Per clean, per month, or per turnover.
Your weekly clients want a bill after each clean, the busy family wants one a month, and the rental host with three properties wants every turnover listed by date. Redline drafts each one from a message: one total, with the dates and any lockout fee written into the line.
Billing a cleaning client list
Pick each client's rhythm
After each clean or once a month. Note it on their file ("bills monthly") and Redline uses it when you ask for the month's invoices.
Per-clean clients: invoice the day of
"Invoice the Patels for today's biweekly clean." Your rate is remembered. Approve it and the pay link is ready to send.
Monthly clients: list the dates
One invoice for the month's total, with each clean's date and any add-ons (inside the oven, a deep clean before the holidays) written into its description.
Rental hosts: list by property
Hosts with several units want each turnover by address and date. One invoice for the month, every turnover written into its description, linens or restocking in the total.
Fees, written down
Lockouts and late cancellations get billed at the fee you've told Redline, named with the date, so the client sees why they're paying.
End of October, a host's turnovers
Draft for Harbor View Rentals: $511, "October turnovers: 12 Beach Rd Oct 3, 10, 24 and 8 Dune Ln Oct 5, 19 (5 at $95), plus $36 restocking supplies." Due in 14 days. Approve?
Harbor View's pay link is live. Draft for the Mullers: $60, "Lockout fee, Tuesday Oct 27." Approve?
Invoices are on Solo ($29 a month) and up. Your fees are remembered once you've said them. Example prices only.
Three ways cleaning clients get billed
| Client | Invoice | What the invoice line says |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly or biweekly home | After each clean | The clean, any add-ons, any fee |
| Monthly billing home | End of month | Each clean by date, add-ons and fees |
| Rental host | End of month | Each turnover by property and date, linens or restocking |
| Move-out or one-time deep clean | Same day | The quoted clean plus anything added on site |
Fees only work if they're on the invoice
Every cleaning company has a lockout and late-cancel policy, and plenty never charge it because it's awkward. When the fee is on an invoice, with the date and the reason, it stops being a confrontation and starts being the policy. If you let one go, mention it in the next invoice's line ("lockout Oct 27, waived") so they know.
Redline doesn't charge cards on file or run autopay, so each invoice is one you approve and the client pays on the link. For a weekly client, that's one short message after the clean. For a host, it's one message at month end with the turnover dates.
Straight answers on cleaning invoices
Redline does
- Invoice per clean or monthly, with the dates in the line
- Write a host's turnovers into the invoice by property and date
- Remember your rates, add-ons and fees
- Card pay links on your own Stripe account
- Flag unpaid invoices at day 3, 7 and 14
Redline doesn't
- Charge a card on file after each clean
- Sync with Airbnb or other rental calendars
- Split tips out to your cleaners
- Bill monthly clients automatically
- Text invoices (copy the link or email it)
Questions contractors ask
Do my cleaners see what clients pay?
No. On Team and up, cleaners see their homes, checklists and notes. Invoices and prices stay with the owner and office.
Can I invoice a batch of finished cleans at once?
Yes. Finished jobs wait in Money under Ready to bill, and Send all invoices them together.
How do I bill a client who skipped?
If they skipped with notice, there's nothing to bill. A late cancel gets your fee on their next invoice, with the date written in.
More for cleaning businesses
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- Cleaning business softwareRecurring cleans, skips, team assignments and move-out quotes by bed and bath.
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- House cleaning quote appBeds, baths and add-ons into a first-clean and recurring price, no walkthrough.
- Invoicing and card paymentsInvoice from the job in two taps or one message. Customers pay by card.