Price storefronts, restaurants and house windows from your own costs
Your van, pole system, insurance and wages go in once. Every storefront on your route is then priced from its own glass time and drive, and the price per pane per side comes out at the end as a check.
- Know what an hour on the glass really costs Insurance with the COI, software, marketing, the van, the pure water system, your tech's pay and yours become one break-even rate per billable hour.
- Price the whole stop, not just the panes Setting up the pole, outside glass, inside glass, entry doors, frames and sills, supplies and the drive each get their own line.
- Quote per visit, per month and per pane Every 2 weeks, weekly, monthly and every two months come out side by side, with what each works out to per pane per side.
- Stop cleaning around signs for free The manager walk-through, signs and decals, restaurant grease and re-cleans after rain sit on a checklist you answer before the quote is ready.
- Leave the store manager a proper quote One page with the glass covered, the monthly price and your window cleaning terms, ready to print or save as a PDF.
- Find the stops that run long The Job Log tracks every storefront quoted, won or lost, and the minutes each one really takes.
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- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
How it turns glass minutes and the drive into a storefront price per visit
Six tabs take you from your supply order to a signed storefront, and then to a monthly check on each stop.
- Start HereWalks you through the fill-in order and the colour code. Give it one evening.
- Shop SetupInsurance and the COI, software, marketing, the van and pole system, your tech and you, boiled down to one break-even rate for each hour on the glass.
- Price ListSoap, pure water, towels, sponges and pole parts at your supplier's price, each dated so old prices stand out.
- QuoteMinutes for the setup, the outside glass, the inside glass and the doors, the drive from your last stop and the checklist. It gives the price per visit and per month for each frequency, and a one-time charge for the heavy first clean.
- Customer QuoteThe page the store sees: the glass covered, the monthly price and terms.
- Job LogEvery storefront quoted, won or lost, and the minutes each stop really takes.
What is a break-even rate? It is the least each hour your crew spends cleaning glass on site can earn and still pay both wages, the van, the insurance and the rest of the year's costs, including the weeks lost to weather, with no profit yet. Anything above it is profit. The true hourly rate guide works through it.
Prefilled example built-in
The file comes filled in with a made-up window cleaning company and its $64.91 storefront quote, so you see a finished quote before you type in your own numbers.
The example company is an owner and one technician, with a break-even of $57.42 per billable hour. The stop is a restaurant: 14 panes and 2 entry doors inside and out, frames and sills wiped and fingerprints off the doors, cleaned every 2 weeks.
| A | B | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part of the price, per visit | Amount |
| 2 | Glass time, supplies and the drive | $41.39 |
| 3 | Easy-to-miss minutes (sign-off, signs, grease) | $9.51 |
| 4 | Supplies markup, cushion and profit | $14.01 |
| 5 | Price per visit, every 2 weeks | $64.91 |
That is $140.86 a month, about $1,690 a year and about $2.03 per pane per side, plus a one-time start-up charge of $92.95 for the heavy first clean. The $14.01 a visit is kept after both wages, and the stop earns about $76 per labour hour. The full walk-through, with house pricing, is on how much to charge for window cleaning.
$247
That is what the easy-to-miss lines alone added to a year of visits every 2 weeks at this example storefront. It is about 4 times what the calculator costs. Miss them once and the file has paid for itself.
- One-time payment, no subscription
- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
Why a per-pane price from another cleaner doesn't fit your route
Ask what to charge per pane and you'll get a different answer from every region, because each number carries that cleaner's weather, wages, speed and route density. A cleaner who loses weeks to snow each winter needs more per pane than one who works nearly all year.
Here is the math on the example restaurant. The manager sign-off, working around signs, extra passes for grease and wear on the pole system add $9.51 to every visit on top of the glass. Over a year of visits every 2 weeks, that is about $247. A flat per-pane price counts the panes and none of that.
The calculator prices each stop from the minutes it really takes first, then shows the per-pane figure. You can still quote per pane, but it will be a number that pays for that storefront.
Signs, grease, rain re-cleans and the other storefront minutes it catches
The Quote tab won't mark a quote ready until each of these lines has a Yes, No or N/A:
- The walk-through and sign-off with whoever runs the store, on every visit.
- Signs, decals and displays you lift or work around.
- Restaurant grease and fingerprints on the doors and low glass, which take extra passes.
- Wear on the pure water system and pole brush, spread across every stop.
- Hard water stains, marked N/A on a normal stop and quoted separately before any treatment.
- Re-cleans after rain or a missed-spot complaint. Left as No in the example on purpose, so the warning stays until you set a policy.
Exactly what you get
A single spreadsheet, downloaded straight after checkout. Excel and Google Sheets both open it. No renewal, no login, no app to learn.
- The six-tab calculator, built for storefront routes and recurring house work.
- A complete example window cleaning company, with its restaurant storefront priced so you can follow each number.
- Window cleaning terms you can edit, covering hard water and stickers, rain days moving the visit and not the price, and extra glass approved first as a change order.
- A Job Log that shows which stops run over their minutes, the habit covered in job costing.
How it compares
Most owners price a job one of these ways. Here is what each one gives you.
| Copying another company's price | A free estimate template | Estimating software | This calculator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from your own costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Makes you answer the easy-to-miss costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Shows which jobs made money | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Works in Excel and Google Sheets | – | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free | Free | Usually a monthly fee | $49.95 once |
Who it's for: storefront route builders and small window cleaning companies
It fits owner-operators and small window cleaning companies, about 1 to 15 people, building storefront routes or recurring house work, cleaners who quote per pane from memory, and pressure washing companies adding windows. Solo with a pole in the van or running two crews, three-pane shops or big restaurants, each stop is priced from its own minutes, so your route fits as it is.
It is not for high-rise or rope-access work priced by drops, big companies already job costing inside a CRM, or anyone looking for a free blank form. To check your break-even first, use the free true hourly rate calculator.
Stop pricing glass from a per-pane number someone posted online. Price every storefront from your own glass time, drive and costs, catch the minutes that usually get missed, and see which stops made money.
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