Switching
An EngineHire alternative that publishes its price
EngineHire quotes per administrator and puts no number on its website. Rostavo prices the same way, per office seat, and says the number in public: $99 a month for the first, $49 for each further one, every feature included.
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Why agencies move off EngineHire
EngineHire is a capable, established platform and its customers rate its support highly. But it quotes privately, its price is set by how many administrators you add, and with Sitter Pro now redirecting to it, the category has one dominant vendor nobody can price-check. Agencies tend to look elsewhere for one of three reasons.
You cannot compare what you cannot see
Nothing on EngineHire's site, Capterra, G2 or GetApp carries a figure. Every conversation starts with a demo. Rostavo publishes its price per seat, and you can sign up without speaking to anyone.
A second admin should not double the bill
A common request in EngineHire reviews is "more admins included in the monthly fee". Rostavo charges $49 for each colleague after the first seat, half the first-seat price, and never charges for a worker, a candidate, a family login or a client login.
Small agencies pay near enterprise money
A one-person agency has reported around $200 a month. Rostavo is $99 for one seat, and the founding-agency price is $49.50.
Where EngineHire is the better choice
EngineHire has been doing this far longer, has a deeper US payroll and tax story, and its support reputation is genuinely good. 4.8 on Capterra. We do not run payroll at all and do not intend to: Rostavo hands your verified hours and gross pay to whatever you already run it in, which is a smaller promise and one we can keep in every country. If you are a large US staffing operation with several administrators and complex payroll, that maturity is worth paying for, and you should. Rostavo is built for the agency with one to fifty people on the books that wants the whole job covered for a published price.
What switching actually involves
The reason agencies stay on software they have outgrown is almost never the software. It is the fortnight of retyping they imagine. We do that part.
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Step 1
Export your candidates, families and rates from EngineHire, or just send us the login and we will do it.
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Step 2
We load them into your Rostavo account and match your existing rate cards and custom fields.
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Step 3
You check the data against your own records before anything goes live.
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Step 4
Run both in parallel for as long as you like. There is no contract and no notice period.
Moving from EngineHire
Is Rostavo cheaper than EngineHire?
Almost certainly. EngineHire does not publish a price, but a single-administrator agency has reported roughly $200 a month. Rostavo publishes its price: $99 a month for the first office seat and $49 for each further one, with unlimited candidates, workers and families and every feature included.
Does Rostavo do applicant tracking like EngineHire?
Yes. An embeddable apply form on your own website feeds a recruiting pipeline with documents, references, background-check status and shortlists you can send a family by link.
Will I lose my candidate history if I move?
No. We migrate your candidates, families, rates and documents for you at no cost, and you keep your EngineHire account running alongside for as long as you want to check the two agree.
What happens to Sitter Pro customers?
Sitter Pro and EngineHire announced in March 2024 that they had joined forces, and sitter.app no longer serves a product site. Neither has announced a shutdown and we will not imply one, but if you chose Sitter Pro and did not choose a quote-only platform, that is the moment to look at the alternatives.
Other EngineHire alternatives
Everything else a EngineHire customer tends to look at, with what each one publishes. Prices checked on 1 November 2026. Two of these are cheaper than us and are listed anyway.
$199, then $99 per further user
Household, domestic and placement staffing. Publishes its price, sells without a call, and gives 30 days.
$195 up to 15 clients, then $13 per client
Childcare and home care together, with the US regulated-care surface: EVV, point of care and funder billing.
Agency Caregivers
From $100, unlimited seats
Cheaper than us for any office with two or more people. A month with four or more placements bills at $250, so a busy month costs more and the bill is harder to forecast.
Recruit CRM
$95 to $215 per user
A general recruiting ATS and CRM rather than agency software. Texting, LinkedIn and WhatsApp consume credits on top of the seat.
$119 per user, billed annually
A general recruiting ATS with strong automation. No scheduling, visits or invoicing from hours worked.
Sittysites
On request
Childcare services platform covering scheduling and payments. Demo only, no published price.
On request
US home care at scale, quoted by client count. Built for the funder-billing and EVV world we have stayed out of.
$9 to $25 per staff member
Australian NDIS and aged care. Priced per person on your books rather than per office seat, so it climbs as you recruit.
On request
Has repositioned towards healthcare and general staffing. Its nanny page gets effectively no traffic.
Rostavo
$99, then $49 per further office seat
Placements and hourly work in one system, priced per office seat rather than per person on your books. Published price, 14 day trial, no card.
Still weighing it up?
The feature-by-feature comparison, including the rows where EngineHire wins.
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