The au pair app
NannyTank is an au pair app for tracking working hours, overtime, kilometres, fuel claims and monthly claims. Au pairs log their day as they work, and NannyTank totals the hours, overtime and kilometres into a claim their employer approves. Built in South Africa, used in 12 countries.
14 days free · no card needed in South Africa
Most au pairs work the month, then try to reconstruct it. Hours from memory and a WhatsApp thread. Kilometres from a notebook in the cubbyhole, if it was kept at all. Overtime that nobody wrote down and so nobody pays for. Then a spreadsheet on the 30th, built from scratch, every single month.
The admin is not hard. It is just impossible to do accurately three weeks late — and the hours you cannot prove are the hours you do not get paid for.
Five things, each of which is normally a separate spreadsheet.
Log the start and finish time of each day as it happens — not from memory at month-end. The day takes about five seconds to record, and the month adds itself up.
You set your agreed normal hours once. Anything past them is flagged as overtime automatically, so late nights and last-minute babysitting stop quietly disappearing. When overtime must be paid →
Log a trip with a description and a distance — school run, dance, the shops. Routes you drive daily are saved after the first time, so the second week is two taps rather than retyping the same road in both directions.
Your kilometres are multiplied by the rate you and your host family agreed, so the fuel claim is a number with a trip list behind it instead of a round figure nobody can check. How to agree a per-km rate →
At month-end the hours, the overtime and the kilometres are compiled into one claim and emailed to your employer, who approves it in a single tap. No spreadsheet, no awkward conversation about what you think you worked — a record you both looked at as it was being made.
The part most au pairs are never shown, worked all the way through.
A per-kilometre rate, in writing, in your contract. It is meant to cover fuel and the wear you are putting on your own car.
Where from, where to, how far. Driving the children is reimbursable; your own commute to and from work normally is not.
Kilometres × your agreed rate. Because every trip is itemised, the total is checkable rather than something to be negotiated.
Fuel is a reimbursement, not salary — it sits alongside your pay rather than inside it, and your employer approves the whole month at once.
The main user. Log hours, overtime and kilometres as you go, and send a claim you can stand behind. Whatever you have logged stays yours.
The employer view is free. Connect with a pairing code and you get a calendar of days worked, one-tap claim approval, payslip PDFs, a shared schedule and a daily diary of how the children's day went.
Post positions and browse the au pair directory on the free marketplace. NannyTank does not vet, screen or place anyone — it is the record-keeping the placement leaves behind.
Yes. NannyTank is an au pair app for exactly that. You log each day's start and finish times and each trip you drive; the app flags anything past your agreed normal hours as overtime, multiplies your kilometres by your agreed rate, and compiles the month into a claim your employer approves.
Yes. NannyTank was built in South Africa and South Africa is where it fits best, because SA au pairs are employees under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and are usually reimbursed per kilometre driven. The South African rules →
Yes. NannyTank works in 12 countries with local currency and distance units, and the interface is available in English, German, Dutch, Spanish and French. One thing worth knowing: au pair work is not employment everywhere. In several European countries it is a cultural exchange programme with an hours cap rather than a wage, so what matters is tracking your hours against the cap — not expecting overtime pay that the programme does not provide for. Rules by country →
Yes, on both. NannyTank is an installable web app, so there is no app store download. Open it in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen, and it behaves like any other app.
There is a 14-day free trial with everything switched on, and no card is needed in South Africa. Current pricing is shown on the home page in your own currency. The marketplace, where au pairs and families find each other, is free.
No. You can log your hours and kilometres on your own and export or send the claim however you like. If your host family does connect, their view is free and lets them approve the month in one tap.
Au pair pay calculator
What your hours, overtime and kilometres should add up to.
Are you actually getting paid overtime?
When extra hours must be paid, and why most au pairs never claim them.
Claiming the kilometres you drive
Agreeing a rate, and logging trips so the total holds up.
What belongs in your contract
The clauses that decide whether any of the above is enforceable.
You cannot reconstruct last month. You can log tomorrow in about five seconds, and by month-end have a claim with nothing missing from it.
Open NannyTank →