🌿 The full flow

How care flows through KindNest

A three-sided platform with one shared, always-in-sync schedule. Here's the journey — from your first booking to a caregiver clocking in.

1

Request care

You choose days, a time window, a start date, and whether it's one-time or ongoing.

2

Agency assigns

Your request lands in the agency queue. They assign a vetted caregiver to the series.

3

Care happens

Caregivers see each visit — client, address, notes — and deliver consistent support.

4

Billing settles

You're charged for real visits; the agency is paid weekly on its own ledger.

1 · Booking & recurring schedules

One request becomes a series of visits

Instead of booking each appointment, you describe your routine once. KindNest turns it into individual occurrences you can manage day by day.

  • Days of week, time window, start date, and an end date or "ongoing."
  • Each date stands alone, so changing one never affects the rest.
  • Edit the ongoing schedule or end the series whenever you like.
Booking series→ 4 occurrences
Mon · Jul 14Scheduled
Wed · Jul 16Scheduled
Fri · Jul 18Scheduled
Mon · Jul 21Skipped

2 · Skip a date or a week

Going away? Pause without unravelling the routine

Submit a skip request for a single date or a whole week. That occurrence is marked skipped, no caregiver is assigned, and it's excluded from billing — the rest of your series continues untouched.

  • No caregiver assigned to a skipped day.
  • Automatically removed from your charges.
  • Your ongoing schedule resumes right after.
Skip requestVacation
DATES OFF
Jul 21 – Jul 25
Whole week skipped
Billing impact− $240 · not charged
Confirm skip

3 · Assignment & swap approval

Every caregiver change runs through you

The agency assigns and can reassign caregivers — but a reassignment becomes a request, not an instant change. Here's the approval loop.

A

Agency proposes

A new caregiver is suggested with a profile, reason, and effective date.

B

You review

The swap sits as "proposed." Nothing changes on your schedule yet.

C

Approve or decline

Approve and it takes effect. Decline and the agency proposes an alternative.

D

Emergency cover

Same-day illness is handled with prompt notice so care is never interrupted.

4 · Two independent ledgers

How you're billed is separate from how the agency is paid

Customers can be billed per session or weekly. Agencies are always paid weekly on their own payout cycle — so a per-session family and a weekly family both roll up into the same reliable agency payout.

  • Customer charges — per-session or weekly, skips excluded automatically.
  • Agency payouts — weekly, aggregated from completed visits.
  • Invoices & receipts kept in the customer app.
Billing engineAuto-synced

Customer charge

$240
Weekly · 3 visits

Agency payout

$300
Weekly · 12 hrs
Skipped Jul 21 weekExcluded from charge

Under the hood

A data model built for real life

Series, occurrences, assignments, and swaps — each modelled separately so the everyday exceptions (skips, swaps, edits) just work.

Booking series

A recurring or one-time care request that belongs to a customer and holds many occurrences.

Occurrence

A single visit with a date and time — scheduled, skipped, completed, or cancelled.

Assignment

Links an occurrence to a caregiver and tracks the swap state end to end.

Swap request

A proposed caregiver change — proposed, approved, or declined — always customer-gated.

Customer charge

An invoice line generated from occurrences, per-session or weekly.

Agency payout

Weekly amount owed to the agency, aggregated from completed assignments.

See it in action for your family

Tell us your routine and we'll match you with our partnered caregiving agency.

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