Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world’s leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits.
Care.com (care.com) has 6,298 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 2.4 out of 5.
Website
care.com
Category
Kids & Family
Location
Austin, Texas
Listed on Five Star Index
2026
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Most recent review: October 2026.
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Scamy and shady business practice. DO NOT USE THIS SITE
Response from Care.comDec 19, 2023
Hi Keeba, I'm sorry to hear your feedback on Care.com. We'd be happy to assist you if you want to reach out to us through our Help Center's contact us form found at help.care.com. You can also reach out to us through our Facebook Messenger. Please include Reference Number REV-018677 with your message.
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Pinpinella P.
Carmen F
Carmen F. Is a passionate, reliable, caring, respectful and responsible caregiver. She has empathy and she has a positive & encouraging attitude, she also respects your choices and has SO MUCH PATIENCE!! Carmen really cares & is flexible and accommodating. I would definitely recommend Carmen F from Care.com
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Matt E.
Don't sign up!
Don't sign up, it's a waste of time without paying. And from the other reviews I've since read its just a waste of money when you do pay.
Response from Care.comDec 21, 2023
Thank you for your feedback, Matt. We are a paid subscription service and not a free service. We're sorry if you thought otherwise and therefore felt mislead. That was never our intention. Many sites like ours charge a fee in order to be able to offer you the features our site offers. Otherwise we'd just be like any other free classified site with very little to offer. If you'd like to discuss further or if you'd like us to take a look at your account and see if we can offer any tips to help your search, please reach out to us through our contact us link at help.care.com or via Facebook Messenger. Please include Reference Number REV-018605 when you message. We can assure you that we've had many happy members make great connections using our service. Thank you.
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Gene V.
Avoid, no customer service, no phone numbers
Please avoid. Wish we would have checked with BBB before proceeding with this business. There is no phone numbers on their website, just a "chat". We wanted to get our daughter some babysitting service to help her during holidays. We paid the $155 annual Premium subscription, rather than the monthly. Within 24 hours of signing up, we were advised our account was no closed and no refunds. We can only assume we did something wrong signing up, but no phone numbers are reason why it was cancelled. We got the charge on the our credit card statement, it had a phone number for billing, we called them, and all they will say is "Per T and C's no refunds are given." Their T and C's also say they cancel at anytime for any reason or none. And we would only be out $16 if we paid for the monthly service. This is mindboggling. When reading other customers of CARE.com who also had problems, instead of giving them a phone number, they send them to Facebook Messenger. There is nobody to talk to and resolve the issue.
Per Care.com response, we did call the number on the credit card statement, only thing they responded with is "Care.com does not offer refunds."
Response from Care.comDec 18, 2023
Hi Gene, I'm so sorry you had trouble reaching us. Premium members or members who have a current booking can always live chat with us through the Contact Us button found at help.care.com as well as reach out to us via our phone number listed on your credit card statement. You can also reach out to us through our Facebook Messenger. Please include Reference Number REV-018583 with your message.
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Radha R.
Don't subscribe
When you subscribe and agree to pay monthly. One thing you expect is invoice. They didn't send me invoice for my monthly subscription. This is a unprofessional way of keeping subscription. How you don't send invoice for the payment you receive?
Response from Care.comDec 18, 2023
Hi Radha, I'm so sorry to hear that you were not aware that our memberships auto renew until cancelled. This information is included on every upgrade page, as well as our billing confirmation and Terms of Use. If you'd like to discuss further, please reach out to us through the contact us link at help.care.com or through Facebook messenger. Please include Reference Number REV-018581 when you message.
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Satinder D.
Signed for monthly plan, I was charged for whole year
I signed up end of November for monthly plan, canceled it begging of December, checked my credit card statement, it was showing yearly charges. Called care.com, the rep says there is nothing he can do
Response from Care.comDec 18, 2023
Hi, I'm sorry to hear that you didn't have a positive experience with the site. For assistance, please reach out via our Help Center contact us link at help.care.com or Facebook Messenger. Include Reference Number REV-018580 when you message.
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Jennifer G.
Horrible unethical company
Edit: I contacted them 3 or 4 times after tbis review when they said they’d be helping me and I still have been told they’d call back within 24-48 hours. They never have!
Horrible unethical company! Brags about their billions on their site they make then they rip off their customers. I paid for a subscription in December 2022, I am not rich so I can’t imagine why I’d pick the most expensive one ($83 every 3 months). When I realized I couldn’t contact people unless THEY also paid the subscription.. I cancelled my account. I checked care.com and it said no upcoming payment on payments. I did this several times. Over the last year my husband has been asking me where is all of our money… I’d check my credit card thoroughly and couldn’t see anything (I guess I never checked on a month with care.com… until this month). When I saw a huge $83 payment I prayed this was for a renewal and maybe had been charged for the year again… unfortunately I had been charged every 3 months all yeAr. Over $300 stolen for a site I never thought twice about or looked at after I had thought I’d cancelled. When I contacted customer service the first two times, they promised someone would follow up within 48 hours. Then I checked my emails and I had ONE email from care over the last year, and it was customer service cancellation email from that day. I had not a single email from care yet they charged me over $300; never sending any emails??? After 4 days I still hadn’t heard from the supervisor so I called in… once again I was offered nothing but a callback from a guy who was clearly eating and not paying attention to me At all! I’m leaving reviews everywhere I can abut this fraudulent company!!
Response from Care.comDec 12, 2023
Hi Jennifer, I'm sorry to hear you have been getting charged after you feel you cancelled your account. Please reach out to us through our contact us link at help.care.com, via our phone number listed on your credit card statement, or through Facebook Messenger so we can look into this more and make sure you did successfully cancel your subscription and that you don't have multiple accounts. Please include Reference Number REV-018579 in your response.
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Puneet G.
totally scam and bogus
totally scam and bogus
Could not find even a single match, paid for 3 months match, and canceled the service after 3 months, still got charged once again for 3 months, reached to customer service and they refused to refund the money, kindly avoid,
Got a response from care.com, mentioned below to my review. Contacted customer care, received same crappy response, wasted my time :::
Thank you for patiently waiting, Puneet. I’m sorry that we can’t offer you a refund. Your satisfaction is very important to us; however we have a strict no-refund policy as stated in our Terms and Conditions. Your request has already been escalated and reviewed by a supervisor, and their decision is final. Therefore, we are not able to provide any further assistance regarding this request.
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Response from Care.comDec 12, 2023
Hi Puneet. Thank you for your feedback and I'm so sorry to hear that you didn't have a positive experience with the app. For assistance, please reach out via our Help Center contact us link at help.care.com or Facebook Messenger. Please include Reference Number REV-018570 when you message. Deleting and reinstalling the latest version of the app may also be helpful.