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This calculator vs. ServiceMonster
Two different shapes: ServiceMonster is account-based field-service management software for running a carpet-cleaning company's whole operation. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one stop cost, given its rooms, soil level, and add-ons, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
ServiceMonster is field-service management software with roots going back to 2002 as software built specifically for carpet cleaners, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington. It markets today to carpet cleaning, window cleaning, pressure washing, and related cleaning trades. It combines customer and account management, job scheduling and technician routing, estimates and invoicing, and automated marketing campaigns into one subscription system, with a mobile app for crews in the field. ServiceMonster's own marketing says it is trusted by thousands of service pros, and industry coverage reports it was acquired in 2023 by Teamfront. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account. ServiceMonster's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — cleaning-industry field-service management software, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for ServiceMonster appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what ServiceMonster does. It does not manage customer accounts, route technicians across a schedule, or run marketing campaigns, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes one stop's rooms, each with its own square footage and a soil-specific extraction rate (vacant/light, normal household, heavy/restoration), with stairs as flights, a second extraction pass for pet-urine rooms, upholstery pieces timed in minutes, furniture moving, and round-trip drive time, plus loaded wage, chemistry cost, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the per-stop price, the price per room and per square foot, the effective hourly rate including the drive, the on-site rate without it, and the walk-away price below which the stop loses money — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a copyable plain-text bid summary. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a carpet-cleaning company and need customer accounts, routing, scheduling, invoicing, and marketing campaigns in one system across every crew and every stop. | ServiceMonster, or a comparable cleaning-industry platform — running a whole company is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this stop, given its rooms, soil level, stairs, pets, and upholstery? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much do stairs, a pet-urine room, or a sofa actually add over a posted per-room special? | This calculator's stairs, pet-pass, and upholstery line items, not a flat installed price. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this stop? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need one shared account so my whole crew is scheduling, invoicing, and marketing the same way. | ServiceMonster, or a comparable cleaning-industry platform. |
| How does the math behind a carpet-cleaning bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. ServiceMonster is used through a subscription account. |
Most carpet-cleaning operators get different value from each: ServiceMonster (or a comparable field-service platform) for running customer accounts, routing, scheduling, and marketing across a whole company as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one stop should cost from its rooms and add-ons before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled job, an invoice, or a signed proposal.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or ServiceMonster?
They do different jobs, and a carpet-cleaning operator of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. ServiceMonster is field-service management software with roots going back to 2002 as software built specifically for carpet cleaners, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, and it markets today to carpet cleaning, window cleaning, pressure washing, and related cleaning trades. It combines customer and account management, job scheduling and technician routing, estimates and invoicing, and automated marketing campaigns into one subscription system, and it says it is trusted by thousands of service pros. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account, and industry coverage reports it was acquired in 2023 by Teamfront. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from rooms with a soil-specific extraction rate, plus stairs, a second pass for pet-urine rooms, upholstery pieces, furniture moving, and the drive, with loaded wage, chemistry, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the per-stop price, the price per room, the effective hourly rate including the drive, and the walk-away price below which the stop loses money, before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A carpet-cleaning company that already manages accounts, routing, scheduling, and marketing campaigns across every crew and every stop is better served by ServiceMonster or a comparable field-service platform; a technician who wants an instant, private answer to what one stop should cost from its rooms and add-ons before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with ServiceMonster?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ServiceMonster. ServiceMonster is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Carpet Cleaning Bid Calculator to price your own stop.