Cleaning resources
You know how to clean. Now the business needs running.
Pricing, payroll, clients, hiring and software all compete for the same brain, usually between jobs. This hub is about the business side of cleaning, not cleaning technique.
Gustry’s cleaning resources help you see what jobs actually make, what your price floor needs to be, which clients need attention, when a first hire is affordable, where expansion revenue makes sense, and when software actually pays. Built for the path from solo operator to first employee to first crew.
Flagship system
Downloadable system — $59 one-time
Cleaning Profitability + Pricing + Solo-to-Crew System
One operating model for job margin, client mix, price floors and first-hire economics. The free calculators answer one question at a time; this connects them across the whole business — shared assumptions, a full client portfolio, pricing scenarios and hire comparisons in one model.
The free tools answer one question at a time and forget your numbers when you close the tab. The paid workbook keeps a running job log, client portfolio, pricing scenarios, first-hire economics and a monthly review together in a file you own, so each new decision uses your saved history.
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Find where jobs, clients and drive time are eating your margin.
Is this cleaning job actually profitable?
Analyze one job: contribution profit, fully loaded margin, allocated overhead, break-even price and the price needed to hit your own target margin.
Open the toolAvailable nowKeep, raise or drop this client?
Analyze one recurring client: fully loaded profit per visit, monthly and annualized effect, target price and the levers to test before you renegotiate.
Open the toolAvailable nowWhen to raise prices
The signals that justify a price increase on an existing client or your whole book, and how to sequence it.
Open the toolAvailable nowPricing frameworks
How to build a price that supports payroll instead of matching whatever the last quote in town was.
Open the toolEarn more
Increase the value of the customers you already have without selling random add-ons.
First clean vs recurring economics
Why the first deep clean and the recurring visit need different pricing logic, and how to set both.
Open the toolAvailable nowWhich cleaning add-ons are actually worth offering?
Compare up to ten add-on and expansion services by fully loaded profit, profit per productive labor hour and modeled monthly profit at your own attach rate.
Open the toolGrow without breaking it
Know when you can afford help — and what systems you actually need next.
Can I Afford to Hire My First Cleaner?
Model payroll cost, productive capacity, owner hours freed, payroll reserve and break-even jobs using your own numbers.
Open the toolAvailable nowDo I need cleaning business software yet?
Model whether admin time saved and recovered lead contribution can plausibly pay for a subscription, including setup time and payback, before you compare any vendor.
Open the toolAvailable nowEmployee Onboarding System — $39
16 onboarding resources for your first cleaners: day-one plan, first 10 shifts training roadmap, cleaning standards scorecard, independent-work sign-off and 30/60/90-day check-ins.
See the systemStart with these guides
Four questions most owner-operators hit first. Each guide ends at the free calculator that does the arithmetic.
How much should a cleaning business charge?
There is no correct national cleaning price. Build yours from labor, owner replacement value, supplies, travel, payment fees, overhead and your own target margin.
Open GuideWhat determines your profit margin
Separate contribution profit from fully loaded profit, and see the drivers that actually move a cleaning business margin: owner labor, nonbillable time, overhead, fees, routing and scope creep.
Open GuideIs this client profitable?
Analyze a recurring cleaning client per visit and per month. See why high revenue can still be weak economics, and what to test before repricing or replacing.
Open GuideWhen to hire your first cleaner
Busy is not the same as financially ready. Model loaded payroll, utilization, new revenue versus owner replacement, reserve coverage and break-even jobs first.
OpenWhere to go next
Free tools for cleaning business owners
Calculators and decision tools that run on your own numbers.
Open GuidesCleaning business guides
Pricing, true labor cost, client economics and first-hire guides for owner-operators.
Open SoftwareWhen cleaning software is worth paying for
How to tell whether your operation has outgrown a calendar and a spreadsheet.
OpenStart with a free tool
Quoting a new client, hiring a first cleaner or weighing software: run the numbers first. No account and no email required.
Job profitability and price floor calculator
Check what a clean really costs before you quote it, so a new client starts at a price that holds up.
Open Free toolCan I afford to hire my first cleaner?
Model the wage, hours and margin before you bring on your first employee.
Open Free toolDo I need cleaning-business software yet?
See whether a calendar and a spreadsheet still cover your operation or software would earn its cost.
OpenResearched, written and edited by Gustry. Formulas are published on the page, sources are cited and dated where claims matter, and we do not claim firsthand operating or product-testing experience.