A price list does two jobs: it filters enquiries before they reach you, and it stops you inventing a number under pressure on the phone. Both jobs require the list to be built from your own costs rather than copied, and both are undermined by publishing prices for work whose cost you cannot see in advance. Getting the split right, what goes on the page and what stays behind a conversation, matters more than the numbers themselves.
What to publish
The standard recurring clean, expressed the way you sell it, with a first-visit price beside it because the first visit is always longer. The frequency ladder: weekly, fortnightly, monthly, with the difference sized on real time rather than negotiation. The add-ons, individually priced: inside oven, inside fridge, interior windows, cabinets, laundry. And a minimum charge underneath everything. That set answers most enquiries without a phone call.
What to keep back
Anything whose cost depends on something you cannot see from a form. Hoarding, post-renovation dust, a property that has not been cleaned in a year, heavy pet soiling, commercial work of any kind. Publishing a number for those invites a booking you will regret and a conversation about why the price changed on arrival. An enquiry route for those is not a weakness in the list; it is the reason the rest of it can be firm.
Packages, and why three is the right number
Standard, deep and move-out covers almost every residential request, and each should be derived rather than invented: deep is the standard clean plus most add-ons at a longer duration, move-out is priced from an empty property. More packages make the conversation longer without making the price better, and they multiply the work of the annual review, which is the thing that actually keeps a list honest.
Questions people ask about price list for cleaning services
Should my prices be on my website?
The recurring price and the add-ons, yes. It filters out the enquiries that were never going to book and saves the calls for the ones that will.
How do I price a deep clean?
As a multiple of the standard clean derived from the extra hours, not as a round number. Time one properly and the multiple falls out.
What should the minimum charge be?
Roughly the cost of turning up: the trip plus an hour of loaded crew cost. Below that a job is charity with paperwork.