The easiest way to keep your client’s home clean.
For cleaners who keep the same second homes, cabins and rentals on a schedule, for an owner who is mostly never there. Your list for each house, photos straight from the camera, and the owner has the photos and your invoice in one link, under your name.
House Matters is cleaning business software for small cleaning businesses. A card for every client home, a cleaning list per house, photos from the camera on every clean, the owner’s report as a link that needs no account, and your invoice or Venmo request the moment you lock up. Your first three client homes are free, then $19 a month. No per-cleaner fee. Works in your browser on any phone.
Built for the cleaner whose client isn’t home.
Not a crew tool priced per cleaner. Not the host’s tool handed down to you. Yours.
Every other Tuesday, keys and codes.
The Ruizes are in Ohio until Thanksgiving. You clean the condo every two weeks, let the pool guy in once, and text a photo of the leak under the sink. All of it is on their record, under your name.
- A cadence per house — weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly
- Keys, codes and the alarm word on the home’s card
- The photo of the leak becomes a flag they can act on
The clean lands on your route the day they leave.
When the family books their stay in their app, the turnover clean is on your route the day they check out. After photos the owner can trust are from today, and the request goes out when you lock up.
- Turnovers appear when the family books the stay
- After photos, timestamped, on the owner’s report
- Low or out on the supply list, so they restock before the next guests
Same client, same app, same invoice.
Between stays you walk the house, tick the checklist and take photos. It’s a check, not a clean, and it bills as one — on the same monthly invoice. If checks are most of your week, start there.
- Photo checks between stays
- One invoice for the cleans and the checks
- One client record the family sees
Set it once. It holds.
Weekly, every two weeks, monthly, your own days, or after each stay — a cadence per house, and the route builds itself with overdue first. Pause a home for the summer and it stops counting toward your three.
You know when they leave, before they text you.
The family books their stay in their own free app. The moment they do, the turnover clean is on your route for the day they check out. No calendar to chase, no Sunday-night “are you coming tomorrow?” If a family doesn’t use the app, you type the date and it works the same.
Everything cleaned today, with the photos to prove it.
A cleaning list for each house — five lines to start, edit them once. Tick as you go, photos straight from the camera, and whatever the family asked you to look at is on the same sheet. Lock up, tap Complete, and the owner opens the report as a link. No account, nothing to install.
+3The work is done. So is the invoice.
Lock up, tap Complete, and the clean is already an invoice or a Venmo request with the photos attached. Bill each clean, or a family’s month in one tap. On your own Stripe, Wave or Venmo — House Matters takes no cut, sells no leads, and keeps unbilled and unpaid on your screen until they’re settled.
Your accounts, your money — House Matters sends the invoice and keeps the record. See pricing →
What else it does while you clean.
Built from a working cleaner’s real week — not a crew tool with your logo on it.
Per clean or per hour
“Cleaning · 2.5 hrs × $45” or a flat rate per house. Extras from your presets — inside the oven, the fridge, the windows — charged the moment you do them.
A deep clean, priced once
Put a price on it, the owner taps yes from wherever they are, and the bill can’t go past it.
Add the person who cleans with you
They tick the list and take the photos under their own name. Rates, invoices and payments stay yours. No per-user fee.
Pause the off-season
The beach house closes for the summer? Pause it — it leaves your route and your count, and comes back on the date you set.
Keys, codes and the alarm word
On the home’s card, where you need them, and nowhere else. Nobody but you sees your client list.
Collections that chase themselves
Card and bank invoices remind on their own; a Venmo request gets a one-tap nudge instead of an awkward text.
Your clients see your work in House Matters.
Free for them, nothing to install, your name on every visit. When they need a hand with the house, the ask comes to you, not whoever texted them last. Built by Family Matters, so the money side is there if they ever want it.
Their stays drive your turnovers, their supply list tells you what to bring, and anything they flag lands on your next clean.
Your first three client homes are free. Then $19 a month.
Everything included from your first home. Past three active homes, Pro is $19 a month or $190 a year. Paused homes don’t count, there is no per-user fee, and House Matters takes no cut of what you bill.
No per-cleaner fee · No credit card to start · Free for homeowners, always
| Tool | Price at one user | What the price buys |
|---|---|---|
| House Matters | $0 up to 3 client homes, then $19/mo | Everything, no per-cleaner fee, no cut of your invoices |
| ZenMaid | Starter $19/mo (40 appointments), Pro $39; $4 per extra cleaner; texts extra | Recurring schedules, checklists, a client portal |
| Jobber | Core $49/mo month to month, $29/mo paid yearly; checklists on Connect at $139 | Quotes, scheduling, invoicing, online booking |
| Housecall Pro | Basic $79/mo, $59 paid yearly; checklists and photo reports on the $149 plan | Scheduling, invoicing, marketing, card on file |
| FieldVibe | Free at one user; $20/mo for invoices | Recurring cleans, reminders, quotes, a free website |
| Turno | Free for cleaners; the host pays; a yearly background badge | The host’s tool: their checklist, their refund button, their calendar |
Prices read from each company’s own pricing page on September 9, 2026. Read the full comparison →
Plain answers, before you ask.
The questions cleaners ask on the first call, answered the way they’d be answered on the phone.
Do you pull my clients’ Airbnb or VRBO calendar?
No. When the family books the stay in their House Matters app, the turnover lands on your route the day they leave. When they don’t, you type the date. Nothing is pulled from anywhere.
Does my client need an account?
No. The report and the invoice are links that open in any browser. If they want the keys, the stays, the supply list and every bill in one place, House Matters is free for homeowners — and your cleans are already in it.
I use Turno for my rental clients. Why this?
Turno is the host’s tool; this is yours. Turno hands you their checklist and keeps the refund button. House Matters is your list, your photos, your report under your name, and your invoice — for the rental and for the regular houses too. Keep Turno for the marketplace jobs if you like it.
I use ZenMaid or Jobber today.
They’re priced for a crew; this is free to three homes and $19 after, no per-cleaner fee. Bring your client list as a spreadsheet, add each home once with its list and its cadence, and you’re cleaning by Thursday. There’s no booking form or crew dispatch here — if you need those, keep what you have.
My clients pay by Venmo or cash.
Keep Venmo — the request carries the photos and the itemized clean. Card and bank invoices go through your own Stripe or Wave when a client wants a receipt. Cash and Zelle aren’t in the app; mark the clean paid and move on.
Is there a Spanish version? Android? Does it work with no signal?
Not yet, yes in the browser, and you need a bar when you tap Complete. Works in your browser on any phone, at the house.
The House Matters app for iPhone is in review with Apple; Android follows. Take photos as you go — the app holds them — and tap Complete once you have signal.
Where does my money go?
Straight to you. Invoices and requests go out on your own Stripe, Wave or Venmo. House Matters takes no cut, holds no money, and sells no leads.
I need clients, or a booking page.
Not here, and it’s better to say so. House Matters is for the cleaner who already has the houses and wants the list, the photos, the report and the invoice to take care of themselves. Where the second-home clients actually come from is in the first-25-clients guide — it applies to cleaners word for word.
Whose data is it?
Yours. Your clients, homes, codes, photos and invoices belong to you. Ask, and House Matters sends you a spreadsheet of all of it within a week, or deletes the account and everything in it.
Guides and templates for cleaners.
All guides and templates →Cleaning checklist template
House and turnover versions, with a low-or-out column. Full text, no signup.
TemplateCleaning contract template
One page, plain words, the cancellation line that saves the argument.
GuideBest cleaning business software for small businesses
ZenMaid, Jobber, Housecall Pro, FieldVibe, Turno — dated prices, honest fit.
GuideJobber pricing (2026)
What a small business actually pays, and the cheaper options.
From signup to paid, in four steps.
Sign up free
Your name or your business name. Pick Cleaning. No credit card to start.
Add your homes
Owner, cadence, your rate, the keys and codes, and a cleaning list per house.
Do the work
Tick the list, photos from the camera, low or out on the supplies. Charges build themselves.
Send the invoice
A clean or a whole month, bundled per family. Card, bank, or Venmo.
Clean second homes for a living? Start today.
Free to set up your homes and send your first report. Be up and running before Thursday’s clean.
Start freeWorks in your browser on any phone, at the house.
House Matters is also for home watchers and handymen, and free for the people who own the home.