What makes cleaning admin different
The headache is not quoting. It is keeping track of who you cleaned and how often, then invoicing a book of regular clients without it eating your Sunday.
- Recurring jobs, set a client to weekly or fortnightly once, and the job keeps coming back on your schedule instead of you re-entering it every time.
- Batch invoicing, at the end of the month invoice all your regulars in one go rather than chasing twelve little payments one at a time.
- Regular and one off rates, your weekly clients pay a different rate to a one off bond clean, so keep both straight.
- Fast end of lease quotes, bond cleans are big and priced by the job, so build the quote from saved line items in a minute.
- Lots of small payments, collected easily, a PayID or bank details on every invoice means regulars just tap and pay.
A cleaner app that carries the round
It runs in the browser on your phone and your computer, and you add it to your home screen so it opens like any other app. It works offline, so a unit block with no signal or a basement car park doesn't stop you finishing the clean, taking the after photos and writing the invoice.
Each regular's history sits on their customer, the jobs, quotes, invoices and photos together, so the access notes and the last clean's photos are there before you knock. A bond clean quote comes off your saved price list and goes out as a link, and when the customer accepts it online it lands back in the app. Texts are unlimited and included, fair use, and the replies land in the app with the whole conversation in one place.
Comparing it with the bigger names first? The job management software we compared sets them side by side by what each is best at and how it charges.
Typical jobs it handles
Weekly and fortnightly home cleans, office and commercial cleans, end-of-lease / bond cleans, carpet steam cleaning, oven and appliance cleans, window cleaning, spring cleans and one-off deep cleans. Save your standard packages and they drop into a quote instantly.
Keep your regulars paying on time
When you've got 20 regulars, even a few slow payers add up. Yamate makes the month's invoices for you to send with your PayID on them, and once you switch the reminders on it chases the overdue ones by text, so you're cleaning, not nagging.
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Licences and paperwork, straight from the regulators
No trade licence for cleaning, but GST registration and public liability are the two bits of paper clients and agents actually ask for. From the Yamate compliance guide, read at each regulator on the date shown.
GST registration
Read it at the regulator · checked 2026-08-12
Public liability insurance
Read it at the regulator · checked 2026-08-21
Deposits and getting paid have their own pages, deposit caps state by state and what a tax invoice must show.
FAQ
What's the best app for a cleaning business in Australia?
For a cleaning business, solo or with a crew, the best app handles recurring clients and batch invoicing without the bloat of big field service software. Yamate sets regulars on repeat, batch-invoices them monthly, quotes bond cleans fast and sends late payers reminders once you switch them on, from $19/mo (founder price, until 30 Nov), on iPhone and Android.
Can I invoice all my regular clients at once?
Yes, that's the point. Batch invoicing lets you bill a month of regulars in one go instead of one at a time.
Can I set clients to recur weekly or fortnightly?
Yes. Set the frequency once and the job comes back on your schedule automatically, so you're not re-entering the same clean every week.
Is this cleaning invoicing software?
Yes, invoicing is the half most round-based cleaners feel first. A weekly round of 30 clients is more than 100 invoices a month, so the useful software is the one that turns them into a single batch at the end of the month and chases whoever hasn't paid. That is what this does, alongside the scheduling.
Tickets, safety and a crew
Yamate keeps your insurance and any tickets you hold on file and tells you before they lapse, yours and your crew's. It'll draft a Safe Work Method Statement for a job from what the job actually is, and you read it and sign it. Yamate issues nothing and lodges nothing, apart from the NSW CCEW an electrician sends from the job.
Got an apprentice or a crew? You're not too big for it. Pay runs, payslips, super and licence dates are in here too, on the same flat price.
Taken someone on? The Founder plan includes up to 3 people. For larger crews, the 8-person plan includes 8 people, and bigger crews move up a size, from $99/mo for 12 people to $399/mo for 200 people. Everyone gets their own login so you choose what each of them sees. And if you get stuck anywhere, Ask ya mate. Type a question and it walks you through the screens, suggesting the tap rather than doing it for you.
Is this cleaning business software?
It is the part of it a round-based cleaner actually uses. Search cleaning business software and you will find two kinds, commercial contract systems built for tender bidding and quality audits, and American products built around a different tax system.
Cleaning is the highest job count trade there is, a weekly round of 30 clients is over 120 jobs a month. That is the number to check any pricing page against, because several of the best-known options cap jobs per month or step the price as the count rises. Yamate does not cap jobs on any plan.
Recurring bookings are set once against the customer and the site, with the access notes and before-and-after photos attached. Appointment reminders can send automatically if you switch them on.
What it is not. Contract bidding or quality system software. If you are tendering for commercial buildings, that is a different product.
Free tools for cleaners
General information only for Australian businesses.