Will it work for landscaping or pressure washing?

Probably. Anything where you send a person to an address, pay per job rather than per hour, and need proof it was done, fits the same shape.

Built by someone who runs a cleaning company

Cleaning business software that hires your crew, pays them per job, and proves the work got done.

Q: Is there a free plan?

Yes, with no card. Two cleaners, twenty jobs a month, your own booking page, and the whole job flow from booking through to getting paid.

Every other tool puts your jobs on a calendar. Scheduling is the easy part. Akye runs the parts that actually cost you money — finding cleaners, paying them right, and knowing the job was done to your standard.

Made for house cleaning and maid services. Works for any team you send to an address — landscaping, pressure washing, window cleaning, detailing.

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Every screen exists because something went wrong without it.

akyehq.com — your back office

The Akye dashboard, showing which jobs tomorrow have nobody assigned to them

A cleaner's job on her phone, with the address, what she earns and a Navigate button

The three things that actually run a cleaning business

Scheduling software solves one of them.

🧹 Finding cleaners

Applications, video interviews, background-check requests, offers, agreements and onboarding — one pipeline instead of a phone full of text threads.

💵 Paying them right

A percentage, an hourly rate, or a flat amount per job — whatever you already do. W-2 employees or 1099 contractors. The offer, the job page and payroll all read the same figure, so nobody is ever told two different numbers. 1099s and W-9s included.

✅ Knowing it got done

Checklists with photos, clock-in and out, and a customer signature — on a texted link, with no app for the cleaner to install.

No app for your cleaners to download

They get a text. They tap it. The job is there.

✓ The address, and a Navigate button that opens their own maps app
✓ How to get in — the lockbox code, the gate, the dog
✓ What they earn on that job, stated before they start
✓ The checklist, photos and the customer's signature

Every competitor makes a cleaner download an app, create an account and remember a password. Then pays for the support calls when she can't log in.

The month calendar, with a red mark on any day that has a job nobody is assigned to

Scheduling that shows you the gap before the customer does

A job on Thursday with nobody on it is marked on the calendar and on your dashboard — not buried a click deep inside the day.

✓ Drag a job to another day to move it
✓ Send a job out to the whole team and let somebody claim it
✓ Recurring work books itself forward

Send a job to the whole team and let them claim it

Somebody calls out on Tuesday morning. Instead of working down your contacts, you send the job to the whole team and the first cleaner to take it owns it.

1 Send it outOne tap. Every available cleaner gets a text with the date, the area and what the job pays.

2 First to claim keeps itNo app, no login. They tap the text and take it. Anyone already double-booked is told before they can.

3 It is theirsThe address and entry notes unlock, the job lands on their day, and the pay is already agreed.

The full address only appears once somebody has actually taken the job — a broadcast is not a list of your customers' homes.

A job offered to the team on a cleaner's phone, showing what it pays and a Claim this job button

Hire a cleaner without a single phone call

The evenings that used to go on pre-screening people who were never going to work out.

VideoThey record six questions on their own time. You watch the ones worth watching, between jobs

EspañolQuestions in English or Spanish, and a Spanish answer translates in one tap

One buttonApprove, and the conditional offer and the background check go together

Self-serveForms, documents and orientation run themselves from there

Nobody asks "do you have reliable transportation?" either — it is a yes/no that quietly rules out most of New York and Chicago. We ask how somebody gets to work and how far they will travel, which is the thing you actually need to know.

Cleaners looking for work, near you

Somebody quit, somebody did not show, and Saturday has nobody on it. That is the real problem.

Near youPeople in your area who asked to be shown to cleaning companies

How they travelCar, bus, a lift or on foot — and how far they will go

In SpanishMarked, so you know before you ring

Your own tooInvite the applicants you never hired to join it, in one click

It is new, so it is thin. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise — but it costs nothing to look, and one good cleaner pays for a year of this.

Online booking, instant quotes and automatic reminders

A customer should be able to get a price at eleven at night without waking you up.

💬

A booking page, free Your name, your colours, your prices. Customers pick a service, see the real number and book — and it lands in your CRM as a job. Included on every plan, even the free one.

📅

Booking without the phone call They pick the service and the day. It arrives as a job waiting for you to confirm, not as a voicemail.

🔁

Recurring work books itself Every two weeks, every month — the next visit is on the calendar without anybody re-entering it.

🔔

Reminders and follow-ups Confirmations, day-before reminders, the review request afterwards. Sent whether or not you remembered.

It builds your commercial call list for you

Houses pay the bills. Offices, daycares and clinics are what make the business worth something.

Finds themLocal businesses near you, imported as prospects you can work

TodayOpens on the four people to ring this morning, not two hundred rows in import order

RemembersWhat they said, what happens next and when it is due

Nobody drops"Their contract ends in March" becomes a call in February, not a thing you forgot

A booked commercial walkthrough costs about $80 to buy as a lead. One of them costs more than a month of this.

It is not cheap software. It is four things you already pay for

Some in money and some in evenings, but you are paying for all four right now.

~$80One bought commercial lead. The prospect list is in the price

$25/dayIndeed's floor per sponsored role. Here applicants interview themselves

AprilExpenses logged as they happen, so tax time is a handover, not a weekend

Your eveningsOne broadcast and the team claims the work. You assign only when you want to

Replace any one of them and it has paid for itself. Most owners are paying for all four.

Questions cleaning company owners ask

The ones that come up on nearly every call.

What does Akye actually do?

It runs the operating side of a cleaning company: quoting and booking customers, scheduling jobs, assigning or broadcasting them to cleaners, working out what each cleaner is owed per job, keeping checklists and photos as proof the work was done, and tracking what you kept on each job after pay and fees. Hiring is built in too — applications, interviews, offers and onboarding.

Do my cleaners need to download an app?

No. They get a text with a link. They tap it and the job is there — the address, how to get in, what they earn, the checklist, and a Navigate button that opens their own maps app. No account, no password, nothing to install. Somebody you hire on Tuesday can work on Wednesday.

How is this different from ZenMaid, Jobber or Housecall Pro?

Those are scheduling tools with pay bolted on. Akye is built the other way round: the hiring pipeline, per-job cleaner pay and proof of work are the product, and the calendar is the easy part that everybody already does well. If your problem is finding cleaners and working out what you owe them on a Friday, that is what this is for.

Is there really a free plan?

Yes, and no card is needed. Two cleaners, twenty jobs a month, your own booking page, and the whole job flow from booking through to getting paid. Pro is $79 a month when you outgrow it.

Do I get a website?

You get a booking page, which is the part of a website that actually earns money — your name, your colours, your prices, and a form that puts the job straight into your CRM. Put the link in your Facebook bio or your Google listing. On Pro you can drop it into the website you already have with one line of code.

Does it handle contractor pay and 1099s?

It works out what each cleaner is owed — by percentage, hourly rate, or a flat amount you set per job — keeps a running total for the year, and collects W-9s during contractor onboarding. It is a record-keeping tool, not a payroll provider — it does not pay anybody or file anything with the IRS, and it takes no view on whether somebody is a contractor or an employee. That decision is yours.

I do landscaping, not cleaning. Will it work?

Probably. Anything where you send a person to an address, pay them for the job rather than the hour, and need proof it was done, fits the same shape. The wording says "cleaning" in places because that is where it was built and tested. Try the free plan and tell us what does not fit.

What happens to my data if I leave?

It is yours. You can export your customers, jobs and pay records, and ask for the account to be deleted. That is written into the terms, not just promised here.