Handiwork for Cleaning Services
Handiwork helps cleaning businesses send a quote from the walkthrough, put every visit on a shared calendar, and get paid by card or bank transfer the day the job's done. Access codes, pet notes and product preferences stay on the client's profile, so they reach whoever covers the house.
Where Cleaning Businesses Lose Time
Most of it happens between visits, not during them.
Lockbox codes, pet instructions and product preferences scattered across texts and sticky notes
Chasing payment after every visit when the client could have paid from their phone
A prospect who books someone else because your written quote took two days
Not knowing which cleaner covered which house, or whether the job got finished
A client's preferences walking out the door when a cleaner quits or a route changes hands
Live Today for Cleaning Businesses
Coming for Cleaning Crews
None of these has a ship date yet.
Running a cleaning business means keeping dozens of clients straight. One wants the recycling sorted. One has a dog that needs to be shut in the back room before the crew arrives. One pays by card, and another expects an emailed invoice. Most of that lives in your head, in old text threads and on a clipboard in the car. Handiwork gets it into one place your whole crew can open.
Quote Fast, Book Faster
Cleaning jobs are often won on the first call. If a prospect waits two days for a written quote, they’ve usually booked someone else. Build the estimate on your phone before you’re back in your car and email it. When the client says yes, by reply, text or phone call, mark it approved, and one click turns it into a job ready to schedule. Nothing gets typed twice.
Every Client’s Rules in One Place
Getting a client’s preferences wrong is how you lose the account. One keeps a lockbox by the side door and expects the code to reach whoever’s covering that week. Another keeps unscented, dye-free products under the sink because someone in the house reacts to fragrance, and grabbing the wrong bottle matters more than a missed spot. A third doesn’t want anyone in the home office. The client profile holds those notes next to the full job history, so a new hire covering a route for the first time doesn’t learn the rules by mistake.
Invoiced and Paid the Same Day
The gap between finishing a clean and getting paid is where small cleaning businesses lose money. When you mark the job complete, Handiwork builds an itemized invoice with one click and attaches a payment link. Send it before you lock up, and the client pays by card or ACH from their phone. The invoice doesn’t sit in someone’s inbox for a month.
The Whole Day on One Screen
A client calls to say the recycling didn’t go out. A cleaner calls in sick halfway through the day. You need an answer faster than scrolling a group chat. The day’s schedule fits on one screen, and each job keeps a timeline of when it was booked, moved and marked done, so you can answer the client and drag the rest of the day’s visits to new times in a couple of clicks.
What’s Not Built Yet
If most of your work is weekly or biweekly cleans, know this up front: Handiwork doesn’t rebook repeat visits on its own yet. Recurring scheduling is on our roadmap. Until it ships, you add each repeat visit the same way you’d book a one-time job. A client portal for checking visits and invoices is planned, and so is an installed app.
Handiwork is free to start. We only make money when you get paid, as a small percentage of the payments that go through the platform, capped every month.
Want to Talk It Through First?
Tell us how many clients you have and how often you see them, and we'll tell you whether Handiwork handles it today.
Handiwork for Other Trades
The same quotes, calendar and invoices work for these home service trades too.