Automate Your Carpet Cleaning Business
Quote rooms, book the job, and collect payment without stopping the extractor. Autopilot answers the phone and runs the office while your techs run the wand.
Autopilot, working your route
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- Get More Reviews: Automatic follow-up texts ask for a review once the carpets are dry.
- Book More Jobs: Customers pick rooms and stairs and grab a time slot online, day or night.
- Tighter Routes: Order the day's homes by location so the van stops driving in circles.
- Faster Payments: Invoices fire when the job closes and customers pay from their phone.
- Never Miss a Lead: Missed calls get an automatic text back before they dial the next company.
How a Carpet Cleaning Day Runs on Autopilot
The same system, told the way the work actually happens: from the first call to the last room to the money in your account.
1Book the job
Every call and click becomes a booked job
Customers pick rooms, stairs, and pet treatment and book a time slot online, day or night. When the phone rings, you see who's calling with their full job history, and every call is recorded. Miss one mid-extraction? Autopilot texts them back before they call the next company.
2Plan the week
Rooms, stairs, and move-outs in one calendar
The weekly overview lays out every job, tech, and van in one view. Give the big whole-house jobs room to breathe, tuck the three-room jobs around them, and everyone knows their day before the tanks are filled.
3Run the route
Six homes, no backtracking
Stops get ordered by location so the van isn't crossing town between homes. Techs get SMS alerts the moment anything changes, and homeowners get automatic on-my-way texts so the furniture is moved and the dog is put up before the van pulls in.
4Get paid at the door
Invoice, payment, and tip before the hoses are rolled
The invoice fires the moment the last room is done, and you can text before and after photos of the worst stains right from the customer's thread. They pay from a link on their phone, and the built-in tip screen means your techs make more on the same job.
5Book the next one
Reviews and annual cleans, on autopilot
Auto texts send drying-time care tips, then ask happy customers for a Google review once the carpet is dry. SMS, email, voicemail, and postcard blasts bring last year's homes back for their annual clean without you dialing a single number.
See Autopilot in Action
Browse real screens from the platform. From scheduling views and marketing dashboards to client communication and real-time alerts, this is the system your crew will actually use.
- businesses run on Autopilot
- 400+
- Google Play rating
- 4.9
- App Store rating
- 4.8
- starting price per month
- $49
Set It Up Once. Let It Run Your Business
Autopilot makes it simple to onboard your carpet cleaning business with intuitive steps that fit your operations. Create services, set up automated customer messages, and manage schedules without juggling multiple apps.
Set Up Your Business
Add services, pricing, vans, and team members.
Start Taking Jobs Online
Customers book while you focus on operations.
Let Automation Do the Work
Scheduling, reminders, dispatching, and payments run on autopilot.
Miss the Call. Keep the Job.
A missed call used to mean the homeowner dialed the next carpet company on the list. Now Autopilot answers by text in seconds, quotes the rooms, and books the job while your tech is still running the wand in another house.
Nobody touched a phone.
Missed call · Wednesday 2:38 PM
Hey, it's Fresh Fiber Carpet Cleaning. Sorry we missed you! How can we help?
Sent automatically, 8 seconds later
Need 3 bedrooms cleaned. Dog had a couple accidents in one of them
Three rooms is $149 with pet stain treatment included. Plan on 4 to 6 hours of drying time. First opening is Friday at 1. Want it?
Yes please
Booked · Friday 1:00 PM · Tech notified
The Big Platforms Hide Their Pricing. Here Is Ours.
Top plans reach $599 at Jobber and $743 in Workiz's published example. Autopilot runs from $49 to $299.
| Top-plan comparisonPriced for a 7-person team |  Scale, 7 team members$299/mo |  WorkizUltimate + Phone + AI$743/mo* |  Housecall ProMAX + Voice + Campaigns$443+/mo* |  JobberPlus, 7 users$557/mo* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full business phone system | Included | Phone add-on | Voice add-on | Receptionist line only |
| AI Receptionist | Included | Genius Answering | CSR AI, quote | Included |
| Google Ads integration | Included | Call tracking add-on | Manual spend + Voice | Local Services booking |
| Bing Ads integration | Included | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Book Online button on Google | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Review automation | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Live employee GPS | Included | Included | Included | GPS waypoints |
| QuickBooks Online | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Zapier integration | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Public API | Included | Included | Included | Included |
* Research checked July 27, 2026. All columns are priced for the same 7-person team. Autopilot Scale is $299 monthly with 7 team members included; additional users are $29/month each. Jobber is the regular flexible-monthly Plus price for five users plus two additional users at $29 each. Housecall Pro is MAX (which includes eight users) with entry Voice and Campaigns, before CSR AI. Workiz is its documented Ultimate + Phone + Genius Answering example. Promotions, usage, contracts, taxes, and quotes can change the final bill.
The van-day math of carpet cleaning
One van, one day, a handful of stacked jobs, and a customer who should hear from you again in nine months.
Stacked jobs and the comeback cadence
Carpet cleaning margin is van-day math. The van, the machine, and the tech cost roughly the same whether the day holds three jobs or six, so the difference between a thin day and a good one is how tightly jobs stack. Booking gaps are the leak: an empty ninety minutes between a morning three-room job and an afternoon whole-house is unbillable drive-and-wait time.
The trade's hidden asset is the comeback cadence. Carpets need cleaning again every six to twelve months, which means every finished job is a future job with a date on it. Most companies leave that to the customer's memory, which is how a happy client quietly becomes a stranger. The reminder text nine months out is the cheapest booking the business will ever get.
The numbers on a van day
- One van, one day3 to 6 jobs
Fixed cost either way. Stacking decides whether the day was thin or good.
- The comeback cadenceEvery 6 to 12 months
Every finished job is a future job with a date on it, if anyone sends the reminder.
- A quiet TuesdayFill it with comebacks
A blast to last year's customers beats any ad you can buy for the slow weeks.
Job counts vary with home size and service mix. The structure is fixed: stack the day, and put a reminder date on every job you finish.
What carpet cleaners usually replace
Carpet cleaning companies mostly arrive from Housecall Pro, from a booking spreadsheet, or from a paper calendar riding shotgun in the van. The specialist tools in this trade are thin, so most owners have been making generalists fit.
The comparison worth running is repeat-first: what it costs to keep every past customer on a reminder date and fill slow weeks from your own list instead of buying leads.
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