# MaidCentral review (2026): is it worth $450 a month? > Scheduling and operations software for residential cleaning companies Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. MaidCentral is software for residential cleaning companies that covers scheduling, dispatching, online booking, a customer portal, texting, invoicing, payroll reporting and KPI dashboards. Pricing follows the number of locations and completed jobs, not users or customers. - **Category:** Field Service Software - **Made by:** MaidCentral, Inc. - **Website:** https://maidcentral.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are small, since the floor is $450 a month for one location. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, MaidCentral is a paid product, starting at $450 per month for 1 location, rising with completed jobs. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $450 per month for 1 location and up | Full platform for 1 location. Each added location and each tier of completed jobs raises the price. Unlimited users and customers; a one-time onboarding fee applies. | Read from https://maidcentral.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MaidCentral before buying. ## Key features - **Scheduling and dispatching:** Master schedule, dispatching and field service access for technicians, with revenue production planning for the office. - **Online booking and customer portal:** Customers book cleanings online and manage their own accounts through a portal. An employee portal and texting are also listed. - **Invoicing and payroll reporting:** Batch billing and invoicing, card charging, employee tipping and payroll reporting based on completed jobs. - **KPIs and quality tracking:** KPI dashboards, scorecards, advanced reporting and quality measurement from customer feedback. - **Marketing and CRM:** A CRM with sales follow-up and marketing campaigns, aimed at residential cleaning companies. ## Good for - Growing and multi-location residential cleaning companies - Owners who want unlimited users without a per-seat charge ## Worth knowing - Billing is by physical location and completed jobs per month. A job counts when it has a time sheet in the payroll cycle. - The vendor says there is no free trial, only a live demo, and a one-time onboarding fee applies. - The calculator on the pricing page gives an estimate; the vendor says final pricing is confirmed on sign-up. - The pages read do not say which mobile operating systems the technician access runs on. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. MaidCentral runs scheduling, booking, invoicing, payroll reporting and quality tracking for cleaning companies. It starts at $450 a month for one location and rises with completed jobs, there's no free trial, and a one-time onboarding fee applies. - **Value for money: D.** $450 a month for one location, plus $1.50 a job on the pricing page's calculator, is about nine times the category's middle price of $49. A one-time onboarding fee is on top. - **Free plan and trial: F.** The vendor says there's no free trial, only a live demo. - **Features: B.** Scheduling and dispatching, online booking and a customer portal, invoicing and payroll reporting, KPIs and quality tracking, marketing and a CRM. The listing shows no gap in the cleaning job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Routes, pricing and payroll rules have to be set up, and onboarding is a paid step. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations listed, and the pages don't say which phone systems technician access runs on. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MaidCentral’s own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among field service apps - MaidCentral's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 0 of the 87 other field service apps we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on features (B, above 55 of 87) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $450 a month, against a middle price of $50 for the category: 53 of the 53 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 21 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/field-service ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace MaidCentral you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 82 of the 87 other field service apps grade higher. It costs $5,400 a year. - You could make: Job scheduling, appointment booking, invoicing and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Job scheduling, Appointment booking, Invoicing, Payroll, Dashboards, Reports ## Alternatives - [ZenMaid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zenmaid): Scheduling and booking software for maid and cleaning services. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maidcentral-vs-zenmaid) - [BookingKoala](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bookingkoala): Booking, scheduling and website software for service businesses. 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