Introduction

Opairly helps host families and au pairs stay organized and on the same page. Set daily tasks, write down house rules, track hours, and manage leave requests, so everyone knows what's expected.

Start before the match

You can start before you have an au pair. Prepare your week and expectations, explore whether it fits together, then get ready for arrival and everyday routines.

• Before arrival: A reviewed candidate package with a sample week and room for questions.
• Routines: Turn a spoken explanation into steps, day variations, English instructions and photos.
• Home and surroundings: A first look at the house, bike and nearby routes.
• Arrival and welcome guide: A checklist, practical agreements and information for the first days.

What Opairly does

• Start with a conversation: Describe life at home by voice or text, review suggested tasks and rules, and prepare interviews.
• Task management: Create recurring tasks with categories like childcare, household, cooking, and education. Tasks are generated daily based on your schedule.
• Calendar & Scheduling: View the weekly schedule, adjust individual events, filter by child and mark free days.
• House rules: Document your household expectations. 9 categories with suggested templates to get started.
• Leave management: Au pairs request time off, families approve or decline. Default 14 days per year.
• Children management: Add children with medical details and link them to tasks.
• Emergency info: GP, hospital, contacts, and emergency procedures always at hand.
• Expenses: Au pair submits grocery and transport receipts, family reimburses via Tikkie.
• Weekly Check-ins: Reflect on the week together with three questions and family notes.
• References: Write and publish reference letters for your au pair; they accept and share them with their next host family.
• Daily planning: Au pair indicates daily whether they'll eat and sleep at home.
• Export: Download weekly schedules and house rules as PDF or Excel for your agency or IND.
• Calendar sync: Plan in both directions with Google Calendar. View the schedule through a subscription in Apple Calendar or Outlook.
• Feedback and bug reports: Report a problem, suggest a feature or share your experience with Opairly.

How it works

Tasks define recurring work, routines explain how your family does it and the calendar shows each day's plan. Changing an individual event leaves the recurrence rule unchanged. Google Calendar is optional; complete tasks and review hours in Opairly.

1. Family signs up and creates a household during onboarding
2. Family describes life at home: use voice or text, answer follow-ups and review suggested tasks and house rules
3. Family invites au pair via a shareable invite link
4. Au pair joins the household and sees their daily tasks and rules
5. Au pair completes tasks in Opairly; the hour overview separately shows the planned hours
6. Family reviews task completion, the hour totals, and leave requests from the dashboard

Roles

There are two roles in Opairly:

Getting started

Head to the signup page to create your account. Follow the household setup guide to create your household, configure hour limits and invite your au pair when you are ready.

If you received an invite link from your host family, follow it to create your au pair account and join the household.