A cleaning business sells a flat rate for a variable job. The standard clean is quoted at two and a half hours because that is how long it took the first time, in a house that has since acquired two dogs, a finished basement and an owner who works from home. The rate has not moved. Nothing in a schedule records that the visit now takes three hours. CleanRoute US records the minutes, and the margin follows.

Scheduled against actual

Each clean records the minutes it was scheduled for and the minutes it took, and the variance is computed rather than sensed.

One visit running over is normal. The same visit running over every fortnight is a rate that no longer matches the house.

Cost follows the cleaner

Every cleaner carries an hourly cost, so a lead working alone and a second cleaner on a larger job produce different costs for the same minutes.

Supplies are drawn against the clean that used them, and only clean-use movements count, so a restock delivery never inflates a visit.

A checklist that records problems

Items are logged by room and task, with whether they were completed, whether they were inspected, and any issue found.

An item reads Not done, Issue noted, Done or Verified on its own, which turns a quality conversation into a record instead of a disagreement.

Margin per cleaner

Cleaner summary totals scheduled minutes, actual minutes, revenue and labor cost per person and labels the margin Healthy, Thin or Loss.

That comparison usually answers a pricing question rather than a performance one: the move-out cleans are underpriced, not the cleaner who keeps getting sent on them.

Review exceptions every week

Resolve duplicate IDs, missing links, overdue balances, negative amounts, and open operational items in CHECKS before using the dashboard for decisions.

CleanRoute US Microsoft Excel Edition is designed for Microsoft Excel 2019 or newer on Windows or macOS.

No staff scheduling or shift rostering, no payroll filing or tax returns, no customer booking portal or online quoting, no background check or bonding records, and no automatic appointment reminders.