If you clean houses for a living, your revenue does not come in one clean stream. One client leaves cash on the counter. Another Venmos you before you leave. A third is on autopay through Zelle. Move-out cleanings come in via check. And the new client from Nextdoor paid through Cash App.
Standard accounting software cannot see any of that unless you spend hours a week manually entering it. And you did not start a cleaning business to sit at a computer entering transactions.
The Reality of a $120,000 Cleaning Business
A solo cleaner doing 25 recurring homes a week at $180 average is running about $234,000 a year through the door. Maybe half hits the business bank account. The rest arrives in five different apps and personal accounts.
When your books only reflect the bank half, you look like a $117,000 business. You underprice new jobs. You feel stuck. You do not hire the second cleaner you actually can afford.
What Works
The system that actually works for cleaners is dead simple: log cash and app payments in the moment, one field, thirty seconds. Upload the bank statement once a month. Let the software combine everything into a real P&L.
That is exactly what LedgerFast does. No chart of accounts to build. No categories to invent. No CPA required to get started.
Invoicing for the Move-Out Jobs
Recurring residential clients pay you on the spot. But move-outs, Airbnbs, and post-construction cleans usually need an invoice — and those are the ones that slow-pay. LedgerFast Collect emails the invoice, follows up automatically until it is paid, and drops the payment into your books when it hits the bank. You never make a collections call.
Tax Season Without the Panic
The Tax Organizer builds all year. Every cash payment, every Venmo, every bank deposit is mapped to a Schedule C category as it comes in. In January you hand your tax preparer one clean package instead of a shoebox and an apology.
Plans from $49/month. First month free. Built for solo cleaners and small crews, not accountants.
See a real sample monthly report on the demo page.