Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Sean Dyer on August 12, 2011, 02:10:24 pm
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Any of you that sub high street stuff just a quick question
If you clean a store 3 x a week , do you invoice at 3x the price x 52 / 12 calendar months?? And invoice every calendar month
Or invoice each month for the amount you've done?
ie some months 12 cleans other 13 +
I know it might sound weird but just wondered , as i submitted a quote for a store like this but they got the figure wrong by adding up 4 weeks worth and multiplying it by 12 , so just realised theyve cut 4 weeks cleaning off the yearly total ...if its 52 weeks a year work which i imagine it is
Make sense?
So just wondered how its done usually
Thanks
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I normally invoice for work done but I had the same problem as you with one company, So I agreed a fixed monthly payment of 52 divided by twelve so I get the correct amount over the year, hope that makes sense
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To elaborate it was one clean a week at £9 so some months it was £36 and others £45, but this was to confusing for the girl in the office so I did 9x52/12 and bill her £39 a month,
Reading your post again yes they are wrong they should x by 13 not 12
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Price of clean x the number of cleans carried out in the month.
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I emailed and got it sorted thankfully, i was worried as they had accepted the previous quote and this bumped it up by another £20 a month , but they took it,
TBH if they didnt it would of just got 48 weeks worth :)
Yes STU MAC, That seems the easiest way to me too, no thought for anyone when invoicing, only problem is if you miss any cleans :0 but i can just stick an extra one in another week or something...
Do any of you have 52 weeks a year shops?
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I emailed and got it sorted thankfully, i was worried as they had accepted the previous quote and this bumped it up by another £20 a month , but they took it,
TBH if they didnt it would of just got 48 weeks worth :)
Yes STU MAC, That seems the easiest way to me too, no thought for anyone when invoicing, only problem is if you miss any cleans :0 but i can just stick an extra one in another week or something...
Do any of you have 52 weeks a year shops?
Yes but my brother covers them if I go away and I cover his when he goes away
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Price of clean x the number of cleans carried out in the month.
Yes about 200 of them. :-o
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You just get staff to cover your back?
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Windows can be very distressing at times Sean.
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i know :) i think its about to get worse
The thing i liked about this job was not being tied to it, but i think with shops it is worse as you have to be there... But i don't like to turn down work and although i've only got 2 at the moment , i have a friend who is a maintenance manager for NW at a very big chain and more could come from it, so didnt want to say no... But i m unsure at the minute if its something i want but if i get enough i wont have to do em myself.... will see how it goes might get the wife on em one day a week haha
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Any of you that sub high street stuff just a quick question
If you clean a store 3 x a week , do you invoice at 3x the price x 52 / 12 calendar months?? And invoice every calendar month
Or invoice each month for the amount you've done?
ie some months 12 cleans other 13 +
I know it might sound weird but just wondered , as i submitted a quote for a store like this but they got the figure wrong by adding up 4 weeks worth and multiplying it by 12 , so just realised theyve cut 4 weeks cleaning off the yearly total ...if its 52 weeks a year work which i imagine it is
Make sense?
So just wondered how its done usually
Thanks
I've done it both ways for different companies.
A shop I used to do was once a week. I did weekly price x 52 then divide by 12 to give same amount each month. Another job that I recently started is twice per week. Each month I invoice on the number of cleans done within that calendar month. Usually it will be 9 but very occasionally it could be 8 (February) or 10 if the first clean falls on the first day of a 31 day month.
IME there isn't a "usual" way. It just needs to be agreed beforehand.
I have reciprocal arrangements with other trustworthy local shiners for holidays etc.