Running the Business

Window Cleaning Business Software
Run the Routes, the Crew and the Money From One Place

A window cleaning business starts with one ladder, one van and a notebook. It grows into storefront routes, quarterly homes, property managers and a second crew, and the notebook stops keeping up. WindowBossPro keeps every client, every address and every window count in one place, brings recurring cleanings due on their own, puts the day in route order on each tech's phone, and bills the card on file when the job is done.

Start Your 14-Day Free TrialTry the Live Demo
No credit card required  ·  14-day free trial  ·  from $59/mo after
1 Place
Clients, Routes & Billing
$59
Plans Start Per Month
$0
Per-User Fees, Ever
14 Days
Free Trial, No Card
WindowBossPro showing a window cleaning company's recurring cleanings, routes by van and window details for each address

Built for the Owner Who Still Climbs the Ladder
and the One Who Is Ready to Stop.

Plans start at $59/month and you are never billed per user, so the owner, every tech and the person answering the phone all get a login. The clients, routes, tech app, quotes, texting and billing are one platform, not add-ons. For the full product tour, start at WindowBossPro. This page is about the business side: what to set up, what to watch and how to grow without losing track of the work.

🔁

Recurring Work Comes Due

Storefronts every two weeks or monthly, homes quarterly or twice a year. The Waiting List shows every cleaning that came due.

🚐

Routes by Van

Filter the dispatch board by van, auto-route Closest First or Furthest First from the shop, and set the order by hand.

🪟

Window Details on Every Job

“28 windows · 2-story · Inside & Outside · Screens” under the address, plus gate codes and ladder notes.

📝

Quotes Customers Approve

Estimates from your service list. An approved estimate becomes scheduled services without retyping.

💳

Paid When the Job Is Done

Complete creates the invoice and can charge the card on file. Property managers get one monthly statement.

💬

Customers Kept in the Loop

Reminders, on-the-way and arrived texts go out on their own, and two-way texting keeps replies with the office.

Know What Is Due, What Is Booked and What Is Unpaid Without Calling Anyone

The hard part of running a window cleaning business is not cleaning glass. It is knowing which storefront is past due for its visit, which quarterly home got forgotten, which van is running behind and which card declined last Tuesday. WindowBossPro puts those answers on screens you can check in a few minutes from the shop or the truck.

  • Waiting List map colored not due, due now and overdue
  • Scheduled List by day, filtered by van
  • Crew GPS on the office map during the day
  • Invoices with past-due follow-up
  • Tags for Storefront, Residential, Quarterly and Commercial
  • Office user roles and employee PINs
Example Monday Check — Owner
Waiting List
Cleanings due now and overdue past the grace period
Due
Van 1 · Residential
Quarterly homes, two spring cleans
Booked
Van 2 · Storefronts
Every-two-week and monthly route
Booked
Invoices
Past-due follow-up and declined cards
Check
Form Responses
New quote requests and sign-ups
New
Illustration of the screens an owner checks at the start of the week.

Set It Up in an Evening, Run It From Monday

You do not need a consultant or a training course. Bring your customer list, your prices and your vans. WindowBossPro runs in the browser on the computer in the shop and on the iPhones and Android phones your techs already carry.

01

Import Your Clients

Upload a CSV of clients and addresses. One client can have many addresses, and imports place every address on the map.

02

Add Services and Plans

Build your service list: per window, per screen, story add-ons, hard water. Set storefronts and homes on recurring plans.

03

Add Techs and Vans

Give each employee a personal PIN and a van. You are never billed per user, so everyone gets the app.

04

Run the Week

Pull due cleanings off the Waiting List, route each van, and let the techs work the day from their phones.

Paper and Spreadsheets Work Until the Second Van

One owner with one van can keep the whole business in their head. The trouble starts when there are more quarterly homes than you can remember, a storefront route someone else drives, and invoices that go out whenever there is time on a Sunday night.

Ask an owner who grew past one van what went wrong first and you will hear a familiar list. A quarterly customer who called in month five asking whether they had been dropped. A storefront that got cleaned twice in one week and then skipped for three. Screens cleaned and never put on the invoice. A card that declined and nobody noticed for a month.

None of that is a cleaning problem. It is a record-keeping problem, and it grows with every new customer. When recurring work comes due on its own and every job carries its window details and price, the business stops depending on one person's memory.

WindowBossPro keeps the client, the address, the windows, the schedule and the invoice together, from the first quote to the paid card.

Business Software Features for Window Cleaning Owners

Every tool here exists to keep recurring work on schedule, vans full, extras billed and cards charged, whether you run one van or four.

🔁

Recurring Cleanings

Set plans by minimum days between visits: 14, 30, 90 or 180. They come due on their own.

🗺️

Waiting List Map

Every cleaning that came due on a live map and list, colored not due, due now and overdue.

🚐

Dispatch by Van

The Scheduled List shows jobs by day and filters by van, with auto-route from the shop.

🪟

Window Details

Window count, stories, inside or outside, screens, tracks and hard water on every job.

🔐

Access Notes

Gate codes, dogs, skylights and where to set the ladder, under the address.

📱

Tech App

Company login plus PIN, jobs in route order, navigation, photos, Start / Skip / Complete and a time clock.

📝

Quotes & Approvals

Estimates from your service list, approved online, turned into scheduled services.

📥

Web Forms

Request and sign-up forms flow into Form Responses. One click turns a sign-up into a client.

💬

Texting & Email

Two-way texting from the office plus automatic reminders, on-the-way and arrived alerts.

💳

Card on File

Auto-charge on completion or on a schedule, with online payment in the customer app.

🏢

Monthly Statements

A property manager set to Monthly gets one statement covering every location, labeled by address.

🧾

Past-Due Follow-Up

Invoices with line items and sales tax, plus follow-up on what has not been paid.

🏷️

Tags & Custom Fields

Storefront, Residential, Quarterly, Commercial, or your own tags and fields.

👤

Customer App

Customers see their place on today's route, request service, update their card and pay.

🌎

Five Countries

Works in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, billing in local currency.

👥

Never Billed per User

Start $59, Pro $89 and Crew $199 per month. Every tech and office user included.

From One Van to a Real Company

Most window cleaning businesses grow the same way. The owner fills one van with residential work, adds a storefront route to steady the cash, signs a property manager or two, and then needs a second van and someone to drive it. Each step adds customers the owner cannot hold in their head. WindowBossPro is set up for that path: tags to separate residential from storefronts, vans on the dispatch board, monthly statements for commercial accounts and employee PINs for every new tech. For the whole path in one read, start with Running a Window Cleaning Business: The Complete Guide From First Ladder to Second Van.

  • One van on homes, one on a storefront route
  • Recurring plans that keep the calendar full
  • Add-ons like screens and hard water on the invoice
  • Commercial accounts on one monthly statement
  • New techs trained on the same app
  • Office help with their own login and role
Example Week — Two Vans
Van 1 · Monday
Quarterly homes, north side, inside & outside
Van 2 · Monday
Storefront route, every two weeks
Van 1 · Tuesday
Spring cleans and a move-out
Van 2 · Tuesday
Property manager buildings · monthly statement
Owner
Quotes, a re-clean and a ride-along
Every van, every job, every invoice.
The same records in the office and on the phone.

Bill Every Pane You Clean and Collect Before the Van Leaves

Window cleaning profit leaks out in small ways: screens that were cleaned but never billed, a quarterly visit that slid into the next quarter, a storefront that paid late for three months running. WindowBossPro prices jobs from your service list, so the screens and hard water are on the invoice. Complete creates the invoice and can charge the card on file. Commercial accounts set to Monthly get one statement for every location, and past-due invoices get followed up instead of forgotten.

  • Estimates priced from your service list
  • Invoice created when the tech taps Complete
  • Card-on-file charge on completion or on a schedule
  • One monthly statement for property managers
  • Online payment and card updates in the customer app
Example Job Record
Windows
28 windows · 2-story
Sides
Inside & Outside
Extras
Screens, hard-water removal
Plan
Twice a year (180 days)
Billing
Card on file, charged on Complete

Simple Plans. Never Billed per User.

Pick the plan that fits the size of your business. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no credit card.

Compare plans on the pricing page.

Window Cleaning Business Software — Common Questions

Is it worth paying for software when I only run one van?

Starting on software with your first customers means every address, window count and recurring plan is recorded from the beginning, so you never have to rebuild your records from a notebook later. Start is $59/month, and the 14-day free trial needs no credit card.

How do recurring cleanings work?

Each plan has a minimum number of days between visits, such as 14 or 30 for storefronts and 90 or 180 for homes. When a cleaning comes due it shows on the Waiting List map and list, colored due now or overdue past a 7-day grace, so nothing depends on someone remembering.

Can I run residential and storefront work separately?

Yes. Tag clients as Residential, Storefront, Quarterly or Commercial, assign jobs to a van, and filter the Scheduled List by van. A common setup is one van on homes and one on a storefront route.

How do property managers get billed?

Set the account to Monthly billing and they receive one statement each month covering every location, with each line labeled by its address.

Can I bring my customers over from another system?

Yes. Import clients and addresses by CSV. Imports place every address on the map, and one client can hold many addresses.

How much does it cost?

Start is $59/month, Pro is $89/month, and Crew is $199/month. You are never billed per user, and every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with no credit card.

This page covers the business side of window cleaning. For the tech app, routing, quotes and the rest of the product, see the full WindowBossPro platform overview.

Running a Window Cleaning Business Guides

Practical reading on starting out, choosing software, pricing, residential and commercial work, hiring, safety, seasons, add-on services, marketing, the numbers to watch, profit leaks and growing past the owner's own ladder.

  1. Running a Window Cleaning Business: The Complete Guide From First Ladder to Second Van
  2. How to Start a Window Cleaning Business: The First Ninety Days
  3. Getting a Window Cleaning Business Off Paper From Day One
  4. Choosing Window Cleaning Business Software and What It Should Cost
  5. Switching Window Cleaning Business Software Without Losing a Customer
  6. Pricing a Window Cleaning Business for Profit, Not Just Volume
  7. Residential vs Commercial: Finding the Right Mix for a Window Cleaning Business
  8. Adding a Second Van to a Window Cleaning Business
  9. Hiring Techs for a Window Cleaning Business: Who to Look For and How to Find Them
  10. Training New Techs in a Window Cleaning Business: The First Two Weeks
  11. Ladder and Safety Procedures for a Window Cleaning Business
  12. Standard Procedures That Let a Window Cleaning Business Run Without the Owner
  13. Handling the Spring Rush in a Window Cleaning Business
  14. Getting Through the Winter Slowdown in a Window Cleaning Business
  15. Add-On Services for a Window Cleaning Business: Screens, Gutters and Hard Water
  16. Local Marketing for a Window Cleaning Business That Fills the Route
  17. Reviews and Referrals: The Cheapest Growth a Window Cleaning Business Will Ever Get
  18. Customer Communication in a Window Cleaning Business: Before, During and After the Visit
  19. The Weekly Numbers Every Window Cleaning Business Owner Should Watch
  20. Profit Leaks in a Window Cleaning Business and How to Plug Them
  21. Unbilled Extras: The Screens and Hard Water a Window Cleaning Business Does for Free
  22. Missed Recurring Visits: The Quiet Revenue Loss in a Window Cleaning Business
  23. Declined Cards and Past-Due Accounts in a Window Cleaning Business
  24. Hiring Office Help for a Window Cleaning Business: Roles That Actually Matter
  25. From Owner-Operator to Manager: Stepping Off the Ladder in a Window Cleaning Business
  26. A Simple Growth Plan for a Window Cleaning Business
  27. Building Recurring Revenue in a Window Cleaning Business
  28. Mistakes Window Cleaning Business Owners Make When Growing
  29. Keeping Customers Year After Year in a Window Cleaning Business
  30. The Window Cleaning Business Owner's Weekly Routine

Run the Business,
Not the Notebook.

Recurring cleanings that come due on their own, routes by van, window details on every job, quotes customers approve and payment when the work is done. Try WindowBossPro free for 14 days.

Start Your 14-Day Free TrialTry the Live Demo
No credit card required  ·  14-day free trial  ·  from $59/mo after