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Best software for a cleaning business route
A cleaning company is a recurring-visit business with three quirks. The team is usually two people in one car, so the schedule is per team, not per person. Access is everything — the key box code, the alarm, the dog, "use the side door" — and it has to be on the phone of whoever shows up. And the customer is often not home, so the estimate, the approval and the payment all happen on their phone, not at the door. Software for a cleaning route has to be built around those three facts.
What matters on a cleaning route
- Recurring clients on a cycle — weekly, biweekly, monthly — with the deep clean and the move-out as one-off jobs on the same calendar.
- Access notes on every property, visible to the team at the stop, not in an email from last year.
- The team's day in driving order, sent to the car's navigation in one tap.
- Estimates the customer approves from their phone, with a deposit for first cleans, and card payment on the same link.
- Spanish for the crew. A large share of cleaning teams speak Spanish; the app the team uses all day has to.
- Time on site. Estimated versus actual per visit, so a house that takes four hours instead of two gets re-priced instead of eaten.
The options, with dated prices
Prices as published by each vendor on its own pricing page on 2026-09-30, monthly billing. The product names are trademarks of their owners; DoneOnce is not affiliated with them.
| Software | Built for | Published price | Spanish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber (getjobber.com/pricing) | General field service; common in cleaning | $49 Core (1 user) · $139 Connect (1 user) to $399 (15) · $199 Grow (1 user) to $499 (15) · $499 Plus (5 users) to $699 (15); $29 per extra user (Core takes one; more needs Connect) | Web app for every user; mobile app for non-admins only |
| Housecall Pro (housecallpro.com/pricing) | General field service | $79 Basic (1) · $189 Essentials (5) · $329 Max (8); $35 per extra user on Max | Mobile app and support |
| Workiz (workiz.com/pricing) | General field service | Not published — "request pricing" | Mobile app toggle |
| DoneOnce (doneonce.app) | Any recurring route — cleaning, pool, lawn | $69 for up to 3 people, +$15 per person to the 10th, +$10 after; unlimited clients | Whole product, both sides, English and Spanish |
There are also cleaning-specific products (ZenMaid, Maidily, Launch27 and others) whose prices were not verified for this page; if one of them is on your list, read its pricing page the same way — monthly price, users included, price per extra user, and whether the team's app is in Spanish.
Which one fits which company
- One owner cleaning alone: Jobber Core at $49 is the cheapest entry, with the limits of its lowest plan. DoneOnce at $69 includes everything from day one and does not need an upgrade when the second cleaner joins.
- Two teams, four to six people: Jobber is $199 for four or five on Connect (its 5-user plan; Core stops at two people), and Housecall Pro Essentials $189; DoneOnce is $84 for four and $99 for five. The difference over a year is the price of a vacuum or two.
- A company with an office, online booking and a marketing budget: Housecall Pro's booking and review tools or Jobber's integrations may be worth their price.
- A Spanish-speaking team: DoneOnce is the only one in this list where the owner, the team and the customer's approval link are all in Spanish.
What DoneOnce does for a cleaning company
Clients with properties, access notes and visit history; zones by ZIP code; weekly, biweekly and monthly frequencies plus one-off jobs; one route per team per day sent to Google Maps, Waze or Apple Maps; visits logged with photos, by hand or by voice; estimates with deposits and subscriptions approved from the customer's phone; online card payment into your own Stripe account; a payments center that shows what each client owes and reminds them by email; jobs with estimated versus actual time; clock-in, weekly timesheet and pay. Two months free, no card: https://app.doneonce.app/signup. Setup — the client list and the zones — is done with you, in English or Spanish.
Two months free, no card. Setup is done with you, in English or Spanish.
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