tiney use a revenue sharing plan, where we only make money when you are making money as a childminder. This means we charge an agreed percentage of your income via the wallet in the tiney app. This is agreed at 12% for new childminders, and we currently have a loyalty offer where we will offer to reduce it to 9% once your total fee-paying income through tiney meets a minimum threshold.
Which payments is the fee charged on?
tiney's fee is charged on all payments made by guardians, by any accepted payment method. This includes all rates and fees covered in an invoice.
When a guardian makes a payment via the tiney app, the payment is reconciled to an invoice and the payment is transferred to your tiney wallet. The tiney fee is charged at this point - so for every £100 a guardian pays, you receive £88 in your wallet, and tiney receive £12.
The fee also applies to certain types of Local Authority funding - see below for details.
Local Authority funding
tiney's fee applies to the following funding bands:
9-23 month olds for children of Working Parents
2 year olds for children of Working Parents
3–4 year olds (Universal and Extended hours) for childminders who registered on or after 1st January 2026
tiney's fee is not charged on the following funding bands:
2 year olds of families accessing additional government support*
3-4 year olds (Universal and Extended entitlement) for childminders who registered before 1st January 2026
*We are aware that some families using 2YO funding may be using a mixture of Working Parent and Additional Support funding. tiney's fee will apply to the Working Parent hours, but not the Additional Support hours.
Supplementary payments
These are extra payments which some children may be eligible for. They are paid by the LA on top of the hourly rate for the child's funding band.
There are many different types of supplement, and these are a few of the most common ones:
Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)
Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI)
Disability Access Funding (DAF)
Flexibility or Quality supplements for childminders
All types of supplement are exempt from tiney's fee.
The fee will still apply to the hourly rate paid for relevant funding bands: the supplement is exempt, the base hourly rate is not.
Please see our article here on how tiney's fee is applied to your funding payments.