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.
Still weighing it up?
The feature-by-feature comparison, including the rows where Vars wins.
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