The UK home care software buyer's guide
A practical PDF workbook for owners, registered managers and coordinators who are choosing, or switching, home care software. It gives you a scorecard you can take into every demo, so you shortlist on the things that matter rather than the things a sales team wants to show you. Free to download, no sign up.
Download the buyer's guide
Ten pages, A4, ready to print. Includes the twelve point scorecard, the five question decision framework, a four nation compliance table and a blank vendor comparison worksheet you can fill in as you go.
Download the PDFA workbook, not a brochure
The three kinds of vendor
How to tell legacy enterprise, modern SaaS and AI first products apart, and what each means for price and setup time.
The twelve point scorecard
Rate every platform out of 24 on the things that matter, from offline mobile to eMAR depth to contract flexibility.
The five question framework
Five questions that quickly rule vendors in or out, so you only trial the two or three worth your time.
Pricing and total cost of ownership
Per user versus per carer, the costs that hide below the headline, and how to compare like for like.
Four nation requirements
What the software must support for CQC, CIW, Care Inspectorate and RQIA, including the right background check and register.
Vendor comparison worksheet
A blank, printable grid to score three shortlisted vendors side by side, plus an implementation and migration checklist.
An informed buyer makes a better decision
Choosing home care software is one of the biggest operational decisions an agency makes. It shapes how coordinators build the rota, how carers record what happened at a visit, how you evidence compliance to your regulator, and how quickly you get paid. Switching later is painful, so it pays to choose well the first time.
We are homecareOS, so we have a horse in this race, and we say so plainly in the guide. But the scorecard, the questions and the worksheet work whichever product you pick. We would rather you choose the right platform with your eyes open than be sold the wrong one.
Prefer to read on screen first? The full online guide to UK home care software covers the market, the four regulators and pricing models in more depth.
Prefer to see it in action?
Download the guide, then try homecareOS against your own scorecard. It is free for your first 5 carers, with no time limit and no credit card, or book a straightforward conversation with no sales pressure.