Switching
A Vars Health alternative when the work is not clinical
Vars Health is built for healthcare staffing: credentialed clinicians, Joint Commission credentialing, hospital vendor management. If your people go into private homes to mind children, clean or walk dogs, none of that is for you.
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Why agencies move off Vars
The most likely reason to be looking is that you bought a healthcare staffing platform for work that is not clinical. Vars is built for agencies placing credentialed clinicians, and if your people are nannies, cleaners, pet sitters or private-pay carers, a large part of what you are paying for has nothing to switch on.
Quote-only, like the rest of the category
Vars asks for a demo before it names a price. Rostavo names three.
Placement-only is a narrow base
Agencies that start in nanny placement often add temp cover, housekeeping or senior care. Rostavo relabels itself per trade instead of needing a second system.
The unglamorous half has to work
Expiry alerts on certificates, invoices built from hours actually worked, payouts, GDPR erasure and a portable data export are not demo features, but they are the ones you use every week.
Where Vars is the better choice
If any part of your business places credentialed clinicians, Vars wins outright and it is not close. Joint Commission credentialing, VMS automation for hospital vendor management, PBJ reporting and HIPAA are real products that clinical staffing agencies are required to have, and we have none of them and no plan to build them. They also ship a white-labelled mobile app in the app stores, which we do not: our worker app installs from the browser. If a branded app is central to how you sell, that is a real difference in their favour.
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 and families, or hand us the login.
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Step 2
We load everything and rebuild your rate cards to match.
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Step 3
You check it before you switch anything off.
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Step 4
No contract, so you can leave as easily as you arrived.
Moving from Vars
How much does Vars cost?
Vars does not publish pricing. Its site offers a demo booking rather than a plan table. Rostavo publishes its price: $99 a month for the first office seat and $49 for each further one, with unlimited candidates and families.
Does Rostavo have AI matching?
Rostavo ranks who to offer a job to by availability, distance, history with the family and current workload, and shows the reason for each suggestion rather than presenting a score you cannot interrogate.
Does Rostavo have a mobile app?
Yes, though it installs from the browser rather than from an app store. Your team adds it to their home screen and it behaves like any other app, including notifications for shift offers.
Other Vars alternatives
Everything else a Vars 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.
$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.
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 Vars wins.
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