Cleaning business software compared
/ prices read the same day
Three platforms a cleaning business actually shortlists, compared on the only things that are checkable: what the vendor publishes, how many seats that price includes, and what shape of business it was built for. Every figure below was read from the vendor’s own pricing page on 4 September 2026.
Best overall for a crew
Housecall Pro
The widest feature set of the three, and the only one here with routing built for multi-crew days. Also the most expensive per seat.
Best for a small maid service
ZenMaid
Built specifically for residential maid services and priced for a solo operator or a first hire.
Best for unlimited users
Launch27
Unlimited users and bookings on every tier, which changes the arithmetic the moment you pass a handful of cleaners.
The prices, as published
Software pricing in this trade moves, and vendors do not always announce it. What follows is what each vendor published on its own pricing page on 4 September 2026, with the seat counts they attach to it — because a monthly price without a seat count is not a price.
| Platform | Entry tier | Next tier up | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housecall Pro | $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly) | $149 a month billed annually ($189 monthly) | 1 on Basic, 5 on Essentials; extra users $100/mo |
| ZenMaid | $19 a month | $39 a month | Max tier $49 a month; SMS charged separately |
| Launch27 | $75 a month ($765 a year) | $150 a month ($1,530 a year) | Unlimited users and bookings on every tier |
Housecall Pro pricing page, read 2026-09-04 · ZenMaid pricing page, read 2026-09-04 · Launch27 pricing page, read 2026-09-04
Card processing is charged separately by all three and is usually the larger number once you are taking payments. Compare the effective rate on your own volume before you compare subscriptions.
Which fits a cleaning crew
Housecall Pro is a field-service platform that cleaning businesses use; ZenMaid and Launch27 are maid-service platforms specifically. That difference shows up in the defaults rather than the feature list — what the booking form asks for, how recurring visits are modelled, whether the scheduler thinks in jobs or in routes.
The seat model is the part that changes the answer as you grow. Housecall Pro’s Essentials tier includes five users with additional users at $100 a month each, so a ten-cleaner crew is a materially different number from a two-cleaner one. Launch27 puts unlimited users on every tier, which is why it appears cheap at scale and expensive at one.
For a solo operator or a first hire, ZenMaid’s entry tier is the cheapest way into a real system, and being maid-specific means less configuration before the first booking.
Why Jobber is not in the table
Jobber is the fourth platform most cleaning businesses shortlist, and it is deliberately absent. On 2026-09-04 every attempt to read its published prices from this network — a plain fetch and a real browser — was held at a bot check, so there is no figure we can put in the table that we actually read.
We would rather leave a competitor out of a comparison than publish a price we could not verify. If you are shortlisting Jobber, read its pricing page yourself; every other number on this page came from the vendor’s own page on the date shown.
What switching actually costs
The subscription is the small number. The real cost of a platform move is a week of double entry, a client list that has to be exported and cleaned, and the recurring schedules that have to be rebuilt by hand because no two systems model recurrence the same way.
Run one real week in parallel before you cancel anything, and export your client list on day one so you always own it. The checklist below is the sequence that keeps a switch from eating a month.
Before you commit to a platform
- Count the seats you need, not the seats you have today
- Check the price at the seat count, not the headline tier
- Export a client list from your current system first
- Confirm card fees separately — they are not in the subscription
- Run one real week in parallel before you cancel anything
- Ask what happens to your data if you leave