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Comparison

CleanFlo vs Squeegee

Squeegee is a UK product built around the round: jobs grouped, planned on a map, collected by Direct Debit. CleanFlo is built around the cleaning company: the rota, the compliance file and the invoice. If you run a window round, read the second half of this page first.

Checked against their own site on 6 September 2026 No competitor prices quoted. They change

Feature comparison

Squeegee is UK-built scheduling, invoicing and payments software for round-based and mobile services: window cleaning, domestic rounds, gardening and similar, with jobs grouped into rounds, planned on a map and collected automatically.

Capability CleanFlo Squeegee
Built specifically for cleaning Yes: cleaning is the only trade Round-based and mobile services generally, cleaning among them
Rounds and route planning Recurring jobs on a rota, and every site on one map; no round grouping and no route optimisation Core strength: jobs grouped into rounds, planned on a map, with optimised route navigation
Collecting from households No mandate held: BACS details and a reference on the invoice, plus a pay-now link if you supply one A saved card with Stripe, or a Direct Debit mandate through GoCardless, charged when the work is done
Bookkeeping One-click CSV for whoever does your books; no ledger and no reconciliation Bank reconciliation, balance sheet, profit and loss, and VAT returns to HMRC
Health & safety / RAMS A scored 5×5 hazard matrix with residual scoring, incidents, audits and a 0-100 compliance score Custom forms; no RAMS or COSHH module in their plan features
Waste transfer notes Carrier registration checked against the regulator, retained two years Not in their plan features
Cleaner app Offline by default, 27 languages matched to the phone Offline mode; per-cleaner language not in their plan features
Client portal Yes, with clean requests, no account needed Portal website with quotes, appointments and live chat
Pricing model Flat £19.99/mo for the company, unlimited staff Per user a month, plus VAT, across four plans
Market UK only, by design UK-built, sold internationally

Checked 6 September 2026, against Squeegee's own pages: Squeegee pricing.

Choose CleanFlo if…

  • Cleaning companies with staff, where a per-user price rises with every hire
  • Anyone asked for RAMS, COSHH or a risk assessment before a contract is signed
  • Teams whose cleaners work in basements and plant rooms, in more than one language
  • Commercial and contract work, where the job is a specification against a site rather than a stop on a round
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What you might have heard about Squeegee

Squeegee is built for rounds, and a round is what I run.
Then this page has already told you to buy theirs, and it means it. What is worth knowing is where a round stops being the whole business: the first office contract, the first cleaner you employ rather than subcontract, and the first client who asks for a risk assessment before they will sign. Those three tend to arrive in the same year, and none of them is a routing problem.
Squeegee charges per user, which is fine while it is just me.
It is, and it stays fine for a while. The arithmetic changes at the point most cleaning businesses are heading for: on a per-user plan, hiring a cleaner is also a purchasing decision, and on a flat one it is not. CleanFlo is £19.99 a month for the company however many people are on it. Work it out on the headcount you want in two years rather than today’s.
Squeegee does the bookkeeping too, so it replaces more things.
It does, and if you want your ledger and your rota in one login that is a genuine reason to choose it. The trade is what fills the space instead here: a compliance file that produces evidence for a tender, waste transfer notes with the carrier checked against the regulator, stock and PPE, a vehicle register that chases its own MOT dates, and an offline cleaner app in 27 languages. Neither list is better in the abstract. One of them is what your next contract asks for.

Buy Squeegee instead if…

Three reasons, and all three are real. If any of them is your business, buy theirs.

  • You want your customers on Direct Debit. Squeegee invites a customer to set up a GoCardless mandate and charges them once the work is done. CleanFlo holds no mandate at all: it puts your sort code, account number and a payment reference on the invoice, and carries a pay-now link if you supply one. On a domestic round of a hundred houses, that difference is your Saturday.
  • You run a round rather than a rota. Grouping jobs into rounds, planning them on a map and getting an optimised route out the other end is the centre of their product and is not in ours at all. A window round or a fortnightly domestic round is the exact shape they were built for.
  • You want your books inside the software. Bank reconciliation, a balance sheet, profit and loss and VAT returns to HMRC are in their plans. CleanFlo raises the invoice, tracks the payment and exports the ledger as CSV for a bookkeeper, and stops there.
Switching

You do not have to retype your book

A spreadsheet, a CSV, an export from whatever you use now: send it over and we put your clients, sites, services and staff into your account during the 14-day trial, at no charge. What we cannot do for you is the half that is actually yours: the keys, the alarm codes and the access notes against each site. Budget an evening for those. Most businesses run CleanFlo alongside their old system for a fortnight rather than switching in one go.

The round and the rota are different shapes

A round is a sequence: the same houses, in the same order, every four weeks, and the work is to get through it efficiently and collect the money without chasing. Squeegee is built on that sequence. Jobs group into rounds, the round plans on a map, the navigation optimises, and a completed job invoices and collects itself.

A rota is an allocation: which cleaner is at which site, doing which specification, with which key, at which hour. That is what CleanFlo is built on, because that is the shape a cleaning company takes once it has staff and contracts rather than a list of houses.

Plenty of businesses are both, and the honest answer for those is to look at which half is actually costing you evenings. If it is the sequence and the collection, that is Squeegee. If it is who is where and what the client is going to ask for, that is this one.

Collection, said plainly

This is the clearest thing Squeegee does that CleanFlo does not, and the page would not be worth reading if it were buried. Squeegee can hold a Direct Debit mandate for your customer through GoCardless and charge them when the work is completed, or keep a card on file with Stripe.

CleanFlo holds no mandate. It raises a VAT invoice from the completed job with your sort code, account number and a unique payment reference on it, tracks whether it has been paid, chases it, and stops the moment it lands. If you supply a pay-now URL, that goes on the invoice too. What it will never do is take money from a household on its own.

For a commercial book that is the right shape, because offices and letting agents pay by bank transfer on terms and would not sign a mandate if you asked. For a hundred domestic houses at forty pounds a visit, it is not, and that is the sentence a domestic round should act on.

Compliance is the other direction

Their plan feature list carries custom forms, which is a fair way to build a checklist and a poor way to hold a risk assessment. CleanFlo scores the assessment: 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 nobody scored is printed as not scored rather than banded as though it were.

Those scores roll into a compliance score out of 100 with every deduction named, dated and capped by category, so a facilities manager asking what your safety position is gets a position rather than a folder. Incidents log by severity, audits schedule themselves, and waste transfer notes carry a carrier registration checked against the regulator rather than typed in.

On a domestic round none of that is asked for and it is weight. On the day you bid for a school, a surgery or an office block it is the thing being asked for, and building it afterwards takes the fortnight you do not have.

Where this lands

Squeegee is a good product and it beats this one at the two things a round-based business cares most about: planning the round and collecting the money automatically. It also does your books. If you clean windows or run a domestic round on your own or with one other person, that is the answer.

CleanFlo is the answer at the point the business stops being a round: staff you employ, sites with specifications, clients who ask for paperwork, and a price that does not move when you hire. Both have a free trial. Put the same awkward week into each.

Frequently asked questions

01 Is CleanFlo a good Squeegee alternative?
For a cleaning company with staff and commercial clients, yes: the price is flat rather than per user, and RAMS, COSHH, incident logging, audits and waste transfer notes are built in. For a window round or a domestic round run by one or two people, probably not: Squeegee groups jobs into rounds, plans them on a map with optimised route navigation, and can collect by Direct Debit, and CleanFlo does none of those three.
02 Does CleanFlo collect Direct Debits like Squeegee?
No. Squeegee can hold a GoCardless Direct Debit mandate for your customer and charge them once the work is completed. CleanFlo holds no mandate: it raises the VAT invoice from the completed job with your BACS details and a unique payment reference, tracks and chases it, and carries a pay-now link if you supply one. If automatic collection from households is the problem you are solving, that is a reason to choose theirs.
03 Does CleanFlo optimise routes?
No. Every site sits on one map and jobs are scheduled onto a rota, but there is no round grouping and no route optimisation of any kind. Squeegee lists optimised route navigation in its plan features and it is a core part of what that product is for.
04 Which is cheaper, CleanFlo or Squeegee?
It depends entirely on headcount, and we do not publish their prices because they change. Their plans are priced per user a month plus VAT; CleanFlo is £19.99 a month for the company with unlimited staff, clients and locations. On your own, theirs is cheaper. The line crosses somewhere in the first few hires and the gap widens after that. Our cost calculator runs the sums on the rate you were actually quoted.
05 Does Squeegee do RAMS and COSHH?
Their plan features list custom forms rather than a health and safety module, and name neither RAMS nor COSHH. Check their own site before deciding, because a feature list is not a product tour. If site-specific risk assessments and COSHH records are asked for at tender in your work, that is the gap to test during both free trials.