Most families end up choosing between two extremes: an agency charging $1,500 to $3,000 in placement fees before anyone has even met, or a Facebook group with no verification, no agreement and no one to call if it goes wrong. Yoohoo exists because the honest middle, verified people, real terms in writing and protected pay, wasn’t being built by anyone. So we built it.
Chatting, calling, agreeing terms and getting paid used to mean five different apps and a bank transfer on trust. On Yoohoo they're one app: the conversation, the video call, the signed agreement and the weekly pay all happen right here, so nothing falls through a gap between platforms.
A green tick means a government ID check actually happened. A Working With Children Check is tracked through to clearance, not taken on someone's word. We'd rather show you the mechanism than ask you to believe a slogan.
Hours, duties and pocket money are set by the family and the au pair together, in a simple agreement signed by both sides before day one. Protection isn't an add-on you have to remember to switch on: it's how every placement works from the first message.
No joining fee, no matching fee, nothing ever taken out of pocket money. Yoohoo is paid by the family, only while an au pair is actually placed with them, so the incentive is always to get a placement working, not to charge someone for showing up.
Yoohoo makes money the same way the family does well: when a placement is actually working. There’s no subscription and no fee for browsing, matching or meeting. The service fee only starts once pocket money does.
Families and au pairs both create a profile and start matching at no cost. There's no signup fee and no fee for messaging, calling or meeting.
Once a placement begins, Yoohoo takes 10% on top of pocket money, about $30 on a typical $300 week. It only runs while an au pair is actually placed with a family: nothing upfront, nothing ongoing if there's no placement.
Each week states the real split: what's charged, what goes to the au pair, and what Yoohoo keeps. Never a bare percentage, never a total with the split hidden behind a tap.
Every placement is covered by Yoohoo Protect. Learn more
Yoohoo is built in Australia for Australian families and the working holiday makers who join them, not adapted from a platform built for somewhere else.
Most au pairs on Yoohoo arrive on a Working Holiday (417/462) visa. The rules on eligibility, caps and regional work change, so we don’t print them as fixed facts here. The 2 minute check stays current and is the source that matters.
Yoohoo works the same in Bondi as it does on a farm in regional Queensland. Families and au pairs anywhere in Australia can create a profile today.
Whichever side of the yoohoo you are, the next step takes a couple of minutes and nothing is charged just to look.