What goes on a cleaning receipt
Most domestic cleaning is paid in cash or by transfer with nothing written down, which suits nobody. The customer has no record for the landlord or the agent, and you have no proof when a month gets questioned. A receipt takes a minute and is the only document either of you ends up holding.
- The date the money was handed over, and the visit or visits it covers
- The property, because a customer with two addresses will need to know which
- How it was paid — cash, transfer or card
- Whether it covers one visit or a month, with the dates if it is a month
- Anything extra included in the figure, like an oven or a set of windows
- The balance outstanding, where it was a part payment
- Your business name and number, for the landlord or agent who ends up with it
The sample line items and example prices this sheet opens with are on the cleaning invoice template — the same table, which is about the trade rather than about this paper, so it lives in one place rather than on all six.
What you get
A PDF, and a link your customer can open in any browser. Word and Excel versions are not available yet — if a spreadsheet is what you need, this is not yet the tool for it, and saying so is cheaper for both of us than you finding out after typing everything in.
Pick how it looks
Six looks, from a plain classic sheet through a bold top band to a shop ticket, and your initials go on automatically until you upload a logo. See all six.
How to send it
Most customers want the paper on their phone, so the receipt goes out by WhatsApp, text or email, or as a link that needs no app and no account on their side. Or download the PDF to print it or keep it for your own records.
Questions
Do I need to give a receipt for cash?
You do not need to and you should. Cash is the payment with no trail, which makes it the one that gets queried, and the person querying it is often a landlord or an agent who was not there. The receipt is the only evidence either of you has.
What about move-out cleans?
Always receipt those, and itemize them. The tenant is going to show it to a property manager to get a deposit back, and a receipt reading “cleaning — $240” helps nobody. Listing the oven, the carpets and the windows is what makes it do its job.