1. Welcome on Bsit!
Your first steps on Bsit as a parent
Updated 1 week ago
With Bsit you can search for Sitters and organise a sitting in a few clicks.
Bsit requires a subscription but you have the possibility to see if there are enough good proposals in your area before subscribing!
Bsit works with different subscription plans.
To start:
create a profile and complete it, this will help you get better results
share your contacts (and see which Sitters are known by your friends)
schedule a sitting, via the main page of the app
choose a type of sitting
create the sitting. The sitting will be an Open sitting by default. You can additionnally invite selected Sitters if you want. You can also limit the sitting to the selected Sitters and make it private, this can be adapted in your settings.
chat with the Sitters or call them. You can easily add Sitters to your favourites.
confirm the Sitter of your choice for the specific mission!
Warning: a credit card is required to pay the Bsit subscription and possibly to pay the Sitter via the app.
Bsit calculates the time down to the minute and avoids rounding off (e.g. the sitter arrives at 20:12 and leaves at 23:52, you only pay for the exact time and not 4 full hours). Also, by paying through the app you avoid having to return to an ATM and the risk of the Sitter not having the change.
give the Sitter a rating and a review after the sitting, this is ESSSENTIAL to build trust on Bsit
don't forget that the Sitter will also rate you!
The whole philosophy behind Bsit is that the community of parents using the system is the most competent to operate a selection through recommendation. Vetting can't be a 100% effective, and we don't want to offer an inomplete solution, even at 99,9%. A lot of services offer vetting but this is usually limited and consists of a copy of the sitter's ID and a brief telephone call.
What we offer you is the best tool (in the whole universe!) to select a Sitter: by sharing your contacts you can see the Sitters that already heve been at your friends' for example, or you can see the Sitters living close to you (sometimes in your street!) or then there are the Sitters that have already done a certain amount of sittings through Bsit and have good "scores".
When the Sitter hasn't already got ratings and reviews, it is good to check out their description, see how far the Sitter lives and, once you selected a few Sitters, you can discuss by phone or chat, which usually gives you a good idea of their personality and competences. Up to you to make the final selection.
Also, most Sitters who accept being paid through the app had to have their ID validated (process ongoing) and we also have their telephone numbers, which can't be anonymous anymore since june.