Cleaning is treated as one market and is really four, and the shape of the day differs enough between them that software built for one is awkward for another. Recurring commercial contracts, carpet and upholstery jobs, hotel housekeeping and window rounds have different units of work, different crews and different constraints. It is worth knowing which one you are before comparing anything.
Recurring contract cleaning: the pattern is the object
The same site, the same day, the same crew, indefinitely. The software has to schedule a pattern and generate visits from it, handle exceptions like holidays without deleting the pattern, and let a crew member be swapped without unpicking anything. This is the shape most cleaning products are built for.
Carpet and upholstery: jobs, not patterns
One off work with equipment, a quoted price and a duration that depends on what is found. Structurally this is closer to a trade call than to contract cleaning, and a product built around recurring visits will feel wrong every day. On the worked example this site publishes, a job at $285 and 5.2 a day is roughly this shape.
Housekeeping: rooms rather than addresses
Hotel housekeeping schedules people against rooms inside one building, on a daily allocation that changes with occupancy. It shares almost nothing with dispatching people to customer addresses, and hospitality specific tools do it much better than field service ones. This is worth saying plainly rather than pretending otherwise.
Window rounds: geography is the schedule
A window round is a route repeated on a cycle, where clustering by street is most of the value and each visit is short. The recurring pattern matters as much as in contract cleaning, and the travel share is far higher. On the worked example, 22% of the day on travel is worth $41,081 a month, and for a round it is higher still.
Questions people ask about cleaning business scheduling software
Can one product cover all four?
Not well. Recurring contract and window rounds are close cousins; carpet work and housekeeping are different problems with better specialist tools.
Which of the four does Dispatchzo suit?
The job shaped ones: carpet, upholstery and one off work, plus recurring visits where the pattern is simple. Hotel housekeeping is not our shape.
How do we price a round?
By the hours it really takes including travel, then by the visit. Travel is paid time and a round is mostly travel.