Here’s what consumers have asked with answers from Care.com staff and previous consumers.
Basic memberships are free, if you paid you have a premium subscription. Call 877-227-3115 or email careteam@care.com
You can choose to "skip" or just log out and log back in then select the Care.com logo at the top left and that will take you to your home page
Yes. Sign up for 1 month with their discount code of 20% off. On day 27, downgrade the paying account to a free account. They will then offer you $5./mo, vs $39. To stay. Accept. Cancel in 5.9 months.
As a former paid employer, I can tell you that the info I received was dependent on the child care provider. Some of them included contact info on their profile (though that's not recommended by Care.com as Care.com would like you to keep all your interactions on their website, and they claim that you are more secure in doing so). So, if the caregiver chose, we would just message back and forth on Care.com until they felt confident enough to share more contact info with us. For us, that varied - some caregivers immediately gave us their phone number after we gave them ours. Others preferred to arrange a meeting in a public place to ensure that we weren't some crazy stalker, and then exchanged private information then. As honest parents, we were quite comfortable with the latter. We know of clear fraud perpetrated on both sides on Care.com, and the Care.com team couldn't care less, so be cautious.