Our Light Bulb Moment: Cleaning Rates and Rate Sheets
15 septembre 2026 · De l'équipe de l'app CleanSlate
It's easy to assume everyone does a thing one way. Discovery comes from asking questions.Image: CleanSlate
When you've done something one way for years, it's easy to assume everyone does it that way. Building CleanSlate taught us otherwise.
Our own properties pay a flat fee for every cleaning, let's call it $100 per clean, and the cleaner gets paid. Simple. So that's how CleanSlate worked at first. Then one of our users billed by the hour, with a fee on top, so the total changed with how long each clean took. We built that in, and learned that far more cleaners work that way than we'd guessed.
There's no chart that tells you what to charge. Every cleaner lands on what works for them.
Here's what belongs in the number, and how to make it a decision you make once.
What moves the number
Same checkout, different job. Size, linens and a hot tub all change what a clean takes.Image: CleanSlate
Start with the property: bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, how many guests, and how much gets touched between them. A studio is not a three-bedroom with a hot tub and linens for eight. A same-day turn, with the next guest arriving hours later, takes more urgency than a place that sits empty for a day or more.
Then what's included: laundry, restocking, trash, checking for damage. That's real time, so price it as real time, in the base rate or as its own line. And count the drive. A house twenty minutes off your route costs you more than one down the street.
Flat or hourly, set it once
Cleaners can set a flat fee for a job, or an hourly rate.Image: CleanSlate
Pick a flat or hourly rate for each property, then stop reworking it every time you invoice. In CleanSlate you set it once, and it shows up the same way on every invoice after that.
Change it when the job changes: a new bedroom, a hot tub, a same-day turn, or your own costs going up. Not in the middle of a text thread with someone waiting on an answer.
Our à la carte menu: the rate sheet
The CleanSlate rate sheet lets cleaners set prices for extras, or add-ons. Set once, use many times.Image: CleanSlate
Most invoices have extras. That's what the rate sheet is for. It's your own menu of add-ons, like a pet fee, a hot tub clean or a deep clean, each at your price. Build it once and use it across your properties.
CleanSlate builds the invoice from your schedule. When it's time to finish it, tap the extras from your rate sheet, they're added in an instant, review it, and submit it to your host. That's it.
Set your rates once and let the invoice do the rest. Free for 75 days, no card required.
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