Cleaning service scheduling software built for recurring cleans

Most cleaning companies run on repeat business. A typical week is mostly the same clients at the same times, plus a handful of one-off deep cleans and move-outs, plus the changes: a client on vacation, a cleaner off sick, a family who wants Thursday instead of Tuesday this week only.

A paper planner or a shared calendar can hold the first part. The changes are where the time goes. Good scheduling software for a cleaning business takes the repeating pattern as the starting point and makes each exception one tap instead of a phone call, a calendar edit and a text.

It should also connect the schedule to the people living it. The client needs a confirmation and a reminder. The cleaner needs the address, the access notes and the checklist. You need to know who is free at 2pm on Friday and whether they can get there in time.

Use this checklist on any tool you try, including ours. Book a few fake recurring clients in the free trial and run a messy week through it before you commit.

When you book a client in BroomBook, you pick how often: one-time, weekly, every 2 weeks, every 4 weeks or monthly. Monthly follows the weekday you picked, so the 2nd Tuesday stays the 2nd Tuesday. The price fills in from your price list and the start time can be any minute.

From any visit you can skip just that one, change just that one, or change "this and every later visit" (a new price from next month, a new crew, a new time). Cancelling works the same way: one visit, this one and the ones after, or the whole schedule. When you finish a one-time visit, its page suggests the next one at the client’s usual gap, already filled in.

If you close the booking form halfway through, it keeps a draft and offers it back next time. Small thing, but it saves a re-type on a busy morning.

My Calendar shows the month, a week or one day, with every visit in its cleaner’s colour. Day view has one column per cleaner, with the hours they don’t work shaded. Drag a visit to another time, day or cleaner, or drag its bottom edge to change its length. If the move clashes with something you are asked first, and every move can be undone for 6 seconds before the client is told about the new time.

Each cleaner’s route for the day is listed with drive times and opens in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze. On the booking page, drive time stays free between visits, so a client cannot book a slot your cleaner has no way of reaching. When you book by hand and leave a gap that is too short, you see a warning.

"Who’s free" lists the cleaners free for a visit, ranked by how far they would come from their previous visit, and you can reassign in one click. Warnings never block you: if you know a cleaner lives around the corner, save anyway.

You can also let cleaners swap. A cleaner who can’t make a visit asks the team from their phone, teammates free at that time get a text in their language, and the first to take it replaces them. You get a text at each step and can still reassign it yourself.

When a day is full, your booking page offers clients a place on that day’s waitlist. If a visit is then cancelled, skipped or moved, the first few waiting clients whose visit fits get a text and an email. The first to tap gets a booking request for the freed time, and you confirm it like any other request. A cancellation turns into a booking instead of a hole.

Every confirmation and reminder carries the client’s own link. From it they can move a visit to a time when the crew is free, skip a recurring visit or cancel a one-off, up to 12 hours before. Replies and changes land in a Messages inbox and you get an alert by text, email or both.

If you like seeing your week in the calendar you already use, get a private calendar feed for Google or Apple Calendar. Each cleaner can have their own feed too. The visits still live in one place, so nothing gets out of sync.

Sometimes, yes. If you clean alone, have under a dozen regular clients and remember who gets which reminder, Google Calendar plus your phone’s texting app works and costs nothing. Plenty of businesses start that way, and there is no shame in staying there while it works.

A free calendar starts to cost you once a few of these are true: you spend an evening a week texting reminders; recurring visits need one-off skips and you edit the series by hand; you have a second cleaner and need to know who is free and how far they drive; clients ask for a price and a time online; you want cleaners to see access notes on the day without seeing every client’s alarm code all year; or you need clock-in hours for payroll.

At that point you are paying in hours instead of dollars. BroomBook costs $29/mo for up to 2 cleaners, and you can bring your history with you: import past and upcoming visits from a Google Calendar export or a spreadsheet, with nobody texted and nothing imported twice. Start with the 14-day free trial, no credit card needed.

Two plans, both with every feature: Solo at $29/mo for up to 2 cleaners, and Team at $59/mo for unlimited cleaners. There is no per-cleaner or per-seat fee, and optional logins for cleaners and managers cost nothing extra. AI translation of job notes into Spanish, French or Portuguese is included. See pricing for the details.

A lot of cleaning company scheduling software is priced per cleaner or per user, which is cheap at two people and adds up at ten. If you are comparing, our roundup of cleaning business software lists other tools’ prices from their own pricing pages, with dates.