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63 pages- 01 What CleanFlo is A plain tour of the whole product, from the dashboard you open on to the invoice at the end, including the phone half your cleaners hold and what all of it replaces. Open
- 02 Setting up in an afternoon An afternoon, in the right order. Company details before clients, clients before cleans, services before either, because each step needs the one before it to exist. Open
- 03 Finding your way around Where everything lives, so you stop hunting for it. The sidebar's six groups, the strip along the top, and the search palette that reaches every record in the business at once. Open
- 04 Reading the dashboard The dashboard answers one question: what needs me today. Every card on it explained in the order you meet them, including the ones that only appear when something is wrong. Open
- 05 Your plan and your bill CleanFlo is £19.99 a month whatever size you grow to, after 14 days free. Where your plan lives, what the Stripe portal handles, and what actually happens if a payment fails. Open
- 06 Using the calendar The four calendar views, the week navigation and what its labels mean, the summary strip, the week grid and its now line, quick booking from an empty slot, and the right-click menus. Open
- 07 Creating a clean The Add clean drawer end to end: templates, client and location, dates and duration, services and add-ons, the estimated price, the checklist, the cleaner, notes, and what happens when you save. Open
- 08 Repeating a clean CleanFlo writes out real cleans rather than storing a repeating rule, which is why you can edit one week without touching the rest. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, ending on a count or a date. Open
- 09 Assigning a cleaner The Assigned Staff picker and its live availability badges, what happens when a clean has nobody on it, how the Dashboard chases those, and reassigning a batch of cleans at once. Open
- 10 How a clean moves through its statuses A clean moves Scheduled, In Progress, Done, and your cleaner is usually the one moving it. What each state means, when you should override it, and what a finished clean records about itself. Open
- 11 Clean templates Saving a clean you book over and over as a reusable configuration: the Clean templates sheet, every field in the template drawer, and how a template is loaded onto a new clean. Open
- 12 Emailing the week's schedule Sending every cleaner their next fortnight by email: the Send Schedule sheet, who appears in it, what the email contains, and the automatic notifications that fire without you. Open
- 13 Photo and reading requirements Give any checklist line a Photo required or a Reading required, with a reading type, a minimum, a maximum and a unit. The requirement copies onto every job the template builds, the cleaner app shows and enforces it, Complete clean will not finish while one is unmet unless a cleaner writes a reason, and the Checklist requirements module turns all of it off. Open
- 14 Adding a client The Clients screen, the Add new client sheet field by field, the seven quick-reference tags your cleaners see, and the portal settings you can switch on while you are there. Open
- 15 Locations and properties A client is who pays; a location is where the work happens. Adding sites, the four cleaning statuses they carry, and the map pin that lets CleanFlo check a clean started at the right address. Open
- 16 Editing and removing clients The client page, its rail of everything about the record, the Locations/Activity/Invoices/Complaints/Messages tabs, the Edit Client drawer, and what deleting a client actually removes compared with marking them inactive. Open
- 17 The client portal Give a client a link and a PIN and they can see their own cleans without ringing you. Three visibility levels decide how much, and they can ask for a clean through it if you let them. Open
- 18 The Locations Map Every property on one map, coloured by the client it belongs to and iconed by what kind of place it is, with the same register beside it so the map is a way to browse, not a decoration next to one. Open
- 19 Property issues What a cleaner reports when something is wrong with the property, not the clean: damage, a repair needed, something missing, supplies running low or a safety concern. Two taps from the active job, a photo if there is one, and it works offline. High severity emails the owner today; low and medium reach your own admins and wait for you. The admin panel resolves it, closes it, or books the repair as a job. Open
- 20 Key safe and alarm codes A key safe or alarm code, stored encrypted rather than typed into a notes field: an owner adds or rotates it from the Keys & access panel, and it is shown, never displayed, to only an owner or the cleaner booked at that address today. Every reveal is logged, who, when and from which job, with the last twenty on the panel itself. A code past its rotation window gets the company's owners one reminder each morning until it is changed. A supervisor can see the list and the log but cannot act on either. Open
- 21 Adding a cleaner The Staff screen and its five tabs, the two ways to give a cleaner access, the password that is only shown once, and what your cleaner does with the email that arrives. Open
- 22 Staff status and activity The staff detail page: the presence pill and what drives it, the tabs, the reporting period pills, clean history and availability, and where the same numbers turn up in Reports. Open
- 23 Editing, deactivating and removing staff Deactivating a cleaner and deleting one are not the same thing, and only one of them is safe. What each does to their cleans and their history, how to get somebody back in, and what changes when you promote a cleaner to supervisor. Open
- 24 Employment records The Employment tab: contract type and dates, contracted hours and the overtime rule, how holiday is worked out, the payroll reference, and an emergency contact. Owner-only, enforced in the database, and deliberately without a National Insurance number. Open
- 25 Holiday balances How much holiday somebody has, has taken and has booked: three separate figures, on both the staff record and the cleaner’s own phone, worked out from the same source so they can never disagree. Open
- 26 Sickness and fit notes Recording a sickness absence, the seven-day self-certification line, and filing a fit note in a place only two people can open. Owner-only, and deliberately without an absence score. Open
- 27 What your cleaners see A tour of the phone half of CleanFlo: how a cleaner gets in, the five tabs and what each one holds, the anatomy of a clean on the list, and what they are never shown. Open
- 28 Starting and finishing a clean The loop a cleaner repeats all day: opening the clean, starting it, ticking the checklist, adding photos and notes, reporting lost property, and what the finished clean tells you afterwards. Open
- 29 Working with no signal Cleaners work in basements and plant rooms, so the app assumes the signal will go. What gets queued, what happens on reconnect, and the few things that genuinely need a network. Open
- 30 The app in 27 languages A checklist somebody cannot read is a checklist that does not get followed. The cleaner app ships in 27 languages and picks one from the phone itself, with no setup from you. Open
- 31 Creating services and add-ons The catalogue every clean, quote and invoice line is priced from: creating a service, creating an add-on, what the base price and duration do, and where both turn up later. Open
- 32 Keeping the catalogue tidy Change a price and the question is always what happens to work already booked. The answer differs for cleans, quotes and invoices, and it is worth knowing before you edit anything. Open
- 33 Your website A public page for your business at cleanflo.io/p/your-name: fourteen designs, your services, photos, areas and a quote form. Built in the app and live the same evening. Open
- 34 Enquiries and the public quote form A public, no-login page where a stranger can ask for a quote, and the inbox those requests land in. This is the step before a quote exists. Open
- 35 Quoting for work A quote is priced work you have offered and not yet won. This covers building one, the five states it passes through, and the one conversion CleanFlo offers when it is accepted. Open
- 36 Surveying a site before you quote Walk a building room by room on the phone, then turn what you logged into a priced quote in one click. Site Surveys is the office half of that: what has been walked, and what is ready to quote. Open
- 37 Raising an invoice The Invoicing screen and its two tabs, raising an invoice from the completed cleans CleanFlo has already gathered for you, the invoice form field by field, and how invoice numbers are made. Open
- 38 VAT and line items An invoice line is a description, a quantity, a unit price and a VAT rate, and the total is just those multiplied out. Here is the arithmetic, and what changes if you are not VAT registered. Open
- 39 Sending and chasing an invoice Getting the invoice to the client and knowing when it has been paid. Overdue is calculated, not set, and recording a payment is one click with nothing to fill in. Open
- 40 Bank details and invoice branding Setting up the bank details every invoice carries, the payment reference that makes a BACS payment traceable, and the template, accent colour, logo and footer that make it look like yours. Open
- 41 Tracking stock How the Inventory screen tracks chemicals, consumables and PPE: the columns, the category filters, the per-item minimum threshold, the four stock statuses and the CSV export. Open
- 42 Equipment and machines The Equipment register answers one question: who has the machine. It tracks condition and a maintenance history too, and it deliberately does not schedule servicing for you. Open
- 43 Vehicles and the daily check The Vehicles register tracks your fleet: MOT, tax and insurance dates, who has the keys, a daily walk-around check filed from the cleaner app, defects, damage and service history. Open
- 44 Writing a risk assessment How to build a hazard register in CleanFlo: the 5×5 likelihood and severity matrix, the two scores every hazard carries, the review date, and printing the A4 document for a client. Open
- 45 Logging an incident Something went wrong on site and it needs writing down while it is fresh. The Log incident form, the four severities, and why an open incident keeps pulling your score down. Open
- 46 The accident book and RIDDOR Recording an injury properly, what RIDDOR asks of you, and how CleanFlo works out whether a report is due and by when. It never files that report for you. Open
- 47 Scheduling and completing audits An audit in CleanFlo is a dated commitment to check something, not a checklist. Here is how to schedule one, how it goes overdue on its own, and what that does to your score. Open
- 48 The compliance score The number on the dashboard is not a mood. Four things take points off it, each with its own arithmetic and its own cap, and knowing which one is costing you is how you move it. Open
- 49 Waste transfers and duty of care Every hand-off of controlled waste, the note that proves it, and whether the person who took it was authorised to. Setup, carriers, season tickets and the register. Open
- 50 Logging a waste collection The whole flow of one collection: describing the waste, signing it, getting the carrier to countersign, and closing a hazardous consignment when its return comes back. Open
- 51 Reading your reports What each of the eight Reports tabs answers, how the four fixed date ranges behave, why there are no comparison figures, and what the printed six-section document contains. Open
- 52 Getting your data out Every CSV CleanFlo can produce: the seven from Reports with their headers, the per-screen exports from Clients, Invoicing, Inventory and Equipment, and Settings, Data Export for the lot. Open
- 53 Timesheets The hours each cleaner would be paid for in a period, everything still waiting on a decision, and how to change a figure with the reason kept. Owner-only. Open
- 54 Mileage claims Cleaners claiming for journeys in their own vehicle, and approving them at the HMRC rate. Nothing is owed until you approve one. Open
- 55 Building and approving a pay run Turning a period of approved hours into what each person is owed, locking it, and handing the file to your payroll package. Open
- 56 Recording expenses and reimbursements What the business bought, with the receipt and the VAT split, and reimbursing a cleaner who paid for something themselves. Owner-only, and nothing is deleted when the module is off. Open
- 57 Messaging your team Messaging inside CleanFlo attaches to the business rather than to somebody's phone. Channels, direct messages, what a cleaner sees, and what a WhatsApp group eventually costs you. Open
- 58 Notifications and alerts The bell and the activity feed behind it, the four filter tabs, turning browser push on, what happens when it is blocked, and every event CleanFlo raises automatically. Open
- 59 Your company details The Company tab of Settings: every field, what it changes on your invoices, quotes and client portal, and which settings live on other screens instead. Open
- 60 Switching parts of CleanFlo off Fourteen parts of CleanFlo you can switch off if your business does not need them. Switching one off hides it for everyone and stops new activity; nothing already recorded is ever deleted. Open
- 61 Your account and security Your own login rather than your team's. What you can change on the My Account tab, why the email address is fixed, and how a cleaner's password actually gets created. Open
- 62 Your data and GDPR Your data sits in the EU, encrypted, and nothing is deleted when a card fails. This covers how to take a full copy of it, and which parts of UK GDPR stay your clean rather than ours. Open
- 63 Getting help from a person The Support screen inside CleanFlo: the Help Centre signpost and its search, raising a ticket and following the reply, and the live service check that tells you whether the problem is even yours. Open
Guide
13 pages- 01 How to Start a Cleaning Business in the UK Registration, insurance, pricing, equipment and where the first ten clients actually come from: the practical version, with UK numbers. Open
- 02 How to Price Cleaning Jobs (Without Guessing) Hourly or fixed. Per room or per square metre. What to actually charge in 2026, and how to raise prices without losing the round. Open
- 03 How To Quote A Cleaning Job Pricing and quoting are two different jobs. One works out the number; the other decides whether the client says yes and whether the job stays the size you priced. Open
- 04 How to Win Commercial Cleaning Contracts Where commercial cleaning contracts actually come from, how to price a bid that wins and still pays, and the TUPE trap that catches first-time bidders. Open
- 05 Marketing A Cleaning Business That Actually Works Cleaning is a local, recurring, trust-based purchase. That rules out most of what gets sold as marketing, and it makes two unglamorous channels dominant. Open
- 06 How To Get Holiday Let Cleaning Clients Changeover work pays well per hour and punishes you for being late. Hosts are not buying cleaning, they are buying the certainty that the property is ready at four. Open
- 07 Cleaning Business Insurance: What You Actually Need One of these is a legal requirement with a daily fine attached. Two more decide whether you can bid for commercial work at all. The rest depend on what you actually clean. Open
- 08 Health & Safety for Cleaning Businesses COSHH, RAMS, risk assessments and PPE: what the law actually requires of a UK cleaning business, and the paperwork clients will ask to see. Open
- 09 How To Hire Cleaners Who Stay Finding cleaners is not usually the hard part. Finding ones still there in three months is, and most of that is decided before they start. Open
- 10 How to Reduce Cleaning Staff Turnover The reasons a cleaner leaves are rarely a mystery to the cleaner leaving. They are just rarely asked. What actually drives it, and the fixes that work. Open
- 11 Are Your Cleaners Employed or Self-Employed? Calling a cleaner self-employed does not make them one. The test is about control and substitution, not the label on the arrangement, and getting it wrong is expensive. Open
- 12 Choosing Software For A Cleaning Business We sell some. So this is written to be useful even if you buy something else: what to test, what to ignore, and the point at which a spreadsheet stops working. Open
- 13 How To Grow A Cleaning Business Past Yourself Growth in cleaning is not gradual. It stalls at three specific ceilings, and each one needs a different thing fixed. Open
Free tool
17 pages- 01 Cleaning Quote Calculator Price a domestic or commercial clean in under a minute. Open
- 02 Cleaning Price Per Square Metre Calculator Commercial cleaning priced properly, by floor area. Open
- 03 Cleaning Hourly Rate Calculator What you actually need to charge to hit your target income. Open
- 04 End of Tenancy Cleaning Price Calculator Fixed-price move-out cleans that still make money. Open
- 05 Window Round Pricing Calculator What the round is worth a cycle, a year, and an hour worked. Open
- 06 Carpet Cleaning Price Calculator Rooms, stairs, sofas and mattresses, priced as one job. Open
- 07 UK VAT Calculator Add or remove 20% VAT, and see the threshold maths. Open
- 08 Cleaning Profit Margin Calculator See what you keep from every job, contract and hour. Open
- 09 Free Cleaning Invoice Generator A compliant UK cleaning invoice you can print or save as PDF. Open
- 10 Cleaning Business Startup Cost Calculator What it really costs to start a UK cleaning business. Open
- 11 True Cost of a Cleaner Calculator What an employed cleaner actually costs you per delivered hour. Open
- 12 Staff Holiday Entitlement Calculator UK statutory holiday for full-time, part-time and irregular hours. Open
- 13 Cleaning Time Estimator How long a job will actually take, room by room. Open
- 14 Cleaning Chemical Dilution Calculator Get the ratio right, and stop pouring money down the drain. Open
- 15 Cleaning Software Cost Calculator What per-seat pricing costs you by the time you have hired. Open
- 16 Cleaning Contract Tender Calculator Build a commercial cleaning bid that wins and still pays. Open
- 17 Client Lifetime Value Calculator What a cleaning client is worth, and what you can pay to win one. Open
Template
16 pages- 01 End of Tenancy Cleaning Checklist The full inventory-clerk specification, room by room. Open
- 02 Holiday Let Changeover Checklist A four-hour turnaround, in the order it has to happen. Open
- 03 Office Cleaning Checklist Daily, weekly, monthly and periodic, as a contract spec. Open
- 04 Builders Clean Checklist Sparkle, first and second stage, with the site rules. Open
- 05 Deep Clean Checklist Everything a regular clean never reaches. Open
- 06 Cleaner Onboarding Checklist Right to work, training and keys, before the first job. Open
- 07 Cleaning Staff Rota Template Who is at which site, on which day, and who covers when they are not. Open
- 08 Cleaning Specification Template Area by area, how often, to what standard, and who supplies the soap. Open
- 09 Window Round Sheet Template One row a customer: the cycle, the price, done, paid. Open
- 10 Communal Block Cleaning Visit Log The record a managing agent asks for, block by block. Open
- 11 Cleaning Invoice Template A UK VAT invoice with everything that must legally be on it. Open
- 12 Cleaning Quote Template A quote with a scope, so the job cannot grow for free. Open
- 13 Cleaning Contract Template The clauses a cleaning agreement needs, and why. Open
- 14 Cleaning Risk Assessment Template A 5×5 scored assessment a client will actually accept. Open
- 15 COSHH Assessment Template One sheet per product, the way an inspector expects it. Open
- 16 Method Statement Template The second half of RAMS, step by step. Open
Product
17 pages- 01 End of Tenancy Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the fixed-price quoting, the move-out checklist and the agent invoicing for UK end of tenancy cleaners. Photographs the same evening, billed on account. Open
- 02 Facilities Management Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the multi-site rota, the compliance file and the contract reporting for UK soft FM cleaning contractors. Risk assessments scoped to each site, and the pack a tender asks for. Open
- 03 Window Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the round, the customer records and the invoicing for UK window cleaning businesses. Set the cycle once and it repeats for as many visits as you book. Open
- 04 Holiday Let Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the changeover rota, the linen checklist and the photographs for UK holiday let cleaners. Offline in a cottage with no signal. Open
- 05 Airbnb Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the turnover rota, the per-listing checklist and the host's proof for UK Airbnb and short-let cleaners. Open
- 06 Domestic Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the round, the cleaner app and the invoicing for UK domestic cleaning businesses. Open
- 07 Commercial Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the multi-site rota, the RAMS and the VAT invoicing for UK contract cleaners. Open
- 08 Carpet Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the per-item quote, the before and after photographs and the machine register for UK carpet and upholstery cleaners. One visit, priced by the room and the sofa. Open
- 09 Specialist Cleaning Software CleanFlo is the enquiry inbox, the quote and the photographs for UK one-off and specialist cleaners: ovens, deep cleans, after builders, jet washing and gutters. Open
- 10 Cleaning Scheduling Software CleanFlo is the rota for a UK cleaning business: agenda, day, week and month, one-off and recurring, and the job with nobody on it first on the dashboard. Open
- 11 Cleaning Business Reporting CleanFlo is the reporting for a UK cleaning business: revenue by client, site and service, margin on delivered work, and a one-click CSV. Open
- 12 Cleaning Compliance Software CleanFlo is the health and safety file for a UK cleaning business: RAMS on a 5×5, incidents by severity, and audits before they lapse. Open
- 13 Cleaning Invoicing Software CleanFlo is the invoicing for a UK cleaning business: VAT invoices raised from finished cleans, BACS details on every one, and the overdue chase sent for you. Open
- 14 Everything CleanFlo does Every module in CleanFlo and every part it holds, drawn: 30 modules, 142 parts, and all of it in the £19.99 a month. Open
- 15 The cleaner mobile app Cleaners see their schedule, get job alerts, work through checklists and clock in and out from their phone. Works offline, in 27 languages. Open
- 16 Clocking in and out Cleaners start and finish each clean on their own phone, with a location fix at each end. The two taps become the timesheet, the pay run, mileage and expenses. Open
- 17 Your website Cleaning business website builder inside CleanFlo: 14 layouts, a quote form that lands in Enquiries, live at cleanflo.io/p/your-name. £19.99 a month. Open
Comparison
11 pages- 01 CleanFlo vs Jobber Jobber is general field service management software covering many home service trades: landscaping, HVAC, plumbing, cleaning and more: with strong quoting, scheduling and payments. Open
- 02 CleanFlo vs ZenMaid ZenMaid is scheduling and management software built specifically for residential maid services, with a strong focus on the US domestic cleaning market. Open
- 03 CleanFlo vs Connecteam Connecteam is employee management software for deskless teams across many industries: shift scheduling, time clock, internal communication, checklists and forms. Open
- 04 CleanFlo vs a spreadsheet and WhatsApp A spreadsheet holds your clients and prices, a shared calendar holds the rota, and a WhatsApp group tells the cleaners. Nothing connects them, so you are the connection: every change has to be made in three places, and the one that gets missed is the one that reaches a client. Open
- 05 CleanFlo vs Swept Swept is workforce-operations software purpose-built for commercial cleaning and janitorial teams: scheduling, GPS-verified time tracking, inspections and job costing, from a Canadian company serving North America. Open
- 06 CleanFlo vs BigChange BigChange is a UK multi-trade job management platform: CRM, scheduling, live vehicle tracking and financial-system integrations, serving electricians, plumbers, HVAC engineers and cleaning companies alike from one general system. Open
- 07 CleanFlo vs GetCleanFlow GetCleanFlow is cleaning business software covering scheduling, invoicing, quotes, client records, job timers and team management, sold to solo cleaners, teams and companies internationally. Open
- 08 CleanFlo vs Squeegee 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. Open
- 09 CleanFlo vs ServiceM8 ServiceM8 is job management software for trades and service businesses: quoting, scheduling, forms, invoicing and card payments, with a free single-user plan and paid plans banded on how many jobs you create in a month. Open
- 10 CleanFlo vs Cleenie Cleenie is UK cleaning business software for solo cleaners and small teams: scheduling, customer records with keys and lockbox codes, PDF quotes, team logins, and VAT invoicing as a paid step, all in the browser. Open
- 11 Cleaning software compared An honest comparison of cleaning business software for UK companies: CleanFlo against Jobber, ZenMaid and Connecteam, and which fits which business. Open
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15 pages- 01 CleanFlo: cleaning business management software Scheduling, the cleaner app, VAT invoicing, health and safety and reporting in one place, for UK cleaning businesses. £19.99 a month flat, unlimited staff. Open
- 02 Your whole cleaning company, out of the group chat Rota, cleaners, clients, quotes, RAMS and VAT invoices in one place, for UK cleaning companies. The short version of the homepage. Open
- 03 Pricing One price for UK cleaning businesses: £19.99 a month with unlimited staff, clients and locations. 14-day free trial, no contract, cancel anytime. Open
- 04 For cleaners: signing in The CleanFlo app for cleaners: sign in with the login your company sent you. In 27 languages, working with no signal, and nothing to install. Open
- 05 What's new The release record, newest entry first: what shipped, what was fixed and why. September 2026 added five modules, from time and payroll to waste transfer notes. Open
- 06 About CleanFlo CleanFlo is built and run by WhealBit, in Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and has been since 2025. The facts an editor can copy, dated, and what CleanFlo does not claim. Open
- 07 Contact us Enterprise and franchise quotes, switching from another system, or a question about pricing. A real reply, usually within a working day. Open
- 08 Privacy policy How CleanFlo collects, uses and protects personal data on cleanflo.io, and the rights you have over it under UK GDPR. Open
- 09 Terms of service The terms covering cleanflo.io and the CleanFlo subscription: month to month, 14-day free trial, cancel anytime. Open
- 10 Cookie policy cleanflo.io sets no cookies. What that means, what cookieless analytics records, and what is kept in your browser. Open
- 11 Data Processing Agreement CleanFlo's UK GDPR Article 28 data processing agreement, structured to Article 28(3)(a)-(h), with the processing described in Annex 1 and the approved sub-processors in Annex 2. Open
- 12 Security Where CleanFlo holds your data, how it is separated from every other company's, who inside your business can see what, and an honest account of what CleanFlo does not do. Open
- 13 Sub-processors Every third party that touches data held in CleanFlo: what each one does, what it sees, where it is, and the transfer safeguard in place. With a change log. Open
- 14 Multi-site and franchise Cleaning software for UK multi-site groups and franchises: one invoice a month across every site, a record per site, £19.99 an account, no group view. Open
- 15 System status Live status of CleanFlo: a direct check of app.cleanflo.io, plus Stripe, Resend, Supabase and Netlify's own status feeds, checked live, not typed in advance. Open