What Kandua and Snupit are (if you know them from South Africa)
Kandua is a South African online marketplace that connects homeowners with vetted service professionals — plumbers, electricians, painters, cleaners, handymen and more. You search for a service, browse pro profiles with ratings and reviews, and request quotes. Kandua focuses on screening and showcasing professionals so you can choose with confidence.
Snupit works a little differently: you post the job you need done, and the platform matches you with professionals who get in touch with quotes. Behind the scenes, Snupit sells those customer leads to the professionals — so the pros pay to be connected to you. Both are well known in SA as ways to avoid the lottery of finding a reliable tradesperson cold.
Are Kandua and Snupit in Mauritius?
No. Both Kandua and Snupit are South African services and do not operate in Mauritius. You can't use them to find a vetted electrician in Grand Baie or a cleaner in Tamarin — the listings, the pros and the quotes are all for South Africa.
Mauritius has plenty of skilled home-service providers, but they've traditionally been found through word of mouth, scattered Facebook pages and unverified listings — with no single trustworthy place to compare them and read honest reviews. Prouva is built to fill exactly that gap, adapted to how the market works on the island.
Prouva: the Mauritius equivalent (with a fairer model)
Prouva is a free directory of home-service providers across Mauritius, built around honest, verified reviews. The biggest difference from Snupit in particular is that Prouva never charges providers for leads, and never charges you a commission. You browse providers, read what real customers experienced, and contact the one you choose directly — agreeing the price between you.
Like Kandua, Prouva puts trust front and centre — but it goes further on how ratings are calculated. Rather than a simple star average, Prouva computes a provider's score from a short factual survey about what actually happened on the job, gives far more weight to reviews backed by an invoice or contract, and lets recent experience count for more. Prouva is run as a non-profit community project: free for customers and free for providers, with no commission, no membership and no pay-per-lead.
Kandua / Snupit vs Prouva at a glance
All three aim to take the risk out of hiring for your home. The difference is who pays, and how the trust signal is built.
How they compare
| Kandua / Snupit | Prouva (Mauritius) | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it operates | South Africa | Mauritius |
| What it is | Vetted-pro marketplace (Kandua) / lead-matching (Snupit) | A free directory of providers with reviews — you choose and contact directly |
| Cost to you | Free to search; you agree price via quotes | Free — you agree the price directly with the provider |
| Cost to the provider | Snupit charges per lead; listing/subscription options | Free — no commission, no membership, no pay-per-lead |
| Who runs it | Commercial companies | A non-profit community project |
| Choosing your provider | You pick from profiles / quotes | You browse, compare and pick |
| How reviews work | Star ratings and reviews | Computed from a factual survey, weighted toward invoice-verified and recent reviews |
Finding a home-service provider in Mauritius today
- Search Prouva for the service and area you need, and shortlist two or three providers with solid, recent reviews.
- Favour providers with Verified reviews (backed by an invoice or contract) and, where it matters, a Verified business badge.
- Message your shortlist directly to confirm availability and agree a written price before the work starts.
- After the job, leave an honest review — it keeps the directory useful for the next person.
Prouva is free, so there's no reason not to check it before you hire. And every honest review added brings Mauritius closer to the kind of trusted home-services experience South Africans expect from Kandua and Snupit.