Get clients
Your profile, your rates, your area. Families near you find you and book you directly. No agency in the middle deciding your rota.
You set the rate. £25/hr is typical.
For care professionals
You do the caring. Keep the earnings too.
Selotape gives you everything an agency does, without taking your wages: clients, scheduling, invoicing, insurance and compliance in one app. Same hours, same work, roughly twice the pay.
No monthly fee. Selotape takes 6% of what you bill, nothing more.
A typical week, 30 hours of care
Employed by an agency£0
£13.00 / hour
Self-employed with Selotape£0
£25.00 / hour, you set the rate
More in your pocket every week+£0
Before tax and costs. Based on typical agency pay of £13/hr and a self-employed rate of £25/hr.
How it works
Everything an agency does, minus the agency.
An agency finds the work, handles the money and keeps the paperwork straight. That is the whole job. Selotape does all three from your phone.
Get paid
Invoices go out on their own after every visit. Payments land in your account, matched to your calendar and ready for tax time.
94p of every £1 you bill is yours.
Stay compliant
Insurance, DBS status and training records live in one place. We chase the renewals so nothing lapses, and you stay inspection-ready.
Renewal reminders built in.
Your earnings
Same care. Different payslip.
Three ways carers run it. Put your own hours and rate in and the maths works the same way.
The part-timer
School hours, weekdays only
- Hours
- 20 hrs/wk
- Rate
- £25/hr
- Billed
- £500/wk
- Kept after fee
- £470/wk
vs ~£260/wk employed at £13/hr
The full-timer
A full week of home visits
- Hours
- 35 hrs/wk
- Rate
- £25/hr
- Billed
- £875/wk
- Kept after fee
- £822.50/wk
vs ~£455/wk employed at £13/hr
The specialist
Dementia care, premium rate
- Hours
- 30 hrs/wk
- Rate
- £30/hr
- Billed
- £900/wk
- Kept after fee
- £846/wk
vs ~£420/wk employed at £14/hr
Illustrative figures, before tax and business costs, based on typical 2026 rates.
6%flat fee on what you bill
£0monthly subscription
94pof every £1 stays with you
Pricing
One price. No small print.
Selotape takes 6% of what you bill. There is no monthly fee, no joining fee and no exit fee. If you have a quiet week, you pay almost nothing.
The agency deal, for comparison
Agencies charge families £26 to £38 an hour and pay carers around £13. On private rates, half of what the family pays never reaches the person doing the caring. Our cut is 6p in the pound, and you can check the maths.
Pay as you earn
0%of what you bill.
That is the whole price.
That is the whole price.
You bill (30 hrs × £25)£750.00
Selotape fee (6%)−£45.00
Stays with you£705.00
- Profile and direct bookings
- Scheduling and visit records
- Automatic invoicing and payments
- Client contracts, ready to sign
- Insurance and DBS renewal tracking
- Tax-ready records for your accountant
If you don't earn, we don't either.
FAQ
Fair questions, straight answers.
Going self-employed is a real decision. These are the things carers ask us first.
Founding carers
Your business starts here.
We are opening to a first group of founding carers soon. Register your interest, then tell us a little about your care work.
No spam. One email when we open the doors.