Cleaning Service Software: What Seven Tools Cost at 1, 3 and 8 Cleaners

What does cleaning service software cost at 1, 3 and 8 cleaners?

At one location on monthly billing, the cheapest plan that covers the team cost $0 to $75 a month for one cleaner and $0 to $299 for eight, on vendor pricing pages read September 25 and 27, 2026. The spread comes from the billing unit: per business, location, user, team member or team-size band.

How we counted. Each cell is the cheapest plan that covers the whole team at one location, on monthly billing, before tax, card fees and texts. A cleaner is whoever the vendor bills for; ZenMaid's calculator counts "cleaners and office managers." Plans with a booking cap (ZenMaid Starter, up to 40 appointments a month; Twizzlo Free, up to 150 bookings a month) appear in the table, not the chart. We read vendor pages; we did not test the tools.

Monthly cost at one location: the cheapest plan that covers the team, on monthly billing. Plan notes, sources and read dates are listed under the table.

• Twizzlo. Free: up to 150 bookings a month, no SMS. Business Pro: unlimited bookings. Unlimited staff and locations on both (Twizzlo pricing page, read September 27, 2026)
• Square Appointments. Free lists unlimited staff calendars; cancellation policy and no-show fees are listed on Plus (Square pricing page, read September 25, 2026)
• Setmore. Free covers up to 4 users; Pro is $12 per user on monthly billing, $5 on annual (Setmore pricing page, read September 25, 2026)
• Connecteam. Small Business Plan free for up to 10 users; Operations Hub Basic is $35 a month for the first 30 users (Connecteam pricing page, read September 25, 2026)
• ZenMaid. Starter: up to 40 appointments a month. Pro: unlimited appointments. SMS charges not included (ZenMaid pricing calculator, read September 25, 2026)
• Jobber. Monthly, no commitment. Core covers one user and is not offered for teams; Connect is $199 for 2 to 5 people and $299 for 6 to 10 (Jobber pricing page, read September 25, 2026)
• Kickserv. Start covers 5 users and Run 10; on annual billing they are $60 and $119 a month (Kickserv pricing page, read September 27, 2026)
• Housecall Pro. Plan cards sit behind a plan picker; confirm prices on the Housecall Pro pricing page (read September 27, 2026)
• Workyard. Prints a floor of $6 per user a month, billed annually, and no plan prices (Workyard pricing page, read September 27, 2026)

The chart at the top of this page plots each priced tool's cheapest plan without a booking cap.

Read the table by billing unit. Band and user-cap prices jump at the edges: Jobber is $49 for one user and $199 from two people, and Kickserv moves from Start to Run above five users. ZenMaid Pro climbs with each hire, from $53 at one team member to $151 at eight. Setmore charges per user once a team outgrows its four-user free plan. Square Appointments' per-location price and Twizzlo's per-business price do not change with staff.

What card processing adds

Card processing can cost more than the subscription. Example: 80 online card payments of $150 in a month, a total of $12,000.

Card fees on the example, at each vendor's published online rate.

Kickserv also takes online payments, and ZenMaid's pricing page lists online payments with Stripe and Square; neither printed a card rate on the pages read for this guide (September 27, 2026). Each percentage point of fees is $120 a month on online payments of $12,000.

Why do the prices in roundups not match the vendors' own pages?

The comparison pages that rank for cleaning company software are published by software vendors, and where their figures differ from the vendors' own pages, the gap is usually the billing unit or term rather than the price: a per-user figure for a plan sold by team size, or an annual rate printed without saying so.

All three comparison pages in the US top 10 for "cleaning service software" in our Semrush read of September 27, 2026, come from software companies, and each lists its own product first: the Connecteam list, the ZenMaid magazine list and the Workyard comparison.

Jobber's pricing page shows why a single figure misleads. Read September 25, 2026, it listed Core at $49 a month for one user and Connect at $199 a month for a team of two to five people, so a table that prints "$199" for Connect is right for a crew and wrong for a solo cleaner, who pays $139 for Connect.

Vendor-published roundups checked against the vendor's own page. Roundups captured September 27, 2026; vendor pages read on the dates given.

Where a roundup matches the vendor, the table says so. The practical rule: use roundups to build a shortlist, then price every shortlisted tool on the vendor's own page on the day you buy. That includes this article.

Which tools fit recurring residential cleans?

Recurring residential cleaning needs software that creates a repeating job and rolls it forward, so check that the plan you buy lists recurring jobs before you compare prices.

A maid service lives on repeat visits: the same client, same day, same crew, every week or fortnight. If your software cannot create a recurring job and roll it forward automatically, you will rebuild your schedule by hand every month. For home cleaning software, recurring visits decide the fit more than any other feature.

ZenMaid's pricing page lists digital checklists, payroll, a mobile app with cleaner GPS tracking and "Spotfinder for easy scheduling of new recurring customers" on Pro (read September 27, 2026). Jobber's cleaning business page covers "one-off deep cleans to recurring services," with quotes and invoicing in the same system (read September 27, 2026). Setmore lists recurring appointments on Pro, not on Free (pricing page, read September 25, 2026).

Connecteam's free Small Business Plan covers all its hubs for up to 10 users, and its Operations Hub lists time clock, job scheduling, forms and quick tasks (pricing page, read September 25, 2026). Its own list says Connecteam "may not be the best fit if you need invoicing and client management" (captured September 27, 2026).

Twizzlo books each clean as its own appointment, and recurring bookings are not on its features list. Whichever tool you shortlist, confirm recurring scheduling with the vendor before you commit.

Which tools fit one-off and deep cleans?

One-off and deep cleans are a booking problem: the client picks a slot and pays before the visit, so a public booking page and payment up front matter more than routing or job costing.

A four-hour deep clean that no-shows costs you the whole slot, so check that deposits or prepayment are on the tier you buy, not only on the plan above it.

Square Appointments Free ($0 a month per location) includes an online booking site, appointment reminders and unlimited staff calendars; cancellation policies, no-show fees and multi-staff appointment booking are listed on Plus at $49 a month per location (Square Appointments pricing page, read September 25, 2026). Our Square Appointments pricing page compares the plans.

Setmore's Free plan covers up to four users and lists unlimited appointments and a branded booking page (Setmore pricing page, read September 27, 2026). Deposits, SMS reminders and removing Setmore branding are listed on Pro, at $12 per user a month on monthly billing (read September 25, 2026). See Setmore pricing for the full plan comparison.

Twizzlo takes prepaid bookings, where the client pays the full service price online through Stripe, and no-show fees are applied at the business's discretion.

Our wider appointment scheduling software comparison covers booking tools in more depth, and a signed cleaning service contract does the part software cannot. Carpet cleaning, sold by room count with a travel buffer between jobs, has its own price comparison in our guide to carpet cleaning scheduling software.

Which tools fit commercial contract cleaning?

Commercial contract cleaning runs on proof of service, accurate timesheets and staff you are not standing next to, so it suits workforce and field service tools more than booking tools.

You are servicing offices on fixed contracts, often at night, and the client wants evidence the work happened. WorkWave's commercial cleaning page lists quality assurance and inspections, time and attendance, and job costing, describes photos, videos and notes captured "for quality assurance and proof of service," and shows a request form rather than a price (read September 27, 2026).

Workyard's pricing page describes its Starter plan as "GPS-verified time, down to the minute," lists scheduling on Pro and prints a floor of $6 per user a month, billed annually (read September 27, 2026). Connecteam's Operations Hub Basic is $35 a month for the first 30 users, then $1 a month for each extra user on monthly billing ($29 and $0.80 on yearly billing), per its pricing page read September 25, 2026.

If a contract depends on proof of service, geofenced clock-in or inspections, confirm them on the vendor's feature page before you buy. Twizzlo does not plan routes, and dispatch is not on its features list.

Where do Twizzlo's Free and Business Pro plans fit, and where do they not?

Twizzlo is web-based online booking and appointment scheduling software for appointment-based service businesses, and it fits cleaning companies that sell visits as appointments: clients book and prepay online, each cleaner has a calendar, and Business Pro costs $29.99 a month per business whatever the team size. It does not plan routes, and recurring bookings, quotes and dispatch are not on its features list.

Its features page lists a 24/7 online booking page with real-time availability, a calendar view per staff member with drag-to-reschedule, prepaid bookings (the client pays the full service price when booking), and confirmations and reminders by email on both plans and by SMS on Business Pro within its allowance. Client profiles hold contact details, notes and preferences; Employee Shifts sets each person's shifts by location; and multi-location accounts get centralized insights. No-show fees are applied at the business's discretion.

Free is $0 a month for up to 150 bookings, with no SMS. Business Pro is $29.99 a month per business for unlimited bookings and 50 SMS a month, then $0.03 per additional SMS, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Both plans include unlimited staff and locations. Online payments carry your Stripe processing rate plus a 1.5% Twizzlo platform fee. Our payment processing page explains both parts.

The cost table above shows how a per-business price compares with per-user and per-band pricing at three and eight cleaners. A crew business that runs on routes, recurring jobs, quotes or dispatch is better served by the field service suites above. For businesses that sell booked visits, our cleaning service scheduling software page sets out what is included.

How do you choose without paying for a crew you do not have?

Choose in six steps: write down your job mix, count everyone who logs in, price that team size on each vendor's own pricing page, add card processing, test the feature that would break your business, and check which plan the trial runs on.

1. Write down your job mix in numbers, not adjectives, before you look at software for cleaning companies. How many recurring cleans a week, how many one-offs a month, how many commercial contracts. The largest number picks your category.
2. Count the people who need to log in, not the people you employ. Several tools bill per user or team member: Setmore per user on Pro, and ZenMaid's calculator counts office managers as well as cleaners (pricing pages, read September 25, 2026).
3. Price your actual team size on the vendor's own pricing page, on the day. Not the roundup, not this article. The roundup section above shows why.
4. Add processing. Multiply your monthly card volume by the vendor's rate and add any platform fee on top.
5. Test the one feature that would break you. Recurring jobs for a maid service. Deposits or prepayment for deep cleans. Proof of service for commercial work. Build it in the trial before you pay.
6. Check what the trial actually trials. Jobber's 14-day trial runs on its Grow plan, per its pricing page read September 25, 2026, so test the features of the plan you will actually buy.

Where to start by job mix (editorial guidance from the sections above).

Before you migrate, export your client list and your recurring schedule from wherever it lives now, and ask each shortlisted vendor how it brings them in. To compare 10 scheduling apps by how your business runs, see our guide to the best scheduling app for cleaning business owners.