Is Pabau better than Zdrovia?

In two places, yes. Its marketing automation is deeper than ours and it ships more canned reports. If campaign building and reporting breadth are what you are buying software for, that is a fair reason to choose it. Where we are ahead is speed to get running, published pricing, injectable lot traceability and an AI scribe that is included rather than quoted.

How long until I can actually use it?

You can chart a real patient the same afternoon you sign up. There is no configuration project and no implementation call in between. That is partly a product decision and partly an admission: we are a smaller product with fewer knobs, and fewer knobs means less to set up.

What does the 4% on the free plan cover?

It's the all-in card processing rate: 4% + 30¢ per transaction, no separate gateway fee. Cash and e-transfer never touch it. Past roughly $7,900 a month in card bookings, Small Practice at $79 plus its lower 3% rate works out cheaper than staying on Solo. Direct bank payments are cheaper again: 2.1% + 40¢ on Solo, 1.1% on Small Practice and Team Practice.

Can you handle before and after photos properly?

Photos attach to the chart with annotation and a before-and-after block that pairs them by date. They are encrypted at rest, and the consent covering their use is versioned separately from the clinical consent, because marketing use and treatment consent are different questions and should be recorded as such.

What does migrating from Pabau involve?

Export your patients, appointments and notes, and send the files to us. We do the mapping by hand rather than giving you an importer to fight with, which matters because exports from mature systems are rarely tidy. Migration is free on Small Practice and Team Practice, and the timeline depends on the size of the export.

Pabau will quote you. We publish the number.

Pabau is a capable clinic system that arrives after a demo, a proposal and a configuration period. Zdrovia costs $0, $79 or $149, says so on the pricing page, and lets you chart a real patient this afternoon.

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No proposal to wait for. Talk through the treatment and the scribe writes into the chart's own fields for you to review and sign.

You talk through the treatment the way you already do.
The scribe fills the chart's structured fields, not a paragraph you re-type.
Nothing is final until you sign it, and the audio is never kept.

Treatment record · Scribe draft, before you signSample data

AI Scribe

Recording · 4:12

Transcript312 words

…she says the shoulder has been worse since Thursday. Pain's about a seven when she reaches overhead, maybe a four at rest. Sleeping on that side wakes her up. Abduction is getting to about ninety-five degrees before

Stop recording

Fill chart

Audio stays on this device

An illustrative excerpt of a Zdrovia record. The patient, lots and figures are made up; the fields and their behaviour are the product's.

Pabau is the better answer for some clinics. Read this before you move.

Stay with Pabau if

Pabau has been doing this for a long time and it shows in breadth. If you are buying marketing automation and reporting depth, it is a serious product and we are not pretending to match it feature for feature.

Campaign building and marketing automation are central to how you grow
You want a long list of canned reports rather than a few good ones
You have someone whose job includes configuring and maintaining the system

Move to Zdrovia if

Zdrovia is smaller, faster to start and built around the clinical record. Less to configure, because there is less to configure.

You want to see the price before you talk to anybody
You would rather be charting today than onboarding for a fortnight
Injectable lot traceability and structured charts are what you came for

Zdrovia vs Pabau

Pabau is a capable, configurable clinic system sold by quote. Zdrovia publishes its price and lets you start today.

Pabau is marked ahead on 3 rows, Zdrovia on 6.

Feature and price comparison between Zdrovia and Pabau
Compared	Zdrovia	Pabau
Published price you can read today	$0, $79, $149 on the pricing page (better)	Quoted by clinic and module
Try the full product without a sales call	Sign up and chart a patient (better)	Demo first
Time to first real patient charted	Same day for most clinics (better)	Configuration and onboarding period
Injectable lot, expiry and oldest-first dispensing	Built in (better)	Stock control
AI scribe for treatment notes	Included on Small Practice and Team Practice (better)	Check your quote
Patient portal	Booking, messages, documents, insurance and a shop, one login (better)	Check your quote
Marketing automation and campaigns	Promotions, recall and reminders	Deeper, and a genuine strength (better)
Canned reporting depth	Core clinical and revenue analytics	More reports out of the box (better)
Card processing	Your own Stripe account	Pabau payments (better)

Pabau prices by clinic size and module, so the figure that matters is the one in your own quote. Feature comparisons reflect each product's published positioning and change over time. Confirm with the vendor before deciding. Zdrovia pricing and features are also subject to change.

Fewer features, running by lunchtime

Pabau does more than we do. That is a straightforward thing to say and it is worth being clear about what it costs you in return.

Breadth has a setup bill attached

Every configurable system asks the same thing of a new clinic: decide how you work, then teach the software. That is reasonable when the software has to fit a hundred different clinic shapes, and it is why mature platforms open with a demo and an onboarding period rather than a signup form.

It is also why so many clinics run a system at a fraction of its capability. The modules were bought, the configuration was half finished, and eighteen months later nobody remembers what the reporting was supposed to do.

Zdrovia has fewer knobs. You sign up, add a service, and chart someone. Defaults are chosen for aesthetic clinics rather than left blank for you to decide, and you can change them once you have a reason to.

Where we spent the time instead

Charting is built from structured fields rather than text boxes. Units by site, Fitzpatrick type, device settings, pain scores and anything else you author yourself are stored as values, so they graph. A patient's progress across a treatment series is a chart you can turn around and show them.

Injectable inventory tracks lots, expiry, oldest-first dispensing and quarantine, and each dispense ties a specific vial to a specific visit and invoice line. Recall traceability is the reason that exists, and expiry alerts are the reason it pays for itself.

The AI scribe listens to the appointment and writes into those structured fields instead of producing a paragraph. Dictating a note and populating your data become the same action, which is the only version of clinical AI we have found genuinely useful.

Structured, graphable fields instead of free text
Vial-level traceability from delivery box to patient chart
Versioned consent with a full audit trail
AI scribe included on Small Practice and Team Practice, with no separate line item

Published pricing is a feature

When a price depends on a conversation, comparing two products becomes a research project. You cannot work out whether you are being quoted well without talking to peers, and the answer changes by clinic.

Ours is on the pricing page and it does not move. Solo is free with an all-in 4% card processing rate, Small Practice is $79 plus 3% for up to 3 practitioners, Team Practice is $149 plus 3% for up to 10 across as many locations as you run. If the number in your Pabau proposal beats that for the parts you will use, you have your answer and it cost you five minutes.

Canadian clinics: patient data is stored in Canadian data centres, so PIPEDA is covered without hosting caveats. Zdrovia figures here are CAD.

See how Zdrovia is set up for medical spas, aestheticians and laser clinics.

Published pricing, checked October 2026

Pabau pricing (2026)

Pabau doesn't publish a fixed price list for clinics. It quotes by clinic size and the modules you choose, usually after a demo, so the number that matters is the one in your own proposal.

Plan	Price	What it covers
Subscription	Quoted per clinic	Priced by clinic size and the modules you add
Onboarding	Set in the proposal	Configuration and training are scoped with you
Card payments (US)	From 3.1% + $0.25	Pabau Payments, charged separately from the subscription

Source: Pabau's pricing page, October 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pabau. Zdrovia's own prices are on the pricing page.

Here is exactly what we cost. Hold your quote next to it.

We cannot print their number because it depends on the modules you take. We can print ours, because it does not depend on anything.

Monthly subscription, in Canadian dollars

Solo injector

1 practitioner

Zdrovia SoloFree, one practitioner, no AI scribe: $0/mo
Zdrovia Small Practice$79 flat, AI scribe included: $79/mo
Pabaucompare against your quote: Ask them

Three-room studio

3 practitioners

Zdrovia Small Practice$79 flat, AI scribe included: $79/mo
Pabaucompare against your quote: Ask them

Busy clinic

8 practitioners

Zdrovia Team Practice$149 flat, AI scribe included: $149/mo
Pabaucompare against your quote: Ask them

Cards above show subscription prices only; card processing is charged on top on both sides. Zdrovia's card processing is all-in: 4% + 30¢ per transaction on Solo (free, one practitioner), 3% on Small Practice ($79, 3 practitioners) and Team Practice ($149, 10 practitioners at one location, then $15 each, and $49 a month for each further location, with 3 more practitioners included), no separate gateway charge underneath it. Pabau pricing is quoted per clinic, so compare against the proposal you were given; its own card processing (published in the US from 3.1% + $0.25 per transaction) is charged separately and not included in your quote's headline number. Direct bank payments are cheaper again: 2.1% + 40¢ on Solo, 1.1% on Small Practice and Team Practice. All Zdrovia figures CAD.

Three steps to switch. No IT team needed.

Migration is free on the paid plans and done by people, not a wizard. On Solo, you can start charting new patients today; the hand import comes with a paid plan.

Export your data
Download a client and appointment export from the software you use now. No special format is needed, and we help you prepare it.
15 minto export from most systems
We do the import by hand
Our team maps patient records, appointment history and notes into Zdrovia. It's free on Small Practice and Team Practice. A standard export is usually imported within a day and seeing patients within two. A large or messy one takes longer.
1 daytypical import, standard export
Go live with your team
Once your data is in, we run a 30-minute live walkthrough with your team, then you book and chart as normal.
2 daystypical, sign-up to first live appointment

Pabau or Zdrovia

What people ask before they move, answered straight.

Because we will not put numbers on a page unless we can point at where they came from. Pabau quotes by clinic size and by which modules you take, so the figure you were given is the only one that means anything. Put it next to the columns above and the comparison is real rather than approximate.

Skip the demo call. Chart a patient instead.

Structured charting, injectable lot tracking, versioned consent, photos, booking and payments. Free to start, and the price is on the page before you ask.

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