Portara
For residential cleaning businesses

Everything youneed to run your cleaning business.One simple place.

Schedule recurring jobs, assign available teams, track supplies, collect payment, approve timesheets, and send hours to payroll—all from one simple place.

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A professional cleaning caddy with cloths, brushes, sprays, gloves, and vacuum tools

The Rivera Home

Weekly clean · Friday morning

Team ready

Frequency

Weekly

Team

2 people

Payment

On file

01

Book the home

Estimate, approval, payment

02

Set the rhythm

Recurring schedule, notes

03

Send the team

Availability, assignment, briefing

04

Close the visit

Payment, time, payroll

The home is the job

Keep the schedule, team, supplies, and payment with the address.

The crew should know the home notes. The schedule should know who is available. The invoice and timecard should know which visit just happened. Portara keeps every repeat job connected.

One home record that remembers the work—so your team does not have to.

Recurring job #1275

The Rivera Home

Weekly
Approved

Service

Weekly clean

Scheduled

Next visit

Friday · 9:00

Confirmed

Cleaning team

2 people

Ready

Payment

$185

The address, service notes, schedule, team, supplies, payment, and time stay connected.

One recurring job, visit after visit

From first estimate to the next clean already scheduled

Portara follows the real cleaning workflow: approval, recurring schedule, availability, team assignment, service, payment, timesheets, and payroll.

01

Estimate and approval

Turn the walkthrough into a booked home.

Build the estimate with cleaning services, add-ons, products, and pricing. The client reviews, signs, and pays from one secure link.

Service approved · Payment ready

Still recurring job #1275

02

Recurring schedule

Set the cadence once and keep the home details with it.

Schedule weekly, biweekly, monthly, or one-time work and keep access notes, service details, timing, and preferences attached to the address.

Weekly · Fridays at 9:00

Still recurring job #1275

03

Team assignment

See who can work before you fill the route.

Check employee availability, offer the job, confirm the right team, and deliver the address and briefing without managing it in a group chat.

2 cleaners · Confirmed

Still recurring job #1275

04

Service and supplies

Give the team what they need to finish consistently.

Keep service items and supplies on the job, track useful stock, record purchases, and make the current home notes available to the team.

Supplies ready · Notes current

Still recurring job #1275

visit day
05

Payment and time

Close this visit while the next one stays on schedule.

Collect payment, approve the team’s hours, send time to payroll, and leave the recurring job ready for its next visit.

Paid · Time approved · Next visit set

Still recurring job #1275

done

Recurring without repetitive admin

Let the job remember the home between visits.

Keep the cadence, access details, service scope, add-ons, supplies, and client notes attached to the address. The next visit starts with the same clean record—not a new round of texts.

Schedule weekly, biweekly, monthly, and one-time jobs
Keep access notes and service preferences with the home
Track add-ons, products, and useful cleaning stock
Update the job once and give the team current details

Recurring schedule

The Rivera Home

Weekly

Frequency

2

Team

9:00

Start

Friday · June 12

Standard clean · Maya + Jordan

Complete

Friday · June 19

Standard clean · team confirmed

Ready

Friday · June 26

Standard clean · offers pending

Open

Friday · July 3

Holiday timing to confirm

Review
Next client payment$185

The route is full. Are the right people on it?

Team scheduling without the group chat

See who can work before you assign the home.

Review availability, send offers, and get accept-or-decline responses. Confirmed cleaners stay tied to the address and receive the job briefing.

Check employee availability first
Send offers by text or email
Confirm the right team for each visit
Deliver the address, access notes, timing, and scope

Friday route availability

Friday · June 19

M

Maya

Available

Route · Accepted
J

Jordan

Available

Route · Accepted
D

Devin

Available

Backup · Accepted
A

Alex

Unavailable

Not offered
Friday route confirmed6 homes · 3 teams

Payment, timesheets, and payroll

Finish the visit before the team reaches the next home.

Collect online or on-site payment, approve employee time against the homes they cleaned, and keep the next recurring visit ready. Sync approved timecards to Square Payroll or export a payroll-ready CSV.

Start your first cleaning job

Visit complete

The Rivera Home

$185

Collected

4.0

Team hours

1

Next visit

Client paymentPaid
Service notesUpdated
Team timeApproved
Payroll handoffReady

One place to run the work

Everything your house cleaning business needs. Already connected.

Estimates and approvals

Send a clean link for service approval, signature, and payment.

Recurring schedules

Set weekly, biweekly, monthly, and one-time cleaning jobs.

Employee availability

See who can work before building routes and assigning homes.

Team assignments

Confirm cleaners and keep the current briefing tied to the address.

Supplies and stock

Track useful cleaning supplies and products without extra complexity.

Job notes

Keep access details, preferences, add-ons, and scope with the home.

Payments

Collect payment online or on-site without rebuilding an invoice.

Time and payroll

Approve job hours, sync to Square Payroll, or export a CSV.

See how employee availability and scheduling work

Cleaning team scheduling guide

Know who can work before you book the job.

A practical workflow for employee availability, team assignments, home details, schedule changes, time tracking, and payroll.

Read the scheduling guide

Questions, answered

Cleaning business software, without the mystery

Portara follows the way residential cleaning businesses work—one home with its schedule, notes, team, supplies, payments, and hours attached.

Is Portara house cleaning business software?

Portara manages estimates, recurring jobs, employee availability, team assignments, job notes, supplies, invoices, payments, timesheets, and payroll handoff around each client home.

Can Portara schedule recurring cleaning jobs?

Yes. Create weekly, biweekly, monthly, and one-time jobs while keeping the service scope, access notes, timing, team, and client details attached to the address.

Can I see employee availability before assigning jobs?

Yes. Review availability, send work offers by text or email, and see accept-or-decline responses before confirming a team.

Can clients pay online?

Yes. Clients can review estimates, sign approvals, view invoices, and make secure payments without creating a Portara account. You can also collect payment on-site.

Can I track cleaning supplies?

Yes. Track useful products and supplies, see what is available, and keep purchases connected to jobs without adopting complicated inventory software.

Does Portara handle timesheets and payroll?

Cleaners submit time against the jobs they worked. You approve it, then sync approved timecards to Square Payroll or export payroll-ready data for another provider.

Keep every home on schedule—and the business behind it under control.

Bring your next cleaning job into Portara. The schedule, team, supplies, payment, notes, timesheets, and payroll will already know where they belong.

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