KADEPAY FOR DOULAS
You are on call for weeks, and the last thing you want at 2 AM is an unpaid balance on your mind. KadePay collects your retainer when the agreement is signed, spreads the rest into installments due before your on-call window, and lets relatives buy gift cards toward your care.
Pay-As-You-Go starts at $0 per month. Usage and payment fees apply.
Sound familiar?
Doulas turn down other families to hold a due date, wait weeks on call, and often collect the last payment after a long birth. These are the money moments doulas talk about in their groups, and what KadePay does about them.
The family says yes over coffee, you email your contract as a PDF, and a week later nobody has signed or paid while you keep their month open.
With KadePay
Send your service agreement as a form they sign on their phone, then a fixed-amount retainer link, such as $500. Their profile shows the signed agreement and the payment, so you know which due dates are truly held.
Forms and signaturesAsking for $1,200 from a family with a newborn feels wrong, so the final doula invoice sits for weeks and you stop mentioning it.
With KadePay
Agree a payment plan at signing with a set number of installments, the last one due by 36 weeks, collected from the family's saved card. By the time you go on call, the balance is settled.
Payment plansA family buys 20 hours of overnight support, adds a few daytime visits, and by week three nobody is sure how many hours are left.
With KadePay
Sell postpartum support as a package, such as ten overnight shifts, and record each shift as you work it. The count stays on the family's profile, and booking each shift stays separate.
Packages and sessionsGrandparents ask how they can contribute to doula care, and you end up with a check in the mail and a Venmo with no note.
With KadePay
Issue a gift card toward your care when a grandparent or friend wants to give doula support as a shower gift. Venmo or Zelle payments can be recorded on the family's bill with no KadePay fee.
Venmo, Zelle and cardsExpecting parents interview three doulas, and finding a time for a 45-minute meeting takes eight messages across two partners' work schedules.
With KadePay
Share a booking link with consultation, prenatal and postpartum visit types. Parents request a time, you confirm it, and each visit can carry its own address, whether that is a cafe or their living room.
Appointment bookingHow it fits your week
Expecting parents tap the link in your bio and request a free consultation. You review it and confirm, and a reminder goes out before you meet.
They sign your service agreement and intake questions on their phone, pay the retainer, and authorize a card for the installments you agreed together.
Installments come out on the dates in your plan, with the last one due by 36 weeks. You start your on-call window with nothing left to collect.
Prenatal visits sit on your calendar at the family's home. Postpartum shifts are recorded against the package they bought, and extra hours go on a bill.
Text a link for extra hours or an add-on service, and keep private notes on parking, pets and the older sibling's nap time for the next visit.
Every way your clients pay
Availability depends on your account setup and eligibility. You confirm Venmo and Zelle payments after checking they arrived.
Built in
Each tool writes to the same client record, from the first booking request to the receipt.
KadePay for doulas
A doula's income arrives in an unusual rhythm. Most of it is promised months before the birth, the work happens on no fixed schedule, and the final payment often falls in the most tender week of a family's life. Good tools move the money conversations earlier, when everyone is calm and the due date is still far away.
Start with a doula retainer collected the day the agreement is signed, because that is the payment that holds the date. Then set a doula payment plan for the balance, with installments that finish before you go on call. Families know the schedule from the first week, and you are not chasing anyone from a hospital parking lot.
Postpartum doula packages work the same way: families prepay a block of overnight or daytime shifts, and you record each one as it happens. A doula gift card gives relatives a simple way to help, which matters when doula care is a stretch for a young family.
If you want to accept card payments as a doula without a separate reader, send links by text or use Tap to Pay on a compatible phone after payment setup. A doula consultation request, a signed contract and every payment then sit together on one client profile.
CLEAR ANSWERS
The best app for a doula collects the retainer at signing, spreads the balance across a payment plan and handles postpartum packages without a separate invoicing tool. KadePay does those, plus signed agreements, consultation requests, gift cards and recorded Venmo or Zelle payments.
Many doulas collect a retainer when the agreement is signed and the balance before their on-call window begins, often by 36 to 38 weeks. In KadePay, send the agreement as a form, then the retainer link, then a payment plan for the rest, all from your phone.
Yes. Agree a set number of installments with the family, such as three payments of $400 after a $500 retainer. The family authorizes a saved card or bank account, and each installment is collected from it on the agreed dates. They are notified and can revoke the authorization.
No. For a doula practice, KadePay covers payments, booking requests, forms, packages and business notes. It is not a place for medical records or birth charting, and it does not send claims to insurers or Medicaid. Use private notes for practical details like parking, pets and preferred contact times.
Yes. Issue a KadePay gift card for the amount a grandparent or friend pays, and the parents apply it toward your fee. It works well as a baby shower gift when doula support is on the family's wish list but not yet in their budget.
KadePay's Pay-As-You-Go plan has no monthly charge, $0 per month, though payment and usage fees apply when families pay you. Team at $10 per month and Pro at $35 per month add recurring billing and team members for doula collectives. Compare them on the pricing page.
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