Window and gutter cleaning
Software for window and gutter cleaning rounds
What is different about this trade
This is the one trade on this list where the work genuinely repeats at a price already agreed, so the next visit should book itself rather than going on a call list. Recurrence does exactly that — same person, same price, in the diary — and it is deliberately a different setting from the one that only reminds you to ring, because getting the two the wrong way round either fills the diary with unsold work or loses the round.
How it handles your day
The next one books itself
Four hundred small balances, chased without you
A day that fits the day
One invoice a month, not six
The evening-before reminder
Questions, answered
Will it book the next clean automatically?
Yes. This is work agreed to repeat at a known price, so the next visit is booked rather than put on a list for somebody to ring about.
Does the price carry over each time?
Yes — the agreed recurring price goes with it, which is the whole difference between this and work that has to be sold again.
Is it worth chasing fifteen pounds?
The chasing is automatic, so it costs you nothing to find out. Across a round it is the largest number on the page.
Can commercial customers be invoiced monthly?
Yes, as one statement with a line per visit rather than four separate invoices a month.
What if somebody wants to skip one?
Cancel that visit and the rest of the round is untouched — cancelling one visit of a repeating job is not cancelling the job, and the customer is told about that visit alone.
How much is it?
£29.99 a month for the whole business — every feature, every person, no add-ons. 60 days free and no card to start.
Before you start
When you sign up you are asked what the business does. Pick Window Cleaning — the app uses it to decide what to show you, so the screens arrive already suited to the work rather than needing switching off one at a time.
The arithmetic behind this is free to use without an account — try the late payment interest calculator, which runs the same code the invoices do.
See it being done
Step-by-step guides with a short recording of each one, free to read without an account.
Set up work that repeats
Regular visits booked ahead automatically, and reminders for work that has to be sold again.
See and chase what you are owed
Who owes you, how long it has been, and who to ring first.
Remind the customer the day before
An email at 4pm the day before every booking — and never at a weekend, so somebody is in to answer if it no longer suits.
Also worth a look
Most businesses on this list do more than one of these. It is the same product and the same price either way.
Pest control
A contract with visits in it and a report every time. Recurring treatments, your own report forms signed on site, and commercial billed monthly.
Drainage engineers
Emergency call-outs, wasted journeys counted rather than hidden, and survey footage shared as a link instead of an email nobody can open.
Try it on your own work
60 days free with everything switched on, and no card to start. If you would rather ask something first, there is a person on the other end.
£29.99 a month for the whole business after the free 60 days.