Health & wellness
Flat-Rate Home Care Agency OS
Flat monthly scheduling, visit verification and billing for home care agencies, with unlimited caregivers and clients instead of per-seat pricing.
In plain English
- What category is this?
- Clinics, coaches, and consumers buy for care, fitness, or wellbeing workflows. Here the focus is vertical SaaS.
- The idea, briefly
Build one flat per-agency price (target about $299/month) that covers unlimited caregiver logins and unlimited client records, with EVV, the caregiver mobile app, the client/family portal and private-pay plus Medicaid/VA billing included, and a done-for-you migration that moves visit history and care plans off AxisCare, ClearCare or a spreadsheet. Caveat: this is not a novel category. ShiftCare and CareLineLive already include all features on every plan and start as low as AU$40/£120 a month, and the quote-gated US vendors bundle EVV and billing, so only the unlimited-caregiver/unlimited-client packaging is potentially novel, and it is copyable.
More ▾- What buyers expect
People comparing tools like ShiftCare, CareLineLive, AxisCare expect the basics to work without surprise fees or missing pieces. The loud complaints are: Agency billing and visit tracking still run on manual spreadsheets; and the industry is described as running on legacy, non-software workflows.
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Competitors
6- ShiftCare$40/mo
Parsed from public pricing blurbs (entry paid tier when available). Max in set: $40/mo.
| Competitor | From | Free tier | Source |
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| ShiftCare | $40/mo | — | shiftcare.com✓ |
| CareLineLive | See notes | — | carelinelive.com✓ |
| AxisCare | Unverified | — | axiscare.com✓ |
| CareSmartz360 | Unverified | — | caresmartz360.com✓ |
| AlayaCare | Unverified | Yes | alayacare.com✓ |
| Rosemark (Shoshana Technologies) | Unverified | — | rosemarksystem.com✓ |
What customers complain about
6| Gap | Src |
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Agency billing and visit tracking still run on manual spreadsheets. | |
The industry is described as running on legacy, non-software workflows. | |
Some home health companies still run on-premise software from the 1990s. | |
Government home health forms change yearly and must be manually rebuilt in the software. | |
Pricing is metered on caregivers or clients, not on the agency. ShiftCare charges per user and says 'Every person with a login counts as a user, | |
Thin margins cap what agencies will spend. |
Documented Interpreted
How competitors find customers
3| Tactic | Src |
|---|---|
| AxisCare signs home care franchise and brand networks so one agreement reaches many franchisees; its About page lists franchise/brand partners (Comfort Keepers, Visiting Angels, | axiscare.com✓ |
| ShiftCare offers a seven-day, no-credit-card trial with every feature switched on, then a low AU$8/user entry and a five-staff minimum, to convert self-serve. | shiftcare.com✓ |
| CareSmartz360 runs an Association Partners program and a referral program, and positions on price; | caresmartz360.com✓ |
Your angle & pricing wedge
| Piece | Claim | Src |
|---|---|---|
| Angle | One flat per-agency price (target about $299/month) that covers unlimited caregiver logins and unlimited client records, with EVV, the caregiver mobile app, | shiftcare.com✓ |
| Wedge | Mechanism: bill the agency a flat monthly fee instead of metering caregivers, users or clients. | shiftcare.com✓ |
How others got traction
3| Move | Why | Src |
|---|---|---|
| ShiftCare publishes a simple per-user price with a seven-day no-card trial and every feature on eve… | Company-reported figure on the opened pricing page ('8,000+ care providers worldwide'); | shiftcare.com✓ |
| AxisCare distributes through home care franchise networks and brand partners rather than only one a… | Documented on AxisCare's opened About page, which lists home care brand and franchise logos including Comfort Keepers, Visiting Angels, | axiscare.com✓ |
| CareSmartz360 wins price-sensitive agency owners, who name price as the reason they switched. | Customer-attributed on CareSmartz360's own opened reviews page, where owners say the deciding factor was price and start-up cost; | caresmartz360.com✓ |
Market heat
AxisCare says 33,500+ people use its home care software and lists agency tiers up to 1,000+ clients.
AlayaCare says it is trusted by more than 700 home care customers.
CareSmartz360 says it is trusted by over 2,000 clients.
Salsa raised a $20M Series A for embedded payroll and counts Aaniie, which builds payroll for home care, senior living and childcare, as a customer.
An HN hiring post shows new home-based-care startup Axle Health building scheduling, clinician tools and AI coordination for the same agencies.
Revenue signals
7| Signal | Src |
|---|---|
ShiftCare: '8,000+ care providers worldwide' (company-reported on its opened pricing page, not independently audited). | shiftcare.com✓ |
CareLineLive: 'Trusted by over 700 home care providers and 25,000 carers around the world' (company-reported). | carelinelive.com✓ |
AxisCare: '33,500+ Happy Users' (company-reported on its opened pricing page). | axiscare.com✓ |
CareSmartz360: 'Trusted by over 2000 clients' and 'our users reported 95% customer satisfaction in 2025' (company-reported). | caresmartz360.com✓ |
AlayaCare: 'Trusted by more than 700 customers and thousands of users around the world' (company-reported). | alayacare.com✓ |
Category list pricing documented: ShiftCare AU$8-20/user/month with a five-staff minimum (about AU$40/month floor); | shiftcare.com✓ |
Salsa, which supplies embedded payroll to vertical software, raised a $20M Series A and lists Aaniie ('embedded payroll built for care in the home') as a custo… | salsa.dev✓ |
Should you build this?
The pain is real and documented: one agency ran billing on an 80,000-line spreadsheet with hand-copied insurance numbers and faxed forms, another home health company was on software built in 1999, and every vendor charges by the caregiver, the user, or the client, which punishes agencies with high caregiver turnover. Home care agency owners pay for this: the people who schedule caregivers, verify visits, and bill families and Medicaid. The job is running a shift-based care business without spreadsheets. The category clearly makes money: AxisCare says 33,500+ people use it, AlayaCare says 700+ agencies pay it, and CareSmartz360 says 2,000+ clients. This is not guaranteed to work. The low end is cheap (ShiftCare starts around $40 a month; CareLineLive at GBP 120), home care runs on thin margins, and the bigger vendors can copy a flat plan. A flat per-agency price only wins for growing agencies that have many caregivers or clients.
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