Switching
A Vars alternative with a price on the page
Vars is the newest entrant in nanny placement software and quotes privately. Rostavo publishes three tiers, includes every feature in all of them, and has the compliance and invoicing side already built.
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Why agencies move off Vars
Vars is nanny-placement-only, AI-forward and well presented. It is also very new, which cuts both ways: fewer entrenched assumptions, but less history behind the parts of the job that are unglamorous and mandatory.
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
Vars has put real effort into AI-driven matching and a white-labelled mobile app carrying the agency's own branding. If a branded app in the stores is central to how you sell to families, Vars offers something Rostavo does not. Our worker app installs from the browser rather than from an app store.
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 $69 up to 10 people on your books, $119 up to 25 and $199 up to 50.
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.
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