Cleaning Job Costing Software: 2026 Guide
A $180 clean quoted at 2.5 hours that runs 3.2 hours costs you $500 a year. Cleaning job costing software for solo cleaners, with a worked example. Try it free.
This guide explains cleaning job costing software for solo cleaners and small crews. It covers the five numbers to capture on every visit: tracked labor hours at a real wage compared against quoted hours, per-visit supply cost from receipts, drive time and mileage, card processing fees, and a share of overhead.
It walks through a full worked example of a $180 biweekly clean quoted at 2.5 hours that actually runs 3.2 hours, showing how margin drops from 43 percent to 32 percent and costs about $500 a year on one client. It also covers margin per client reporting, margin and hourly floors, the three-visit rule for repricing, when to fire a client, commercial cleaning differences, a buyer checklist, and a setup walkthrough in a $12 per seat tool..