Working with TabiTots.

Who books

Families visiting Japan, international families living here, and Japanese families locally.

What we do

They find you, book, and pay in the app. We handle the family, the payment, and support.

What we don't do

We never change your program, your staff, or your way of working.

Nothing about your day changes.

To join

¥0 — no joining fee, no listing fee, no monthly fee, no setup fee.

Commission

8% for 24 months from your first booking, then 12%. Completed bookings only, and deducted automatically at payout — there is no invoice for you to pay.

When you're paid

About nine days from the day the child comes. Payouts run Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, so the exact day is whichever of those comes next.A real booking: charged Tuesday 25 August, the child came on Wednesday the 26th, and the money reached the bank on Friday 4 September.

Who holds it

Stripe, not TabiTots. We never hold your money at any point.

Receipts

The app sends the family a receipt automatically — issued in your name, as the seller. You send nothing. A formal 適格請求書, if one is asked for, is yours to issue.

There is no way to lose money by listing with us. An empty month costs you nothing.

Illustrative figures. Your own price is yours to set, and you can change it any time.

Taking bookings

How bookings arrive · When you're open · Free cancellation until · Your bookingsUnder How bookings arrive you pick Review — every booking comes to you first — or Instant.

Each program

What this program is · When it runs · How many children · Adults · What's included and what costs extra · Safety requirements · What happensSafety requirements is four switches: vaccinated children only · toilet-trained only · whether you accept a child with a severe allergy · whether you offer 1:1 support.

Your price

Yours alone. We never impose a pricing model, and you can change it whenever you like.

Where

All of it at partners.tabitots.com or on the phone app — the same on both. Add your staff under Your team.

Review mode
the default

A booking 48 hours or more ahead confirms automatically, and you then have 24 hours to veto it on safety grounds — nothing is charged until that window closes. Under 48 hours, or if your 24 hours would not end before drop-off, it arrives as a request, and the family is charged only when you accept.

Time to answer

24 hours, nights included, counted only on the days your program runs — your closed days, and public holidays if you close on them, do not count. The 24 hours to veto count the same way. It never runs later than the drop-off itself, so a request close to the day leaves you less.

Instant mode

If you would rather not review each one, a booking 24 hours or more ahead confirms automatically and is final.

If you take cash

Every booking reaches you as a request, whatever its lead time — you always decide before the family is committed.

A first hello

Optional: a family new to you is always held as a request until you have met them, online or in person.

Nothing is charged while the decision is still yours — a request that lapses and a booking you veto both leave the card untouched.

Free-cancel window

You choose it: 24 hours, 3 days, or 7 days before drop-off. Inside it, the family is refunded in full.

After the cutoff

No refund, for any reason — illness, a change of plan, or simply not turning up. You are paid in full.

Arrives too late

It is your call whether you can still take the child. If not, record it — and you are still paid in full. A family who did not come cannot leave a review for that day.

Unwell at the door

Fever, vomiting, or suspected contagious symptoms: refuse the child with our full support — and you are paid in full.

Cannot safely stay

A child you have already taken in who cannot safely remain — a risk to themselves, to the other children, or to their work — goes home early on your say-so, and your judgment on the day holds. Tell us and we reach the family. You are paid in full.

You are never out of pocket for a place a family did not use.

Before the visit

Any adult who will collect a child — the parent, or a guardian they nominate — submits government photo ID plus a selfie, reviewed by our team. No verified adult, no handover.A session where a parent stays throughout has no handover, so no ID is collected for it.

At the door

Your staff open the verified photo and name in TabiTots and confirm the adult in front of them matches.

If not verified

We withhold the photo and the handover cannot be completed. Nobody has to make that judgment alone.

Responsibility

Care on your premises is yours, as it is today. It passes to the verified adult the moment they receive the child.

Serious incident: 110 or 119 first, then us.

Your app

In Japanese or English, whichever you prefer. A family sees it in English or Japanese.

Your lesson

Teach in whatever language you already use. Families come for the real thing — we tell them clearly what to expect.

Messages

Families can message you in the app before they book, and on the booking itself once it reaches you. You can switch the pre-booking messages off under How bookings arrive.

Anything you cannot answer, send to us — that is what we are here for.

Joining fee
入会金

Switch it on and we collect your one-time 入会金 on a family's first booking.

Who's already joined

See who holds a registration — and tell us when a family already paid you in person, so we don't charge them twice.

Local family price

A percentage off for families living in Japan, funded from your own payout. They only ever see the lower price — never the visitor rate. 5–50%.

Extras and meals

Price lunch, materials, or a trip separately from the session itself.

Extension and
late pickup

Paid extension in 30-minute steps, at your own hourly rate. Late pickup: free for the first 10 minutes; past that, the fee counts from the scheduled pickup time, per minute at 1.5× that rate — charged automatically when you record the pickup, and paid to you like ordinary revenue.At ¥3,000 an hour: a 30-minute extension is ¥1,500 — 30 minutes late is ¥2,250.

Insurance check

Require a family to confirm they carry their own accident or travel insurance before they can book.

Group sessions

A class that needs a minimum shows you the tally so far and the decide-by date. You can run it anyway, at any point.

Waitlist

A full day keeps gathering families. If someone cancels, the next family is told at once — you do nothing.

Coupons

Most partners assume this is closed to them — usually it isn't. Any business their municipality registers as a supplier can offer one, a childcare program included. You are the supplier, and you issue and track your own codes in your console.

External bookings

Connect Bókun and your other channels' bookings appear here too — one place to look, instead of a fifth site to update. Using something else? Tell us and we'll try to add it.

Founding Partner

A signed agreement, three documents, and Stripe. Families pay you by card only. Listed as Verified: a permanent badge and priority placement during launch.

Trial Partner

A “Yes” by email to half a page of terms — no documents to start. Listed as New. Card payment through Stripe, or cash at your door.

If you take cash

Families pay you at the door and nothing else. We take nothing — no commission, no service fee, and no Stripe setup.

1. 1 Founding Partner: three documents. Entity verification (履歴事項全部証明書 / 登記事項証明書 / 開業届), one independent third-party document, and a one-page safety declaration. Trial Partner: a “Yes” by email to the terms — no documents.If a parent stays with the child throughout, the entity document alone is enough.
2. 2 Stripe setup. Your bank account and representative ID, on Stripe's own Japanese pages. Required for a Founding Partner; a Trial Partner may take cash instead.Only done once.
3. 3 We build your listing from your website, your social accounts, or whatever you send us by email, and you review it privately.Correct anything you like before it opens.
4. 4 You go live. A Founding Partner may leave at any time with 30 days' written notice; a Trial ends at any time by email.

Ready, or just curious? Write to hello@tabitots.com — we answer.