Gutter Cleaning Software for Rounds and Proof of Work
Seasonal rounds, one-off cleans and repairs on one board, with the photos, the access notes and the invoice on the job.
A round of short jobs is a driving problem
Gutter work is twenty minutes of labour and fifteen minutes of driving, repeated all day. Whatever reduces the driving raises the number of properties done. Planning the round in geographic order, and keeping it that way as customers join, is worth more than any other change a gutter business can make.
Proof, because the customer cannot see the gutters
The customer is standing on the ground and the work is on the roofline. That gap is where every dispute in this trade comes from. A before and after photograph from the ladder or the pole camera settles it before it starts, and it is the reason customers rebook.
Access, ladders and the things worth knowing first
A conservatory in the way, a locked side gate, a neighbour who objects to a ladder on their drive, a three storey rear elevation that needs different kit. Recorded once, these stop a crew arriving with the wrong equipment.
Repairs, extras and getting paid the same day
The money above the round is in what the crew notices: a sagging length, a broken bracket, a downpipe blocked at the shoe. Recorded on the visit with a photograph, it becomes a quote. Left as a mention, it becomes nothing.
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Short jobs, long drives
Gutter cleaning has an unusual ratio. The work at each property is short and predictable, and the travel between properties is often longer than the job itself. That makes the round order, not the work, the thing that determines how many properties get done in a day and therefore what the business earns.
Most gutter businesses discover this eventually and fix it with a paper map. The problem with the paper map is that it degrades: customers join, customers leave, and within two seasons the round is back to being a list in the order people called.
The customer cannot inspect the work
This trade has a structural trust problem. The work happens six metres above the person paying for it. They cannot verify it, and after the first heavy rain they may believe it was never done at all.
Photographs are the product
A before and after photograph, taken from a ladder or a pole camera and attached to the visit, resolves that permanently. It takes a crew twenty seconds. It stops disputes, it justifies the price, and it is the single most effective thing a gutter business can send a customer to make them book again next year.
The defects you notice are the margin
A crew on a ladder sees things nobody else sees: a bracket coming away, a joint leaking, a downpipe blocked at the base, moss lifting a tile. Each of those is chargeable work. Mentioned to the customer on the doorstep and not recorded, almost none of it converts. Photographed and attached to the property, it becomes a quote that can be followed up.
In a trade with thin margins on the core service, this is where the profitable work comes from, and it costs nothing to capture beyond the discipline of doing it on the job.
Weather and the honest round
Autumn is the season and autumn is wet. Days are lost, and the properties on them have to go somewhere. Moving a whole day at once, with the customers notified, is a two minute job on a board and a two hour job on a phone.
Access notes save more time than they cost
Locked side gates, conservatories, awkward parking, neighbours who object to ladders on their drive, three storey rear elevations that need different equipment. Recorded once on the property, these stop a crew arriving without the right kit and turning a twenty minute job into a return visit.
What to look for
Can the round be planned in driving order and kept that way. Can a crew record before and after photographs in seconds without a signal. Can a defect spotted on the roof become a quote. Can the invoice be built from the visits recorded. Those four are the trade.
Starting free
A one or two person business runs free with no time limit: scheduling, digital job forms, the mobile app and reports are included.
Modules are added when they pay for themselves, each with a free trial of up to 55 days: invoicing when billing a season becomes tedious, location control when several crews work the same area, the customer portal when clients want their own history.
The parts are documented individually: task management, the mobile app, digital job forms, client records, invoicing and job history. Prices are on the pricing page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a gutter cleaning round be scheduled in advance?
Yes. Annual and twice yearly cleans are set as recurring visits per property, so the round builds itself and can be planned in driving order rather than being reassembled every autumn when the calls start.
How do we prove the gutters were actually cleared?
Before and after photographs are attached to the visit with a time stamp, along with the completed checklist. The customer on the ground cannot see the roofline, which is exactly why the photograph is the most valuable thing the crew produces.
What happens when a day is lost to weather?
The day is rescheduled rather than abandoned. The properties move together, the crew sees the change on the mobile app, and the office can see the effect on the rest of the week before committing to it.
Does the app work without a signal?
The mobile app for iOS and Android holds the job, the checklist and the photographs on the device and syncs once the phone reconnects, so rural properties are recorded normally.
Can crews record repairs they spot on the roofline?
Yes. A loose bracket or a damaged length is photographed and recorded against the property while the crew is there, which turns an observation into a quote instead of a comment that nobody follows up.
Is it usable by a one or two person business?
Teams of two or fewer run free with no time limit: scheduling, digital job forms, the mobile app and reports are included, which covers a single-van gutter business completely.
What does it cost as the round grows?
Above two employees pricing is per employee per month, and every paid module carries a free trial of up to 55 days, long enough to run a full autumn round through invoicing before deciding.
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