Zanda vs Owl Practice

Goldie

Vagaro

Doctoralia for Specialists

Goldie is a comprehensive software designed for salon and beauty professionals. The platform offers appointment scheduling, automated client reminders, and integrated payment processing capabilities to help reduce no-shows and streamline business operations. Beauty professionals can manage their calendars, create branded online booking websites, and track business performance through detailed reports.

Vagaro is all-in-one software for beauty, wellness, and fitness professionals. Manage appointments, accept payments, run marketing campaigns, and grow your business all from one easy-to-use platform designed to help you save time and boost revenue.

Doctoralia Pro provides solutions to manage communication between health centers and patients. It is designed for any type of clinic: therapeutic, pediatric, ophthalmology, dental, fertility, or respiratory. It helps to optimize time and increase revenue.

Owner

This is despite the error logs of your browser, which you never even knew existed prior to becoming Zanda's trouble shooting staff by proxy (with well under market rate compensation mind you, IE ZERO), showing an issue which a simple Google search demonstrates is on the developer (ie ZANDA's) end, not your computer.

Admin

I cant import my reqs into the system to type and text

Clinical Psychologist

The customer service is fantastic - I always get a helpful and friendly response to any queries with the day.

Zanda is a practice management platform designed to help allied health professionals run clinic operations with calendar management tools, automated appointment reminders, treatment note templates, invoicing, online bookings, 2-way SMS chat, telehealth, secure AI-powered session transcription & more

Access Controls/Permissions

Activity Dashboard

Activity Tracking

Alerts/Notifications

Appointment Management

Appointment Scheduling

Assessment Management

Automated Scheduling

Availability Indicator

Availability Management

Billing & Invoicing

Booking Management

Calendar Management

Calendar Sync

Cancellation Tracking

Care Plan Management

Case Notes

Charting

Chat/Messaging

Claims Management

Class Scheduling

Client Database

Client Management

Client Portal

Clinical Notes

Coding Assistance

Communication Management

Compliance Management

Compliance Tracking

Confirmations/Reminders

Contact Database

Contact Management

Credit Card Management

Credit Card Processing

Customer Database

Customer History

Customizable Branding

Customizable Fields

Customizable Forms

Customizable Reports

Customizable Templates

Data Import/Export

Data Security

Debit/Credit Card Processing

Discharge Management

Discount Management

Document Management

Document Storage

Document Templates

Drag & Drop

Electronic Payments

Electronic Signature

Email Management

Email Marketing

Email Reminders

EMR/EHR

Event Scheduling

Exercise Library

Facility Scheduling

Faculty/Staff Management

File Sharing

Financial Management

For Chiropractors

For Group Therapy

For Medical Purposes

For Medical Spas

For Mental/Behavioral Health

Forms Management

For Occupational Therapists

For Physical Therapy

For Podiatrists

For Psychiatrists

For Speech Therapists

For Substance Abuse Therapy

Group Scheduling

Healthcare Compliance

HIPAA Compliant

Historical Reporting

Initial Assessments

In-Person Payments

Insurance Management

Invoice Management

Live Chat

Marketing Automation

Medical Billing

Medication History

Medication Management

Mobile Access

Mobile Alerts

Monitoring

Multi-Location

Multi-Physician

Multiple User Accounts

Multi-Provider Practice

No-Show Tracking

On Call Scheduling

One-to-One Messaging

Online Booking

Online Forms

The Zanda integrations most frequently cited by reviewers are: Stripe (a payment processing product rated 4.6 out of 5 for its integration with Zanda) and Xero (an accounting product, 4.9).

Integrations

By industry, Zanda reviewers are most commonly professionals in health, wellness and fitness (44%). The most frequent use case for Zanda cited by reviewers is appointment scheduling (58% of reviewers).

Zanda

Web-based

Chromebook

Windows

Linux

Android

iPad

iPhone

Cliniko

SimplePractice

coreplus

Mindbody

ClinicSense

WebPT

DaySmart Appointments

Timely

Calendly

 Health Practice Starter Plan

 Health Practice Growth Plan

 Group Practice Growth Plan

Counsellor

It is a very user friendly platform, managing appointments is straightforward and accessible for me and my clients via the portal, I find scheduling appointments easier and I am able to put the relevant information on the appointment.

Allied health professional

Wide range of features including integrated telehealth, SMS reminders, customisable forms and note templates, online bookings and client portal.

See above, pretty well sums it up. When the software is working it's fantastic. When it doesn't, it's like pulling teeth to be heard or seen by the developers, while they treat you like a junior staff member in their office because they're too lazy to do anything for themselves.

There's not much left wanting, except the ability to manage and track batch numbers on herbal products.

Psychologist

The templates are easy to personalise, with fields I can merge into my emails. While I was setting up my business on this platform I was able to have all my questions answered through the chat function or the knowledge base.

Director

Good for security and keeping data to manage

Administrative staff

It's has complex interface find it hard at first.

Would like the option of phone support rather than only email or chat - you can book a phone session but booked out for weeks so this doesn't work for urgent issues.

Chiropractor

I love that I was able to completely customize my notes to how I practice, and there are many more customizable features that I will continue to integrate to make running and managing my chiropractic practice easier and more efficient.

CBT Therapist

Although I found the learning curb steep at the beginning, I really love PowerDiary and have actually refused becoming an affiliate with various mental health services because I don't want to have to use their system instead of my PowerDiary one.

Founder

Personally don't find much dislike but I have used both desktop and mobile versions and can say that the mobile version lacks most of the amazing features which can be improved.

The ease of use and low learning curve, don’t have to be a technical practitioner to learn how to use it.

Practice Manager

When applying a note or comment to an invoice, I do not like that the receiver can not view these. If we have sent an invoice multiple times (we record every time it is sent in this comment section), it would be beneficial if the receiver could see this as well.

The letter/report templates don’t autosave and sometimes I have lost work.

It integrates with sms, email, and Telehealth.

Physical Therapist

Having Stripe made transactions very easy once the client's credit card information was entered.

Practice Administrator

There is not a simple way to do things on this app, everything has several ways to do done and is quite confusing.

Counselor

The calendar filters are amazing easy to use every new pops up and you only see that day (unless scheduling)

A bit tricky (as a sole trader with a bit of a social life) to use it as a personal diary, to put in the different activities, with whom etc  I just block out those times I need away and hope I remember what they were for

I like the easy navigation, calendar filters, invoicing

FL Administrative

Accessibility to make bookings straight away virtually online

Therapist, Counsellor

We are still under using Power Diary, but it is easy to show others what to do to get started.

Psychotherapist

I use it for scheduling and for EMR and my Telehealth platoform.

Unable to use bulk send emails without a template, emails I send via this are unique everytime.

Nowadays we don't waste our time raising issues for most thingsThe reporting options are weakDoesn't manage "Couples" as a client well - but no competitors do eaither

Therapist

I don't manage the program but it seems that it is highly customizable, which is not always an option in other EHR systems.

Social Worker

I love that I am able to do everything in one place, it keeps me organized and on track with things that can be overwhelming with business

The user interface is intuitive and usable.

Speech and Language Therapist

Clinical notes are quick and you can make templates to speed up the admin process.

Owner and LMHC 

The confidential, secure billing, communication, portal, and private mode are immaculate.

counselor

Not as smooth as the other similar I have for the past.

Zanda has proven to be user friendly, affordable, intuitive and so much better than any expectation had for it.

I have used half a dozen other practice management systems.

I wish each invoice could be done individually based on my accounting system

Nurse Practitioner 

I love the scheduling, records section, customisable forms, invoicing, simplicity of Medicare, client portal, everything.

Speech Pathologist

PD also have a great range of helpful staff and webinars who assisted me on setting up my practice management from the start.

President

Power Diary offers LOTS for features: built-in CRM for email & SMS marketing, appointment reminders, and client correspondence; HIPAA compliant EMR for SOAP notes; customizable templates for SOAP notes and intake/consent forms; the flexibility to create your own SOAP notes and forms; automatic invoices generated when appointments are created; easy scheduling in-person & online through a client portal; capability of clients to pay in advance when they schedule online; Stripe integration with payment processing; reporting for KPIs to understand practice management; ability to create session packages; ability to create 1-on-1 sessions or group classes

Physiotherapist

I have felt significantly more professional using Power Diary from the invoicing, to e-mailing letters and communication to referrers and colleagues.   Although my business is small, having a professional software practice management system has been a great investment.

Some of the scheduling setup is a bit clunky, and could be updated to be more intuitive.

Registered Psychologist

Ease of daily use, setup was very simple, ability to create email and letter templates for clients makes streamlining very easy.

Zanda vs Owl Practice Comparison (2026)

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