Margin-true pricing
The bid is built from labor burden, overhead, supplies and your target margin — divided so profit comes out first. Your price is defensible, not a guess, and it never quietly dips below cost.
For residential cleaning businesses
Price every cleaning job for profit — in under 60 seconds.
Most cleaners quote with “hours × rate” and quietly underprice. BidCalc uses the real cost formula — labor burden, overhead and your target margin — so every bid protects your profit and still looks professional to the client.
No credit card · 3 free quotes every month
“Hours × rate” is how cleaners lose money.
A crew costs more than their hourly wage. Payroll taxes, workers’ comp and benefits add roughly 30% on top. Then there’s insurance, vehicles and supplies — and the profit you’re supposed to keep. Skip any of it and the job pays you a wage, not a margin.
BidCalc bakes all of it into one number, so the price you quote already covers your costs and hits your target margin.
The BidCalc formula
Bid = (Labor × 1.30 + Supplies + Overhead) ÷ (1 − margin)
- 1.30 — labor burden: payroll taxes, workers’ comp, benefits
- Overhead — insurance, vehicle, office, applied as a surcharge on labor
- margin — your profit, protected before you ever discount
BidCalc also layers on deep-clean and first-visit premiums, recurring-frequency discounts, and pet / smoker / clutter surcharges — automatically.
From walkthrough to sent quote in three steps
No spreadsheet to build, no formula to remember. BidCalc does the math the moment you enter the job.
01
Enter the job
Square footage or beds and baths, cleaning type, frequency, add-on services, crew hours, your rate and target margin. Sensible defaults are pre-filled.
02
See the profitable price
BidCalc runs the real cost formula and shows your price instantly — plus a private breakdown of cost, profit dollars and margin percent that only you see.
03
Send a branded quote
Download a branded PDF or share a link the client opens in any browser — no login, no app. They see the price; you keep the margin.
Everything you need to bid — nothing you don’t
A focused pricing tool, not a bloated CRM. Each feature earns its place on the estimate sheet.
A private profit breakdown
See your exact cost, profit dollars and margin percent on every job — colour-coded so a thin or below-cost bid is obvious. The client never sees any of it.
Owner onlyProfit $86 · 25%
Real-world adjustments
Deep-clean and first-visit premiums, frequency discounts, and pet, smoker or clutter surcharges — applied automatically.
Branded PDF quotes
Download a clean, professional quote with your company name and logo — ready to email or hand over on the spot.
Shareable client links
Send a link the client opens in any browser — no login, no app. Private by default and never indexed by search engines.
Built for the field
Big tap targets and a mobile-first layout mean you can price a job standing in the client’s doorway.
One simple plan when you’re ready
Start free and price real jobs today. Upgrade only when you want unlimited quotes and your brand on every one.
Free
$0/month
Everything you need to price a job right.
- 3 quotes every month
- The full margin-true calculator
- Private profit & margin breakdown
- Deep-clean, frequency & condition math
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Pro
$29/month
Or $290/year — two months free.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited quotes
- Branded PDF downloads with your logo
- Shareable client quote links
Cleaning CRMs like Jobber and ZenMaid run $64–200/month. BidCalc is the focused pricing tool you reach for first — a fraction of the cost, live in seconds.
Questions cleaners ask
Straight answers on privacy, pricing and how the math works.
Is my client's data private?
Yes. The client only ever sees the price and the branded quote you send them — never your costs, margin, or profit. The full breakdown (labor cost, overhead, profit dollars and margin percent) lives in an owner-only panel that is never included in the PDF or the shareable link. Shareable quote pages are also set to no-index, so they never show up in search results.
Does it work on my phone?
BidCalc is built mobile-first for quoting on the job. You can walk a house, enter the size or bedrooms and bathrooms, tap the cleaning type and frequency, and read your profitable price on the same screen — then text the client a link before you leave the driveway.
How is the price calculated?
BidCalc uses the real cleaning-business cost formula, not hours times rate. It takes your labor (crew size × hours × rate), multiplies it by a 1.30 burden factor for payroll taxes, workers' comp and benefits, adds overhead and supplies, then divides by (1 − your target margin) so your profit is protected first. It also applies deep-clean, first-visit, frequency-discount and condition surcharges automatically.
Can I use my own logo?
Yes. On the Pro plan your company name and logo appear on every branded PDF and on the shareable client quote page, so the estimate looks like it came from your business, not a generic template.
What's the difference between Free and Pro?
Free gives you the full calculator and 3 quotes per month, so you can price real jobs and see the margin math. Pro is $29/month (or $290/year — two months free) and unlocks unlimited quotes, branded PDF downloads, and shareable client links.
Do I need a CRM like Jobber or ZenMaid?
No. BidCalc does one job extremely well: turning a walkthrough into a profitable, professional quote in under a minute. Full cleaning CRMs run $64–200/month and are built for scheduling, dispatch and invoicing. BidCalc is the focused, affordable pricing tool you reach for before any of that — many owners run it alongside a CRM or entirely on its own.
Stop guessing. Start bidding for profit.
Price your next job in under a minute — free, no credit card.