A Mable alternative for the participants you already have.
Mable is a marketplace — great for finding new clients, but it takes a fee on every hour you bill through it and sits between you and the people you support. Solodesk is the opposite: no per-booking cut, and the relationship stays yours.
The honest version
Plenty of independent support workers use both. Mable is a good way to findparticipants when you’re starting out or filling a gap in your week. The trade-off is the fee: Mable adds a service fee on top of every booking, and your relationship with the participant runs through the platform’s terms.
Once someone is a regular — the people who make up most of your income — paying a cut on every single hour, forever, is the expensive way to keep working with them. That’s the gap Solodesk fills: take your established relationships off the marketplace, keep your full rate, and run the paperwork yourself.
So it’s not really “switch.” Keep Mable for discovery if it works for you. Use Solodesk for the books on the relationships you already own.
Side by side
Based on Mable’s publicly published model as a support-finding marketplace. Always check current terms — both products change. Your saving depends on your rate and hours.
The maths, roughly
At 30 hours a weekon a platform that takes a cut of each hour, the fees add up to several hundred dollars a month — many times what a flat $24/month costs. On a direct relationship you don’t need a marketplace for, that’s money that should be yours.
Solodesk gives you the parts the marketplace was bundling: a service agreement, shift logging with progress notes, and plan-manager-ready invoices you can push straight to Xero.
Take your regulars off the marketplace.
Build a free compliance pack in five minutes — service agreement, progress note template, and invoice template, yours to keep. No card required.