Connect Stripe and get paid
Money goes from the family to your own Stripe account. Here's how to connect it.
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Whose account the money lands in
Yours. You connect your own Stripe account and customer payments settle into it directly; Sitterz takes a platform fee per transaction, which you authorise explicitly before connecting and which is recorded with the date and who agreed to it.
Connecting
Settings → Customer payments (Stripe) → Connect. Stripe collects your business and bank details on their own hosted pages; Sitterz never sees or stores them. When Stripe says the account can take charges, the setup step ticks — not before, because an account that still owes Stripe paperwork cannot actually be paid into.
If you don't connect yet
Everything else works. You can take bookings and keep records; you just cannot charge a card through Sitterz until Stripe is connected, and the payment surfaces say so rather than pretending.