Free tools for small service businesses

Each tool pairs with a guide on this site. The Growth Calculator uses the same capacity and hiring logic as the scheduling software guide and the crew scheduling rules, and the price you enter should come from how to price house cleaning services. The Client Value Calculator sizes the offers in the referral program guide and the retention habits in the onboarding guide. The Software Break-Even Calculator prices the decision in the solo cleaner software guide, using prices verified in the pricing guides. The Cleaning Price Calculator automates the method in how to price house cleaning services and feeds its flat rate into the other three tools; the fee percentage it asks for comes from the card processing fees guide. Every calculator follows the same research-only method as the articles: the math is explained on the page, and example values are labeled as examples, not industry data.

Which tool should I use first?

Start with the Client Value Calculator if you are deciding what to spend on leads, a referral reward, or a first-clean discount. Start with the Growth Calculator if you are deciding whether to keep adding clients, when your own week fills up, or whether a second person would pay for themselves. Start with the Software Break-Even Calculator if you are deciding whether to pay for scheduling software at all. Start with the Cleaning Price Calculator if you are not yet sure what one visit should cost; the other tools take a price as an input.

How do the four calculators work together?

They share the same price, frequency, and churn inputs. The Cleaning Price Calculator builds the price from your own costs and target earnings and hands it to the others. The Client Value Calculator tells you what one client is worth and what you can afford to spend to win one; the Growth Calculator takes those same numbers and shows what a stream of such clients does to income over 12 months. The Software Break-Even Calculator takes the same price, frequency, and client count and asks whether paying for software makes sense on your own estimates. Each tool links to the next with your numbers filled in.

Any future tool will appear here with the same rules: no account, nothing stored. Current software prices are listed on the cleaning software pricing tracker.

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