Switching
A Recruiterflow alternative that also runs the hourly work
Recruiterflow is a recruiting ATS and a good one. It does not schedule a visit, clock anybody in, or raise an invoice from the hours worked. If your agency does placements and hourly care, that is a second system. Rostavo is one.
No card needed · We move your data across · Cancel whenever
Why agencies move off Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow sells to recruitment desks, and for a recruitment desk it is excellent. A nanny or household agency is a different shape: half the revenue is a permanent placement fee and half is somebody going to a house on Tuesday. An ATS covers the first half properly and the second half not at all.
One system instead of two
Recruiterflow is $119 per user a month billed annually. It handles the placement and stops there, so the hourly side needs something else beside it. Rostavo is $99 for the first office seat and $49 for each further one, with both halves in it.
A placement ends where the work begins
A general ATS stops at the offer. Placing a nanny means recurring bookings, hours, cover when someone is ill, invoices and pay. Rostavo carries it all the way through.
Compliance is not a generic attachment
Background checks, first aid and work authorization are records with expiry dates that need to chase themselves, not files in a folder nobody opens until something has lapsed.
Where Recruiterflow is the better choice
Recruiterflow is a better pure ATS than Rostavo, and it is not close on outbound recruiting: sequences, email campaigns, sourcing extensions, and a pipeline built by people who do nothing else. With three or more recruiters working outbound, it will earn its price. Rostavo is the better fit when the agency is small and the job does not end at the placement.
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, clients and pipeline stages.
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Step 2
We import them and map your stages onto Rostavo's pipeline.
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Step 3
You check nothing has been lost before you cancel anything.
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Step 4
No annual contract to wait out. Rostavo is month to month.
Moving from Recruiterflow
Why does a recruiting ATS not cover the hourly work?
Because it is built for a recruitment desk, where the job ends at the placement. A nanny agency carries on afterwards: somebody has to be scheduled, clocked in, and invoiced for the time they actually worked. That is a different product, and most agencies running an ATS run a second one beside it.
Is Rostavo a full ATS?
For in-home placement, yes. Apply form, pipeline, references, checks, documents and shortlists. For outbound recruiting with sourcing sequences and email campaigns, no, and Recruiterflow is better at that.
How much does a solo agency pay?
$99 a month for one office seat, with unlimited candidate profiles, workers and clients. A second person in the office is $49 more.
Other Recruiterflow alternatives
Everything else a Recruiterflow 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.
On request
US nanny, sitter and staffing agencies. Deep applicant tracking and a mature payroll story. The pricing page carries no figure.
$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.
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 Recruiterflow wins.
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