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AEVA vs Zenoti

AEVA vs Zenoti is a choice about who runs your marketing. Both run the practice. Zenoti is established practice software built to run at scale, and it hands the marketing to you and the staff you hire. AEVA runs your paid ads, SEO, content, and video for you, in the same system that runs the practice.

Where Zenoti is strong

Zenoti is built for scale.

Zenoti is well known as enterprise software for spas, salons, and med spas that need a serious operating layer across many locations. It is built to hold up across many rooms, chairs, and a heavy appointment calendar, and to keep locations consistent for large groups and franchises. If running many sites is your first problem, it is a strong answer to it.

  • Built for scale

    Zenoti is known for running large, high-volume operations. If your priority is software that holds up across many rooms, chairs, and a heavy appointment calendar, that is the problem it was built to solve.

  • Multi-location operations

    Groups and franchises with several sites use Zenoti for the operational layer that keeps locations consistent.

  • A mature operating platform

    Zenoti is established enterprise software with a broad operations feature set. For a practice that mainly needs a strong system to run on, it is a serious choice.

The category difference

Zenoti is software you operate. AEVA is software plus the team that runs your marketing.

This is the part most comparisons skip. Even strong enterprise software leaves the growth to you. You hire the marketing team, you train them, and you stitch the agency to the software so the two agree. AEVA runs the practice software and the people who grow it in one place, so that stitching is not your job.

  • Software you operate

    Enterprise practice software gives you a strong system to run the practice on. You, or the marketing staff you hire and train, still own the ads, the content, and the growth.

  • A team that does the work

    AEVA pairs the practice software with a marketing team that runs your paid ads, SEO, content, and video. AEVA's specialists build and run the campaigns and are accountable for booked revenue.

  • One connected system

    The software that runs the practice and the team that grows it work in the same place. AEVA's own AI drafts and routes the production work, and specialists review anything a patient will see before it ships.

Want the full picture of what the software covers and how the team plugs in? See the platform and the marketing suite.

At a glance

A fair, category-level look at both.

This is a category comparison. It does not rank Zenoti's roadmap or quote its pricing. It shows what an integrated platform-plus-team does that enterprise software you operate yourself is not built to deliver, and it gives Zenoti the row where it leads.

  • How AEVA compares to Zenoti across running the practice, enterprise and multi-location scale, a managed marketing team, campaigns and bookings on one patient profile, and revenue attribution from ad click to checkout.
  • Runs the practice, including scheduling, charting, and payments

    AEVA AEVA: yes
    Zenoti Zenoti: yes
  • Built for enterprise and multi-location scale

    Zenoti's strength

    AEVA AEVA: no
    Zenoti Zenoti: yes
  • Managed marketing team running ads, SEO, content, and video

    AEVA AEVA: yes
    Zenoti Zenoti: no
  • Bookings, checkouts, and campaigns on one patient profile

    AEVA AEVA: yes
    Zenoti Zenoti: no
  • Revenue attribution from ad click to checkout

    AEVA AEVA: yes
    Zenoti Zenoti: no

Zenoti is a strong product. A dash marks where a category is not built to deliver a capability, not a weakness in the product. This compares categories, and does not rank Zenoti's individual roadmap or pricing.

Who should choose which

Which one fits depends on what you want to run yourself.

The deciding question is who runs your marketing. Zenoti hands you established practice software and expects you to staff the marketing yourself. AEVA runs the paid ads, SEO, content, and video for you, with an expert team, inside the same system that schedules patients and takes payment. Everything below follows from that split.

  • Choose Zenoti if

    • You are a large group or franchise, and the operating platform across many locations is your first priority.
    • You have an in-house marketing team, or an agency you already trust, and you want software you run yourself.
    • Enterprise-grade operations at scale matter more to you right now than having the marketing delivered for you.
  • Choose AEVA if

    • You want the software that runs the practice and the team that runs your marketing working together.
    • You would rather have the marketing run by specialists than hire, train, and manage it yourself.
    • You want every ad tied back to a booking and to revenue, so growth is measured campaign by campaign.

Questions, answered straight

Frequently asked questions

Is AEVA a replacement for Zenoti?

For many practices, yes. AEVA runs scheduling, patient profiles, charting, and payments the way enterprise practice software does, and it also includes a marketing team running your ads, SEO, content, and video in the same system. That replaces both the operating software and a separate agency. On a demo we map what you run today to the move.

Does AEVA operate at multi-location scale like Zenoti?

Zenoti is purpose-built for large groups and franchises running dozens of locations, and that scale is a genuine strength. AEVA is built to run a single practice and grow it, marketing included, connected end to end. If enterprise operations across many sites is your first priority, Zenoti may fit better. If you want the marketing run for you alongside the software, that is where AEVA differs.

Can I keep Zenoti and just add AEVA's marketing?

AEVA ties every booking and checkout to the campaign that produced it, and it does that inside AEVA's own system. Running the marketing on top of Zenoti would break that attribution, so AEVA is built to run the software and the marketing together rather than bolt onto a separate platform. Bring what you run today to a demo and we will map it.

Is Zenoti overkill if I run one or two locations?

Zenoti earns its reputation across large groups with many sites, so a one or two location practice can pay for scale it will not use for years. AEVA is sized to run one practice and grow it, with the marketing team and the AI included from the start.

Bring Zenoti to the demo and we will compare them side by side.

We will walk through AEVA next to the tool you are weighing, using a live AEVA account. Ask the hard ones. What happens to your data if you leave, what the contract term is, what AEVA does badly today. A specialist who knows aesthetic practices runs the call, and you will get direct answers.