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For mikvahs

Discreet for every guest. Simple for everyone else.

Guests book in thirty seconds with a first name and a mobile number, and nothing they ever see says "mikvah". The balanit gets tonight's list on their phone, the hours follow nightfall on their own, and the director stops taking calls at ten at night. Nobody has to learn anything.

No name, no account, no appWorks by textFree software · $2 a bookingHours from Hebcal by the rav's ruleLive in a week, set up with you
The $2 booking fee is shown on the booking page before payment. The mikvah may absorb it instead.
613OS · Tonight at a glanceHours loaded from Hebcal
6:47 PM
Opens tonight
14
Appointments booked
0
Last names on file
HR
HoursOpen 6:47 · last bath 9:30 · last shower 10:15
Auto
RM
Rooms4 bath · 3 shower · kallah suite — no two guests in one room
Assigned
TX
Reminders"Your appointment is at 8:15 PM" — 14 sent, neutral wording
Sent
BL
Balanit tonightMrs. R. — tonight's list on the balanit's phone, texts routed there
Routed
FR
Friday nightPrepaid only · booking closes 4:55 PM · no messages on Shabbos
Cutoff set
DN
Donations3 dedications tonight — acknowledgments sent, separate from fees
Auto
MN
Men's mikvah door41 taps today · nightly total to the gabbai
$287
30 secto book: a first name, a mobile number, done
0times the word "mikvah" appears on anything a guest sees
Tonightall the balanit ever sees, on their own phone
$0monthly fee — the software is free; the guest pays $2 a booking
Sound familiar?

A phone that rings at ten. A Venmo request nobody wants to send. A list on the fridge.

Three problems every mikvah director has lived through — and what we built so they stop happening.

01 · The call nobody wants to makeTo book, a guest has to phone or text a person, give a name, and sometimes explain. For many people that is the hardest part of the night. Some put it off; some don't come.
02 · Money that has to be asked forVenmo, Zelle, cash in an envelope, a "mikvah" line on a shared bank statement. Nobody wants to ask, nobody wants to be asked, and the treasurer reconciles a shoebox at month end.
03 · A system nobody has time to learnThe balanit is a volunteer on a weekly rotation. The director has a day job. Nightfall moves every week. Anything that needs training, logins or a manual gets abandoned by Chanukah.
What 613OS actually does

The phone list stores names. 613OS runs the evening.

A phone list, a Venmo handle and a WhatsApp group record what happened and wait for a person. 613OS takes the booking, assigns the room, sends the reminder, texts the balanit and closes the calendar before Shabbos — every night, whether or not anyone remembered.

What you have now

A phone line · Venmo and Zelle · a WhatsApp group for the balaniyos · a schedule retyped every week
Guests have to call or text a person, and give their name, to get a time
Someone retypes the hours when nightfall moves, and the website lags
Money is asked for at the door or sent to a personal Venmo
The balanit learns who's coming from whoever took the calls
Names and dates live in someone's phone for years
A no-show costs a room; a double booking costs a guest their evening

What 613OS does for you

Running in the background, every night, on its own
Takes the booking online or by text with a first name and a mobile number — no account, no app, no explanation.
Calculates opening, last bath and last shower from Hebcal by the rav's rule, and shows guests only times valid for that night.
Takes payment before the visit, under the shul's name, so nobody asks anyone for money.
Gives each guest a room of their own and texts the balanit tonight's list at opening time.
Closes Friday-night booking before candle lighting and sends nothing on Shabbos or Yom Tov.
Clears visit history on the timer the mikvah sets, and shows the shul office totals only.

The phone list records who called. 613OS books, pays, reminds and clears — so the director's evening gets quieter every month, not louder.

What 613OS delivers

Discreet for every guest, simple for everyone.

Everything a mikvah needs, set up once with you and then left alone. Every mikvah-specific setting lives on one page, so the director changes a price or a door code without calling anyone.

Booking that asks nothing personalA first name or initials and a mobile number, online or by text. No last name, no email, no account, no app. The guest picks bath or shower, gets a room of their own, and sees the time on every confirmation.
Hours nobody has to typeOpening, last bath and last shower are calculated weekly from Hebcal by the rav's rule, with an optional winter floor. Guests only ever see times that are valid for that night, and the director never retypes a schedule.
Friday night, handled in advanceA prepay-only calendar with a cutoff before candle lighting, so no money changes hands at the door. Nothing is charged, sent or tapped on Shabbos or Yom Tov.
The balanit's whole job on one screenOne mikvah text number that routes to whoever is on tonight, and a phone-sized list of tonight's times, rooms and first names. Nothing to log into, nothing to learn, nothing from last week.
Paying without a conversationVisit fees, memberships, sponsorships and donations paid online under the shul's name. Renewals and failed cards follow up on their own, politely, so no one at the mikvah has to ask anyone for money.
The office sees totals, not namesThe mikvah's money lands in the shul's 613OS books as totals. No names and no visit dates ever reach the shul office or the treasurer.
Your mikvah · TonightBalanit's view · on the phone
TimeRoomAppointmentStatus
7:00 PMBath 1Appointment · R.Paid · reminded
7:00 PMShower 2Appointment · M.Paid · here
7:45 PMBath 3Appointment · D.Paid · reminded
8:15 PMKallah suiteKallah · S.Paid · teacher confirmed
9:30 PMBath 2Appointment · L.Last bath · reminded
Tonight's times, rooms and first names, and nothing else: no last names, no history, no export. The list arrives by text at opening time and opens with nothing to log into. Sample data.
The Mikvah edition

Easy for the director, the balanit and the rav.

The mikvah-specific tools that ship with 613OS for mikvahs. Items marked "set up with you" are configured once, during onboarding with your director and supervising rav, and then run without attention.

Rooms and room pricingBath rooms, shower rooms and a kallah suite as bookable resources. Two guests never get the same room; standard, jacuzzi and bridal rooms can each carry their own price, with late and out-of-town visits priced separately.
Hours rule — set up with youNightfall by opinion or a fixed number of minutes after sunset, last-bath and last-shower offsets, Friday and Yom Tov last entry, closed nights. Set once with the rav; the calendars, the website and the messages update every week on their own.
Kallah appointmentsA longer slot with its own fee and intake, booked weeks ahead, often with a kallah teacher. A kallah-gift page lets family and friends sponsor the visit.
Reminders a family member can read"Your appointment is at 8:15 PM" from the shul's name. Never the word "mikvah", never a surname, nothing to explain if someone else picks up the phone. Guests can also choose no messages at all and use a code name.
Lobby tablet — optional hardwareThe guest types a mobile number and the screen shows the room. Walk-in booking and payment, donations and kallah gifts, and the balanit's room board, with no one at a desk asking questions.
Entry and parking notes — set up with youThe door code, the side entrance, where to park, who to text if the door is locked: all on one settings page, sent in the confirmation and shown on the hosted mikvah page.

What it doesn't do. 613OS does not keep anyone's visit history beyond the window you choose, does not put mikvah contacts into shul campaigns unless the guest opts in, and does not replace the rav: the hours rule and every message's wording are his to approve before anything goes live. Keep your own card processor and the booking software is still free; you lose only the door hardware and the shul-ledger rollup.

Discretion

Nothing in the system tells anyone they were there.

Visit dates are private, for women and men alike. Families share phones and bank statements. So the system stores as little as possible, says as little as possible, and shows each person only what their role needs.

First name or initials, and a mobileThat is the whole booking form. The mobile exists for the reminder and the "they're here" check-in, nothing else.
Neutral everywhereCalendar entries read "Appointment" plus an initial. Messages come from the shul's name. The card statement shows the shul, never "mikvah".
Least accessThe balanit sees tonight's slots, rooms and first names. Shul office staff see totals. Contact export is off for everyone but the director.
Short retentionVisit history is cleared after the window the mikvah chooses (90 days suggested) by 613OS's own timer. Payment records stay for accounting, without visit dates.
No trackers, no marketingBooking pages carry no ad pixels or analytics that identify visitors. Mikvah contacts never enter shul campaigns unless they opt in.
Questions to the rav, without a nameStaff can pass a halachic question to the rav with no name attached. A privacy one-pager for the rav is available on request.
A night on 613OS

Sunset to closing, without anyone remembering.

Eight things that happened tonight at a mikvah on 613OS — and nobody had to start any of them.

Sun 9:00 AMThis week's hours arrive from Hebcal by the rav's rule and land on the calendars, the mikvah page and the messages.
2:10 PMA guest texts the mikvah number "bath tonight" and gets 7:45 PM, a room, and the entry note. Thirty seconds.
5:30 PMReminders go out: "Your appointment is at 7:45 PM." From the shul's name, nothing more.
6:47 PMOpening time. The balanit on tonight gets a text with the list and a link that opens on their phone.
7:40 PMThe guest types a mobile number on the lobby tablet; the screen shows Bath 3.
8:15 PMThe kallah suite: paid weeks ago, teacher confirmed, gift page closed with three sponsors and acknowledgments sent.
10:15 PMLast shower. The men's mikvah door device posts the day's taps and emails the gabbai the total.
Fri 4:55 PMFriday-night booking closes before candle lighting. No messages go out until after havdalah.

Same mikvah. Same balaniyos. Same rav. The difference is what happens when nobody's on the phone.

Men's and keilim mikvahs

A device at the door instead of a cash box.

Men's mikvahs run on cash boxes, honor systems and prepaid tags; keilim mikvahs on a pushka. 613OS puts a tap-to-pay device at the door: tap, go in, done. It posts to the same ledger as everything else, locks on a zmanim schedule, and never needs an attendant.

Men's mikvah: tap-to-payPer use or membership at the door, memberships that renew themselves, Erev Yom Kippur pricing, and a nightly total in the gabbai's email. No attendant counting money. Optional door controller.
Keilim mikvah: tap-to-donateA tap plate or QR stand with suggested amounts and an acknowledgment by text. Self-serve in daylight, Sunday to Friday, with the pre-Pesach rush handled without a volunteer at the door.
Locked on Shabbos and Yom TovEvery device follows the same zmanim schedule as the hours: it stops taking taps before candle lighting and reopens after havdalah. Show the rav the lock before the install.
For your whole team

Everyone gets their own reason to say yes.

A mikvah decision runs through the director, the rav and the shul. Here's what 613OS means for each of them.

Rebbetzin & mikvah director

Evenings back, with nothing to run.

Guests book by text or online and pay before they come. Tonight's list is on the balanit's phone. Cancellations, reminders and no-shows handle themselves, and the director changes a price or a door code from one settings page.

The rav

His rule, exactly, and his wording.

Hours follow his opinion for nightfall. Friday night is prepaid with a cutoff before candle lighting. No messages go out on Shabbos or Yom Tov and devices lock on the same schedule. He approves every word before it goes live.

Balaniyos

One text, one list, nothing to learn.

A text at opening time with tonight's list and a link that opens on their phone. Guests who text the mikvah line reach the balanit directly. Ten minutes of training, and the rotation changes without anyone touching a setting.

Shul president & office

Totals in the books, no names in the office.

No monthly bill, no staff time on the phone, and the mikvah's income on the shul's own ledger as totals only. The office never sees who came or when.

How it works

Live in a week, not a season.

Zero tech-savviness required — we do the setup for you, start to finish, from the way your mikvah runs today. Phone lists, Mikvah RSVP or MikvahCloud exports come to us by secure upload, never by email.

1A 15-minute callWe walk through booking on a phone, the hours page for the next two weeks, the balanit's tonight view and the donation page.
2The rav's meetingWe bring the hours rule and every message's wording; it takes one sitting. Nothing goes live before he approves it.
3One settings pageFees, rooms, the rav's rule, entry notes, the balanit line, device IDs: filled in once with the director, changed by the director at any time.
4Go liveBalaniyos trained in about ten minutes each. Keep the phone line open alongside 613OS for 60 days and count the calls and the no-shows.

Included with every setup: Migration from phone lists, Mikvah RSVP or MikvahCloud · A hosted mikvah page on the shul's domain · Balanit training · The rav's sign-off meeting · No tech skills needed.

Compared

What you have now, side by side.

Competitor figures are from their published pricing as of November 2026. Where another platform is stronger, we'll say so on the demo.

Phone & VenmoMikvah RSVPMikvahCloud613OS
Monthly feeStaff time$40–$830$0$0
Setup and add-ons—$250–$5,000—$0
Per booking——$2, kept on cancellation$2, not charged on cancellation before the cutoff
Stores the guest's identityTheir number in someone's phoneAccount by phone number and text codeName and phoneFirst name or initials only; history cleared on a timer
Hours from zmanimRetyped by handYesPartialYes, by the rav's rule, weekly from Hebcal
Lobby tablet—About $5,000—Optional hardware, sold or leased
Men's and keilim payment deviceCash box——Yes
Shares a ledger with the shul———Yes
Migration and balanit training—Paid add-on—Included
Pricing

The software is free. The guest pays $2 when booking.

No monthly fee, no setup fee, no add-on invoices. The $2 booking fee is the only charge, it is shown on the booking page before payment, and the mikvah can absorb it instead. Keep your own card processor and the booking software is still free.

Booking fee
$2/booking
paid by the guest at checkout
The only fee. Not charged on cancellations before the cutoff.
  • Shown on the booking page before payment
  • The mikvah may pay it instead, at the same $2
  • Visit fees, memberships and donations on 613OS Payments under the shul's name
  • Walk-ins and cash at the door still work; the booking reserves the room
Card and ACH processing fees apply on 613OS Payments
How 613OS Payments works
Hardware & the shul
Priced on the demo
For men's, keilim and shul-owned mikvahs.
  • Men's mikvah tap-to-pay device, memberships on autopay
  • Keilim tap-to-donate plate or QR stand
  • Lobby tablet for check-in and walk-in pay
  • Every device locked on a zmanim schedule
  • Shul bundle: the mikvah inside the shul's 613OS account, one ledger, totals only
Devices sold or leasedShul bundle: on a shul plan
Talk to us

The $2 booking fee is disclosed on the booking page before payment and is not charged on cancellations before the mikvah's cutoff. Mikvahs that keep their own processor still receive the booking software free. WhatsApp and the AI assistant are optional add-ons; SMS usage is billed pay-as-you-go.

Questions mikvahs ask

What does 613OS cost for a mikvah?
Nothing a month. There is no setup fee and no add-on invoices. The guest pays a $2 booking fee at checkout, shown on the booking page and not charged if they cancel before the cutoff. Mikvahs that prefer to absorb it pay the same $2 themselves. WhatsApp and AI are optional add-ons, and hardware is sold or leased separately.
Our guests won't put "mikvah" on a credit card.
They won't have to. The card statement shows the shul's name, never "mikvah". Cash at the door still works; the booking simply reserves the room and the time.
Our balaniyos are volunteers. Will they manage it?
Yes. The balanit gets a text at opening time with tonight's list and a link that opens on their phone with nothing to log into. Guests who text the mikvah line reach the balanit directly. We train each balanit in about ten minutes, and the director can change anything from one settings page.
What about guests who don't book online?
They text the mikvah number, or call, and the booking lands in the same calendar. Walk-ins still work and pay at the door or on the lobby tablet. Nobody is turned away for not using a website.
How are the hours set?
With the rav, once. He chooses the opinion for nightfall or a fixed number of minutes after sunset, an optional winter floor, the last-bath and last-shower offsets, and the Friday and Yom Tov last entry. 613OS pulls the zmanim from Hebcal every week and writes the hours into the calendars, the mikvah page and the messages. Nobody retypes a schedule.
What happens on Shabbos and Yom Tov?
Friday-night and Yom Tov appointments are prepaid on a separate calendar with a cutoff before candle lighting. No messages go out from candle lighting until after havdalah, and door devices stop taking taps on the same schedule.
What happens to the data?
The booking stores a first name or initials and a mobile number. Visit history is deleted after the window the mikvah chooses, 90 days by default. The balanit sees only tonight, contact export is off for everyone but the director, and nothing is sold, tracked or added to shul campaigns without the guest opting in.
We already use Mikvah RSVP or MikvahCloud. How hard is the switch?
We do the migration, including a hosted mikvah page if your old vendor built your website, and train the balaniyos. Keep the phone line open alongside 613OS for 60 days and count the calls and the no-shows.

See how little there is to learn.

Fifteen minutes on a phone: book a slot with a first name and a mobile number, see what the balanit sees, and read every message a guest would receive. 613OS is a Merch FinTech company — payments infrastructure, with offices in Florida and New York. Built for women's, men's and keilim mikvahs, and the shuls, Chabad houses and mikvah societies that run them.

613os.com/demo · 305-954-7362 · yoni@613os.com