A general platform built around the vehicle, not the clean
BigChange's reputation is built on live vehicle tracking, geofencing and fleet management, and that is not an accident: it serves electricians, plumbers, HVAC engineers and cleaning companies alike, and a van full of tools driving between jobs is the thing most of those trades have in common.
Cleaning fits that model without needing it. Most cleaning work is walked to or arrives by whatever transport a cleaner already has, and the risk assessment a commercial client actually asks for is COSHH and a 5×5 hazard matrix, not a geofence.
Their health and safety is not an afterthought and this page is not going to pretend it is: their cleaning page names RAMS and COSHH to cleaners and says a cleaning job cannot be started until its risk assessment has been completed. Read their page before you read ours.
The difference worth the ink is what happens to the assessment after it is filled in. CleanFlo scores it: a likelihood and a severity on a 5×5 for every hazard, a second pair for the residual risk once the controls are in, and a hazard that was never scored printed as not scored rather than quietly banded. Those scores roll into a 0-100 compliance score whose every deduction is named, dated and capped by category, so improving one area is visible rather than lost in a folder.
And the gates sit at different ends of the job. Theirs is at the start. CleanFlo will not let a clean be marked complete while a checklist item still wants the photograph or the reading it was set up to require, and a cleaner who completes it anyway types a reason that is filed against the job with their name and the time. Nobody is left outside a building at seven in the morning, and the client still gets the evidence.
Where cleaning-specific still wins
A checklist per clean type, a compliance score built from cleaning-specific hazards, and a cleaner app that assumes cleaning rather than any trade: these are the parts of BigChange that would need configuring to fit a cleaning company, and the parts of CleanFlo that already do.
That trade-off runs both ways. A multi-trade business does not want six differently-configured cleaning-only tools sitting beside five other trade-specific ones; BigChange's genuine strength is being the one system that reasonably fits all of them.
Pricing: published and flat, or quoted
BigChange publishes no rate. Their pricing page lists what every plan includes and then asks you to request a price, and there is no free trial to look first: the route in is a demo.
CleanFlo is £19.99 a month, unlimited staff, clients and locations, published on this site, and offers a 14-day free trial with no card. Whether that difference matters depends on what you are buying: an operation with a real fleet, telematics and several trades in it is buying something a flat per-company rate was never shaped for, and a quote is the honest way to price that.
Where this lands
BigChange is a serious UK platform whose centre of gravity is the vehicle. If the vans are how your cleaners reach site rather than the business itself, you are buying a fleet system to get a cleaning one.
If cleaning is the whole business and you want RAMS, checklists and the cleaner app assuming that from day one, CleanFlo is built for that specifically, at a flat price you can check before you talk to anyone.
Check BigChange's current pricing on their own site; most of it is quoted rather than published, and we do not repeat a figure that could be out of date the week we wrote it.