Carpet Cleaning Booking Software for Jobs Priced by the Room

Somebody wants three bedrooms, the stairs, and a look at the sofa while you're there. On the phone that is a callback, a rough number, and a customer who has already rung two other vans. Build a service for each room count you price, let the landing, a rug, or a pet treatment sit on top as optional paid add-ons, and the job arrives already specified instead of half described. If it turns out bigger than what they booked, an extra charge goes on from your dashboard on the day.

Upholstery does not price by the room. A two seater, a three seater, a mattress, six dining chairs: each one is its own service with its own length, because a mattress and a corner suite are not the same afternoon. A fabric protector or a pet treatment goes on as a paid add-on. Booked on its own, upholstery is the short job you can drop into the gap the carpets left, which is the only way that hour ever pays for itself.

Coverage is not really a distance question for a carpet cleaner. It is a setup question. The machine, the hoses, and the water all live in the van, and a single armchair takes almost as much unloading as a whole floor does. You set the coverage area for each service, by ZIP, post code, or area name, so the small services stay inside the streets where a small job still pays, while a full house of carpets can be booked from much further out. The van goes where the job is big enough to justify getting the hoses out of it.

Most carpet work is one job and then a long quiet gap. Letting agents and landlords are the exception: the tenants move out, the traffic lanes are grey, and the same person needs you again by Friday. Sell them a block of cleans as a package and let them redeem it through booking, one property at a time. Changeovers slip, so when the keys aren't back or the tenants are still shifting boxes the booking can be rescheduled rather than lost, and when the block runs out you can send a payment link or charge the next job from your dashboard.

Your calendar, your customers, your bookings, and your payments are on your phone, which is the only part of the office that fits in a van. Unlike most trades that call at a house, you are inside for the length of the job, so when the customer looks at the spare room and asks what another one would be, you can settle it before you start winding the hoses back in. Add the extra charge from the dashboard, or take their card there with Tap to Pay on iPhone. No reader to buy, and none to keep charged.