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. At £25/hr you keep £23.50.
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: charge £25 an hour and you keep £23.50 after our fee, against about £13 employed.
No monthly fee. Selotape takes 6% of what you bill, never more than £60 a month per client.
A typical week, 30 hours of care
Employed by an agency£0
£13.00 / hour
Self-employed with Selotape£0
£23.50 / hour, what you keep from £25
More in your pocket every week+£0
Before tax and costs. £23.50 is what you keep from £25 an hour after Selotape's 6%. Agency pay is a care worker's typical £13/hr (Skills for Care).
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
- £470.00/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
- £28/hr
- Billed
- £840/wk
- Kept after fee
- £789.60/wk
vs ~£390/wk employed at £13/hr
Illustrative figures, before tax and business costs, based on typical 2026 rates.
6%fee on what you bill, £60 a month per client at most
£0monthly subscription
94pof every £1 stays with you
Pricing
One price. No small print.
Selotape takes 6% of what you bill, never more than £60 a month per client. There is no monthly fee, no joining fee and no exit fee. If you have a quiet week, you pay almost nothing. If you live in with one client at a day rate, you pay £60 a month at most.
The agency deal, for comparison
An agency has to charge at least £32.14 an hour to cover a care worker's legal minimum wage and its own costs, by the Homecare Association's count for 2025/26. The care worker gets around £13 of it. Our cut is 6p in the pound, never more than £60 a month per client, and you can check the maths.
Pay as you earn
0%of what you bill, never more than £60 a month per client.
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
- Invoices built from your visits
- Client contracts, ready to sign
- Insurance and vetting renewal tracking
- Records to download 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.
Join the waitlist
Carers earn more. Families pay less.
We want carers to earn a living wage, and taking the agency's cut away is how. The more people who join in your area, the sooner we open there.
Carer keeps
£23.50
agency: about £13
Family pays
£26.50
agency: at least £32.14
Per hour, on an example £25 rate. Carers set their own.