PurVago is $129 a month for unlimited cleaners, and it runs the whole day, not just the booking form: estimates built from photos, per-home checklists, before-and-after photos, and a crew app that keeps working with no signal. BookingKoala caps your providers on every plan, so the bill jumps as you hire.
BookingKoala counts every team member as a provider and caps them on every plan. PurVago Team does not count them at all.
| PurVago Team $129 a month | BookingKoala Starter from $27 a month | BookingKoala Growing from $57 a month | BookingKoala Premium from $197 a month | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaners you can have | Unlimited | 5 | 15 | 50, then up to $597 a month |
| Estimates from photos or video | Included | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Crew app that works offline | Included | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| GPS clock-in | Included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Text notifications | Included, from your own number | Not included | Included | Included |
| Hiring and onboarding | $29 add-on | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Payroll hours | Timesheets included | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Free trial | 14 days, we load your data | 14 days | 14 days | 14 days |
BookingKoala plans, provider limits and prices are from bookingkoala.com/pricing as read on November 14, 2026. That page shows each as a "starts at" price, says pricing rises with providers, storage or contacts, and says each team member counts as a provider. "Not listed" means the feature does not appear on that page. PurVago Team is our monthly list price and covers unlimited team members and jobs with 200 texts a month; Starter, for a company of one or two, is $49. Card processing is separate on both, and PurVago keeps a 0.5% platform fee on customer card payments.
Team is $129 a month for unlimited cleaners. On BookingKoala the sixteenth provider moves you from a $57 plan to a $197 plan, and past fifty the price keeps climbing to $597.
A PurVago quote starts with photos or a video from the customer and counts the rooms for you. BookingKoala gives the customer a form to ask for a quote.
Per-home checklists, before-and-after photos, two cleaners on one visit with both credited, and a quality score per cleaner.
The checklist, the photos and the clock keep running with no signal and sync when it comes back.
Courses, knowledge checks, a final exam and a certificate in the same app.
Send us your customer and booking exports and we load them within a business day, free.
Good to know about PurVago: customer card payments run through Stripe, and payroll is a clean hours export for the payroll provider you already use. Team is $129 a month with unlimited team members and jobs, AI estimates from photos, texting from your own number and QuickBooks sync. Business is $299 with the training Academy, white-label and hiring tools. Starter is $49 for a company of one or two.
Start the 14-day trial, then send us your BookingKoala exports. We load your customers, homes, recurring cleans and upcoming visits within a business day at no cost. Quote a real house from photos, send a real crew out with the app, and judge it on your own week.
BookingKoala is a booking website builder first. It is good at getting a customer booked and thin on what happens after. Every plan caps your providers: 5 on Starter, 15 on Growing, 50 on Premium, then a sliding price up to $597 a month. GPS clock-in and text notifications are not on the entry plan. Hiring and onboarding wait for the $197 plan. Its pricing page says nothing about working offline, payroll, or quoting a home from photos, and heavy data use can push you up a tier.
If you are drawing up a list, these are the names you will see. Here is the short version of each, so you can cross them off faster.
Fits: Large maid services with an office team that lives in payroll and KPI reports. Deep payroll and reporting.
What it leaves you with. It bills per completed job, starting at $450 a month, with a one-time onboarding fee and no free trial. Reviewers mention a learning curve and a data move that takes real work.
Fits: Small residential teams that only need scheduling. Simple, with a long history in residential cleaning.
What it leaves you with. The bill grows with every cleaner you hire. Review requests, on-the-way texts, win-backs and even exporting your own data sit on the top plan, and texts are charged on top. Quotes are typed by hand.
Fits: Companies that also do lawn care or handyman work. A polished all-trades tool for quoting and invoicing.
What it leaves you with. It is not built around the home. No bedroom or bathroom count, no per-home checklist, no place for a gate code, and no clean way to put two cleaners on one visit and pay both. It charges by the user, so every cleaner you hire raises the bill. Quotes are typed line by line.
Fits: Trades that sell one large job at a time, like plumbing or HVAC. Broad, with a phone system and a card reader.
What it leaves you with. You pay for a price book and a sales pipeline built for replacing a furnace. A cleaning company sells the same visit fifty times a month, so the pipeline sits empty. No homes, no per-home checklists, no real two-cleaner visits.
Fits: One or two cleaners watching every dollar. Inexpensive and quick to learn.
What it leaves you with. Light by design. Once you run several crews and recurring plans, the parts it does not cover move into a spreadsheet and your phone. Thin crew app, little automation, nothing to tell you which cleaner causes the redos.
Fits: Maid services that only need a booking form and a recurring calendar. Booking and recurring schedules that work.
What it leaves you with. The app for cleaners, on-the-way alerts and job photos are held for the $299 plan. Its pricing page says nothing about checklists, working offline or building a quote.
What we say about each product is based on its own public pages and, for some, our own trial accounts, as of November 14, 2026. Products change, so check current pricing and features with the vendor. If something here is out of date or wrong, write to sales@purvago.com and we will correct it. Every product named is a trademark of its owner and PurVago is not affiliated with any of them.
| Tool | Built for cleaning | How the bill grows | Quotes from photos | Crew app works offline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PurVago | Yes | One plan price, unlimited cleaners | Yes, photo and video | Yes |
| BookingKoala | Yes | Provider caps on every plan | Not documented | Not documented |
| MaidCentral | Yes | Per completed job | Not documented | Not documented |
| ZenMaid | Yes | Per cleaner | No | No |
| Jobber | No, all trades | Per user | No | Partial |
| Housecall Pro | No, all trades | By user count | No | Partial |
| Maidily | Yes | Varies by plan | No | No |
| Launch27 | Yes | Crew app only on the top plan | Not documented | Not documented |
The last two columns reflect what each vendor documents publicly. "Not documented" means we found no mention on the vendor's public pages, which is not the same as the product lacking it; ask the vendor. "Partial" means some screens cache but the full visit needs a connection.
For a cleaning company with a real crew, PurVago. It is $129 a month for unlimited cleaners, builds estimates from photos, and gives the crew an app that works offline with checklists and photos. BookingKoala caps providers on every plan and is built around the booking form.
On November 14, 2026 BookingKoala's pricing page listed Starter from $27 a month for 5 providers, Growing from $57 for 15, Premium from $197 for 50, and $237 to $597 above that. PurVago Team is $129 a month for unlimited team members. BookingKoala's entry plans cost less for a small team; from the sixteenth provider PurVago is the lower price, and it does not go up as you hire.
Yes. Its pricing page caps providers at 5, 15 and 50 on its three plans and says each team member counts as a provider. PurVago Team and Business have no limit on team members.
Its pricing page does not mention offline use. The PurVago crew app keeps checklists, photos and the time clock working with no signal and syncs when the signal returns.
Yes. Export your customers and bookings from BookingKoala as spreadsheet files and send them to PurVago. We load your customers, homes, recurring cleans and upcoming visits within a business day at no cost.
No. Team is $129 a month with unlimited team members and unlimited jobs, so hiring a cleaner or having a busy month does not change the bill. Business is $299. Starter, for a company of one or two people, is $49 a month for up to 40 jobs.
Yes. PurVago has a 14-day trial, and we load your customers and schedule into it at no cost, usually within a business day. You quote a real house from photos and send a real crew out with the app before you decide.
