COMPARED SEPTEMBER 2026
Best website builders for cleaning businesses (2026)
We scored 6 website builders on the 9 things a cleaning business needs, the same way for all of them, including Zarla, which is ours.
Free to build · Pay when you publish
What's the best website builder for a cleaning business?
For most cleaning businesses, Zarla is the best website builder: it scored highest, 15 of 18 across the nine tests we ran on six builders, and it does the most to get you found on Google and has a before-and-after slider built in (level with WordPress.com).
If most of your work is weekly or fortnightly regulars, pick BookingKoala. Wix (13) is close behind.
The full scores are below, with every builder's weak spot, ours included.
What Zarla builds for a cleaning business: Zarla's cleaning website builder.
Build the website
Start your cleaning website now
Add your business name and your town to the sentence, and Zarla builds the site, with a page for each service and town you list. You edit it in chat and publish when you're ready.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.
Key facts, with sources
- A standard one-time clean runs $140 to $220 in the US, and a move-in or move-out clean $220 to $400 (Housecall Pro, published October 27, 2026).
- By the hour, cleaning businesses charge $30 to $80 per cleaner (Housecall Pro, published October 27, 2026).
- On TaskRabbit, where homeowners book independent helpers, house cleaning averages $33 an hour (TaskRabbit, published October 1, 2026).
US figures as each publisher prints them, with the date on the page or the day we read it; the rest are in how much to charge for house cleaning. This page last changed on November 6, 2026. It's one of our trade-by-trade comparisons, alongside the best website builders for small businesses; the same tests for gutter cleaning companies, handyman businesses and junk removal companies.
Zarla for cleaning businesses, in plain facts
Zarla is an AI website builder for small businesses. Describe your cleaning business in a sentence and it writes the whole site, every page and every word, in about 30 seconds; after that you change it by typing what you want.
- Customers book online or send you a request from your website, with no second booking subscription.
- A before-and-after slider is built in: your own before and after photos in one frame, with a handle visitors drag.
- Price: Free to build and preview. You pay when you publish, on the Premium plan, which includes booking, the leads inbox and invoices.
- Page speed: in our sample of real sites (Google PageSpeed, measured September 28, 2026), Zarla had the fastest median of the six builders here, 86 on phone and 99 on desktop. The samples differ (theirs are sites that rank on Google, ours random customer sites), as the method below explains.
Not yet: customers can't book a repeating visit themselves, so each visit is booked on its own.
In this comparison: first of six, with 15 of 18 points.
THE SCORES
How do website builders for cleaning businesses compare?
A tick is worth 2 points, a dash 1, a cross nothing, and every test counts the same, so the most anyone can score is 18.
| Test | Zarla | Wix | WordPress.com | Squarespace | GoDaddy | BookingKoala |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book or ask for a quote online | Yes — Quote form and online booking | Yes — Wix Bookings, from the Core plan | Partly — With a booking plugin | Partly — Acuity Scheduling, a separate subscription | Yes — Online appointments | Yes — Booking forms and quotes |
| Customers book repeat cleans | No — Not yet: one visit per booking | Partly — You set up the series; customers can't | Partly — Depends on the plugin | Partly — Customers pick repeats in Acuity, a separate subscription | No — Repeating group events only | Yes — Customers pick the frequency |
| Before-and-after slider | Yes — Before-and-after layout; your own photos drag to compare | Partly — Not built in; apps, or Harmony's AI can write one | Yes — Image Compare block | Partly — Not built in; plugin or pasted code, from Core | Partly — Not built in; widget code in an HTML section | Partly — Not built in; Custom Code element |
| Finished first draft | Yes — Whole site written in about 30 seconds | Yes — Aria writes pages and starter copy | Yes — AI builder on paid plans | Yes — Blueprint AI writes a multi-page site | Yes — Airo writes a first site | Partly — Themes you fill in; no AI |
| Edit by chat, new pages by AI | Yes — Type a change; ask for a new page | Yes — Aria edits and adds pages by chat | Yes — The WordPress Agent creates and edits content by chat, on any paid plan | Partly — AI chat edits text and images; no new pages | Partly — AI writes text; chat editing is a separate product | No — No AI editing |
| Local search set up for you | Yes — Area map, town pages, Google reviews | Partly — Google reviews via apps; no town pages | Partly — Only with plugins | Partly — One-pin map; Google reviews by embed | Partly — Google reviews section; no town pages | No — Own reviews only; town pages by hand |
| Search coaching | Yes — SEO coach; page ideas from your Search Console | Partly — SEO Assistant; Search Console shown as charts | Partly — Search Console verification; SEO via plugins | Partly — Search Console keywords shown as data | Partly — SEO wizard; Search Console rankings only | No — Page settings only |
| Fast pages, measured | Partly — Phone 86, desktop 99 | Partly — Phone 65, desktop 77 | Partly — Phone 51, desktop 69 (10 WordPress sites, any host) | Partly — Phone 56, desktop 74 | Partly — Phone 56, desktop 80 (7 phone, 6 desktop sites) | No — Phone 35, desktop 47 (9 phone, 8 desktop sites) |
| Leads, quotes, invoices and payments together | Yes — Leads inbox, online quotes, invoices, payment links | Yes — Contacts, price quotes clients accept online, invoices, payments | Partly — Payments block; quotes and invoices need a plugin | Yes — Contacts, estimates clients accept online, invoices with no Squarespace transaction fee, payments | Partly — Inbox, invoices, payments; no quotes built in | Yes — Lead forms, quotes customers book from, invoices, payments |
| Score | 15 / 18 | 13 / 18 | 12 / 18 | 11 / 18 | 10 / 18 | 8 / 18 |
Checked on each builder's own website and help pages on September 28, 2026, and the before-and-after slider test on October 2, 2026, and the leads, quotes, invoices and payments together test on October 4, 2026; speed measured on September 28, 2026. When two builders tie on points, the one with fewer crosses goes first.
WHICH ONE FITS
Which builder fits your business?
For each kind of business, the builders that scored highest on the tests that matter most to it, from the same table. Where three or more are level, we list them as level rather than pick one.
| Your business | Top scorers | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Cleaners who win homeowners from Google in their own suburbs | Zarla | 5 of 6 on "Local search set up for you", "Search coaching" and "Fast pages, measured", the top score. |
| Companies that want customers booking weekly or fortnightly cleans themselves | BookingKoala | Booking forms and quotes; customers pick the frequency. |
| Deep-clean and move-out specialists who sell on the before and after | Zarla or WordPress.com | 2 of 2 on "Before-and-after slider", the top score on this test. |
| Solo cleaners who want the first draft written for them | Level: Zarla, Wix, WordPress.com | Three builders score 4 of 4 on "Finished first draft" and "Edit by chat, new pages by AI", so pick on what else matters to you; the table shows the differences. |
| Companies with a round of regulars to quote, invoice and collect from | Level: Zarla, Wix, Squarespace and one more | Four builders score 2 of 2 on "Leads, quotes, invoices and payments together", so pick on what else matters to you; the table shows the differences. |
THE LIST
How do the best website builders for cleaning businesses rank?
- 1
Zarla
Best forOwners who care most about getting found on Google, or about a before-and-after slider.
What it costsFree to build and preview. You pay when you publish, on the Premium plan, which includes booking, the leads inbox and invoices.
Features- Describe your business in a sentence and Zarla writes a complete first draft in about 30 seconds
- A service-area map and, when you list your towns, a page for each one
- Type changes in plain words, or ask for a new page, and the site updates
The CatchBuild my cleaning website — freeCustomers can't book a weekly or fortnightly clean themselves yet, so each visit is booked on its own. It's also newer than the big names.
- 2
Wix
Best forA strong all-rounder if you like building and fine-tuning the site yourself.
What it costsCore, the cheapest plan with bookings, is $29/mo billed yearly. Light is $17/mo without bookings, and there's a free plan on a wixsite.com address. (their pricing page, checked 28 Sept 2026)
Features- An AI builder that writes your pages from a description
- Aria, an AI agent in the Harmony editor that edits the site and adds pages by chat
- Wix Bookings with online payments and deposits
The CatchCustomers can't set up a repeat clean themselves; you do it for them. And booking only comes with the Core plan, not the cheapest one.
- 3
WordPress.com
Best forOwners who care most about a before-and-after slider.
What it costsPersonal is $4/mo billed yearly; form file uploads need Business, $25/mo billed yearly. Plugins can add their own cost. (their pricing page, checked 28 Sept 2026)
Features- An AI website builder on paid plans
- An AI assistant that edits and creates pages, on every paid plan
- Thousands of plugins
The CatchBooking, reviews and invoices each come from a plugin you choose, may pay for and keep updated, so the setup and upkeep are on you. Photo uploads on forms need the Business plan.
- 4
Squarespace
Best forGood if polished design matters most and you don't mind adding a separate booking tool.
What it costsBasic is $19/mo and Core $29/mo, billed yearly, after a 14-day free trial. Online booking is a separate Acuity Scheduling subscription. (their pricing page, checked 28 Sept 2026)
Features- Blueprint AI writes a multi-page starting site
- Design-led templates
- Invoices and online payments on every plan
The CatchOnline booking is a second subscription, Acuity Scheduling, on top of the website plan, and it's managed in a different place.
- 5
GoDaddy
Best forHandy if you already get your domain and email from GoDaddy.
What it costsWebsites + Marketing plans are priced by country, and GoDaddy's page didn't show us a US price, so check it for yours. (their pricing page, checked 28 Sept 2026)
Features- Airo writes a first website for your business in Websites + Marketing
- Online appointments with a deposit
- Photo attachments on the contact form
The CatchEditing by chat, and asking the AI for new pages later, happen in Airo AI Builder, a separate GoDaddy product with its own credits; in Websites + Marketing, pages for each town you serve are yours to write.
- 6
BookingKoala
Best forOwners who care most about online booking, including repeat cleans.
What it costsStarter is $27/mo after a 14-day free trial. (their pricing page, checked 28 Sept 2026)
Features- Booking forms built for home services, with frequencies customers choose
- Quotes you create and send
- Scheduling for a team, with provider payouts
The CatchIt's booking software first: you build the site from a theme yourself, with no AI help, and it shows its own reviews rather than your Google ones.
Key takeaways
- Zarla scored highest: 15 of 18 points across nine tests.
- Pick by what matters most: if most of your work is weekly or fortnightly regulars, BookingKoala.
- Zarla is ours, so weigh that: its weak spots are in the table like everyone else's.
- None of the six gets a tick on "Fast pages, measured".
- Every competitor verdict comes from the builder's own pages, with the date we read it. When we asked ChatGPT, it named three of these builders, Zarla in one of its two answers.
What should a cleaning business website include?
A cleaning business sells trust and routine: people hand you a key, then want the same day every week. Whatever you build it with, the site should answer the questions a homeowner asks before letting a stranger in. In the US a standard one-time clean runs $140 to $220 and a move-in or move-out clean $220 to $400 (Housecall Pro customer data, October 2026), so a starting price on the site tells a homeowner at once whether you are in range.
- A price to start from. A starting price per home size or per visit, so people can tell you're in their range before they ask for a quote, and the wrong jobs filter themselves out.
- Proof you're safe to let in. Insurance, bonding and background checks for your cleaners, said plainly, plus reviews that mention reliability rather than just "great job".
- The regular options. Weekly, every two weeks and monthly, with any discount for regulars, and what a first deep clean costs compared with a regular visit.
- What's included, and what isn't. A checklist per room, and the extras (inside the oven, the fridge, windows, laundry) with their prices, so nobody is surprised on the day.
- The towns you clean in. A page for each town or suburb, so a search for house cleaning in that town has somewhere to land.
How did we score the website builders?
The 9 tests, and what it takes to get a tick:
- Book or ask for a quote online. Someone who can book a clean or ask for a price at 10pm won't ring another cleaner in the morning. Tick: it comes with the website plan, not a second subscription.
- Customers book repeat cleans. Regulars are what keep a cleaning business going. Tick: customers choose weekly, fortnightly or monthly as they book, on the website plan. Dash: you can set up the repeats for them, or they need a second subscription or a plugin. Cross: the builder's own booking can't take a repeat.
- Before-and-after slider. Deep cleans, move-out cleans and carpets sell on the difference you make, and a before and after shows it better than any sentence. Tick: a before-and-after slider is built into the builder, with both photos in one frame and a handle visitors drag. Dash: none built in, so you add one from an app or plugin, or as custom code (some editors' AI can write that code for you). Cross: there's no way to add one. This test is only about the slider: an ordinary photo gallery can still show the two photos side by side.
- Finished first draft. You're cleaning houses all day. Nobody wants to spend Sunday night building a website. Tick: it writes the whole site, pages and words, from a description of your business. Dash: templates, or AI that only writes some of it.
- Edit by chat, new pages by AI. Prices, areas and holiday hours change. Updating them should take a sentence, not an afternoon. Tick: you type a change and the site updates, and you can ask for a new page and get one.
- Local search set up for you. People search for a cleaner in their own suburb, and most never look past the first few results. Tick: a map of the areas you cover, a page for each town, and your Google reviews on the site, all built in. Dash: some of that, or only with add-ons.
- Search coaching. "Move out cleaning", "Airbnb cleaning" and "office cleaning" are all separate searches. You want to know which ones already bring people to you. Tick: something that checks your site and tells you what to fix, plus a Google Search Console connection that turns your search data into ideas for new pages. Dash: one of the two.
- Fast pages, measured. Most people look for a cleaner on their phone, usually in a spare minute. We measured this ourselves with Google's PageSpeed test on real sites built with each builder. Tick: a typical phone score of 90 or more, which Google calls good. Dash: 50 to 89. Cross: under 50.
- Leads, quotes, invoices and payments together. Once you've got a round of regulars, quotes, invoices and payments pile up fast. Tick: a leads inbox, quotes your customers accept online, invoices and online payments, all built in. Dash: some of them, or only with plugins.
How we picked them. When we asked ChatGPT "best website builder for cleaning businesses" on November 2, 2026, twice, its answers named Wix, Jobber, Squarespace, Hostinger and Zarla. Zarla was in one of its two answers, not both. We score the general builders that appear on every page in this series, Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy (its Websites + Marketing builder) and WordPress.com, whether ChatGPT named them this time or not, and BookingKoala, which ChatGPT didn't name. Zarla is ours. We haven't scored Jobber and Hostinger on this page.
How we scored them. Same tests for everyone, each worth the same. We checked every answer on the builder's own website and help pages on September 28, 2026, and the before-and-after slider test on October 2, 2026, and the leads, quotes, invoices and payments together test on October 4, 2026. godaddy.com blocks automated reading of some of its pages, so where we couldn't open one, we read GoDaddy's page as Google indexes it. When two builders tie on points, the one with fewer crosses goes first.
How we measured speed. Google's PageSpeed test, three runs each on phone and desktop, on up to ten real sites per builder. For the others we used the first sites built with them that came up in Google for home-service businesses in five US cities (for WordPress, any WordPress site; for BookingKoala, a search for sites "powered by BookingKoala", which turned up some outside the US). Zarla sites don't rank in those searches yet, so we picked ten at random from our customers' published sites and don't name them. It's a sample, not a promise about any one site.
What we didn't score. Price, because every plan bundles different things (each builder's own price is on its card, and Zarla's is on our pricing page), and how long it takes to get a site live, which we plan to time and add here. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Other trades. The same tests for junk removal companies, car detailing businesses, pressure washing businesses, plumbers, pet sitters and dog walkers, handyman businesses, construction companies, moving companies, remodelers, towing companies, tree service companies, painters, electricians, HVAC companies, roofing companies, landscapers, Christmas light installers, window tinting businesses, mobile mechanics, pool service companies, home care agencies, blinds and shutters companies, hair salons, restaurants, auto repair shops, barbershops, gyms, dog groomers, daycares, solar companies, life coaches, appliance repair businesses, notaries, consultants, tutoring businesses, laundromats, IT services companies, day spas, locksmiths, artists, nonprofits, therapists, musicians, car washes, gutter cleaning companies, wedding planners, food trucks, jewelry businesses, farms, tax preparers, churches, DJs, insurance agents, marketing agencies, videographers, architects, engineering firms, luxury real estate agents, bars, car dealerships, graphic designers, online stores, foundations, tattoo artists, software companies, retail stores, gymnastics clubs, photographers, massage therapists, dentists, chiropractors, doctors, yoga studios, pharmacies, financial advisors, web designers, content creators, med spas, estheticians, wineries, equipment rental companies, soccer clubs, flooring companies, dermatology practices, physical therapy clinics, veterinary clinics.
Switching from Wix, Squarespace or WordPress?
On this page's tests for cleaning businesses, Wix scored 13 of 18 and Squarespace scored 11 of 18. Already have a cleaning business website? Bring it across to Zarla: paste its address and Zarla rebuilds it in a new design, keeping your words and photos; how website import works says what comes across. Still choosing? See the best Wix alternatives, the best Squarespace alternatives or the best WordPress alternatives.
Questions owners ask
You can build for free on most of them, but a site on your own domain costs money everywhere. Wix has a free plan on a wixsite.com address; bookings start on Core at $29/mo billed yearly. Squarespace and BookingKoala have 14-day free trials. Zarla is free to build and preview, and you pay when you publish, on the Premium plan.
BookingKoala lets customers pick how often as they book, and so does Squarespace through Acuity Scheduling, a separate subscription. Wix lets you set up a repeating series for a customer; GoDaddy repeats only group events. Zarla books one clean at a time today.
If you price each home before you clean it, Squarespace covers that: estimates go out on every plan from Basic up, and the client accepts one online (Wix has price quotes clients accept too). Wix suits a cleaner who wants to be booked straight from the site, because Wix Bookings comes with Core and the plans above it, where Squarespace hands booking to Acuity Scheduling, a company it owns whose cheapest plan is $16 a month on yearly billing. Both help centers were checked on November 5, 2026, and who books the repeat cleans is the recurring-cleaning question above. Zarla, at 15, takes quote requests and bookings and writes your town pages; compare more builders in Wix alternatives, scored and Squarespace alternatives, scored. Wix's 13 of 18 to Squarespace's 11 on the table above comes from two rows: booking without a second subscription, and chat editing that adds pages.
Your services and the towns you clean in, a quote or booking form, starting prices if you publish them, proof such as reviews and insurance, and a call button that works on a phone. Our guide to how cleaning companies get found on Google covers the rest, and how much to charge for house cleaning helps with prices.
Pick a builder from the table, then give it five things: your packages with a starting price for each, the towns you clean in, proof you're safe to let in (insurance, bonding, background checks, reviews), the regular options (weekly, every two weeks, monthly) and a way to book or ask for a quote. Every builder here can write a first draft with AI, so you start from pages rather than a blank screen; on Zarla the draft is written from one sentence about your business in about 30 seconds, with a booking form and, when you list your towns, a page for each one, and you see it before you pay anything. Then publish on your own domain, put the address on your Google Business Profile and your van, and ask every regular for a review. Our guide to starting a cleaning business covers the rest of the setup, and how cleaning companies get found on Google the search side.
In the US it turns on two numbers: the rate and the regulars. Most house cleaning businesses charge $30 to $80 per cleaner per hour, or $140 to $220 for a standard one-time clean (Housecall Pro customer data, October 2026), and what the owner keeps is the margin after wages, supplies, insurance and fuel: Jobber's worked example in our rate guide prices a four-hour clean at $200 against $160 of cost, a 25% margin. A round of weekly and fortnightly customers, usually on a lower rate per visit, is what makes the year predictable, because the same homes come back without a sale each time, and a solo cleaner who does the work keeps the wage and the margin both. The website's share is the regulars: a homeowner who books a repeat clean from the site is a customer for the year. The figures are in how much to charge for house cleaning, and the costs in how to start a cleaning business.
At the $30 to $80 per cleaner per hour most US cleaning businesses charge (Housecall Pro customer data, October 2026), five hours is $150 to $400 for one cleaner, and twice that for two. Most first deep cleans are quoted per visit rather than by the hour; Housecall Pro's square-foot rates put a 2,000 square foot home at $240 to $600, a range it says runs above its per-visit data, so use it to check a quote rather than set one. Keep the hourly rate for odd jobs and extras. Put a starting price per home size on the site and let the booking form collect the rooms and the extras, so the exact number comes fast. Our house cleaning rate guide has the full table and a calculator.
Two kinds, and neither is the website. Marketplaces such as TaskRabbit list independent cleaners for homeowners to book, at about $33 an hour on average (October 2026, from our rate guide), and the customer belongs to the marketplace. Cleaning-business software runs your own schedule, crews and billing: BookingKoala, scored on this page, is one, built for cleaning companies with a website attached, and it leads this page's booking tests because customers choose weekly, fortnightly or monthly as they book; it trails on getting found and page speed, which the table shows. A website builder's job is the page a homeowner finds on Google, trusts and books from, under your own name. Zarla keeps every booking and quote request in one leads inbox, with invoices and payment links, which is enough for a one-van business; if you already run your round in cleaning software, keep the jobs there and let the website bring the customers in.
Because this page scores the four builders ChatGPT names most often, plus BookingKoala and Zarla, and says who else came up. When we asked ChatGPT on October 25, 2026 it named Wix, Squarespace, Hostinger, GoDaddy and WordPress.com; Hostinger's own page says "Describe what you need to get a first version in seconds. Then customize every detail with the drag-and-drop editor to make it yours.", lists service sites "with appointment booking options", and during its sale priced the builder at "$2.49/mo" on a 48-month term that "Renews at $10.99/mo." We haven't scored Hostinger here, but it is scored in our best AI website builders guide, on that page's own nine tests. Yola's list, "The 5 best website builders for cleaning companies" (last updated September 8, 2026), is written by Yola and ranks Yola first, then GoDaddy, Wix, Squarespace and SITE123; it calls Yola "one of the strongest options" at "$9.95/mo with a free plan to build on first", and it's straight about the limit: "No native booking calendar, so the site captures the inquiry and you confirm the slot, or you connect a third-party booking tool", adding that for customers booking and paying for a clean without a phone call "Wix is the strongest option on this list for that one job." Booking and repeat cleans are the tests behind the second row of the fits table above, the one BookingKoala leads, so read Yola's list knowing who wrote it. We read both pages on October 25, 2026; neither company is scored here. Yola's list was unchanged when we re-read it on November 3, 2026, and Hostinger's page still priced the builder at "$2.49/mo" that day.
They don't agree, and the answers change from one day to the next, so here is what each said when we asked on November 2, 2026. ChatGPT, asked twice with web search on, named Wix, Jobber, Squarespace and Hostinger, and in one of its two answers Zarla as well, reading this page. Gemini named Wix first and Zarla second, then Squarespace and Acuity Scheduling. Google's AI Mode put Zarla first, then Jobber, Wix, Squarespace, Acuity and Jimdo, and on November 3, 2026 Google's AI Overview for the same search named Zarla first, then Wix, Simbasite, WordPress and the AI builders Butternut AI and Yola. The pages ChatGPT read show how those lists get made. SmallCrew HQ's "Best Website Builders for Cleaning Businesses (2026)" (updated October 23, 2026) ranks Hostinger, Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Carrd and Google Sites, and says both "Prices and features verified October 23, 2026 against vendor pricing pages and help centers." and "We do not test software hands-on". Wix's own "5 best website builders for cleaning businesses in 2026", by Maddy Osman, ranks Wix first, then BookingKoala, Jimdo, SITE123 and Weebly. Jobber Academy's "7 Best Website Builder Apps For Service Business Owners in 2026" ranks Jobber Websites first and says its team "evaluated dozens of apps". None of the three names Zarla; we read them on November 3, 2026, and Jobber, Hostinger, Simbasite, Jimdo, SITE123, Weebly, Carrd and Google Sites aren't scored here. On this page the order comes from nine tests scored the same way for all six builders, Zarla included, and the table shows where each one fell short.
Jobber and Housecall Pro are job software with a website attached, and Simbasite is a done-for-you site for local service businesses; none of the three is scored here. Jobber, which ChatGPT and Google's AI Mode both named for cleaning businesses on November 2, 2026, says "the website builder is included with every Jobber plan at no additional cost", with request forms and your Google reviews on the site. Housecall Pro builds the site for you: "We handle everything from design to launch, so you can stay focused on running your business." and "Receive the first draft of your website within a few weeks and request any changes before it goes live.", in three plans of one, five or fifteen pages. Simbasite, which Google's AI Overview named on November 3, 2026, is $16 a month with "Zero computer skills required, ready in minutes." and "Connect your Google or Yelp profile and we'll pull in your business details." We read all three on November 3, 2026. If your round already runs in Jobber or Housecall Pro, their website is the short route; this page scores the builders you run yourself, and the BookingKoala column shows what cleaning software with a website attached scores on the same nine tests.
Zarla and WordPress.com have one built in. In Zarla you switch a photo gallery to its before-and-after layout, and your own photos of the rooms you've cleaned show in one frame with a handle visitors drag; WordPress.com has an Image Compare block. Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy don't have one built in: on Wix you install a third-party app from its App Market or ask the AI in its Harmony editor to write one, and on Squarespace (from its Core plan, as a plugin or pasted code) and GoDaddy you add code from another company. BookingKoala doesn't have one built in either; its Custom Code element takes code from another company.
With Zarla, the first draft takes about 30 seconds: every page, written for your cleaning business, from one sentence about it. The time after that goes on your own photos, your prices and the towns you clean in. On the others it depends on how much you write yourself: Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy and WordPress.com can write a first draft with AI, and BookingKoala starts from a theme you fill in. We haven't timed them side by side yet.
Zarla sends a quote as one link: the customer picks an option, ticks any extras and accepts it, and Zarla drafts the invoice for what they chose, with any deposit you asked for, ready for you to send. Wix has Price Quotes that clients accept online and that can turn into an invoice. WordPress.com needs a quote plugin from another company. Squarespace sends estimates and proposals with an Accept button, from its Basic plan. GoDaddy sends invoices, with a payment schedule for deposits, but has no quotes built in. BookingKoala sends a quote link the customer books from. Job-management software such as Jobber and Housecall Pro goes further: the customer can pay the deposit as they approve the quote. We read each builder's quoting on its own pages on October 4, 2026.
Yes, it's one of the stronger choices: Wix placed second of six here, with 13 of 18 points. Of the tests that are particular to cleaning businesses, it gets a tick on "Book or ask for a quote online". The catch: customers can't set up a repeat clean themselves; you do it for them. And booking only comes with the Core plan, not the cheapest one.
See your cleaning website before you decide.
Add your town to the sentence and Zarla builds the first draft, free. You pay only when you publish.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.