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The round is the business

A window cleaning business is not a series of jobs, it is a cycle. Every customer sits on a four, six or eight-week rotation, and the whole enterprise depends on that rotation actually happening.

The failure mode is well known to anyone who has run a round: a week of bad weather, a van off the road, or one holiday, and the cycle slips. Slip far enough and a customer assumes you have stopped coming, and the next window cleaner who knocks gets the work.

What software has to do here is unglamorous: rebuild the schedule automatically, show clearly who is overdue, and make it obvious when a cycle is drifting before the customer notices.

Domestic and commercial are different businesses

Most window cleaning operations run both, and they need handling differently.

Domestic is high-volume, low-value, geographically clustered and paid immediately or by standing order. The operational problems are round discipline and collection: knowing who has paid without keeping it in your head.

Commercial is lower-volume, higher-value, invoiced on 30-day terms with VAT, and increasingly requires the same compliance documentation as any other contractor: risk assessments for work at height, equipment records and insurance evidence.

Running both out of one system is the point. Running domestic in a notebook and commercial in accounting software is how the two halves stop reconciling.

Working at height is the compliance line

Window cleaning carries a genuinely higher risk profile than most cleaning work. Falls from height remain one of the most serious hazards in the trade, and commercial clients know it.

Water-fed pole systems have reduced ladder work substantially, but they have not eliminated it, and they introduce their own considerations: water storage weight in vehicles, working near overhead cables, and slip risk from run-off.

For commercial contracts, expect to be asked for a written risk assessment covering work at height, evidence of equipment inspection, and training records before you are engaged. Holding those against each site rather than in a folder is what makes producing them straightforward.