Route planning for house cleaners, maid services and office crews.
A cleaning day is a few long stops with drives in between. Plan which homes each team takes, see whether the day fits, and send the route to their phones.
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The short answer
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Lite Route Planner plans routes for cleaning businesses: import your client list, set how long each clean takes, lasso each team's homes into a route and optimize the drive in one click. The day's total adds time at stops to drive time, so you can tell whether a fourth home fits before 5 p.m. It's free for up to 50 addresses, and Business includes unlimited cleaners with no per-user fees.
A cleaning route is short on stops and long on hours
A delivery driver might make 60 stops in a day. A two-person cleaning team makes three or four, at two to three hours each. The drive still matters, but what decides the day is whether the cleans fit around it.
That's why time at stops matters more here than in most trades. Set a default service time for your usual clean, then a longer time on deep cleans and move-outs. After you optimize and save, Lite shows the drive time for every leg and a day's total that includes the time inside each home. Three 150-minute cleans plus 40 minutes of driving is an 8 hour 10 minute day, before lunch.
If the total runs long, move a home to another team's route and check both totals again.
The client list behind a cleaning schedule
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | |
| 1 | Client | Address | City | Frequency | Team | Clean | Hours | Entry | Pets | Last clean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Hannah Cole | 2207 Oakmont Ln | Franklin, TN | Weekly | Team 1 | Standard | 2.5 | Lockbox | Cat | 10/14/2026 |
| 3 | The Okafor family | 514 Wren Ct | Brentwood, TN | Biweekly | Team 2 | Standard | 3 | Client home | None | 10/07/2026 |
| 4 | Jill Marsh | 1180 Lakeview Dr | Franklin, TN | Monthly | Team 1 | Deep | 4 | Garage keypad | Dog | 09/22/2026 |
| 5 | Northside Dental | 3401 Mallory Ln, Suite 210 | Franklin, TN | 3x weekly | Night crew | Office | 1.5 | Key 14 | None | 10/16/2026 |
| 6 | R. Delgado | 95 Hillsboro Rd | Brentwood, TN | One time | Team 2 | Move-out | 5 | Realtor lockbox | None | New |
The Hours column comes in as a number you can filter by. The time Lite adds to the day is the service time on each stop, so after importing, set your default to your usual clean and change the long ones. Entry details go in the stop note, which cleaners see in the driver app.
Build each team's day
- 1
Set your usual clean length
In settings, set the default service time, say 150 minutes. Change it on any home that takes longer or less.
- 2
Color the map by team or frequency
See which homes belong to which team. Then color by last visit: biweekly homes cleaned 1 to 2 weeks ago are the ones due.
- 3
Lasso a day's homes
Draw a loop around three or four homes that sit near each other and save them as Team 1's Tuesday. Here's more on splitting stops into routes.
- 4
Start where the team starts
Save the office, or each lead's home, as a base. Business plans hold up to 100 bases, so teams that drive from home can start there.
- 5
Optimize and check the total
One click orders the homes for the shortest drive. If the day's total runs past quitting time, move a home to another team.
- 6
Send it
Assign the route to the team lead. They open each home in their maps app and mark it Visited when they leave.
Office and janitorial routes run at night
Commercial cleaning has a different shape: more buildings, shorter stops, and the same list most nights.
A route you can keep
If the same buildings get cleaned every night, build the route once and keep it for the order and directions. For a nightly record, complete it each morning and lasso a fresh one; completed routes keep their visits.
Suites, keys and alarm panels
Put the suite number and entry steps in the stop note so the crew sees them on the phone. Keep alarm codes out of notes on any route you share by link, since anyone with the link can read them.
Short stops still add up
Set 45 or 60 minutes per building, and the day's total shows whether the route finishes before tenants arrive in the morning.
A sheet for the clipboard
Export the night's route as a printable PDF for the supervisor, or as Excel or CSV.
What cleaning businesses use most
Monday Route
1h 56m · 26m driving · 1h 30m at stops · 9.0 mi
- 4m · 1.4 mi1Riverside Library740 Park Boulevard
- 6m · 2.1 mi2Bluebird Café305 Cedar Avenue
- 4m · 1.3 mi3Northside Gym61 Market Street
Drive time for every leg
See the day's total, time driving, time at stops and miles before anyone leaves.
Start and end where you work
Save your shop, warehouse or home as a base. Start there, end there, or make it a round trip.
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Repair
- Install
- Inspection
- This week
- 1–2 weeks
- Never
See who's due for a visit
Color the map by last visit, from this week to over two months ago, and filter to the customers you haven't seen lately. Or color by route, driver or any field you track.
A history for every stop
Drivers mark stops Visited or Attempted and leave a note. Every visit is saved to the stop's history, so you always know when you were last there.
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Undo, always
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