Built only for cleaning companies
Cleanr is cleaning business software for owners who run residential and light-commercial cleaning companies. Recurring customers generate their own visits, cleaners run their day from the iPhone app, and a finished clean becomes an invoice the same day — with a Pay Now link once Cleanr Pay is connected through Stripe. One flat plan — $299 a year or $39 a month — and never a per-cleaner fee.
7-day free trial on both plans · No per-cleaner fees · iPhone app + web dashboard · Cancel anytime
What it has to cover
Strip away the dashboards and the term means one thing: software that carries a clean from the first quote to the cleared payment without you retyping anything in between. Here is everything in that loop, and how Cleanr handles each part of it.
Set a home to weekly, biweekly, or monthly once and every future visit lands on the calendar with the assigned cleaner attached. When a client travels, you move that one visit; the series stays put. Day, week, and month views, with the day in time order so the morning reads like a route sheet.
How scheduling worksAddress, gate code, alarm notes, the no-bleach bathroom, the dog that bolts, and the package and price you charge that house — all on one record with the full service history underneath. Whoever you send sees the same instructions at the door.
Customers & homes in CleanrInvite a cleaner by text message. They see their own day on the Cleanr iPhone app, start and finish each visit to record time on site, and attach photos and notes as they go. You decide whether they see the whole team's schedule or only their own, and they never see your financials.
Dispatch and time trackingBuild a quote with line items and site photos, send it for approval, and split a big move-out or post-construction job into payment milestones. An accepted quote converts straight into the first visit and its recurring schedule, so the numbers you quoted are the numbers you bill.
Quotes, invoices & paymentsA completed clean can invoice itself and send the payment request. With Cleanr Pay connected through Stripe, invoice emails carry a Pay Now link, a saved card can be charged with the customer's authorization, and overdue invoices get automatic reminders without you playing collections.
Invoicing and paymentsThe Money tab shows what you collected this month, what is outstanding, who owes you the most, and a priority queue of overdue invoices and finished cleans not yet billed. When the queue is empty, you are caught up — no month-end invoicing batch to face.
How the Money tab worksCleaning-native vs. general-purpose
Most of the software a cleaning owner gets pitched was built for plumbers, HVAC techs, and landscapers first, then sold to cleaners with the word "cleaning" added to the landing page. The mismatch shows up in four places, and each one costs you either time or money.
Designed around the one-off service call, then stretched to cover repeat work.
Designed around the recurring clean, the small crew, and per-visit billing.
Where a broad platform wins: if you run several trades under one roof, or need consumer financing, route optimization across a city, a QuickBooks sync, or open API access, Jobber or Housecall Pro earn their price. The comparison pages say so in plain terms, with each company's published pricing checked and dated.
Buyer's checklist
Six questions worth asking every vendor, including us. Cleanr's answer follows each one, so you can hold it to the same standard.
Ask to set up one biweekly home and then move a single visit. If the tool regenerates the whole series, or the moved visit loses its cleaner, you will be rebuilding the calendar on Sunday nights forever. In Cleanr the plan generates every visit with the cleaner attached, and a moved visit moves alone.
Per-seat pricing taxes growth. Get a price for your team today and for the team you expect a year from now; the gap between those two numbers is the real cost of the software. Cleanr is one flat plan — $299 a year or $39 a month — and adding a cleaner changes nothing on the invoice.
Cleaners need their stops, the access notes, and a way to start, finish, and photograph each visit. They do not need your revenue. The Cleanr iPhone app shows staff their own day; you choose whether they also see the team schedule, and staff cannot create invoices, see financials, or manage other staff.
The gap between "done" and "paid" is where cleaning companies lose money. Look for invoicing triggered by completion, a payment link inside the email, and automatic reminders on overdue balances. Cleanr does all three once Cleanr Pay is connected through Stripe, and cash and check invoices are still recorded, with no card fee.
If access notes live in a text thread, a substitute cleaner gets locked out at 8 a.m. Every detail a crew needs at the door should sit on the customer record and travel with the visit to whoever is assigned. In Cleanr it does, alongside the service history for that home.
Ask how you get your customer list, schedule, and invoice history out before you put them in. A vendor that makes leaving hard is telling you something about the product. In Cleanr there is no contract, no notice period, and no cancellation fee — cancel and you are simply not billed again; on the yearly plan your access runs to the end of the year you already paid for, and cancelling during the trial means you are never charged.
The shortlist
Six products come up most when a cleaning owner goes shopping, and they are not interchangeable: two are cleaning-native, one is booking-first, one is built for multi-location operators, and two are broad home-service platforms priced per user. Cleanr sits in the first row so you can read it against the same four columns; the pricing model tells you more than the sticker price.
| Software | Built for | Pricing model | Advertised price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanr | Residential and light-commercial cleaning companies with one to ten cleaners | One flat plan, whole crew included, the same features yearly or monthly | $299/year or $39/month |
| ZenMaid | Maid services | Three flat tiers by feature; Starter capped at 40 appointments a month; SMS billed extra on every plan | $19/month Starter, $39 Pro, $49 Pro Max |
| Maidily | Cleaning companies | Tiers metered by jobs per month; each recurring occurrence counts as a job; no per-user fee | Free (10 jobs/month) to $99/month (250 jobs) |
| Launch27 | Booking-first cleaning companies | Three tiers; cleaner and admin mobile apps only on the $299 Plus plan; annual billing discounted | $75/month Base to $299/month Plus |
| MaidCentral | Established and multi-location residential cleaning companies | Scales by physical locations and completed jobs; one-time onboarding fee | From $450/month |
| Jobber | Home-service trades broadly | Plans with a set number of included users; $29/month for each additional user; automations unlock by tier | From $29/month for one user on annual billing ($49 month-to-month); team plans up to $699/month |
| Housecall Pro | Home-service trades broadly | Plans with included users (1, 5, or 8); additional users can be added on Essentials and MAX for a per-user monthly fee | $59/month Basic (one user) to $299/month MAX (eight users), billed annually |
Competitor prices are list prices from each company's public pricing page, checked August 2026 (MaidCentral on August 2, ZenMaid on August 9, Jobber on August 21). Plans, limits, and fees change; confirm current details with each vendor before deciding. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Every competitor row links to a full, price-checked comparison that names where the other product wins. The comparison hub collects them, the ZenMaid vs. Jobber and Jobber vs. Housecall Pro pages settle the two most common head-to-heads, and the best maid service software roundup ranks the field without putting Cleanr first by default.
Pricing
Cleanr Pro is $299 a year or $39 a month, and you get the same Cleanr feature set whichever way you pay — there is no per-cleaner fee, no feature tier, and no job-volume meter to outgrow. Both start with a 7-day free trial and cancel anytime. The pricing page has the yearly math and the trial mechanics in full.
Cleanr Pro
or $39/month · 7-day free trial on both plans · works out to $24.92/month on yearly billing
When customers pay your invoices online, standard Stripe processing fees apply — currently 2.9% + 30¢ for most U.S. cards (Stripe's published rate, checked August 2026); Cleanr adds no fee of its own. Cash and check invoices carry no card-processing fee. Card numbers go to Stripe, never to Cleanr.
Getting started
No implementation call, no onboarding fee. Three steps, most of them done from the web dashboard in one sitting.
Enter each home or office with its address, access notes, and product rules; set up your packages and default prices once in Settings. Then give each customer a frequency and a cleaner — Cleanr generates the visits, the week view shows who is where, and the day view reads in time order.
Send each cleaner the text-message invite. They install the Cleanr iPhone app, see their own day, and start and finish visits as they happen.
Connect Stripe once. From then on a completed clean can invoice itself, the email carries a Pay Now link, and the money lands in your own bank account.
The help center's getting-started, scheduling, and staff guides walk through each step.
Who it's for
Cleanr is for owner-operators running residential and light-commercial cleaning — usually one to ten cleaners, a client list that changes slower than the crew does, and a schedule that until now lived in your head. The same product runs three kinds of cleaning company; the pages below show what changes for each.
Weekly and biweekly homes
Recurring residential work, small crews, gate codes and no-bleach rules on every record, same-day invoicing.
Cleanr for maid servicesRoute days
Time-ordered days, per-visit billing, photo proof, and a customer record the whole team can read.
Cleanr for residential cleaningOffices and small facilities
Nightly and weekly office schedules, site instructions, staff time on site, and monthly or per-visit invoicing.
Cleanr for commercial cleaningWho should look elsewhere. Large janitorial contractors bidding multi-building facilities, companies whose cleaners carry Android phones, and anyone who needs customer self-booking forms, two-way text messaging, payroll, or a QuickBooks sync today. Those gaps are real, and each comparison page names which competitor covers them.
FAQ
Software that runs the operating loop of a cleaning company — customers and their homes, recurring schedules, cleaner dispatch, time on site, quotes, invoices, and payments — in one system instead of a calendar, a spreadsheet, a text thread, and an invoicing app. Cleaning-native products like Cleanr start from recurring residential work; general field-service platforms adapt a one-off-job model to it.
Anywhere from free entry tiers to $450 or more a month, and the pricing model matters more than the sticker. Per-user plans such as Jobber and Housecall Pro grow with headcount; volume-metered plans such as Maidily and ZenMaid Starter grow with the number of cleans; Cleanr is $299 a year or $39 a month for the whole crew, with a 7-day free trial on both plans.
Usually not at one to ten cleaners. The same loop — recurring visits, site instructions, dispatch, invoicing — runs a biweekly home and a nightly office. What changes is the record (a home versus a facility) and the billing rule (per visit versus monthly). Cleanr handles both, and the maid service, residential cleaning, and commercial cleaning pages show the differences.
Yes — the Cleanr iPhone app, on the App Store. Cleaners see their own day, start and finish each visit to record time on site, and attach photos and notes. Owners can run the business from the app or the web dashboard. There is no Android app today, and cleaners have no web login, so if your cleaners carry Android phones Cleanr is not the right fit yet.
For a one-to-ten-cleaner company whose work is mostly recurring, usually yes. For a solo cleaner the price is close to a wash with Jobber Core or ZenMaid; the saving shows up as you hire, because Cleanr's flat plan covers the whole crew while Jobber and Housecall Pro bill per user. If you rely on customer self-booking forms, two-way text messaging, payroll, route optimization, or a QuickBooks sync, confirm those first — the Jobber, ZenMaid, and Housecall Pro comparisons list exactly where each one still wins.
Connect Cleanr Pay through Stripe and invoice emails include a Pay Now link; payments deposit to your own bank account, and card numbers go to Stripe, never to Cleanr. Stripe's standard processing fee applies to online card payments — 2.9% + 30¢ for most U.S. cards, Stripe's published rate as of August 2026 — and Cleanr adds nothing on top. Cash and check invoices carry no card fee.
Run it as a pilot. Export your customers, schedule, and invoice history from the old tool and keep the archive; recreate one representative week in Cleanr during the 7-day trial; decide which system finishes the invoices already open; then move the rest. The customer and home setup is an afternoon's work.
See whether Cleanr fits your cleaning company during a 7-day free trial — no per-cleaner fees, cancel anytime.
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