Hey App Works · Industries
Custom Software for Cleaning Companies
Recurring cleans, last-minute adds, and crews across town don’t live happily in a calendar alone. Tell us how your jobs run. We’ll build an app around your clients, checklists, and who’s on which clean.
Cleaning ops
Client · Rivera residence
Weekly clean · every Thu
Gate 4412 · pets on site
Staff on job
Maya (lead) · Luis
Task list
The problem
The schedule is a calendar. Everything else is a text thread.
Growing cleaning companies often run on calendar blocks, group chats, and “ask Maria about the gate code.” That holds until someone calls out, a client changes access, or you need proof of what got done last visit.
- Client quirks and gate codes live in someone’s head or old messages
- Task lists change depending on who shows up
- Reshuffling jobs when staff call out is a scramble
- Clients ask “are you done?” and nobody has a clean answer
- Finished work doesn’t reliably feed billing or follow-up
What we could build
What we could build for your cleaning business
Think one place for the client, the schedule, the task list, who’s assigned, and a clear “job done.” Residential, commercial, or mixed — we shape it to how you work, not the other way around.
Clients & property details
Addresses, access notes, pets, supply locations, and special instructions on the job — not buried in email.
Task lists by job type
Standard scopes plus extras per property, so quality doesn’t depend on who remembered what.
Staff assignment & schedules
Who’s on which clean, visible for leads and office — not only the person who built the spreadsheet.
Job completion
Mark done, note what got skipped, attach photos if you want — so “finished” means something specific.
Recurring & one-off schedules
Weekly and monthly patterns that still allow add-ons and moves without rebuilding the week by hand.
These are examples of workflows we can combine or customize — not a promise that every cleaning company build includes all of them.
Two-person teams and multi-crew shops need different days
A small residential route and a commercial night crew don’t run the same way. We start from your clients, how you assign people, and how you prove a job is complete. Piecing together calendars, texts, and spreadsheets doesn’t have to be the long-term plan.
Example: a recurring clean that changes mid-week
- 1
Thursday jobs appear from the schedule
Each clean shows the client, task list, and default crew already attached.
- 2
A cleaner calls out
Office reassigns two homes. Property notes and checklists move with the job.
- 3
Crew completes the list
Status flips to done. Anything skipped (“ran out of cleaner”) is logged on the property.
- 4
Office sees what’s finished
Completed jobs are ready for your billing or follow-up step — no Friday memory test.
Common questions
- We already use a calendar. Is that enough?
- A calendar shows when. It usually doesn’t hold gate codes, task lists, who got reassigned, or proof the job is done. That’s the gap we fill.
- Do I have to describe every screen I want?
- No. Tell us how a normal week works and what’s driving you crazy. We’ll figure out the app from that. Technical specs aren’t required.
- How much does a custom cleaning app start at?
- Smaller custom builds can start around $1,000, then scale with what you need. We’ll scope it with you first.
- Can it work for residential and commercial mixes?
- Yes. We build around your mix — day crews, night shifts, recurring homes, one-off offices — instead of forcing one template on everything.
Why Hey App Works
Buy ready-made software
Fast to start — until your business doesn’t match the template. Then you bend how you work to fit the tool.
Traditional custom development
Built around you, but often priced way outside a small business budget — and easy to get stuck with after launch.
Hey App Works
Tell us how you work. We build an app around it, host it, and keep it running. You pay to get your version built and a monthly fee to keep using it.
Related problems we solve
Same kind of business, different angle — if one of these is what’s driving you crazy, start there.