Best carpet cleaning software in 2026: four apps compared on booking, quoting and repeat business

Carpet cleaning sells by the room, gets booked online or over the phone, and makes its money on repeat customers who come back on a regular cycle and add upholstery, rugs or stain protection. Software for it should take a booking without a phone call, price a job from a room count, and bring last year's customers back without you remembering to text them. Below are the four apps most often shortlisted, then a custom option. There is no ranking in the order. All prices and terms are quoted from the vendor's own pages as checked in October 2026; anything a vendor does not state is marked "not published". For the website and calls side of a cleaning business, see our carpet cleaning industry page.

1. Jobber

Who it suits: carpet owner-operators and two- or three-van carpet companies that want booking, quoting, invoicing and recurring visits in one app.

• Pricing: the October 2026 Jobber pricing page sets one-user Core at $29 a month on annual billing and $49 a month when paid monthly with no commitment. One-user Connect costs $99 annual or $139 monthly; Grow costs $149 or $199. Each user beyond the plan is $29 a month, and the Marketing Suite add-on is $99 a month.
• Carpet features: its carpet cleaning page describes a booking page customers can use from your website, social media or client hub, optional line items for upselling services like upholstery cleaning or stain removal, tracking details such as the number of carpets on site, recurring schedules where you can move future visits, and automatic payments for recurring work.
• Trial and contract: a 14-day trial on Grow features, no card. Month-to-month plans end at the close of the billing period when cancelled; annual prepay is non-refundable per the pricing page.

Comparing it with its closest rival? See Jobber vs Housecall Pro.

2. Housecall Pro

Who it suits: carpet cleaners who get bookings from Google and want automated marketing to past customers. It fits a single van up to a team with an office.

• Pricing: per Housecall Pro's pricing page (read October 2026), the one-user Basic plan costs $59 monthly on yearly billing or $79 on monthly billing. The five-user Essentials plan costs $149 or $189, and the eight-user MAX plan $299 or $329, plus $35 a month per user after eight. The carpet page itself shows no price.
• Carpet features: the carpet cleaning page says customers can "book and pay directly from Google search results or your website" around the clock, with a booking page set up with your services, pricing and coverage area. It also lists estimates sent by email or text, automated booking reminders to cut no-shows, and automated SMS and email campaigns to encourage repeat bookings.
• Trial and contract: a 14-day free trial without a card and, per the pricing page, no long-term contracts. Card processing is listed from 2.59%, with a 1% bank payment fee.

3. Workiz

Who it suits: carpet and upholstery companies that take most jobs by phone and want to sell tiered packages. Workiz also lists an air duct cleaning industry page, a service many carpet companies add.

• Pricing: not published. The Workiz pricing plans page lists Standard, Pro and Ultimate behind Request pricing buttons. Its FAQ says yearly plans cost less than monthly, without figures.
• Carpet features: the carpet cleaning page describes good-better-best proposals to raise average job value, assigning crews by job needs, route planning around previous and upcoming jobs, and payment requests and invoices sent from the office or the field. The pricing page shows recurring jobs and online booking with optional checkout on every plan; Genius Phone is listed as sold separately.
• Trial and contract: seven days free, no card required.
• Note: part of the carpet page's FAQ cites results from garage door repair teams, so lean on the pricing page and a demo for specifics.

Our Housecall Pro vs Workiz page sets those two side by side.

4. ServiceM8

Who it suits: solo carpet cleaners and small crews who want a low monthly cost and are happy with an app that prices by job count, not by seat.

• Pricing: the ServiceM8 US pricing page (read October 2026) has a Free plan for one user with 30 jobs a month, Starter at $29 a month for 50 jobs, then $79 for 150, $149 for 500 and $349 for 1,500 or more on Premium Plus with 20 cents per extra job. Paid plans include unlimited users.
• Cleaning features: ServiceM8 has no carpet-specific page. Its cleaning software page describes jobs that recur automatically at set intervals, email or SMS reminders of booking times, online booking where customers get an instant quote and pick a time, and on-site checklists.
• Trial and contract: ServiceM8 offers 14 days free without a credit card. Its pricing page promises no lock-ins and lets you switch plans at any time; cancellation steps aren't spelled out there.

More on its limits in our ServiceM8 alternative comparison.

5. A custom CRM

Who it suits: carpet companies that run several services under one roof (carpet, tile and grout, upholstery, water damage, duct cleaning) or several vans and want one customer history with automatic rebooking by service. We built our first CRM for our own service businesses after packaged tools stopped fitting.

• Good fit: you want quotes priced by room, hallway, stairs and add-ons exactly as you sell them; you want a rebooking text sent 12 months after each job without setting it by hand; or you want restoration jobs billed differently from residential cleans.
• Poor fit: a one-van startup still learning its prices. Start with a packaged plan.
• Our model: the system belongs to your company and sits in its name, carries no per-user fees from us, has no published price list (we scope, then quote), and comes with no promised results. Read about it on our custom CRM page.

What does carpet cleaning software cost per month?

Figures and features below come from each vendor's pages, read October 2026.

Can carpet cleaning software quote by room?

Not out of the box, as far as the vendors' own carpet pages say. None of the four describes room-count quoting. Each lets you build price-book or line items, so in every trial do this:

• Build your room price list. Add a standard room, a large room, a hallway, a staircase, a sectional and stain protection as line items. Then quote a five-room house with stairs from your phone in under two minutes. Our guide on pricing carpet cleaning jobs covers per-room and per-square-foot methods.
• Put it on the booking page. See whether a customer booking online can choose room count and add-ons, and whether the total they see matches what you will charge.
• Test rebooking. Mark a job complete and check what happens next: a review request, a reminder in 12 months, a campaign to past customers. Housecall Pro names automated repeat-booking campaigns; with the others, ask in the demo.
• Price the full year. Users or jobs at your volume, add-ons such as Jobber's $99 Marketing Suite, and card fees. Our no per-user fees guide compares seat-free pricing models.
• Check the exit. Ask which records you can export, in what format, before you load three years of customers.

Where to start

1. Count your monthly jobs and your people. Job volume decides ServiceM8's plan; headcount decides the others.
2. Trial two apps with real customers. Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceM8 each give 14 days and Workiz 7. Build your room list and booking page in each.
3. Turn on one rebooking reminder. Pick the app that sends last year's customers a reminder with the least setup, because that is where repeat revenue comes from.

If missed calls on busy Saturdays are the bigger problem, look at our AI receptionist service alongside whichever app you choose.

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