Two different shapes: CleanGuru is account-based bidding, work-loading, invoicing, and mobile-checklist software for a cleaning company's whole client roster. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one contract cost, before you sign up for anything.
CleanGuru is bidding and business-management software built for commercial cleaning and janitorial contractors. Its bid calculator generates a price recommendation from work-loading formulas and a cost-plus model factoring wages, payroll taxes, overhead, and target margin; a mobile app lets a rep enter room measurements during a walkthrough and price on the spot; and the platform adds invoicing, mobile checklists, and separate modules for residential maid, carpet, window, tile, and move-in/out cleaning. It is account-based — you sign in to use it. CleanGuru's own site was not reachable for live verification in the session that wrote this page, and no dollar figure or plan name for it is stated anywhere here: only its well-documented identity and category, from its own public product pages, are described.
This calculator does none of what CleanGuru does. It stores no client roster, sends no invoice, and keeps no mobile checklist. It takes one contract's spaces — cleanable square footage, production rate, and cleanings per week for each — plus loaded wage, payroll burden, supplies, equipment, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the price, the price per square foot per month, the annual contract value, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money. It also prices day-porter shifts and one-time project work (strip and wax, extraction, an initial deep clean) separately from the monthly service, and answers three renewal questions with their own table and pasteable reply: a schedule cut from 5× to 3× a week, the client buying their own paper and restroom supplies, and throwing in the initial clean. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I need one account running bids, proposals, invoicing, and mobile checklists across my whole client roster. | CleanGuru, or comparable janitorial bidding software — that is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this one contract, from its space types and production rates, before I sign up for anything? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| A client wants to cut from 5× to 3× a week and offers 60% of today's price — is that fair? | This calculator's 5× vs 3× comparison, built on this contract's own labor split, not a generic rate. |
| They'll buy their own paper and restroom supplies if I drop that line — what's a fair price cut? | This calculator's buy-the-paper comparison. |
| They want the initial deep clean thrown in with month one — what does that cost me? | This calculator's initial-clean comparison. |
| I want mobile bidding I can walk a building with on my phone, plus invoicing and checklists for every account I run. | CleanGuru or comparable software — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign in to use the tool? | This calculator: no. CleanGuru: yes, it is account-based software. |
Most cleaning contractors get different value from each: CleanGuru (or comparable janitorial bidding software) for running bids, proposals, invoicing, and mobile checklists across every account as an ongoing platform, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login price and margin check on one contract before that account exists. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a signed proposal or an invoice.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
They do different jobs, and a cleaning contractor of any size will likely end up touching both. CleanGuru is bidding, work-loading, invoicing, and mobile-checklist software sold to commercial cleaning and janitorial contractors, with a bidding calculator, a mobile app for walking a building and entering measurements on the spot, and modules for janitorial, residential maid, carpet, window, tile, and move-in/out cleaning. It is account-based — you sign in to use it. This calculator does one narrower thing, free and with no account: starting from each space's cleanable square footage and production rate, cleanings per week, loaded wage and payroll burden, supplies, equipment, overhead, and target margin, it prices one janitorial contract, reports the walk-away price below which the job loses money, and answers three renewal questions contractors get asked — a schedule cut from 5× to 3× a week, the client buying their own paper and supplies, and throwing in the initial deep clean — each with a table and a pasteable reply. A contractor who wants one account running bids, proposals, invoicing, and mobile checklists across a whole client roster is better served by CleanGuru or comparable janitorial bidding software; a contractor who wants an instant, private price and margin check on one contract, before opening any account, is in the right place here.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CleanGuru. CleanGuru is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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