For owner-operators and small commercial-cleaning teams.
What you can do here
JanitorMath helps you turn your own labor and operating costs into a per-visit estimate. Use the cleaning calculator to enter costs and a target margin, then compare the same price per cleanable square foot or per cleaner-hour.
The quote template carries the proposed price into a document you can fill in with a client, schedule and scope. You decide what to quote and when to share it. The tool does not send messages, arrange work or book a cleaning service.
The cleaning-time calculator estimates total cleaner-hours from task quantities and your own rates. Its optional crew-time illustration assumes the work can be shared evenly. Use your actual site conditions and recorded times to improve the assumptions.
How we explain the numbers
The calculator adds the labor, supplies, travel and overhead you enter. It uses this formula to find a selling price at your chosen target margin:
Margin is a share of selling price, while markup is a share of cost. Our margin and markup guide shows the difference with worked examples. Changing the cleanable area in the comparison section changes the displayed unit rate, not the original cost-based price.
Examples, sources and scope
Our field guides explain the method with hypothetical jobs. Example prices, times and building sizes are teaching examples, not measured market averages or claims of firsthand cleaning experience. The guides link to their supporting sources and identify when those sources were checked.
Industry definitions and task-estimating methods inform the explanations. A source describing how to estimate work does not establish how quickly your crew will finish a particular property. Check the work, conditions, equipment and actual costs for each job.
This version focuses on estimates in US dollars for readers planning commercial-cleaning work. The tools do not calculate taxes or determine local employment, licensing or insurance requirements.
How we test software
We distinguish live software tests from vendor documentation and guided demos. For a live test, we record the date, edition, settings, actions and observed results. A vendor's description explains what it claims; a guided demo shows a prepared workflow. Neither establishes that we completed that workflow in a live account.
Our Zoho FSM walkthrough documents September 9, 2026 tests using fictional customer records in a Premium Trial configured for Sri Lanka, USD and Asia/Colombo. We checked saved company and estimate records, conversion to a work order, one scheduled appointment and one downloaded estimate PDF.
That test did not cover recurrence execution, Free Edition behavior, broader exports, crew/mobile work or billing. Results describe the tested workflow and edition; they do not establish cleaning-business operating experience, time savings or business outcomes. Software observations are separate from the hypothetical cleaning-job examples in our pricing guides.
Use estimates as a working document
Walk through the site, record included tasks and compare estimated time with actual visits. Missing expenses reduce the profit suggested by a calculator. A target margin is a planning choice; it is not a guarantee of profit or an industry recommendation.
Read how the tools handle your information or contact JanitorMath with a question or correction.