ZenMaid has been around a long time and does the basics well. This page is for owners who keep hitting its limits: the upsell banners, the per-cleaner bill, the day-of surprises in the field. It says where PurVago is ahead, where ZenMaid still is, and how the move works. Still drawing up a shortlist? We keep a wider list of ZenMaid alternatives, including the ones we do not make.
Your customer, or your crew on a walkthrough, snaps the rooms. PurVago counts bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens and living spaces, sizes the job, and drafts the estimate with your prices. You adjust and send. ZenMaid estimates start from a blank form.
Checklists, before-and-after photos, GPS clock-in and add-on requests all work with no service and sync when the signal comes back. A dropped connection never costs a cleaner their checklist.
The PurVago Academy: short courses, knowledge checks and a final exam, with a certificate at the end. New hires learn your standards before their first job. ZenMaid has no training layer.
In ZenMaid, many of the automations an owner wants are locked behind the top plan. In PurVago they come with the plan that has texting.
| Feature | ZenMaid | PurVago |
|---|---|---|
| Customer reminders (email and text) | Included | Included |
| Review requests after each clean | Pro Max only | Included |
| "Your cleaner is on the way" text | Pro Max only | Included |
| "Cleaning complete" text | Pro Max only | Included |
| Cancellation notice to customer and crew | Pro Max only | Included |
| Win-back message to lapsed customers | Pro Max only | Included |
| Export your own data | Pro Max only | Any plan, any time |
| Video estimate link customers record on their phone | No | Included |
| Offer overflow visits to 1099 contractors by text, first to accept | Cleaners can be listed | Included |
| Contractor insurance and license expiry tracking | No | Included |
| Tips for the crew on online payments | Yes | Included |
| Estimates from photos | No | Included |
| Offline crew app with GPS clock-in | Online app | Included |
| Training academy with certificates | No | Add-on |
| Customer portal with online payment | Yes | Yes |
| QuickBooks Online sync | Yes | Yes |
| Online booking / quote form | Yes | Yes |
ZenMaid feature availability as shown inside a ZenMaid trial account in September 2026. Plans change; check their pricing page for current gating.
ZenMaid charges by cleaner, from $67 a month for two, so every hire raises your software bill. PurVago charges by plan. Solo is a single-user plan for owner-operators; once you have a team, Team covers unlimited cleaners, so your eleventh hire costs exactly what your second did, which is nothing extra.
| ZenMaid | PurVago | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $67 / month for 2 cleaners, more per cleaner | Solo $49 / month, one user, up to 40 jobs a month |
| Growing team | Per-cleaner pricing, automations on Pro Max | Team $129 / month, unlimited users, texting included |
| Larger company | Pro Max | Business $299 / month, Academy and white-label included |
| Texting | First 250 messages free, then charged | 200 to 500 a month included, then 4¢ each |
| Free trial | 14 days, card required | 14 days, card required, cancel any time before |
The reason owners stay on software they've outgrown is the move. So we made it the easy part.
ZenMaid is a trademark of its owner. PurVago is not affiliated with ZenMaid. Comparison based on ZenMaid's own product and pricing pages and a trial account as of September 2026; tell us at sales@purvago.com if something here is out of date and we'll fix it.
Yes. From Estimates, text or email them a video estimate link. They open it on their phone, tap each room, record a slow look around it, and send. PurVago's AI reads the rooms and files a request in your Estimates queue with the photos attached, ready for you to price and send.
Mark them as contractors under Team, then on any visit tap Offer to a contractor. PurVago shows who is actually free that day and lets you offer to all of them at once with the pay. They get a text, first to accept gets the job, and the address is only shared after they accept. Insurance and license expiries are tracked, and anyone lapsed is held back.
In ZenMaid, export Contacts and Appointments (Appointments → Actions → Export data, with the end date set well ahead). In PurVago go to Clients → Import and upload each file. Customers, homes, gate codes, recurring cleans and upcoming visits come across. Or send the files to us and we load them within a business day, free.
Yes. Repeating appointments in the ZenMaid export become recurring plans in PurVago, and the dated visits already in the file go straight onto the schedule, assigned to the matching crew where the names line up.
Only once. Solo is a single-user plan for owner-operators working alone, at $49 a month for up to 40 jobs. The moment you have a team you move to Team at $129, and from there unlimited team members are included, employees and contractors alike. Business is $299. ZenMaid charges for each cleaner as you grow; PurVago charges once when you stop working alone, and never again.
There is a 14-day free trial. A card is required to start it, nothing is charged during the trial, and you can cancel before it ends at no cost. ZenMaid's trial works the same way.
Estimates from photos and a video estimate link customers record themselves, an offline crew app with GPS clock-in and checklists, one-tap offers to 1099 contractors with insurance tracking, a training academy with certificates, and automations such as review requests and win-back messages included rather than gated to a top plan.
Payroll worked out from assigned appointments, Square as a second card processor, and a larger coaching community and annual summit. If you run on those, we say so plainly on this page.
