Cleaning Business Software: Prices for Maid Services and Janitorial Firms

Cleaning business software schedules cleans, sends crews their jobs and bills the customer; which product fits depends first on whether you clean homes or commercial buildings. Every price comes from the vendors’ own pages, and the prices were last verified on November 10, 2026. This comparison is based on public documentation and published prices; we have not used these products.

That split decides most of the choice, because the products are built for one side or the other. A maid service sells recurring cleans to homeowners, quotes by bedrooms and bathrooms, and pays cleaners per job or per hour. ZenMaid says it caters to residential home cleaning businesses (home page), and its booking forms price a clean from the bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage the customer enters (help article). A janitorial contractor signs contracts for buildings, staffs shifts at each site and has to show the client the work was done. Swept says it is built for recurring commercial cleaning contracts and that residential and one-off cleaning businesses are usually better served by other tools (home page). Janitorial Manager is built for building service contractors and in-house cleaning teams (pricing page), and Aspire serves commercial cleaning alongside landscaping (about page). Jobber, Housecall Pro, Service Fusion, Service Autopilot and ServiceM8 each have a cleaning page but sell the same product to other trades as well.

Cleaning business software prices compared

Cleaning business software prices, ordered by the yearly cost for a mid-size team

Vendor in cost order	Starting price	Mid-size team, per year 8 technicians, 2 office	Who it suits (our summary)
1 ZenMaid	$19 a month for 1 user, billed monthly Published Capped: Up to 40 appointments a month; no more can be added that month without upgrading. (source: get.zenmaid.com/pricing)	$1,980 a year, billed monthly Published on Pro	Maid services and other residential home cleaning businesses.
2 Service Fusion	$208 a month for unlimited users, billed annually Published Publication note	$2,496 a year, billed annually Published Publication note on Starter	Cleaning companies that want customers to request service through self-service web booking, and crews to send back real-time statuses, notes and documentation.
3 Jobber	$29 a month for 1 user, billed annually Published	$2,748 a year, billed annually Published Sources disagree on Connect	Residential trades with recurring visits, such as lawn care, cleaning and HVAC maintenance.
4 Housecall Pro	$59 a month for 1 user, billed annually Published	$4,428 a year, billed annually Published on Max	Residential trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning and lawn care, with trade-specific packages for HVAC, plumbing and electrical businesses.
5 Aspire	Not published	Not published	Commercial cleaning and janitorial companies, which Aspire also serves.
6 Janitorial Manager	$1,000 a month, billing term not stated Published Publication note Priced by number of buildings and square footage cleaned 97	Not published Not costed: priced by number of buildings and square footage cleaned	Commercial cleaning contractors and in-house custodial teams that look after several buildings and need to prove the work was done.
7 Service Autopilot	$49 a month for 2 users, on a 12-month contract Published Publication note	Not published	Lawn care, landscaping, cleaning, snow removal, pest control and pool service businesses.
8 ServiceM8	No monthly fee for 1 user Published Covers up to 30 new jobs a month 124 120 130	Not published Not costed: priced by number of new jobs a month	Cleaning businesses with regular clients, since recurring jobs, job checklists and instant-price online booking forms come with every plan.
9 Swept	$120 a month for unlimited users, billed annually Published Publication note Covers up to 15 cleaning locations 135	Not published Not costed: priced by number of cleaning locations	Commercial cleaning and janitorial companies running recurring contracts across many buildings.

How each cost is worked out: 12 times the monthly price of the cheapest plan that allows that many users (a small team is 2 technicians and 1 office user, a mid-size team 8 and 2, a large team 25 and 5), on that plan's cheapest published billing term. That plan may not include every feature you need. One-off fees are listed separately and are not included.

Starting price is the lowest plan price on the billing term the vendor's pricing page shows first. "Who it suits" is our summary of the vendor's own material. The bar under each published mid-size cost shows it against the highest one in the column; it measures cost, not quality.

Notes on these figures

1. Service Fusion Starter: Publication note: In Service Fusion's pricing page code, which lists slightly different plan contents from the visible page; the page showed no prices in a browser when last checked.
2. Jobber Connect: Sources disagree. Jobber's pricing page sells Connect at set prices for up to 15 users, but its help article says the plan supports up to 5 users. We use the pricing page; check with Jobber before relying on a larger team on this plan. (sources: getjobber.com/pricing, help.getjobber.com/en/articles/the-connect-plan)
3. Janitorial Manager Small Operations: Publication note: Starting price; the quote scales with buildings, square footage, features and service level.
4. Service Autopilot Startup: Publication note: Annual subscription rate covering 1 business user and 1 mobile license; a sign-up fee applies, amount not published.
5. Swept Optimize and Scale: Publication note: Starting price, covering up to 15 cleaning locations with unlimited users; larger location bands cost more.

Prices split along the same residential and commercial line. ZenMaid, Jobber and Housecall Pro charge by the people who log in, and Service Fusion one flat price per plan. ServiceM8 charges by new jobs a month (pricing page), Swept by the number of locations, Janitorial Manager by buildings and square footage (pricing page), and Aspire sets its fee from the customer’s reported revenue (terms of service). The team-size figures cannot price ServiceM8, Swept, Janitorial Manager or Aspire, or Service Autopilot, whose extra licenses have no published price; their entries say what each one does publish. “Not costed” means the vendor publishes a price that depends on something other than headcount, so a figure for three, ten or thirty users would be a guess. Swept’s pricing page prices bands of locations up to fifty and offers a consultation above that (pricing page); Janitorial Manager quotes anything beyond its starting price.

The cleaning software vendors in brief

What a cleaning crew of 3, 10 or 30 pays a year

Costs are worked out as described under the first cost table.

Yearly cost at three team sizes

Vendor	3 users Small team: 2 technicians, 1 office	10 users Mid-size team: 8 technicians, 2 office	30 users Large team: 25 technicians, 5 office
ZenMaid	$804 a year Published Pro, billed monthly Plus one-off fees: No fee Published	$1,980 a year Published Pro, billed monthly Plus one-off fees: No fee Published	$5,340 a year Published Pro, billed monthly Plus one-off fees: No fee Published
Service Fusion	$2,496 a year Published Publication note Starter, billed annually	$2,496 a year Published Publication note Starter, billed annually	$2,496 a year Published Publication note Starter, billed annually
Jobber	$1,788 a year Published Connect, billed annually	$2,748 a year Published Sources disagree Connect, billed annually	Not published
Housecall Pro	$1,788 a year Published Essentials, billed annually	$4,428 a year Published Max, billed annually	$12,828 a year Published Max, billed annually
Aspire	Not published	Not published	Not published
Janitorial Manager	Not published Not costed: priced by number of buildings and square footage cleaned	Not published Not costed: priced by number of buildings and square footage cleaned	Not published Not costed: priced by number of buildings and square footage cleaned
Service Autopilot	Not published	Not published	Not published
ServiceM8	Not published Not costed: priced by number of new jobs a month	Not published Not costed: priced by number of new jobs a month	Not published Not costed: priced by number of new jobs a month
Swept	Not published Not costed: priced by number of cleaning locations	Not published Not costed: priced by number of cleaning locations	Not published Not costed: priced by number of cleaning locations

Not costed because Janitorial Manager is priced by number of buildings and square footage cleaned.

• Small Operations, $1,000 a month, billing term not stated Published Publication note: The starting price scales with buildings, square footage, features and service level, not with users.

Not costed because ServiceM8 is priced by number of new jobs a month.

• Free, No monthly fee for 1 user Published: Covers up to 30 new jobs a month for one user. Each card payment taken through ServiceM8 earns one extra job that month, with no limit on these extra jobs.
• Starter, $29 a month for unlimited users, billed monthly Published: Covers up to 50 new jobs a month.
• Growing, $79 a month for unlimited users, billed monthly Published: Covers up to 150 new jobs a month.
• Premium, $149 a month for unlimited users, billed monthly Published: Covers up to 500 new jobs a month.
• Premium Plus, $349 a month for unlimited users, billed monthly Published: Covers 1,500 new jobs a month. Jobs above that are charged per job rather than requiring an upgrade.

Starter, Growing and Premium: Going over leaves seven more days of normal use; then the job allowance resets with the monthly plan or the account is asked to upgrade.

Not costed because Swept is priced by number of cleaning locations. The starting price covers up to 15 cleaning locations, with unlimited users; larger location bands cost more.

• Optimize, $120 a month for unlimited users, billed annually Published Publication note
• Scale, $180 a month for unlimited users, billed annually Published Publication note

Plus one-off fees, not published: Service Fusion, Jobber and Housecall Pro.

The figures follow how each vendor counts people, and cleaning vendors count them in very different ways. ZenMaid adds a charge for each cleaner after the owner (help article). Housecall Pro’s Essentials covers a set number of users and Max adds a charge for each user beyond its own allowance (pricing page). Service Fusion charges one price per plan for unlimited users (pricing page), so its figure does not move between the columns. Jobber’s published prices stop at fifteen users (pricing page).

For a residential team of ten, ZenMaid costs less at 10 users: $1,980 a year, billed monthly (published price), against $2,748 a year, billed annually (published price; sources disagree) for Jobber. For a team of thirty, ZenMaid costs less at 30 users: $5,340 a year, billed monthly (published price), against $12,828 a year, billed annually (published price) for Housecall Pro. Before you compare those, check that the plan behind each figure includes the features you need: the cheapest plan that fits your headcount is not always the one with booking forms, checklists or cleaner pay.

How we chose and ordered these vendors

What drives the cost of cleaning business software

Who counts as a user. In a cleaning business most users are cleaners in the field, and when staff come and go it matters whether a cleaner who leaves stops costing money. ZenMaid charges only for active cleaners and office managers (help article). Swept includes unlimited users on every plan (home page), and Janitorial Manager says it does not charge per user (pricing page), so staff turnover does not change their bills. ServiceM8’s paid plans also have unlimited users; its bill follows the number of new jobs you create each month (pricing page).

How many buildings you clean. For a janitorial contractor the number of sites, not staff, sets the bill. Swept’s price rises through bands of locations (pricing page), and Janitorial Manager’s quote scales with buildings, cleanable square footage, the features you turn on and the level of service (pricing page). Count your sites before you use Swept’s location selector or ask Janitorial Manager for a quote.

Appointment caps. ZenMaid’s Starter plan stops taking new appointments for the month once it reaches its cap, unless you upgrade (pricing page). A one-person business with a few regular clients may stay under it; a team with a full calendar may not, which is why the team costs above use Pro.

Text messages. ZenMaid’s app sends customers on-my-way messages (mobile app page), but text messages are paid for separately from the plan: a bundle of messages is $14 per bundle (published price), bought again as it runs out (help article).

Setup, sign-up and pilots. Service Autopilot adds a sign-up fee to Startup, Pro and Pro Plus, and its amount is not published. Swept sells training and setup help at prices it quotes on request (training page). Janitorial Manager’s pricing page says training and support come with the subscription, but not whether setup costs extra; that is settled in each proposal (pricing page). ZenMaid says its concierge onboarding is free on every plan (onboarding page).

Card payments. Card fees come out of each payment a client makes, on top of the subscription. ZenMaid: Card payments run through the business's own Stripe or Square account. ZenMaid says it adds no fee of its own on top of what Stripe or Square charges, and it does not publish the processors' rates. Card pre-authorization is not supported. 8 27 Service Autopilot: Card processing is built in through Xplor Pay, Xplor's payments business. The Service Autopilot terms name Clearent, now Xplor Pay, as the preferred payments provider and say clients needing payment services will use only it; some promotional subscription rates depend on signing its merchant agreement. Processing rates are not published. 108 117 118

Recurring cleans and rescheduling

A cleaning business lives on repeat work: homes booked for a weekly, biweekly or monthly clean, and commercial buildings cleaned on a fixed pattern of shifts. The software should create each visit from one schedule, keep the same cleaner or team on it where it can, and let you change the series without rebuilding it.

On the residential side, ZenMaid’s recurring services set how often a client’s clean repeats, on which day and with which cleaner or team, and its help center explains how to change the frequency later (help article, frequency article). Housecall Pro’s help center describes recurring jobs that stop you scheduling each visit by hand (help article). Neither vendor’s pricing page names the plans these come on, which is why the recurring cleans row of the features table reads Not listed for them; that is a gap in the documentation, not a finding that the product cannot do it.

On the commercial side, the unit is a shift at a location. Swept sets up daily, weekly or custom recurring shifts, assigns cleaners to each location, and alerts managers when a cleaner is late or misses a shift (scheduling page). Janitorial Manager schedules weekly and monthly shifts by location and lets staff pick up open shifts from the app (scheduling page). Aspire’s recurring schedules can run by day of the week or every set number of days, and each keeps its route when the contract renews (help article).

ZenMaid's plan pages do not list recurring cleans (Feature page names no plan); Housecall Pro's plan pages do not list them (Feature page names no plan). Swept includes recurring cleans on every plan (Recurring shifts per location); Service Autopilot's plan pages do not list them (Feature page names no plan).

Checklists and quality inspections

A homeowner wants to know the bathrooms were done; a facilities manager wants proof for every floor of every building on the contract. Checklists cover the first and inspections the second, and the products split along the same line.

For home cleans, ZenMaid’s checklists are completed by the cleaner in the app, record who ticked each item and when, and can be shared with the client as a read-only link (help article). Housecall Pro’s checklists take photos and can be sent with the invoice (help article).

For commercial sites, the checklist belongs to the location rather than the visit. Swept’s location checklists are completed in the app with photo proof, and managers get a results report they can share as a PDF (checklist page); its inspection reports go to clients by email, secure link or PDF (inspection page). Janitorial Manager uses checklists by area, which cleaners complete in its app or by scanning a QR code (checklists page). Aspire’s technicians complete visit checklists before they finish a service, crew leaders manage them in its mobile app, and the office sees the results in a checklist report (help article).

ZenMaid includes cleaning checklists from Pro (Read-only share link for customers); Jobber includes them from Connect (Photos can be added to checklists). Swept includes cleaning checklists on every plan (Per location, with photos); Janitorial Manager's plan pages do not list them (Shown on feature pages; pricing does not say which tiers include it).

Team pay and cleaner hours

Cleaners may be paid by the hour, a flat amount per job, or a share of what the clean earned. Some products work that pay out from the jobs done; others record the hours and leave the pay to your payroll software.

ZenMaid lets you set each cleaner’s pay as hourly, a share of revenue, a fixed flat rate or a variable flat rate, then runs payroll from clocked or scheduled appointment times (help article). Housecall Pro records who worked each line item and works out commission on revenue or gross profit at a rate set per team member (help article). Aspire can pay a fixed amount for a service whatever the time spent, and shows flat-rate and hourly pay together in its weekly time review (help article).

On the hours-only side, Jobber’s time tracking syncs approved hours with QuickBooks Online for payroll (time tracking page), and Swept sends approved hours to QuickBooks Online while pay rates and overtime rules stay there (QuickBooks page). For commercial crews, the check is whether the clock-in happened at the building: Janitorial Manager accepts geofenced, QR code, NFC tag, kiosk and call-in clock-ins (time tracking page), and Swept checks the location by geofence when a cleaner clocks in and out (time tracking page).

ZenMaid includes team pay from Pro (Hourly, flat rate or revenue share); Housecall Pro includes it from Essentials (Commissions worked out per job).

Online booking forms and instant quotes

A homeowner looking for a cleaner often wants a price before booking. Some products can give one on your website, from a form that prices the clean from what the customer enters; others take a request and leave the quote to you.

ZenMaid prices its booking form from sliders for bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage and hours, plus a base price and extras, and you choose whether customers see the price as they go (help article). Housecall Pro’s pricing forms can charge by quantity, hours, frequency, square footage and add-ons, and can be switched on in online booking (help article). Jobber’s online booking shows a list of your services with an estimated price and length, scaled by quantity, rather than pricing from the size of the home (help article).

Janitorial Manager and Aspire take requests from existing clients instead of bookings from new ones. Janitorial Manager does not offer customer self-booking; clients send requests through its portal (comparison post), and Aspire’s customer portal takes service requests without a price (help article).

ZenMaid includes an instant-price booking form from Pro; Jobber's plan pages do not list it (Shows set service prices; no pricing from home details).

Contracts, cancellation and losing a client

Cleaning work comes and goes with clients: a janitorial firm can lose a building at rebid time, and a maid service’s recurring list shrinks when customers move away. Whether the software bill can shrink with it depends on the contract, and the vendors here run from month to month to fixed terms that end only on notice.

Month to month. ZenMaid sells month to month with no signature needed (pricing page) and bills in advance (terms of service). Its terms say a cancellation takes effect at once, while its help center says the plan stays active to the end of the period already paid (help article); ask which applies before you cancel partway through a month. ServiceM8 has no lock-in and lets the account owner cancel online, but canceling removes the account’s data for good (pricing page, help article), so export client and job history first.

Notice periods. Swept’s pricing page says monthly plans can be canceled any time, but its terms ask for written notice to cancel (pricing page, terms); get the notice period confirmed for your plan. Swept also takes its own subscription by card only, with no direct debit (billing help); a firm that needs to pay by purchase order will find that option only on Accelerate (pricing page). Janitorial Manager settles terms in each proposal. Its standard terms renew automatically unless you give written notice before the term ends, and licenses can be reduced only at renewal (pricing page, terms and conditions).

Fixed for the term. Service Autopilot’s order form sets the term. Until it ends, licenses cannot be reduced and plans cannot be downgraded, and leaving early costs the fees for the months remaining (terms of service). Aspire also sets the term in each order form; where an order names none, its terms impose a first term of several years, with a fee of all the remaining payments for leaving early (terms of service). A commercial cleaner signing with either should have the term, and any right to drop licenses when a building contract is lost, written into the order. Whichever you choose, ask how you would export your client list, recurring schedules and checklist records if you left, and in what format.

Which cleaning business software suits your company?

A maid service and a janitorial contractor need different things, so we name no overall winner. Three questions narrow the field, answered from each vendor’s published prices and pages.

Homes or buildings? If you clean homes, start with the vendors whose features table shows booking forms, recurring cleans and team pay. If you clean offices, schools or other commercial sites under contract, start with Swept, Janitorial Manager and Aspire, and expect to be priced on your sites. A company doing both should check that one product covers both kinds of work before paying for two.

Do you need to see the price before a sales call? The vendors labeled Published in the price table can be compared now. Jobber’s Core, Connect and Grow and Housecall Pro’s Basic and Essentials can be bought without a sales call (Jobber pricing page, Housecall Pro pricing page). Aspire publishes no price and Janitorial Manager publishes a starting price only, so a buyer’s real figure comes from a quote.

Where do invoices and payroll live? Swept leaves invoicing to your accounting software and pitches itself as running field operations alongside QuickBooks (home page), so it fits a company that already bills from there. If you want one system from booking to payment, look for invoicing and online card payments in the features table, and see our field service scheduling software comparison for how the general products schedule and dispatch. For every plan of every vendor we track, see the field service software price index.