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.
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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.
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 — AI assistant edits and adds pages, 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, free invoices, 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.
THE LIST
The best website builders for cleaning businesses, ranked
- 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.
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.
- 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. Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy (its Websites + Marketing builder) and WordPress.com are the four ChatGPT names most often when we ask it which website builder to use for trades like this one. BookingKoala showed up beside them when we asked. Zarla is ours.
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.
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.
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.
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.