{"id":7099,"date":"2026-06-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplywise.com\/blog\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:20:07","slug":"best-cleaning-business-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplywise.com\/blog\/best-cleaning-business-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Cleaning Business Software: 12 Picks for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\ndocument.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {\n  var sels = ['.entry-header','.page-header','article > h1:first-child','.entry-footer'];\n  sels.forEach(function(s){document.querySelectorAll(s).forEach(function(el){el.style.display='none';});});\n  var el = document.querySelector('.sw-a');\n  while (el && el !== document.body) {\n    el.style.maxWidth='100%'; el.style.width='100%'; el.style.padding='0'; el.style.margin='0';\n    el.style.float='none'; el.style.flex='0 0 100%';\n    el = el.parentElement;\n  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}catch(e){}\n})();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<article class=\"pm\">\n<header class=\"pm__hero\">\n<div class=\"pm__inner\">\n<nav class=\"pm__crumb\">Blog &nbsp;&rsaquo;&nbsp; Best Apps &amp; Software<\/nav>\n<p><span class=\"pm__eyebrow\">Cleaning Business Software &middot; 12 Picks<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Best Cleaning Business Software: 12 Picks for 2026<\/h1>\n<p class=\"pm__dek\">The best cleaning business software keeps the recurring route, the initial deep clean, and the move out extras on separate priced lines. We ranked 12 on exactly that, then re-pulled every vendor rate today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pm__dek-cta\">Short on time? <a href=\"https:\/\/swcostestimator.app.link\/ce-ai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Price a deep clean from a photo<\/a> in about six seconds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pm__rating\"><span class=\"pm__stars\">&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;<\/span> <b>4.8<\/b> <span class=\"pm__rating-sub\">on the App Store<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pm__meta\">\n<span>SimplyWise<\/span><br \/>\n<i><\/i><br \/>\n<span>Updated September 14, 2026<\/span><br \/>\n<i><\/i><br \/>\n<span>12 min read<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"pm__fig\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A professional cleaner in gloves wiping a surface during a residential job, the daily workflow cleaning business software has to support\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1740657254989-42fe9c3b8cce?w=1400&amp;h=700&amp;fit=crop&amp;q=80&amp;auto=format\"\/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"pm__body\">\n<div class=\"pm__inner\">\n<aside class=\"pm__tldr\">\n<div class=\"pm__tldr-label\">A cleaning quote, at a glance<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>The recurring visit is your income. The initial deep clean and the move out extras are where a quote goes vague and margin leaks.<\/li>\n<li>The best cleaning business software prices those as separate editable lines, then repeats the recurring one on a route without retyping it.<\/li>\n<li>Maids and housekeeping cleaners earned a median $17.07 an hour in May 2025. Build every crew hour on the quote up from that floor.<\/li>\n<li>SimplyWise Cost Estimator turns a photo of the room into an itemized estimate in about 6 seconds, with material quantities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"pm__tldr-cta\"><span>Quote the move out clean before you leave the driveway.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/swcostestimator.app.link\/ce-ai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SimplyWise Cost Estimator<\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2 id=\"what-it-carries\">What the best cleaning business software has to carry<\/h2>\n<p>Maids and housekeeping cleaners held about 860,670 jobs nationally and earned a median $17.07 an hour in May 2025, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most of that trade books on repeat. A cleaning company does not sell one job. It sells a slot on a route, every week or every other week, for years. Almost none of the software sold to contractors is shaped that way. We judge the best cleaning business software on four things.<\/p>\n<h3>The recurring visit and the first visit are two different prices<\/h3>\n<p>A first clean on a house nobody has touched in two years takes a crew three times as long as the visit after it. Charge the recurring rate for that first visit and you eat the difference. The tool has to hold both prices on the same client, and default to the recurring one after visit one.<\/p>\n<h3>Per visit, per hour, and per square foot all have to fit<\/h3>\n<p>Most maid services quote a flat per visit rate. Move out and post construction cleans price better by the square foot. Hoarding recoveries price by the hour. A tool that supports one of those three forces you to fudge the other two.<\/p>\n<h3>The route is the schedule<\/h3>\n<p>Drive time is unbilled labor. A cleaning business with 40 recurring clients lives or dies on how tightly Tuesday is packed. Scheduling has to think in routes and territories, not one off appointments. It also has to slot a new biweekly client into an existing gap rather than at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<h3>Billing has to run itself, and so do the keys<\/h3>\n<p>Card on file, autopay after each visit, and a receipt the client never has to ask for. That is the whole billing story for a recurring book. Access is the half nobody builds for: lockbox codes, alarm codes, gate codes, and who on your crew can see them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pm__inline-cta\">Itemized lines you can edit, one photo. <a href=\"https:\/\/swcostestimator.app.link\/ce-ai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Price a job from a photo<\/a> in about 6 seconds, then edit before you send. Free to try.<\/p>\n<h2>A worked move out clean quote<\/h2>\n<p>Here is the shape of a real move out clean quote on an empty 1,800 square foot house, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, tenant gone, nothing in the fridge but a smell. Every wage figure below traces to the Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 OEWS release for maids and housekeeping cleaners. The rest is illustrative arithmetic, not a rate card. Run your own crew cost through the same six steps.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"pm__steps\">\n<li>\n<h3>Measure the job in the units you actually bill<\/h3>\n<p>Square footage, bedroom and bathroom count, floor types, and condition. Those four decide the hours. An empty 1,800 square foot house with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths runs a two person crew about 6 hours. Write the assumption on the quote, so a surprise upstairs carpet is a change and not an argument.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Price crew hours against the real wage floor<\/h3>\n<p>Maids and housekeeping cleaners earned a median $17.07 an hour nationally in May 2025, with the 25th percentile at $14.59 and the 75th at $19.03. Two cleaners for 6 hours is 12 crew hours. At the median that is $204.84 in straight wages. Load it at roughly 1.3 for payroll taxes, workers compensation, and paid time, and your labor line lands near $266.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Add the move out only lines, each one visible<\/h3>\n<p>Inside the fridge, inside the oven, inside every cabinet and drawer, blinds, baseboards, window tracks, and the garage sweep. A recurring clean never touches these, and a landlord inspects them first. Budget about 2 extra crew hours across them, another $34 in wages and about $44 loaded.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Price supplies and drive time instead of absorbing them<\/h3>\n<p>Chemicals, pads, liners, and filters on a move out this size run about $25. A 40 minute round trip with two cleaners in the van is 1.3 unbilled crew hours, near $29 loaded. Both belong on the cost side of the sheet before you name a price.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Separate the deep clean rate from the recurring rate in writing<\/h3>\n<p>Direct cost on this job is roughly $364. Quote it at $610 and your gross margin is about 40 percent, where a healthy residential book sits. Now price the same house as a biweekly recurring clean. Two cleaners for 2.5 hours is about $111 of loaded labor, $9 supplies, and $29 drive, so $149 of cost against a $210 visit price. Same house, two very different numbers. Put both on the page.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Send the itemized total with the access plan on it<\/h3>\n<p>Labor, move out extras, supplies, and travel, each on its own line, totaled into one number, with the lockbox or gate code arrangement written underneath. Hand it over before you leave the driveway, and you are not the cleaner who promised to email something tonight.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"pm__callout\">\n<p><strong>What no app fixes.<\/strong> If your price list still folds the initial deep clean into the recurring rate, faster quoting only produces the wrong number faster. Split those two prices first, then go shopping for software.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The 12 best cleaning business software, ranked<\/h2>\n<p>Ranked on how much of that quote the tool carries, how well it holds a recurring route, and what it costs to run. The best cleaning business software keeps the deep clean, the extras, and the recurring visit price editable after the first draft. Vendor pricing comes from each company&#8217;s own page, read live on September 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"pm__steps\">\n<li>\n<h3>SimplyWise Cost Estimator<\/h3>\n<p>Best for the cleaning owner who quotes standing in the empty house, and our pick for the best cleaning business software overall. Photograph the kitchen or the empty living room, and the app turns the photo into an itemized estimate in about 6 seconds, with material quantities. Every line carries unit, quantity, and price, so the deep clean extras stay separate from the recurring visit instead of collapsing into one flat figure. Describe the job by voice with gloves on. The client signs a professional, branded quote to approve it before you drive off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> $29.99\/mo or $239.99\/yr, which is about $20\/mo on annual, with a 7-day free trial. One subscription opens the rest of the SimplyWise suite. That means receipt scanning, mileage tracking for the route, and the Receptionist app for the calls you miss mid clean.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>ZenMaid<\/h3>\n<p>Best for the maid service that lives on a recurring route, and the only tool here built for nothing but residential cleaning. Scheduling runs in calendar, dispatch, and map views, so Tuesday reads as a route rather than a list. Spotfinder slots a new recurring client into an existing gap in the week. Pro adds GPS tracking, digital checklists, payroll, and a booking form for your website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Starter is $19 a month, Pro $39, Pro Max $49, quoted from the team size calculator at zero cleaners and rising as you add them. Starter caps at 40 appointments a month. Pro and Pro Max are uncapped. Every plan gets 14 days free.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Jobber<\/h3>\n<p>Best all rounder once you run two or three crews and want one place for quoting, scheduling, and payment. Recurring job templates repeat a biweekly clean without retyping it, and the client hub lets a homeowner approve a quote and pay an invoice without calling the office. Automated reminders cut the no access visit, the most expensive hour in this trade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Core is $29 a month on annual billing, or $49 month to month, for 1 user. Connect is $99 or $139. Grow is $149 or $199. Plus starts at $399 a month on annual billing, or $499 month to month. Extra users cost $29 each. The trial runs 14 days.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Housecall Pro<\/h3>\n<p>Best when the office wants recurring service plans and card on file autopay doing the collecting. Service agreements bill a maintenance clean on a schedule, the Routes feature groups and sequences a day to cut drive time, and review requests fire after a visit. The price book is manual, so you build your deep clean and move out line items once and reuse them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Basic is $59 a month on annual billing, or $79 month to month, for 1 user. Essentials is $149 or $189 with 5 users, and extra users cost $100 each. Max is $299 or $329 with 8 users, and extra users cost $75 each. The trial is 2 weeks with no credit card.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>BookingKoala<\/h3>\n<p>Best for the cleaning business that sells online and wants the booking form to do the quoting. Customers pick bedrooms, bathrooms, and extras on your site and see a price immediately, which is how most residential cleaning leads convert now. Providers and customers each get a portal, and over 100 automated text and email notifications cover reminders and follow ups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Starter is from $27 a month with 5 providers. Growing is from $57 with 15. Premium is from $197 with 50. Tiers move with provider count and data use, so a growing crew changes the bill. The trial is 14 days.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Launch27<\/h3>\n<p>Best when you want unlimited users and unlimited bookings on the cheapest tier. The product is written for house cleaning, so the booking form, the customer database, and the provider payouts already speak your language. Pro strips the vendor branding off the booking form and opens a custom stylesheet editor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Base is $75 a month, or $765 for the year at 15 percent off. Pro is $150, or $1,530 a year. Plus is $299, or $3,049.80 a year, and adds the referral engine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Maidily<\/h3>\n<p>Best for the solo cleaner or two person outfit that wants a genuinely free start. Billing scales on job volume rather than headcount, so every plan including the free one carries unlimited users and unlimited customers. Recurring scheduling, online booking, two way messaging, invoicing, and payments sit in the free or entry tier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Free forever at $0 for up to 10 jobs a month. Start is $29 a month with 50 jobs, plus $3 for each extra 50. Grow is $49 with 150 jobs. Scale is $99 with 250. Annual billing saves 17 percent, and every paid plan opens with a trial.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>ServiceM8<\/h3>\n<p>Best when your job count is low and you want a real free tier rather than a countdown. Job cards carry photos, checklists, and notes from the front door to the invoice, which is how a quality complaint gets settled without a second visit. The phone add on puts caller identification and job history on screen when a client rings mid route.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Free at $0 covers 1 user and 30 jobs a month. Starter is $29 with 50 jobs. Growing is $79 with 150. Premium is $149 with 500. Premium Plus is $349 with 1,500 or more. Paid tiers carry unlimited users. The phone add on starts at $19.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Markate<\/h3>\n<p>Best for a cleaning company that would rather pay by employee than climb a seat tier. Estimates, jobs, scheduling, and marketing automations sit on one platform, and the add on menu lets you buy only the pieces you use. Job checklists with photos are the practical win, because a move out dispute turns on the photo of the oven, not on your memory of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> The base is $39.95 a month billed yearly as one $479.40 payment, or $49.95 month to month, plus $5 for each employee. Add ons cost extra. The lead capture form is $10 a month, the CompanyCam integration is $10, and call answering runs $1 a call.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Service Fusion<\/h3>\n<p>Best once headcount is the thing that hurts, because every tier carries unlimited users. Customer management, estimates, jobs, scheduling, dispatch, payments, and QuickBooks sync sit in the entry tier. For a 20 cleaner operation the flat price stops punishing you for hiring, which is the opposite of how most of this list bills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Starter is $208 a month on annual billing, charged as one payment at signup, or $245 month to month. Plus is $325 or $382. Pro is $533 or $627. No trial is posted. Every button books a demo.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Workiz<\/h3>\n<p>Best for a cleaning company whose lead flow is still mostly phone calls. Scheduling, estimates, jobs, and invoicing come standard, and call tracking ties a ringing phone to the ad that produced it. Automations are metered by tier, 5 on the entry plan and 30 on the top one, so check that count against your reminder flows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Not published. Standard, Pro, and Ultimate all read Request pricing on the live page. The phone, answering, and marketing modules cost extra on every tier.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>FieldPulse<\/h3>\n<p>Best for a cleaning operation that has outgrown one price for everyone. Estimates, scheduling, dispatch, customer management, and inventory are all there, and access is sold per seat, so an office coordinator and a lead cleaner do not cost the same. The tradeoff: you cannot size the bill before you talk to somebody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing.<\/strong> Not published. The pricing page says the product is seat based. You buy a set number of seats upfront for your contract term, and the rate depends on what each seat needs access to.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>How the best cleaning business software compare<\/h2>\n<table class=\"pm__table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Tool<\/th>\n<th>The cleaning business it fits<\/th>\n<th>How the recurring route is handled<\/th>\n<th>Starting price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SimplyWise Cost Estimator<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Solo cleaner or small crew quoting on site<\/td>\n<td>Reusable itemized estimate, edited per visit<\/td>\n<td>$29.99\/mo, 7-day trial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ZenMaid<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Maid service on a weekly route<\/td>\n<td>Calendar, dispatch, and map views with Spotfinder<\/td>\n<td>$19 a month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Jobber<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Two or three cleaning crews<\/td>\n<td>Recurring job templates and client hub<\/td>\n<td>$29 a month on annual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Housecall Pro<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Office with a recurring book to collect on<\/td>\n<td>Service agreements plus the Routes feature<\/td>\n<td>$59 a month on annual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>BookingKoala<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Cleaning business selling through its website<\/td>\n<td>Online booking form prices the visit<\/td>\n<td>$27 a month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Launch27<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>House cleaning company with many part timers<\/td>\n<td>Unlimited bookings and unlimited users<\/td>\n<td>$75 a month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Maidily<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Solo maid service starting from zero<\/td>\n<td>Recurring scheduling on the free tier<\/td>\n<td>Free, then $29 a month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ServiceM8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Low job count, photo heavy work<\/td>\n<td>Job cards with checklists and photos<\/td>\n<td>Free, then $29 a month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Markate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Cleaning company paying by employee<\/td>\n<td>Scheduling plus job checklists and photos<\/td>\n<td>$39.95 a month on annual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Service Fusion<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Large crew where every login counts<\/td>\n<td>Dispatch board, unlimited users<\/td>\n<td>$208 a month on annual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Workiz<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Phone driven residential lead flow<\/td>\n<td>Scheduling tied to call tracking<\/td>\n<td>Request pricing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>FieldPulse<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Mixed office and field roles<\/td>\n<td>Dispatch with per seat access<\/td>\n<td>Request pricing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"pm__promo\">\n<h2>Price the deep clean from a photo of the room<\/h2>\n<p>SimplyWise Cost Estimator turns a photo of the kitchen or the empty bedroom into an itemized estimate in about 6 seconds, with material quantities. Edit the lines, split the deep clean from the recurring visit, then send a professional, branded quote the client signs to approve. Free to try.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"pm__btn pm__btn--lg\" href=\"https:\/\/swcostestimator.app.link\/ce-ai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SimplyWise Cost Estimator<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>How we scored them<\/h2>\n<p>We scored every candidate for the best cleaning business software on five weighted criteria. Speed to an itemized number carried 30 percent, because the cleaner who leaves a price behind books the move out. Recurring route handling took 25 percent, meaning repeat visits, territories, and drive time, not just a calendar. Separate deep clean and recurring pricing took 20 percent. Pricing transparency took 15 percent, and mobile usability took the last 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the twelve publish no rate at all. Workiz and FieldPulse route every tier through a form or a sales call, and Service Fusion publishes rates but posts no trial. Publishing a rate was worth points, so those three lost ground. We scored SimplyWise Cost Estimator on the same rubric. It takes top marks on speed to an itemized number and on keeping the deep clean and recurring lines separate. It gives ground on route optimization to ZenMaid and Housecall Pro, which were built around the recurring schedule first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pm__inline-cta\">Try it on your next move out walkthrough. <a href=\"https:\/\/swcostestimator.app.link\/ce-ai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Price a job from a photo<\/a> and compare the lines to your last handwritten quote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pm__next\">\n<h2>Keep reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplywise.com\/blog\/how-to-start-a-cleaning-business\/\">How to Start a Cleaning Business<\/a>: licensing, insurance, and the first pricing sheet, written for the same reader.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplywise.com\/blog\/how-to-start-a-carpet-cleaning-business\/\">How to Start a Carpet Cleaning Business<\/a>: what changes when the equipment, not the hours, sets your price.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplywise.com\/blog\/best-handyman-software\/\">Best App for Handymen to Send Estimates<\/a>: the same 12 pick method scored for a different trade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pm__sources\">\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"pm__sources-group\" style=\"font:700 11.5px Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#9ca3af;margin:18px 0 8px;\">Vendor pricing pages<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplywise.com\/blog\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SimplyWise Cost Estimator pricing<\/a>. $29.99\/mo or $239.99\/yr. 7-day free trial. Full feature set on every plan. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/simplywise-cost-estimator\/id6670619664\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SimplyWise Cost Estimator on the App Store<\/a>. 4.8 rating. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZenMaid, Pricing<\/a>. Starter $19, Pro $39, Pro Max $49, read off the team size calculator at zero cleaners. Starter caps at 40 appointments a month. Try Free for 14 days. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getjobber.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jobber, Pricing<\/a>. Core $29 billed annually or $49 no commitment, 1 user. Connect $99 or $139. Grow $149 or $199. Plus $399 or $499 with 5 users. Extra users $29 each. For 14 days you get full access. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.housecallpro.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Housecall Pro, Pricing and Plans<\/a>. Basic $59 billed annually or $79 month to month, 1 user. Essentials $149 or $189, 5 users, additional users $100 each. Max $299 or $329, 8 users, additional users $75 each. Free for 2 weeks, no credit card required. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookingkoala.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BookingKoala, Pricing<\/a>. Starter from 27 USD with 5 providers. Growing from 57 USD with 15. Premium from 197 USD with 50. 14 day free trial, card charged at its end. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"pm__sources-group\" style=\"font:700 11.5px Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#9ca3af;margin:18px 0 8px;\">More vendor pages behind this cleaning business software list<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.launch27.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Launch27, Pricing<\/a>. Base $75 a month or $765 a year at 15 percent off. Pro $150 or $1,530. Plus $299 or $3,049.80. Unlimited users and unlimited bookings on every tier. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maidily.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maidily, Pricing<\/a>. Free forever $0 for up to 10 jobs a month. Start $29 with 50 jobs, then $3 for each extra 50. Grow $49 with 150. Scale $99 with 250. Annual billing saves 17 percent. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servicem8.com\/pricing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ServiceM8, Pricing<\/a>. Free $0, 1 user, 30 jobs a month. Starter $29 with 50. Growing $79 with 150. Premium $149 with 500. Premium Plus $349 with 1,500 or more. Phone from $19. Get a 14-day Free Trial. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markate.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markate, Pricing<\/a>. Base $39.95 USD billed yearly as one $479.40 payment, or $49.95 month to month. Plus $5.00 USD per employee. Lead capture form $10. CompanyCam $10. Call answering $1 a call. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servicefusion.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Service Fusion, Pricing<\/a>. Starter $208, Plus $325, Pro $533 billed annually. Starter $245, Plus $382, Pro $627 month to month. Unlimited users on every tier. No trial posted. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workiz.com\/pricing-plans\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Workiz, Pricing Plans<\/a>. Standard, Pro, and Ultimate all display Request pricing. Automations metered at 5, 10, and 30 by tier. Phone, answering, and marketing modules sold separately. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldpulse.com\/pricing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FieldPulse, Pricing<\/a>. No rates published. The page says the product is seat based. You purchase a set number of seats upfront for the contract term. The rate depends on what each seat needs access to. Live 2026-09-11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"pm__sources-group\" style=\"font:700 11.5px Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#9ca3af;margin:18px 0 8px;\">Wage data<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/download.bls.gov\/pub\/time.series\/oe\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025<\/a>. Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners, SOC 37-2012, national. Employment 860,670, series OEUN000000000000037201201. Hourly mean $17.83, datatype 03. Annual mean $37,080, datatype 04. Hourly 25th percentile $14.59, datatype 07. Hourly median $17.07, datatype 08. Hourly 75th percentile $19.03, datatype 09. Annual median $35,510, datatype 13. Read 2026-09-11 from the LABSTAT flat file oe.data.0.Current. The api.bls.gov public query threshold was exhausted today and the bls.gov OEWS occupation pages redirect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"pm__pull\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>A cleaning company does not sell one job. It sells a slot on a route, every other week, for years.<cite>SimplyWise Editorial<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"pm__faq\">\n<div class=\"pm__inner\">\n<h2>Cleaning business software: common questions<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"sw-a__faq-cat\">Choosing cleaning business software<\/h3>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the best cleaning business software in 2026?<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p>It depends on the shape of your book. A solo cleaner wins the move out call by leaving an itemized price behind, and SimplyWise Cost Estimator turns a photo into an estimate in about 6 seconds at $29.99\/mo. A maid service on a weekly route fits ZenMaid, which starts at $19 a month. Two or three crews with an office fit Jobber at $29 a month on annual billing. A large payroll fits Service Fusion at $208 a month on annual billing, because every tier carries unlimited users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How do you price a move out clean without guessing?<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p>Build the price up from crew hours. An empty 1,800 square foot house with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths runs a two person crew about 6 hours. Maids and housekeeping cleaners earned a median $17.07 an hour in May 2025, so 12 crew hours is $204.84 in wages, or near $266 loaded for taxes and workers compensation. Add the move out only lines, the supplies, and the unbilled drive time, then set your margin on the total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Should a cleaning business charge by the hour, by the visit, or by square foot?<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p>Use all three, and pick per job. Recurring residential visits price best as a flat per visit rate, because the client wants a predictable number and you keep the upside as the house gets easier. Move out and post construction cleans price by the square foot, since the work scales with floor area. Hoarding recoveries price by the hour, because nobody can scope them from the doorway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<h3 class=\"sw-a__faq-cat\">Cost, free tiers, and the recurring route<\/h3>\n<details>\n<summary>Is there free cleaning business software?<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p>Yes, two of the twelve carry a real free tier rather than a countdown. Maidily is free forever for up to 10 jobs a month, with unlimited users even on that plan. ServiceM8 is free at $0 for 1 user and 30 jobs a month. Everything else opens with a trial instead. ZenMaid, Jobber, BookingKoala, and ServiceM8 all run 14 days. Housecall Pro runs 2 weeks with no credit card, and Service Fusion posts no trial at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What does SimplyWise Cost Estimator cost for a cleaning business?<\/summary>\n<div>\n<p>It is $29.99\/mo, or $239.99\/yr, which works out to about $20\/mo on annual billing, and it opens with a 7-day free trial. There is no feature gating, so every plan carries the full feature set. One subscription also opens the rest of the SimplyWise suite: receipt scanning for supply runs, mileage tracking for the route between clients, and the Receptionist app for the calls you cannot take.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"pm__final\">\n<div class=\"pm__inner\">\n<span class=\"pm__eyebrow\">Quote it at the front door<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Send the cleaning quote before you leave the driveway.<\/h2>\n<p>Photograph the room and get an itemized estimate in about 6 seconds, with material quantities. Split the deep clean from the recurring visit, then send. 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