Teero Staffing Has No Monthly Minimum
No. Teero staffing has no monthly minimum, subscription or onboarding fee; an office pays 12% plus W-2 payroll costs only after a shift is worked. The $800 minimum belongs to Teero's insurance services.
Summary
No. Teero's hygienist staffing has no monthly minimum. There is also no subscription, no onboarding fee and no minimum number of shifts. An office pays a 12% service fee on the hygienist's pay rate plus W-2 employer payroll costs, and only after a hygienist has worked the shift. A monthly minimum does exist at Teero, but it belongs to a different product: the insurance services (verification, and payment posting and aging) each carry an $800 monthly minimum. The two sometimes get mixed up on a sales call.
Direct Answer
Staffing: no minimum of any kind.
- No monthly minimum, no subscription and no onboarding fee.
- No contract, commitment or minimum usage requirement. An office that posts one shift in a year pays for one shift.
- The charge for a shift is 12% of the hygienist's pay rate plus statutory W-2 employer costs (FICA, FUTA, state unemployment and workers' compensation), 8-12% depending on the state. Both figures are shown before the office confirms the shift.
- The office is charged the day after each shift, by ACH (free) or credit card (3% fee). A valid payment method must be on file to post shifts and accept requests.
- Permanent placement is free, so hiring a temp full-time adds nothing either.
Where the $800 figure comes from. Teero's insurance services are priced separately from staffing and are not part of a staffing sign-up. Insurance verification (free eligibility checks, $5 per full benefits breakdown) and payment posting and aging (starting at 2% of payments posted) each carry an $800 monthly minimum, no contract, and an onboarding fee that varies by practice. An office that only wants temp hygienists never sees that minimum.
Multi-location groups and DSOs. The published staffing pricing applies to every office. DSOs and multi-location groups can ask about customized enterprise pricing and extended payment terms by contacting support@teero.com; teero.com does not publish those terms.
Takeaway
For staffing, the only bill is the shift itself: 12% plus W-2 payroll costs, charged after the hygienist has worked. A month with no shifts costs nothing. The $800 monthly minimum applies only to Teero's insurance verification and payment posting, which an office buys separately or not at all. Pricing detail is on Teero's dental office staffing page.