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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ashbash on December 20, 2014, 09:38:38 am

Title: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: ashbash on December 20, 2014, 09:38:38 am
Currently have my work on the computer and print of the work sheets at the start of the month. I'm thinking of going on clean planner as everyone seems to have good things to say about it. Is it easier than the method I use and do you run it from your phone when working or can you still print the work sheets of
Thanks ash
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: p1w1 on December 20, 2014, 09:53:03 am
yep can do all that you mentioned, simple thing to do is trial it for free for a month and mess around with it, Rob will be able to transfer all your data over to cleaner planner and help get you going plus there is a forum dedicated to cleaner planner.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Clever Forum Name on December 20, 2014, 10:05:09 am
Stop whatever you are doing.

Set up a free trial with Rob.

Email Rob.

Get it started.

Seriously.

Just do it.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Bay View WCS on December 20, 2014, 10:31:20 am
Is it worth it for one man bands or more aimed at those with loads of customers and multiple staff?
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Soupy on December 20, 2014, 10:40:25 am
It'll work for any size of window cleaning business and is highly customisable to suit the way you work.

Like anything computer based there is a learning curve. I have not had one single issue that has not been resolved straight away. The forum on there is a complete stroke of genius, if you get stuck, post a question on there and a knowledgeable user will be along to help or Rob himself will sort you out.  I believe you may be able to see it without an account:

https://app.cleanerplanner.com/forum/
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Smudger on December 20, 2014, 06:31:40 pm
Stop whatever you are doing.

Set up a free trial with Rob.

Email Rob.

Get it started.

Seriously.

Just do it.


As above x
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Jakey boy on December 20, 2014, 07:58:16 pm
So say your running a couple of days behind because of rain etc, how does cleaner olanner work that out? Does it push all the days work ahead 2 days? How do you keep it all on schedule of you miss a day?
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: firefly123 on December 20, 2014, 08:11:25 pm
have to say while cleaner planer is g very good for go cardless etc George which i have been using for six years to manage three rounds cost me a one off fee of £50 pounds the only down side is cant run it from a tablet but i choose to print off work sheets at the beginning of week i think the general lay out of george is better for the cost imho
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Stoots on December 20, 2014, 08:54:59 pm
Just trialed both, prefer george, does everything and much cheaper
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Clever Forum Name on December 20, 2014, 09:12:17 pm
have to say while cleaner planer is g very good for go cardless etc George which i have been using for six years to manage three rounds cost me a one off fee of £50 pounds the only down side is cant run it from a tablet but i choose to print off work sheets at the beginning of week i think the general lay out of george is better for the cost imho

You can run George from windows tablets.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: rah on December 20, 2014, 09:29:36 pm
I'm currently looking at cleaner planner, moving from Win pro ( load of shi**)
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: LWC on December 21, 2014, 02:10:53 pm
I'm currently looking at cleaner planner, moving from Win pro ( load of shi**)

Window cleaner pro wasnt shi** just got left behind. I was very reluctant to leaving it to be honest. However things are moving forward very quickly with cleaner planner and im happy with the way its going. Having it on my phone is superb. Im never without my round.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Sean Dyer on December 21, 2014, 05:18:08 pm
window cleaner pro was great at first , lets remember the alternative was george which while ok, was a bit aged

At the end of the day if you are having no problems with your current method then why change? You can still quite easily run a one man band from a few notebooks , but it all depends how you want to run your business

For me having everything on my laptop and iphone and over the internet syncing both is brilliant and im more organised thanks to cleaner planner than ive ever been , and robs customer service is second to none which is what sold it to me if im honest as i was getting by with wcp but the fact they pretty much do no support now meant that i was more confident putting my data in robs hands

If you can afford the £15 a month i dont think you will make many other improvements to your business at that price that does so much
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 21, 2014, 08:33:00 pm
Hi all, good convo going here without me butting in ;) But just to say if anyone has any specific questions about Cleaner Planner that haven't been answered feel free to email me directly at rob@cleanerplanner.com. Also if you fancy giving CP a try, just a reminder that I can import your data from any software - George, WCP, Aworka, Excel etc - or help you input your jobs from paper. Thanks, Rob.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on December 22, 2014, 04:06:26 pm
read the small print befoure down loading it and if you do I am quite sure you wont after
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Soupy on December 22, 2014, 04:08:31 pm
read the small print befoure down loading it and if you do I am quite sure you wont after

You don't down load anything.

Also, if you read the small print for any IT based gadget or gizmo it'll put you right off.


Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Dave Willis on December 22, 2014, 04:15:15 pm
read the small print befoure down loading it and if you do I am quite sure you wont after


 ??? you trialled it did you have a problem?
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 22, 2014, 04:17:35 pm
What small print are we talking about?
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Clever Forum Name on December 22, 2014, 05:00:02 pm
read the small print befoure down loading it and if you do I am quite sure you wont after

Ah this is where i am going wrong in life. Off to reset the internet and download a cloud based program.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Soupy on December 22, 2014, 05:10:11 pm
What small print are we talking about?

I'm guessing it's this:

http://www.cleanerplanner.com/pdf/terms.pdf
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 22, 2014, 05:23:08 pm
Yes, but it's all pretty standard stuff for a cloud-based app. Just wondering what specific part of it was being referred to?

I'm open to constructive feedback on every aspect of Cleaner Planner, "small print" included. If something doesn't sit right here then I'll review and possibly amend it.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Frankybadboy on December 22, 2014, 07:17:20 pm
the only thing that cleaner planner doesnt do for me is clean the bloody windows

come on rob sort it out  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: wightsurf on December 22, 2014, 07:20:44 pm
Just out of interest I had a quick look at TandC

2.3Cleaner Planner shall have the right, exercisable at its sole discretion, to terminate provision of the Services without prior notice to Users

13.1that they will be secure. < this bit

Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on December 22, 2014, 07:33:21 pm
Just out of interest I had a quick look at TandC

2.3Cleaner Planner shall have the right, exercisable at its sole discretion, to terminate provision of the Services without prior notice to Users

13.1that they will be secure. < this bit



That worries me too.   I would be worried about losing my database if the servers are closed.  Dangerous for my business.

Is the full database assessable offline ?  Or have the data stored on my laptop where it can easily be transferred over to another software?

Also I would be concerned that the price can be increased. 
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 22, 2014, 07:38:00 pm
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Just out of interest I had a quick look at TandC

2.3Cleaner Planner shall have the right, exercisable at its sole discretion, to terminate provision of the Services without prior notice to Users

13.1that they will be secure. < this bit

2.3 - Yep, as I say that's pretty standard T&C wording for a cloud based app but to be honest it doesn't sit right with me either. If I was to terminate the service (not that I have any intention whatsoever of doing so) I would *definitely* give ample notice to my users, as much as possible but at least a month. I'll amend this ASAP :)

13.1 - I think I'll remove this clause as it's not representative of Cleaner Planner at all! Quality of service, meeting users' requirements, multi-device compatibility and data security are what Cleaner Planner is all about.

Thanks for the feedback. I've been meaning to comb through these for a while to be honest and this is certainly something I want to get right as Cleaner Planner grows :)
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: wightsurf on December 22, 2014, 07:46:24 pm
I only had a look because it got brought up in the discussion ,if you bring out a standalone program I would be interested but not web based .
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 22, 2014, 07:49:17 pm
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That worries me too.   I would be worried about losing my database if the servers are closed.  Dangerous for my business.

As I say (and I'm going to amend the T&C's to reflect this) you would *not* lose your data if the service was ever terminated. You would have ample notice and time to login to the system and export your entire database (which you can do at any time via the "Settings > Accounts" tab regardless of what package you are on). Although I backup your data hourly I also recommend you take your own backups periodically (e.g. once a week) for your own extra peace of mind.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Lee GLS on December 22, 2014, 07:54:58 pm
Hi Rob

I've just emailed you about a trial
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 22, 2014, 07:57:06 pm
Cheers Lee, just emailed you back, look forward to getting you up and running on the trial :)
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Bay View WCS on December 22, 2014, 08:08:49 pm

[/quote]

I'm guessing it's this:

http://www.cleanerplanner.com/pdf/terms.pdf
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Posting the above link is a breach of clause 11 of the Terms  ;D
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Soupy on December 22, 2014, 08:15:14 pm
Quote from: Bay View WCS

Posting the above link is a breach of clause 11 of the Terms  ;D

 :D
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on December 22, 2014, 08:42:38 pm
Thanks Rob,

Also just had a look at the package, is there a way I can change the format colours.  The Cyan is too light against the white for me to clearly see without straining. 
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 23, 2014, 02:07:29 pm
Hi Paul - just emailed you about this, but to let you and anyone else interested know (as this has been on CIU suggested before) I've added a "Dark" colour scheme option for those who find the default scheme a bit too subtle for their taste and/or eyesight. If you're on Cleaner Planner and want to give it a try just go to the "Settings" tab, change the "Theme" to "Dark" and click "Save".
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: The Jester of Wibbly on December 23, 2014, 03:45:31 pm
Hey,

You can now make the colours of the blue a little darker which for some might help a lot to make it clearer to see,

On the spanner, settings you can change the theme to darker.

Fab news, thanks
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Smudger on December 23, 2014, 06:16:37 pm
thats a good option rob, is tehre any way you could have a dark dark option, with the blue maybe a bit darker than the dark setting (though not essential) BUT an option where the text can be dark black rather than the wishy washy grey (you know this has been an issue for me and I would love to be able to have option to have the colours as I prefer if possible. the grey writing is a strain on my eyes at times.
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: Rob @ Cleaner Planner on December 23, 2014, 07:01:07 pm
Thanks Paul and Smudger. I've changed the main text colour (in the lists etc) on the "Dark" theme to jet black (it doesn't go any blacker ;)) Let me know what you think!
Title: Re: Clean planner .... Talk to me
Post by: LWC on December 23, 2014, 09:42:29 pm
Ive gone dark...like it  ;D