When you create a new appointment, scroll down to the Billing section where you will see a field that says “Automatically estimate amount owed”

To use this feature, go to Settings (Gear icon on the bottom left corner), and under Scheduling select Job estimation and work items.

Job estimation allows you to input work items and put a price on them. Work items may also act as a checklist for your cleaners as they will see what specifics they need to focus on without seeing pricing.

There is also a default Man Hour cost feature if you charge appointments by the hour. Once all of your cleaners' pay rate is entered and the Man Hour section has a price, it should be the same as what you will enter here in the Job Estimations Man Hour section.

For example, when entering a cleaner, in the pay rate section, you enter $12/hour and $40 per man-hour.

When you create an appointment and assign a cleaner, this will automatically calculate the job cost for scheduled appointments. You can still use the work items here too as they add on top of hourly pricing.

Check the box saying Automatically estimate job cost for scheduled appointments by default if you want the amount auto-calculated every time you create a new appointment.

If you do not want the appointments to always auto-populate prices, you can leave the box checked off since you will have a box to calculate your appointments in each appointment too.

Note that using the Copy to all future services button under More under the Billing section will override the Automatically Estimate Amount Owed feature.

When done, scroll down and click “Save Changes”

This is the hourly charge you would make to your customers - for example, $45.

This would be based on the full time to clean regardless of how many cleaners. i.e.: 8 hour clean with 2 cleaners would be booked for 4 hours but the man-hours are still 8.

If you charge different Man Hour rates, you can adjust each appointment.

The man-hour cost is different from what you pay your cleaner.

In ZenMaid you have 4 pay types for your cleaners:

-Per hour

-Percentage Rate

-Fixed Flat Rate

-Variable Fixed Rate