Repeating a job

Repeat sits in the Add Job drawer, between When and Services, under a heading with a small looping arrow on it. It is only offered on a new job. Open an existing job to edit it and the section is not there at all, which is the first clue to how the feature works.

What Repeat actually does

CleanFlo does not store "every Monday at nine until further notice" and draw it onto the calendar. It works out every date the pattern lands on and writes a real job for each one, there and then, at the moment you press save. Book a weekly clean twelve times and you get twelve rows in the database, twelve chips on the calendar, twelve entries in the cleaner's app.

That is a deliberate trade. It costs you a little when the arrangement changes, because there is no single rule to edit. It buys you a great deal the rest of the time: every job in a series can be moved, repriced, reassigned, cancelled or invoiced entirely on its own without disturbing the ones either side of it. A client who wants their Monday moved to a Tuesday for one week in October is a two-field edit, not an exception rule.

Picking a frequency

Four chips, one selected at a time. It starts on No repeat, and while that is selected the rest of the section stays hidden.

Weekly and fortnightly step in whole days, so a job booked on a Monday stays on a Monday all the way through, including across the October clock change. Monthly steps by calendar month and keeps the date number, so the 3rd becomes the 3rd. Where the date does not exist in the next month it moves back to the last day that does: a job booked on the 31st of January repeats on the 28th of February, then the 31st of March.

Telling it when to stop

Once a frequency is chosen, two more chips appear: Number of occurrences and Until date. They are the same question asked two ways, and which one you use is usually decided by how the client's contract is written.

Switching to Until date swaps the count for a calendar. The pattern then runs to the last date on or before the one you chose, so a weekly clean from 18 August 2026 set to run until 31 December 2026 produces twenty jobs and finishes on 29 December: the last Monday that fits, not the date you typed.

Reading the summary line

Under the fields, in small Courier print, the drawer states what it is about to do:

• Creates 12 jobs is the real count, not an estimate. It is the same number the save button uses.
• every week restates the frequency in words, so a mis-clicked chip is obvious.
• starting 18 Aug 2026 is the first date in the When section.
• ending 3 Nov 2026 is the last date the pattern actually lands on.

The save button changes to match: Add 12 Recurring Jobs, then Creating 12 jobs… while it writes them, then a toast reading 12 recurring jobs created. Read the summary line before you press it. It is the only chance to notice that a stray keystroke turned 12 into 120.

Using it for contract work

This is what Repeat is for. A contract cleaning round is the same visit, at the same site, at the same time, for months at a stretch, and typing it out by hand is where scheduling mistakes come from.

The practical shape of it: build the job once with the right services, the right duration and the right checklist, save it as a template so next year's renewal takes a single click, then use Repeat to lay the whole term onto the calendar. From there the contract is just work on the grid like everything else. It counts towards the summary strip, it feeds the reports, and each visit can be invoiced on its own or rolled up.

Assign the cleaner while you are booking the series and CleanFlo checks every single date for a clash before it creates anything. If any of them overlap work that person already has, nothing is written and you get the dates listed back: Marek Kowalski has conflicting jobs on: 2026-09-15, 2026-10-06. Either move those two jobs first or book the series unassigned and put people against it afterwards.

Changing or ending a series

Because the jobs are real and separate, there is no "edit this series" control and no "this and all following" prompt. Opening one job and changing it changes that job. The other jobs in the run are untouched.

What that means in practice:

Selection mode is the tool for all of this. Turn it on, work through the weeks with the arrows selecting as you go, and the bulk bar at the foot of the screen keeps a running 14 jobs selected while you do it.