Cleaning business software compared
/ prices re-read
Four 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 18 October 2026.
Our picks
Housecall Pro
Best overall for a crew
A full field-service platform with a tier for every crew size from one to eight users. Costs more per seat than the maid-specific tools.
ZenMaid
Best for a small maid service
Built specifically for residential maid services and priced for a solo operator or a first hire.
Launch27
Best for unlimited users
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 18 October 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 ProOur pick | $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly) | $149 a month billed annually ($189 monthly) | 1 on Basic, 5 on Essentials, 8 on MAX |
| Jobber | $29 a month billed annually ($49 month to month) | $99 a month billed annually ($139 month to month) | 1 user on Core; $29 a month per added user |
| ZenMaid | $19 a month | $39 a month | No per-user fee published; Pro Max $49 a month; SMS extra |
| 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 2026-10-18 · Jobber pricing page, read 2026-10-18 · ZenMaid pricing page, read 2026-10-18 · Launch27 pricing page, read 2026-10-18
Card processing is charged separately by all four 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 and Jobber are field-service platforms 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 includes one user on Basic, five on Essentials and eight on MAX, which is $299 a month billed annually ($329 monthly) with $35 a month for each user past eight. Jobber charges $29 a month per added user. Launch27 puts unlimited users on every tier, which is why it looks expensive at one cleaner and cheap at fifteen.
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.
What you pay at your crew size
Headline tiers hide the number that matters: the monthly bill once every cleaner who needs the app has a login. These are the published plans that cover one office user, five people and eight to ten people, billed annually where the vendor offers it.
| Platform | Owner only | Five people | Eight to ten |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housecall Pro | Basic | Essentials | MAX, then $35 per extra user |
| Jobber | Core | Connect or Grow, 5-user tier | 10-user tiers, or extra users at $29 |
| ZenMaid | Starter (40 appointments a month) | Pro | Pro or Pro Max; no per-user fee published |
| Launch27 | Base | Base | Base; users are unlimited |
Housecall Pro pricing page, read 2026-10-18 · Jobber pricing page, read 2026-10-18 · ZenMaid pricing page, read 2026-10-18
Jobber and Housecall Pro are the two general field-service platforms here, and they are close enough on paper that the choice usually comes down to how they price seats and which one your bookkeeper already knows. The Jobber vs Housecall Pro comparison sets their plans side by side tier by tier. If you only clean homes and want software that thinks in recurring visits, read ZenMaid vs Launch27 first.
Introductory offers and month-to-month prices differ from the annual prices above. Read the plan page on the day you sign up, and price the seat count you will have in a year, not the one you have today.
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
Next on the round
ZenMaid vs Launch27
The two maid-service platforms head to head, in detail.
Jobber vs Housecall Pro
The two field-service platforms, tier by tier.
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Cleaning business plan template
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