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Vagaro fills the calendar. It does not hold the record.

Vagaro was built for hair, nails and fitness studios, and it does that well. The moment you start injecting, the chart has to be a medical document. That is the part Zdrovia was built for.

Free plan, built for injectors

The record Vagaro wasn't built to keep

Vagaro keeps notes for hair, nails and fitness. Injecting needs a chart that records where you treated, who charted it and when, and keeps every version.

  1. The face map sits inside the chart note, with every area and circle named by site.
  2. Each mark records who made it and when, with a note of its own.
  3. History keeps the earlier versions of the map, so an amendment never erases what was there.
A Zdrovia chart: a consultation note with a face map marking the forehead, glabella and both crow's feet, each mark listed with who made it and when.
A real Zdrovia chart, on a demo patient.

If nobody in your business injects, stay put.

Stay with Vagaro if

Vagaro gives a lot of software for the money and its marketplace really does send people through the door. For a salon or a studio that is a good trade.

  • Hair, nails, lashes, brows or fitness make up most of your book
  • Marketplace discovery brings you clients you would not otherwise get
  • Class and membership scheduling matters more than clinical notes

Move to Zdrovia if

Zdrovia is for the point where treatments become clinical. Charting, consent and product traceability stop being paperwork and start being the thing that protects you.

  • You inject, laser, needle or peel and the notes have to hold up
  • You hold stock with lot numbers and expiry dates on your name
  • You want one price rather than a base plan and a list of add-ons

Zdrovia vs Vagaro

Vagaro fills calendars and has a big marketplace. Zdrovia keeps the record an injector is accountable for.

Vagaro is marked ahead on 3 rows, Zdrovia on 5.

Feature and price comparison between Zdrovia and Vagaro
ComparedZdroviaVagaro
What the product isClinical record that books and chargesBooking and marketplace for salons and studios (better)
Structured clinical chartingStructured fields (Smart Blocks) you can graph (better)Client notes and forms
Injectable lot and expiry trackingLot numbers, expiry, oldest-first dispensing, quarantine (better)Retail product inventory
Versioned consent formsYes, with audit trail (better)Forms
AI scribe for treatment notesIncluded on Small Practice and Team Practice (better)Not published
How the bill is builtOne plan, nothing to switch on (better)Base plan plus add-ons
Consumer marketplace listingNoneYes, and it brings people in (better)
Fitness, class and membership schedulingPackages and membershipsBroader, built for studios (better)

Vagaro's total depends on bookable calendar count and which add-ons are enabled, so compare against your own invoice rather than a headline rate. Feature comparisons reflect each product's published positioning and change over time. Zdrovia pricing and features are also subject to change.

The day a client note stops being enough

Most aesthetic clinics start on booking software because that is what the business needed first. The software does not fail loudly when treatments get more clinical. It just quietly stops being the right object.

A note is a convenience. A chart is evidence.

Nobody thinks about this until something happens. A patient bruises badly and asks what was used. A complaint arrives fourteen months after a treatment. An insurer wants documentation. At that point the question is not whether you wrote something down, but whether what you wrote can be relied on.

Zdrovia keeps revisions. If a note is amended the earlier version stays, timestamped and attributed. Consent forms are versioned separately, so you can show the exact wording a patient signed rather than the wording currently on your form.

Photos live on the chart as dated pairs, encrypted at rest, with the consent for clinical use recorded separately from consent for marketing use. Those are different permissions and treating them as one is a common and avoidable mistake.

Product you are accountable for

Retail inventory answers how many are left. Clinical inventory has to answer which vial went into which patient, and when the rest of that box expires.

Stock is received by lot with an expiry date, dispensed oldest first so nothing dies on the shelf, and can be quarantined if you are unsure about it. Each dispense links to the visit and the invoice line, so the trail runs from the delivery box to the patient.

The recall case is the one people quote, and it is real. The case that shows up monthly is expiry. For a clinic holding a few thousand dollars of toxin and filler, catching product before it has to be written off tends to cover the cost of the software on its own.

  • Lot and expiry captured when stock arrives
  • Oldest stock dispensed first, automatically
  • Recall becomes one query rather than a week of scrolling
  • Expiry warnings before anything has to be binned

One price, no add-on list

Add-on pricing is not dishonest, but it does make budgeting awkward. You buy the plan, then discover the thing you assumed was included is a switch with a price behind it, and the invoice drifts upward over a couple of years.

Zdrovia has three plans, each with an all-in card processing rate that drops as you grow. Solo is free plus 4% + 30¢ a transaction. Small Practice is $79 flat plus 3%, for up to 3 practitioners. Team Practice is $149 flat plus 3%, for up to 10 at one location, and $49 a month for each further location, with 3 more practitioners included. Charting, inventory, forms, photos and the patient portal are in all three; the AI scribe comes with the two paid plans.

Canadian clinics: your records live in Canadian data centres, which takes PIPEDA off the list. Zdrovia figures here are CAD.

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

Published pricing, checked October 2026

Vagaro pricing (2026)

Vagaro prices each business location by the number of bookable calendars, which in practice means the number of people who take appointments. The subscription is low; what moves the total is the add-ons you switch on and card processing through Vagaro Merchant Services.

PlanPriceWhat it covers
1 bookable calendarUS$35/monthOne location, one person taking appointments
Each extra calendar+US$10/monthUp to seven calendar licences per location
7 or more calendarsUS$95/monthStaff beyond seven licences are free
Add-onsPriced separatelySome features are sold as add-ons with their own monthly price

Vagaro's pricing page doesn't list add-on prices or its card processing rate, so the most accurate figure is the total on your own invoice. Source: Vagaro's pricing page, October 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Vagaro. Zdrovia's own prices are on the pricing page.

Take your last invoice and hold it up to this

Add-on pricing makes a headline rate close to meaningless. Ours has no add-ons to count, so all three numbers fit on a card.

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
Vagarocheck your invoice with add-ons
Ask them

Three-room studio

3 practitioners

Zdrovia Small Practice$79 flat, AI scribe included
$79/mo
Vagarocheck your invoice with add-ons
Ask them

Busy clinic

8 practitioners

Zdrovia Team Practice$149 flat, AI scribe included
$149/mo
Vagarocheck your invoice with add-ons
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 and no add-on list. Vagaro's monthly total varies by calendar count and enabled add-ons, and its own card processing is charged on top and not shown here: card-not-present and keyed payments are reported by third-party guides at around 3.5% plus a per-transaction fee, with lower rates for cards tapped at its terminal. 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.

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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

Outgrowing Vagaro

The questions injectors ask us, answered straight.

Because the number on the pricing page is rarely the number on the invoice. Vagaro's total depends on how many bookable calendars you run and which add-ons you have switched on. Pull your last statement, take the total, and compare it against the columns above. That comparison is honest. Ours against their headline rate would not be.

Keep the bookings. Upgrade the record.

Structured charting, injectable lot and expiry tracking, versioned consent, dated photo pairs, booking and payments. Free to start, with no add-ons to switch on.

No credit card. Moving a team? We'll plan the switch with you on the call.