Most residential cleaning companies do best with booking software built for maid services, like ZenMaid, Launch27, BookingKoala or Maidily, because it prices by bedrooms and bathrooms and handles recurring cleans. Jobber or Housecall Pro fit if you sell other services too. Commercial cleaners look at Swept. Free and low-cost plans exist for small teams.
Prices below come from each vendor's own page, as listed on October 22, 2026. They change often, so check before you sign.
What should cleaning booking software do?
Turn a request into a priced, scheduled, paid visit without a phone call. A client wants to see a price and a date, and you want the right details and a card on file. If the software cannot do most of this, keep looking.
- Instant pricing by bedrooms, bathrooms or square feet, with your extras.
- Recurring cleans weekly, every two weeks or monthly, with a frequency discount if you offer one.
- Card on file at booking, charged after the clean.
- Automated reminders before each visit.
- A cleaner app with the address, the checklist and the client's notes.
- Time tracking or payroll, if you pay hourly or by the job.
- Two-way texting from your business number.
- Private entry notes. Door and alarm codes belong in the client record, not in a text thread.
What does cleaning booking software cost in 2026?
Maid service tools start around $19 to $75 a month and price in different ways: per cleaner, per job or flat. General field-service tools price by user. Count your real team before you compare.
| Tool | What it lists | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| ZenMaid | Starter $19 plus $4 per cleaner; Pro $39 plus $14; Pro Max $49 plus $24 a month | Office staff count too; Starter is capped at 40 appointments a month; texting costs extra |
| Launch27 | Base $75, Pro $150, Plus $299 a month | Unlimited users and bookings; 15% off yearly; text reminders from Pro |
| BookingKoala | Starter $27 for 5 providers, Growing $57 for 15, Premium from $197 for 50 | Every team member counts as a provider |
| Maidily | Free for 10 jobs a month; Start $29, Grow $49, Scale $99 a month | Priced by jobs, unlimited users; each recurring visit counts as a job; a texting number is $10 a month |
| MaidCentral | From $450 a month | Scales with locations and jobs; onboarding fee; built for larger companies |
| Jobber | Core $49, Connect $139, Grow $199 a month for 1 user, paid monthly | A general field-service tool; extra users $29 a month; two-way texting on Grow |
| Housecall Pro | Basic $79, Essentials $189 for 5 users, Max $329 for 8 | Lower if billed yearly; recurring service plans on Max |
| Swept | From $150 a month for up to 15 locations | Built for commercial cleaning; priced by locations |
What does a five-cleaner company pay?
Here is the list-price math for five people who need logins, paid monthly. It is arithmetic on the prices above, not a quote, and job-based plans assume you stay under the plan's job count.
| Plan | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| BookingKoala Starter, 5 providers | $27 | $324 |
| Maidily Grow, up to 150 jobs a month | $49 | $588 |
| Launch27 Base, unlimited users | $75 | $900 |
| ZenMaid Pro, 5 people | $109 | $1,308 |
| Jobber Connect, 5 users | $199 | $2,388 |
Then add card processing and texting. Several tools charge for texts or a texting number. Ask each vendor to name both.
How does pricing by bedrooms and bathrooms work?
You set a base price and an amount for each bedroom, bathroom or block of square feet, plus extras like the inside of the fridge or the oven. The client picks their home size and the form adds it up. ZenMaid's form has sliders for bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet and hours, and BookingKoala and Launch27 price by bedrooms and bathrooms or square feet too.
Keep a person in the loop for deep cleans and move-outs. Those vary the most, and a wrong instant price costs you either the job or your margin.
Which one fits your business?
Pick by how you sell and how you pay your team, not by the longest feature list. Here is an honest starting point.
- Solo or side business. Maidily's free plan or ZenMaid Starter. Spend first on answering inquiries fast.
- Two to ten cleaners, mostly recurring homes. ZenMaid, Launch27, BookingKoala or Maidily. Run a two-week trial with real bookings.
- Lots of move-outs and deep cleans. Make sure the form can send those to you for a confirmed price.
- You also sell other services, like pressure washing or carpet cleaning. Jobber or Housecall Pro.
- Commercial and janitorial. Swept, built around sites and shifts.
If one of these covers how you work, use it. That is often the right answer, and we say so on our free calls.
What about the leads that never reach the booking form?
Many never get there. A call you miss during a clean, a Facebook message or a quote request at 10 PM all sit until someone has time. In a CallRail survey of 1,000 US consumers, 21% said they immediately call another business when nobody answers.
A text-back answers the missed call within a minute, asks the right questions and sends the client to your booking form or offers real times. Read how missed call text back works and why the first reply wins.
When does a custom setup make sense?
When calls, messages and form requests land in different places, when your pricing has rules the form cannot handle, or when you want booking, follow-up and a numbers dashboard working as one system you own. It rarely makes sense for a solo cleaner.
Often the answer is not a replacement. Elevate, a Houston AI, software and marketing studio led by Justin Davis, can keep the booking tool you choose and build what sits around it: a text-back and follow-up, one lead board with sources and an offer to turn a first clean into a recurring one.
Custom vs rented vs doing it yourself
| Rented booking software | Built for you | Doing it yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to start | Free plan or trial, then a monthly plan | A build, priced on a free call | Your time |
| Monthly cost | Per cleaner, per job or flat | A flat monthly plan, no per-seat fee | Free, with a calendar and texts |
| Instant pricing | Built in on maid tools | Your own rules | By hand on every request |
| Your data | Exportable, but the account is theirs | You own the code, the data and the accounts | Yours |
| Biggest risk | Paying for features nobody uses | Hiring the wrong builder | Double bookings and lost requests |
What should you ask before you sign?
Take these questions to every demo, ours included.
- What is the monthly total for my exact team, office included?
- How does it count users, providers or jobs as I grow?
- Can clients book and pay a recurring clean without calling?
- Can it text clients from my business number, and can they text back?
- Where do entry codes and pet notes live, and who can see them?
- Can I export every client, job and note if I leave?
Where to go from here
Want a second opinion? Book a free call. It takes 15 to 30 minutes, and you will leave knowing whether a rented tool or a fix around it is the right move. Every build is priced on that call, with one flat price in writing before any work starts. See what we would build first on our page for Houston cleaning companies.