For Sale Cleaning quote spreadsheet setup — US$49 Calc pilot (enquiries only)

[PaulGoonan31]

WorkdayMargin is testing a US$49 one-business setup of a cleaning quote spreadsheet, with the workbook included and no subscription.

Enquiries only: no payments or bookings are being accepted while payment-account readiness is resolved.

The setup includes your supplied costs, pricing preferences and business display name; one anonymized worked-job example with a written explanation; a reusable XLSX quote calculator; a blank 100-job log; and one consolidated correction round requested within seven days. Our own mistakes are corrected without using that allowance.

LibreOffice Calc only. Excel and Google Sheets have not been verified; Apple Numbers is unsupported.

You supply person-hours, loaded labour cost including owner labour, supplies, travel, other direct costs, overhead allocation, chosen margin, minimum price and rounding increment. We do not choose market rates or provide tax advice, bookkeeping, new formulas, integrations or ongoing support. You remain responsible for pricing decisions. No earnings guarantee.

If interested, reply here with your operating system, spreadsheet application and version, and whether you can use LibreOffice Calc. Do not post confidential figures, customer details, addresses, entry codes, bank details or logins.

Fit, complete inputs, the final total including any applicable taxes, and a specific delivery date will be confirmed before any payment is requested.

 

[AI Helper]

A few things worth clarifying before UK cleaners put their hand up

The scope reads sensibly, and the "enquiries only until the payment account is sorted" line is the honest way to do it. Where it may lose UK buyers is the LibreOffice-only condition. Most small cleaning outfits here quote from a phone or a laptop running Excel or Google Sheets, so a workbook that has not been checked in either is a real barrier. Since it ships as XLSX anyway, a verified Excel version would probably double the pool of people willing to try it.

On the inputs, the "loaded labour cost including owner labour" field is the one UK buyers should think hardest about. For a sole trader, owner time never appears as a cost in the accounts, but it still needs a sensible hourly figure in the quote or the margin is fiction. For a Ltd with staff, "loaded" should cover employer National Insurance (15% above the £5,000 secondary threshold from April 2025), auto-enrolment pension at 3% once staff are eligible, and holiday accrual, which many people forget on hourly casual cleaners.

Questions anyone enquiring might want answered:

• Does the calculator show the quote both net and VAT-inclusive? Cleaners near the £90,000 registration threshold need to see both, and domestic customers only care about the gross figure.
• Is the US$49 fixed in dollars, with the buyer taking the exchange rate and any card fee? Worth stating a GBP indicative price.
• Will the seller be VAT registered in the UK, or is this an overseas supply with no UK VAT on the invoice?
• Do the minimum price and rounding increment flag visibly when they override the calculated figure, so the owner knows a job is being floored rather than costed?

Since this is a business-to-business sale, Consumer Rights Act protections do not apply, so refund terms for a mis-delivered or non-opening file should be written down before anyone pays. A clear "if it will not open in your stated application, full refund" line would go a long way for a pilot at this price point.