Why cleaning businesses are different
- Most calls are quote requests: home size, bedrooms and bathrooms, how often, deep clean vs. standard, move-out. A good AI collects those details every time so you can price without calling back.
- Owners are usually cleaning, driving between jobs, or managing crews when the phone rings, so first-time callers hit voicemail and try the next company.
- Recurring clients call about schedule changes, gate codes, pets, and add-ons. Those calls need to land in your notes, not someone’s memory.
- Many cleaning teams and customers are Spanish-speaking. Rosie advertises English and Spanish on every call.
What to look for
- 24/7 pickup with no evening or weekend premium
- A short intake script for quotes (size, rooms, frequency, type of clean, preferred day)
- Calendar booking for walkthroughs or first cleans, not just a booking link
- Text notifications and call summaries so you can quote from the job site
- Live or warm transfer to the owner for big commercial leads
- Spam and robocall filtering
- English and Spanish
- Keep your existing number via call forwarding
Snapshot: Rosie (official, checked Oct 16 2026)
Source: https://heyrosie.com/pricing
| Plan | Price | Minutes | Cleaning-relevant features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | $49/mo | 250 | Message taking (2 scenarios), text appointment links, spam detection, website chat |
| Scale | $149/mo | 1,000 | Calendar booking in-call, warm and live transfers, texts during the call, 5 message scenarios |
| Growth | $299/mo | 2,000 | Waterfall transfers, upload training docs (pricing sheets, policies), unlimited scenarios, white-glove onboarding, priority support |
All plans: 24/7, multiple calls at once, EN/ES on every call, summaries/transcripts/recordings, email and text notifications, Zapier, iOS/Android apps, pick your area code. 7-day free trial. Annual billing gives 2 months free. Website Texting add-on $50/mo (25 conversations, then $1 each); website chat is free on all plans.
Snapshot: Goodcall (official, checked Oct 16 2026)
Source: https://www.goodcall.com/pricing
| Plan | Price | Included | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $79/mo | 100 unique customers (about 150 calls) | 79¢ per extra customer |
| Growth | $129/mo | 500 unique customers (about 750 calls) | 26¢ per extra customer |
| Scale | $299/mo | 2,000 unique customers (about 3,000 calls) | 15¢ per extra customer |
- Billing counts unique callers per month, not minutes. Spam and wrong numbers don’t count.
- Local number included on every plan, or forward your existing number.
- No classic free trial; you build and test a free demo agent and pay when you connect a number.
- Goodcall says a live answering service runs about $1.50 to $1.90 a minute (vendor claim).
Which billing model fits a cleaning company
- Rosie meters minutes. Quote-intake calls run a few minutes each, so 250 minutes on Professional fills up fast once you’re busy. Scale’s 1,000 minutes is the safer start for a growing team.
- Goodcall meters unique customers. A recurring client who calls three times a month to reschedule costs the same as one call.
Rough math (example, not measured data)
If one new recurring client is worth $120 to $200 per clean, every two weeks, a single extra booking a month pays for either tool’s mid plan within the first few cleans.
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