Table of Contents
- Spotless Agency Virtual Staging vs PhotoUp
- Our Conclusion – Which Is the Better Option?
- PhotoUp’s Virtual Staging Advantage
Thinking about using Spotless Agency’s virtual staging services to help sell your listings? Then read this review and comparison article first!
Virtual staging ensures the absolute best photos for any listing — capturing the interest — and imagination of potential buyers. Virtual staging helps sell homes quickly and for higher prices.
To help you decide, we’ve looked at two better-known virtual staging providers, Spotless Agency vs PhotoUp – and compared them to see which is the better service.
Spotless Agency Virtual Staging vs PhotoUp
Founded in 2014 in New York City by a professional interior designer, Spotless Agency has grown to become a significant provider of virtual staging and related marketing services in the New York metro region and beyond.
Spotless Agency offers the following services:
- Virtual staging
- Floor plans
- 3D modeling and rendering
- Furniture rendering
- Property virtual tours
Launched in 2012, PhotoUp is a global real estate marketing company offering a full range of virtual staging services (commercial and residential).
They also offer:
- Real Estate Photo editing
- Single property websites
- Floor plans
- Video editing
- Property flyers
- Custom house portraits
- And virtual assistants
The company has a talented team of virtual staging editors and designers in the Philippines, plus a responsive customer service team in the US.
That said, we’re going to compare both companies in terms of the following:
- Account creation & pricing
- Design and style options
- Production & turnaround time
- And image quality
Now, let’s get our comparison of these two providers underway.
1. Account Creation & Pricing
To get started using Spotless Agency’s services, you need to fill out this form with your information.
And placing an order is easy and quick.
In terms of their pricing (which is quite high), it runs as follows:
- Virtual Staging — offered in three levels of service – Light $79 per image, Standard $99 per image, and Professional $199 per image
- 3D floor plans — depending on property size $350 to $500 and beyond
- Virtual tours — again, depending on property size — are $600 to $900 and beyond
- They do offer unlimited revisions
Looking through their website, I didn’t find anything about discounts for bulk orders.
Now, turning our attention to our other provider — to work with PhotoUp you create a free account, which was a simple and easy process, taking less than a minute.
PhotoUp uses a credit system to make payments for all services and offer discounts for bulk buying of credits. Their standard plans are:
- $1.15 per credit for subscription clients
- $1.50 per credit for on-demand, pay-as-you-go clients
Their charges for virtual staging are as follows:
- Single set – 20 credits/$20 per photo
- Double set – 30 credits/$30 per photo
Which set your order qualifies for is determined by the number of design pieces and furniture as well as how many frames a single room or space requires.
Additionally, PhotoUp provides 2 free revisions for their work, and then each additional revision costs 10 credits.
Next, the second aspect of our comparison examines both companies’ design and style options.
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2. Design and Style Options
Spotless Agency has a range of 10 attractive and popular design and style options, including:
- Contemporary
- Modern
- Mid-Century Modern
- Scandinavian
- Nautical
- Transitional
- Traditional
- Industrial
- Bohemian
- And Farmhouse
PhotoUp offers a professional design library featuring 11 decor style options and 18 room types. There are an additional 21 design accessories to choose from.
PhotoUp’s 11 design styles include:
- Mid-Century Modern
- Scandinavian
- Coastal
- Farmhouse
- American
- Industrial
- Hamptons
- Luxury
- Southwestern
- Modern
- And Commercial
Ok, we’re halfway through our comparison. Next, we take a look at production and turnaround times.
3. Production & Turnaround Time
In terms of the turnaround times, there are some noticeable differences between the two companies.
Spotless Agency offers 24-hour virtual staging — but only for its higher price ranges ($99 and $199 per image) and a 2 to 4-day turnaround for its lower-priced services.
PhotoUp sends you low-resolution proofs for your approval within 24 hours. Once approved, they provide the high-resolution, virtually staged images within just a few hours.
Now, for the last part of our comparison — the image quality of both companies.
4. Image Quality
Both Spotless Agency and PhotoUp provide hi-resolution examples of their virtual staging work. Let’s take a loot at before & after images of virtual staging by both providers.
Virtual Staging by Spotless Agency
Virtual Staging by PhotoUp
When we compare the virtual staging results from both providers, it’s clear that both providers do excellent work.
All of the images are of the highest quality and are extremely realistic, impressive, and eye-catching.
With our comparison now complete, let’s review our results to see which company is the better option.
Our Conclusion – Which Is the Better Option?
First, we’ll note that Spotless Agency and PhotoUp offer many of the same virtual staging features and services. And both sites are easy to use and order from.
Second, the quality of both providers’ virtual staging is also similar — both companies do superb work.
Third, both Spotless Agency and PhotoUp offer a similar array of design themes – 10 virtual staging styles each, so both companies provide flexibility and popular options.
So far, both companies appear to be a solid choice for virtual staging work.
However, there is one, rather stark, difference between the two providers — price.
Spotless Agency’s prices are extremely high. In fact, out of all the many virtual staging reviews we’ve done, their prices are the highest we’ve seen.
When you consider the quality of the work is almost identical, the price difference is startling:
- PhotoUp charges around $20 per virtually staged photo
- Spotless Agency charges $79 per virtually staged photo — and that’s for the low-end service options
PhotoUp offers faster turnaround times, too, unless you opt for Spotless Agency’s higher-priced services ($99 — $199 per image) in which case both companies deliver in the same 24-hour time frame.
Just in case the price difference isn’t enough to help you make a decision, PhotoUp also offers a broader, more complete range of real estate marketing services than Spotless Agency – including:
- Real Estate Photo editing
- Property portraits
- Video tour editing
- Single property websites
- Custom websites
- And virtual assistants
Therefore, when we weigh all those factors, we think it’s clear that PhotoUp is the better option.
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PhotoUp’s Virtual Staging Advantage
PhotoUp’s affordable virtual staging services help make any space or room look amazing — these include:
- Staging vacant rooms with popular design-styled furnishings
- Easy decor updates and replacements
- Expert object removal, decluttering and depersonalizing of rooms
- Virtual updates, repairs, and remodeling
- Sky replacement, window masking, and lawn greening
- And much more!
To see how easy it is to get started, check out our virtual staging demo:
As quick and easy as that!
Sign up for a free PhotoUp account, and start using virtually staged images that’ll impress both the buyers and your clients.
In summary, this post compared Spotless Agency virtual staging vs PhotoUp to see which is the best service. And based on the findings of our comparison, we conclude that PhotoUp is the better choice.
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