal?
Yes. Everything you need is on the phone already, and it catches up when you are back in range.
I already have a spreadsheet, or another app. What happens to it?
Send it to us: a spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from another app, or a photo of your paper diary. We bring your clients, your schedule and your history across before you log in, and that is included in the price.
What happens after the free month?
$9 a month, flat, for you and up to four helpers. No card is taken during the month, so nothing is charged unless you choose to carry on. Cancel any time and export everything, clients, visits and history, in one click.
Your families are on a whiteboard and your invoices are in a spreadsheet.
Not because you like it. Because the software built for your trade starts at $249 a month at Brightwheel and $150 at HiMama — priced for a centre with a front desk, not for a home with six children in it.
So who comes which days, who is allowed to collect whom, and what each family owes at the end of the month all live on the fridge and in your head. That is the whole problem we are solving.
Today, and after
Why the whiteboard stops telling the truth
The next date
On the spreadsheet
Nearly every whiteboard we have seen has the same flaw: it shows this week. When one child drops to three days, one family takes a fortnight away and a new sibling starts on Monday, the board is wiped and redrawn, and last month is gone with it — which is a problem when last month is what the invoice is for.
In TendMate
The fix is small and it changes everything: keep each child's weeks as a record, not as a drawing. A week of care is a fact — it happened, on those days, at that fee. The next one is arithmetic:
Next week = Last week attended + 7 days
Every week = 7 · Drop-in only = no interval
A child away for a fortnight, a new starter, a family that moves to part time — you only ever update one thing, and the weeks after it lay themselves out. The days actually attended are written on each week, so a day-rate family is priced from what happened rather than from what was planned.
What you get
One clock per child, one statement per family
Each child sits under the family that pays, with their own schedule and weekly fee. Siblings on different days come due on their own weeks, and at the end of the month one statement lists every week for every child in the house.
What the helper needs is on the phone
Allergies, medications, the emergency contact and who is authorised to collect are on the child and the family, and a helper sees them at the door. What she does not see is the fee.
You and your helpers, flat
$9/month covers you and up to four helpers. More helpers are $1 a month each. No cap on families or children. A helper sees the week — who is in, which days, the notes to send home — and not what you charge for it.
The daily note stays with the week
Meals, naps and mood are written against the week they belong to, on the phone, while the children sleep — and they are still there in March when a parent asks. Expenses live alongside for the year end.
Your data stays yours
Export everything — families, children, weeks, history — in one click, any time. No contract, cancel whenever, and take your data with you.
Built for you if…
- You look after a handful of children at home, and the same ones come every week.
- More than one of them lives at the same address, and the parent wants one bill.
- You have taken on an assistant and need to share who is in without sharing what each family pays.
- You write the day's notes for the parents on your phone at nap time.
- You want something genuinely simple — not “simple” with forty settings.
1 month free. No card. Your email and your business details — that is the whole signup.