Guide
What a one-to-five-person cleaning crew actually needs from scheduling software, what to look for, and what the big suites really charge at this size.
Cleaning is recurrence itself: the same houses, weekly or fortnightly, in the same order, with the same notes — gate code, dog's name, which products the client provides. The software's real job is a board where next week already exists, a checklist per house, and rescheduling that takes seconds when a client texts 'skip this week'.
Cleaning is where the first-helper moment repeats: person two doubles a Jobber bill's shape (Core cannot hold them; Connect is $128 for two), and it happens again at every hire. A flat board priced for up to five is built for exactly this growth pattern.
DayBoard's answer is a flat $36 a month for up to five people: the board with crew lanes, recurring jobs in your local time, job sheets with photos and checklists, quotes that become jobs, invoices with pay links on your own Stripe account, and reminders included. It does not sync with QuickBooks (it exports a QuickBooks-ready file) and it does not text clients — the pricing page prints the whole out-list. If those two gaps are fine, the math usually settles it.
For the board, job sheets, quotes, invoices and reminders, a fair 2026 range is $36–60 a month flat for up to five people (DayBoard at $36, Kickserv at $60 with QuickBooks sync). The big suites run $128–189 for a two-person crew once reminders and sync are included — worth it only if you use suite features.
Booking pages, GPS and price books help some shops. If your week is jobs, quotes and invoices, they are rooms you rent and never enter. Decide from your last month of real work, not from a feature list.
For your whole crew — up to 5 people. No tiers, no per-person charges, no job cap. Or $349 a year and be done with it.