You send them
Free
no card needed
Tuck writes each one. You send it from your phone.
Ready today
The one difference is who presses send.
Tuck writes every text either way, in your order, on the same clock. What six dollars would change is who has to be at a phone when each sitter’s turn comes.
| You send them | Tuck sends them | |
|---|---|---|
| One Saturday, three sitters, half an hour each | ||
| 5:40 pm The ask | You ask | You ask |
| 5:41 pm Maya’s text | You send | Tuck sends |
| 6:11 pm Ben’s text | You send | Tuck sends |
| 6:41 pm Kai’s textKai hasn’t texted YES to Tuck. | You send | You send |
| 6:45 pm Kai says yes | Booked | Booked |
| 6:45 pm “All set” to Maya and Ben | You send | Tuck sends |
| Texts you send by hand that evening | 5 | 1 |
| Everything else, both ways | ||
| Unlimited asks No cap, no counter, no quota. | Yes | Yes |
| Your whole list Drag to order, with rates and notes. | Yes | Yes |
| The sit sheet and the address Sealed until a sitter says yes. | Yes | Yes |
| Past sits What each evening came to. | Yes | Yes |
| Both parents Each signs in, and both are told. | Yes | Yes |
| Every way out Call off an ask, or an evening already booked. | Yes | Yes |
| The iOS app Notifications and contacts. In testing now. | Yes | Yes |
| The sitter’s own page, entire One text, one tap, no account needed. | Yes | Yes |
Free is not a trial, and it does not become one. Nothing in that second list moves behind a price: not later, not at a cap, not after a month.
Nothing to buy today.
The price is here so it never surprises anyone later. Two things have to be true before there is anything to pay for, and neither is a date. The first is true now; the second is why there is nothing to buy.
- Tuck’s own number had to clear carrier review, and it has. (833) 349-4533 is verified for Tuck’s texts. Sending a family’s asks from it still isn’t offered to families.
- Enough sitters have to say yes to Tuck. Tuck sends a sitter a family’s asks from its own number only after that sitter has texted YES to it from their own phone, and nobody can do that for them. A family could pay six dollars and still send every text by hand, so we won’t take money until we know how often that happens.
When there is something to buy, this page will say so first.
The rest of it, plainly.
Does any of this change what my sitters see?
Their page is the same either way: one text, one tap, no account needed. What differs is the number the text comes from, yours or Tuck’s, and so where a STOP goes: to you, to record on Your sitters, or to Tuck, which stops every family at once. The page where a sitter says yes to Tuck tells them which is true for your family.
Why $6, and why is a year cheaper?
Not because of the texts: those would cost Tuck about 34 cents a month for a family that asks four times. Six dollars is the price of an evening where the asking happens without you, and one evening of sitting pays for more than a year of it.
A year at $60 is ten months’ price for twelve, because one charge costs less to take than twelve, and because babysitting is lumpy: nobody should have to decide in February whether they are still a customer.
Can I pay now anyway?
No. There is nothing to pay into. If you would want Tuck to send your texts, keep using it and tell us so at jarryd@asktuck.com. That is the evidence that decides whether we offer it.
Does any money move between a family and a sitter through Tuck?
No. The rate is in the text so nobody is surprised, and paying is between the two of you, however you already do it, whichever way your texts are sent. The trust page has it as a rule.
Set up your family.
One tap with Apple or Google, then your first name and your mobile number.
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