- Group recurring homes by area and day; a tight route is worth more than one more client across town.
- The core of cleaning scheduling is on Koira's Front Office plan, $499 flat, with no per-person fee.
- Customers book online and stops sorted by the drive decide most of it for cleaning companies.
How a cleaning company's calendar works
Cleaning schedules are recurring: the same homes on the same days every week or two. The work is in keeping that pattern full, fitting new clients where the drive works, and moving visits around holidays without a day of texts.
The other half is the team. Each cleaner or pair needs their own homes in order, with the access notes, on their own phone.
What lands on a cleaning calendar
- Weekly and every-other-week homes
- Monthly cleans
- First-time deep cleans that need a longer slot
- Move-out cleans on a fixed date
- Holiday weeks that shift
- Office cleans after hours
- Each team's homes in driving order
- Key and alarm notes for each home
What scheduling software should do for cleaning companies
- Bookings only into times that fit the day
- Every stop in driving order
- Day-before reminders the customer can answer
- Each person's stops on their own phone
- Recurring service plans, which matters for cleaning companies
- Time tracking, which matters for cleaning companies
How Koira does it
In Koira, every booking for a cleaning company, from a call, a text or your site, lands on Today in driving order on its own, whether it is weekly and every-other-week homes or monthly cleans. Koira only offers customers times that fit the route, and the day before it texts them to confirm or move. That is on Office, the free plan.
On Grow, calls are answered on a Koira number and booked into your real day. On Front Office, $499 flat, each person gets a lane with their stops on their own phone and clocks in and out of jobs.
For cleaning companies in particular
- Crew scheduling. On Front Office, each team sees its own stops and clocks in, with no per-person fee.
Side by side
The features that matter for cleaning scheduling, where each first appears on each company's public pricing page, then the people, usage, card and add-on rows every company gets.
| What you need | Koira | Markate | Housecall Pro | Service Autopilot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customers book online | Office (free) | Online booking add-on, $10 a month | Basic | Not listed |
| Stops sorted by the drive | Office (stops sorted by the drive) | Not listed | Essentials (routes), Max (route optimization) | Pro (route optimization) |
| Day-before reminders | Office, the day before | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Crew scheduling | Front Office | Not listed | Basic (schedule and assign techs) | Startup (scheduling and dispatch) |
| Calls answered by AI | Grow | Kate AI receptionist, $1 a call | CSR AI, listed as a separate product | Not listed |
| Recurring service plans | Front Office | Not listed | Max (recurring service plans) | Not listed |
| Time tracking | Front Office | Not listed | Time tracking, listed in its menu but not on a plan card | Pro (employee tracking) |
| People, usage and card fees | ||||
| Extra people | No per-person fee; one or fifteen people, the same price | $5 a month per employee | $35 a month each on Max; on Basic and Essentials, move up a plan | Added app licenses through its team, no price listed |
| Usage or credits | None on Office, at cost on Grow, included on Front Office | Kate AI receptionist $1 a call; texts 5 or 10 cents each; email $10 per 2,000 | None on the pricing page | None on the pricing page |
| Card payments | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2%, 1% or 0.5% by plan (Koira) | Not published; payments run through Square at Square's rate | From 2.59% a card payment, 1% bank payments | Not published on its pricing page |
| Add-ons | None; postcards are a flat price per card | Most extras $10 a month each (online booking, portal, review asks, phone number); API $50 | CSR AI, Pipeline, Campaigns, Voice, Websites and Tap to Pay, sold separately, no price listed | Two-way texting, QuickBooks sync, client portal, Smart Maps, email integration, GPS, all call for pricing |
From Markate pricing and Service Autopilot pricing, checked October 9, 2026; Housecall Pro pricing, checked October 8, 2026. Part of Housecall Pro's pricing page fills in by script and it was running first-month offers when we checked. The plan prices below are the regular ones its plan cards show. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
What each one costs
Every plan in the same columns: price, people, usage, card rates and add-ons.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | People included | Usage or credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | ||||
| Office | $0, free | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | None charged on Office |
| Grow | $249 a month | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Texts, call minutes and emails at cost, nothing added |
| Front Office | $499 a month, flat | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Included in the $499 |
| Markate | ||||
| Owner Operator | $49.95 a month | $45.95 a month ($551.40 a year) | The owner | Kate AI receptionist $1 a call; texts 5 or 10 cents each; email $10 per 2,000 |
| Team | $49.95 plus $5 a month per employee | $45.95 plus $5 a month per employee | The owner plus employees | Kate AI receptionist $1 a call; texts 5 or 10 cents each; email $10 per 2,000 |
| Housecall Pro | ||||
| Basic | $79 a month | $59 a month billed yearly | 1 user | None on the pricing page |
| Essentials | $189 a month | $149 a month billed yearly | 5 users | None on the pricing page |
| Max | $329 a month | $299 a month billed yearly | 8 users | None on the pricing page |
| Service Autopilot | ||||
| Startup | $49 a month plus a sign-up fee | Yearly rate | 1 business user, 1 mobile license | None on the pricing page |
| Pro | $199 a month plus a sign-up fee | Yearly rate | 1 business user, 2 mobile licenses | None on the pricing page |
| Pro Plus | $499 a month plus a sign-up fee | Yearly rate | 1 business user, 5 mobile licenses | None on the pricing page |
| Elite | Priced on request | Priced on request | 2 business users, 8 mobile licenses | None on the pricing page |
What comes on top: people, card payments and add-ons
| Company | Each extra person | Card payments | Add-ons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | No per-person fee on any plan | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2% on Office, 1% on Grow, 0.5% on Front Office (Koira); on Office that share replaces a monthly fee | None; postcards are a flat price per card |
| Markate | $5 a month per employee | Not published; payments run through Square at Square's rate | Most extras $10 a month each (online booking, portal, review asks, phone number); API $50 |
| Housecall Pro | $35 a month each on Max; on Basic and Essentials, move up a plan | From 2.59% a card payment, 1% bank payments | CSR AI, Pipeline, Campaigns, Voice, Websites and Tap to Pay, sold separately, no price listed |
| Service Autopilot | Added app licenses through its team, no price listed | Not published on its pricing page | Two-way texting, QuickBooks sync, client portal, Smart Maps, email integration, GPS, all call for pricing |
From Markate pricing and Service Autopilot pricing, checked October 9, 2026; Housecall Pro pricing, checked October 8, 2026. Part of Housecall Pro's pricing page fills in by script and it was running first-month offers when we checked. The plan prices below are the regular ones its plan cards show. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
Card rates as each company publishes them, checked October 9, 2026. Koira's is Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ for a US card plus Koira's share, which pays for Office in place of a monthly fee.
Sources, each checked October 9, 2026: Markate pricing, Housecall Pro pricing (checked October 8, 2026), Housecall Pro industries (checked October 8, 2026), Service Autopilot pricing, Stripe pricing, and Koira pricing. We read each page's own text; we did not use summaries or third-party price lists.