PurVago runs a cleaning company from the first quote to the paid invoice for $129 a month, whether you finish 100 jobs or 2,000. You try it for 14 days on your own customers, and we load them in for you. MaidCentral starts at $450 a month, charges more for every job you complete, adds an onboarding fee, and asks you to decide from a demo.
PurVago prices by plan. MaidCentral prices by completed job. This is the same month on each.
| Completed jobs a month | PurVago Team | PurVago Business | MaidCentral one location, from its calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $129 | $299 | $450 |
| 200 | $129 | $299 | $600 |
| 300 | $129 | $299 | $750 |
| 500 | $129 | $299 | $1,050 |
| 1,000 | $129 | $299 | $1,675 |
| 2,000 | $129 | $299 | $2,675 |
| What comes with each price | |||
| Team members | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Free trial | 14 days, on your own data | 14 days, on your own data | None. A live demo |
| Getting set up | No fee. We load your customers and schedule | No fee. We load your customers and schedule | One-time onboarding fee, amount not published |
| Estimates from photos or video | Included | Included | Not on its features page |
| Crew training with exams | $59 add-on | Included | Not on its features page |
MaidCentral monthly totals are what the pricing calculator at maidcentral.com/pricing showed for one physical location on November 14, 2026. The page calls them estimates, with final pricing confirmed at sign-up, and says each added location raises the cost. The same page says there is a one-time onboarding fee and no free trial, and that it does not charge per user or per customer. PurVago figures are our monthly list prices. Card processing is separate on both, and PurVago keeps a 0.5% platform fee on customer card payments.
Team is $129 a month at 100 jobs and at 2,000. With MaidCentral a busy month is a more expensive month: its calculator showed $1,050 at 500 jobs and $1,675 at 1,000.
PurVago gives you 14 days on your own customers, loaded in free. MaidCentral offers a demo, no trial, and an onboarding fee before you have used it.
A PurVago quote starts with photos your customer already took, or a video they record walking their own house, and counts the rooms for you. No more typing quotes at night.
Checklists, before-and-after 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 the crew already uses.
Send us your exports and your customers, homes and recurring cleans are in within a business day. No implementation plan to buy.
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 MaidCentral 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.
MaidCentral is built for a large office that lives in payroll and KPI reports, and it is priced for one. It starts at $450 a month and climbs with every completed job. There is a one-time onboarding fee and no free trial, so you commit from a demo. Reviewers on Capterra mention a learning curve and a data move that takes real work. Its public pages say nothing about quoting from photos or a crew app that keeps working without signal. If you want pay rules like performance pay worked out inside the software, it does that; most owners who look elsewhere are paying for depth they never open.
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: 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: 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
For a residential cleaning company that wants a flat bill, PurVago. It is $129 a month for unlimited team members and jobs, with estimates from photos, a crew app that works offline and a 14-day trial on your own customers. MaidCentral starts at $450 a month and rises with every completed job.
MaidCentral's pricing page says it starts at $450 a month and scales with completed jobs and locations. On November 14, 2026 its calculator showed $600 at 200 jobs a month, $1,050 at 500 and $1,675 at 1,000, for one location, plus a one-time onboarding fee. PurVago Team is $129 a month at any of those job counts.
No. Its pricing page says it does not offer a free trial and offers a live demo instead. PurVago has a 14-day trial and loads your customers and schedule into it at no cost, so you test on your own data.
Yes. PurVago Team is $129 a month with unlimited team members and jobs, against MaidCentral's $450 starting price. PurVago Business, with the training Academy, white-label and hiring tools, is $299.
Yes. Ask MaidCentral support for an export of your customers, their homes and your recurring schedule as spreadsheet files. Send those to PurVago and we load them within a business day at no cost. Export your invoice history separately before you close the account.
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.
