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Every-Two-Weeks Storefront Window Cleaning: When Monthly Is Not Enough

Some glass gets dirty faster than other glass. A coffee shop door with a few hundred hands on it a day. A restaurant window by the patio. A bakery with kids pressing their faces to the display case. For these shops, a monthly cleaning leaves the glass looking rough for half the month. That is where an every-two-weeks plan comes in.

Which Storefronts Need Two Visits a Month

Most storefronts do fine on the 30-day cycle described in Monthly Storefront Window Cleaning Plans That Come Due Without a Phone Call. The every-two-weeks plan is for the busy ones. Good candidates include:

• Restaurants, cafes and coffee shops with heavy door traffic.
• Bakeries, ice cream shops and anything with a display case kids lean on.
• Retail shops on a busy sidewalk where road dust hits the glass.
• Medical and dental offices that care about first impressions.
• Car dealerships and showrooms with big glass that customers notice.

A good way to find them: look at which monthly customers ask for an extra cleaning in between. If a shop calls you twice in three months for “just the front door,” they are an every-two-weeks customer who does not know it yet.

Setting a 14-Day Cycle

In WindowBossPro an every-two-weeks plan is a recurring service on the address with a minimum of 14 days between visits. When the tech completes the cleaning, the count starts over and the shop comes due again two weeks later on the Waiting List. If it slips past a 7-day grace without being scheduled, the pin turns overdue.

On a 14-day plan, the grace period matters more than on a quarterly home. Seven days late on a two-week plan means the glass went three weeks without a cleaning. Keep an eye on the overdue color for these stops and treat it as a priority.

Keeping the Visit Short

Frequent visits work because each one is quick. The glass never gets truly dirty, so the tech is in and out. Help that along by keeping the job tight and well documented:

• Record the window count and sides: “8 windows · 1-story · Inside & Outside.”
• Note exactly what is included, such as front glass and door inside and out, side windows outside only.
• Add timing notes: before opening, after the lunch rush, never on Saturday mornings.
• Tag the client Storefront and give the plan a tag like Biweekly so you can filter these stops.

The tech sees all of it on the phone under the address, along with the Start, Skip and Complete buttons and before-and-after photos.

Routing Two-Week Stops With Monthly Ones

Every-two-weeks stops fit naturally on a storefront route. Every other time the storefront van runs a corridor, the 14-day shops are due again while the monthly shops are still in their cycle. On the Waiting List map, you will see the 14-day pins come due in between the monthly ones. Assign them to the storefront van, auto-route from the shop, and the van picks them up on the way.

If you have enough 14-day stops in one area, give them a regular day on the dispatch board. The storefront van runs downtown every other Tuesday and the plan takes care of the rest.

Pricing and Billing a 14-Day Plan

Every-two-weeks visits are usually priced lower per visit than monthly ones, because the glass is cleaner and the tech is faster. A shop that would pay $50 for a monthly cleaning might pay $35 a visit every two weeks. Those are example numbers. Set what fits your market and your time on site. The thinking behind plan pricing is covered in Pricing Plan Visits vs One-Time Window Cleaning Jobs.

For billing, the card on file can be charged on completion, so each visit is paid the moment it is done. For a business with several locations, set the account to Monthly and it gets one statement each month, with every visit listed and each line labeled by address. Two visits a month at one shop show up as two clear lines instead of two separate bills.

Twice a Month, Every Month

The every-two-weeks plan is a small slice of most storefront routes, but it is a valuable one. These are your most visible customers, on the busiest streets, with glass that people see all day. Set the 14 days, keep the visit tight, and let the Waiting List keep the rhythm. For how 14-day storefronts fit with monthly routes and residential plans, head back to the recurring window cleaning software page.