Cleaning service scheduling software
- What that travel time would invoice
- $41,081.04
- Jobs the team completes a day
- 31.200000000000003
- Jobs a month
- 655.2
Every figure printed on this site is arithmetic on the worked example we publish: 6 technicians completing 5.2 jobs a day across 21 working days at an average invoice of $285, with 22% of the day spent travelling; 655 service calls a month of which 14% are rescheduled at 0.18 hours each by a dispatcher costing $32 an hour and 6% never happen; and 240 service agreements at 2 planned visits a year, 1.3 technician hours each at $58, charged at $145 a visit. Change any of those on a worksheet and the numbers change with them. Nothing here is a market statistic and nothing is quoted from a third party.
Cleaning service scheduling software is a distinct problem from general field service, and the difference is repetition. A plumber schedules a fault. A cleaning business schedules the same address, the same day, the same crew, week after week, until something changes, and then it has to change everything downstream at once. This page is about scheduling recurring work and what breaks when it is treated as a series of one off jobs.
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Schedule the pattern, not the visits
Every Tuesday at nine for the same office is one thing that generates visits, not fifty two things typed in. When the client moves to Wednesdays you want to change the pattern once. A board that made you enter fifty two jobs will now make you edit fifty two jobs, and somebody will miss three of them.
The crew is the unit, and crews change
Domestic and commercial cleaning is usually dispatched in pairs or small teams rather than single technicians, and the composition changes with sickness and turnover far more often than in the trades. The board has to let you swap a person out of Tuesday without unpicking the pattern that generated it.
Keys, alarms and access are part of the schedule
A cleaning schedule that does not say who holds the key and what the alarm code arrangement is will produce a crew standing outside a locked building being paid. Access details belong on the job, visible to the person going, and they are the single most common cause of a wasted visit in this trade.
Recurring work is contracted work, so read the paperwork
Recurring cleaning is normally sold on an agreement rather than a call out, which means notice periods, minimum terms and, for domestic work signed at the customer's home, the Federal Trade Commission cooling off rule. The schedule is where the agreement becomes visits, so the terms and the board should agree with each other.
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Keeping the board, not just the answer
You have the number. Pro keeps the board it describes: every job, every technician, every window and every document the job produced.
- Download the finished sheet as a file
- Send it without the Dispatchzo line on it
- Save a sheet and reopen it next month
- Put your company name and logo on it
- Export every customer, job and document at once
- Jobs emailed to whoever is going to them
- Connect your own Stripe account and get paid online
- Connect your QuickBooks Online or Xero
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What a dispatcher asks before running the Cleaning service scheduling software
Does it handle different rates for different sites? The value per visit sits on the job, so a site cleaned at $145 and one at $260 both invoice correctly from the same pattern.
What about one off deep cleans? Those are ordinary jobs on the same board. The distinction that matters is only whether something repeats, and both kinds compete for the same crew hours.
Can a crew see only their own sites? Yes. The person going sees their day and the access details for it, which is also the right answer from a security point of view.
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