PurVago is built around the home: bedrooms and bathrooms, a checklist per property, gate codes on the crew's screen, and two cleaners on one visit with both paid correctly. It is $129 a month for unlimited cleaners. Jobber is built for every trade and charges by the user, so a ten-person crew costs $299 to $399 a month before add-ons.
Every cleaner who opens the app needs a Jobber user. PurVago Team does not count users.
| People who log in | PurVago | Jobber Connect | Jobber Grow the plan with two-way texting and job costing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starter $49 | $139 | $199 |
| 5 | Team $129 | $199 | $299 |
| 10 | Team $129 | $299 | $399 |
| 15 | Team $129 | $399 | $499 |
| 16 or more | Team $129 | Contact sales | Contact sales |
| What you get | |||
| Two-way texting with customers | Included on Team | Not included | Included |
| Job costing | Included on Team | Not included | Included |
| Homes with bedrooms, bathrooms and a checklist | Built in | Not built around the home | Not built around the home |
| Two cleaners on one visit, both credited | Built in | One worker per job | One worker per job |
| Estimates from photos or video | Included on Team | Typed line by line | Typed line by line |
| Review requests and campaigns | Review requests and win-backs included | Marketing Suite, $99 a month more | Marketing Suite, $99 a month more |
| Free trial | 14 days, we load your data | 14 days | 14 days |
Jobber prices are the "no commitment" monthly prices on getjobber.com/pricing as read on November 14, 2026, for the user counts that page offers; it also lists lower prices with a one-year commitment, extra users at $29 a month each, and add-ons including Marketing Suite at $99 a month. Which features sit on which plan is from the same page. "One worker per job" and "not built around the home" are from our own trial account, as of September 2026. PurVago figures are our monthly list prices: Starter covers up to 2 team members and 40 jobs a month, Team covers unlimited team members and jobs. Card processing is separate on both, and PurVago keeps a 0.5% platform fee on customer card payments.
Team is $129 a month whether five people log in or fifty. Jobber lists $299 to $399 a month for ten users, and $29 a month for each one you add.
Bedrooms, bathrooms, pets, gate codes and a checklist live on the property and show on the crew's screen. In Jobber that information ends up in a notes field.
Cleaning is team work. PurVago puts two or more people on a visit with each one's own start and finish, so payroll and job costing are right.
Send a link, the customer snaps the rooms or records a walkthrough, and PurVago counts the rooms and drafts the estimate at your prices. No line items to type.
Checklists, photos and the clock keep running with no signal and sync when it comes back.
Weekly, biweekly and every-four-weeks plans generate the visits ahead, and a change to the plan carries to every future visit.
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 Jobber 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.
Jobber is a good tool for a landscaper or a handyman. For a cleaning company it is the wrong shape. It charges by the user, and every cleaner who opens the app is a user: ten people is $299 a month on Connect and $399 on Grow, and each extra user is $29. Two-way texting and job costing wait for Grow. Review requests and campaigns are a $99 Marketing Suite on top. And it is not built around the home: in our trial we found no bedroom or bathroom count, no per-home checklist, no natural place for a gate code, and no clean way to put two cleaners on one visit and pay both. Quotes are typed line by line.
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: 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: Companies that grow mainly through an online booking form. Strong booking forms.
What it leaves you with. Every plan caps your providers: 5, then 15, then 50. The front door is the product and the back of the house is thin, so what happens on the day, the checklist, the photos, the second cleaner, is where you feel it.
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 |
| Jobber | No, all trades | Per user | No | Partial |
| MaidCentral | Yes | Per completed job | Not documented | Not documented |
| ZenMaid | Yes | Per cleaner | No | No |
| Housecall Pro | No, all trades | By user count | No | Partial |
| Maidily | Yes | Varies by plan | No | No |
| BookingKoala | Yes | Provider caps on every plan | Not documented | Not documented |
| 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.
PurVago. It is built for cleaning companies rather than every trade: homes with bedrooms, bathrooms and their own checklist, two cleaners on one visit, estimates from photos, and a crew app that works offline. It is $129 a month for unlimited team members, where Jobber charges by the user.
On November 14, 2026 Jobber's pricing page listed, month to month, Connect at $199 for 5 users, $299 for 10 and $399 for 15, and Grow at $299, $399 and $499 for the same team sizes, with extra users at $29 a month each. PurVago Team is $129 a month for unlimited team members.
It can run one, but it is built for every trade. In our trial we found no bedroom or bathroom count, no per-home checklist and no clean way to put two cleaners on one visit and pay both. PurVago is built around those things.
Yes. Its plans are priced by how many users are included, and its pricing page lists extra users at $29 a month each. PurVago Team and Business include unlimited team members.
Yes. Export your clients from Jobber and upload the file in PurVago, or send it to us and we load your customers, properties and notes within a business day at no cost. The step-by-step guide is at purvago.com/switch/jobber.
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.
