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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Purefreedom Reelmaster
« Last post by KS Cleaning on January 04, 2026, 04:23:21 pm »Is there a way to switch off power to the digital display or does it stay on all the time?
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Nightmare customers
« Last post by AuRavelling79 on January 04, 2026, 02:33:41 pm »The key is to set your stall out at the start.
Mine is ...
No cancellations.
No late payments.
No weather or holiday dependent skipping.
If they break those rules without a blisteringly good reason - dumped.
Don't care whether they live in a council house or a mansion.
Mine is ...
No cancellations.
No late payments.
No weather or holiday dependent skipping.
If they break those rules without a blisteringly good reason - dumped.
Don't care whether they live in a council house or a mansion.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by Stoots on January 04, 2026, 01:38:27 pm »I never used cp to record expenses as that was too much hassle. I would have to remeber every time I ordered something or went in a shop to update it on cp or it wouldn't match my bank. Rather than having to be totally accurate with expenses and payments in cp I just use it as a tool to organise my round and see debts.
Always found it easier to just download a bank csv file year end open in spreadsheet. See my turnover easily by summing the incoming column.
Then with the outgoings just match them to receipts I either had online or in paper form.
Took about 2 hours once a year rather than having to record data ongoing through the year. 1 mistake in cp and it wont match my account. What actually goes in and out of the bank is what matters not what ive recored in cp so thats where i prefer to get the data from. That's still the way I do it now then send it to my accountant because im Ltd.
Always found it easier to just download a bank csv file year end open in spreadsheet. See my turnover easily by summing the incoming column.
Then with the outgoings just match them to receipts I either had online or in paper form.
Took about 2 hours once a year rather than having to record data ongoing through the year. 1 mistake in cp and it wont match my account. What actually goes in and out of the bank is what matters not what ive recored in cp so thats where i prefer to get the data from. That's still the way I do it now then send it to my accountant because im Ltd.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by deeege on January 04, 2026, 12:50:44 pm »I guess it depends how you do your bookeeping currently
I never used cleaner planner for my accounting anyway when i was sole trader i just used it to track my round. Because it was cash basis i just my business bank account for the details.
At the end of the tax year i just added up the income from my bank account for my turnover then added up all expenses matched them up with reciepts and thats it. Submitted it.
Cant you do that with MTD just via software ?
Cleaner planner records every expense,payment(and method),outstanding debt, turnover,etc. Basically everything to do with running a small one man window cleaning business . It does a lot more than just track my round. I dont have to add up my income/payments from my bank account at the end of the tax year as its already there to view 365 days a year in cleaner planner. Every expense is added through my cp phone app and synced to the main site throughout the year. I can print off quarterly reports or end of year reports whenever I need to. I currently keep a folder of all paper receipts for that tax year but this will all have to be stored digitally in future.
Squeegee does all of that and plenty more stuff that most one man bands would never need aswell.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by deeege on January 04, 2026, 12:49:19 pm »I guess it depends how you do your bookeeping currently
I never used cleaner planner for my accounting anyway when i was sole trader i just used it to track my round. Because it was cash basis i just my business bank account for the details.
At the end of the tax year i just added up the income from my bank account for my turnover then added up all expenses matched them up with reciepts and thats it. Submitted it.
Cant you do that with MTD just via software ?
That’s exactly how I’ve always done things too but with Squeegee.
I’ve always subscribed to quickbooks to link to my bank and reconcile all of my payments in and expenses out and so my tax return from that. Squeegee was just to manage the round itself.
With the extra work involved with MTD I’ll now do everything inside of Squeegee and cancel quickbooks. Having multiple softwares is not ideal.
Out of interest, when was it that you trialled Squeegee? Gotta admit it used to be quite buggy when I started using it but last couple of years has improved considerably, it’s faultless now and support is always on hand if needed.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by dazmond on January 04, 2026, 12:38:59 pm »I guess it depends how you do your bookeeping currently
I never used cleaner planner for my accounting anyway when i was sole trader i just used it to track my round. Because it was cash basis i just my business bank account for the details.
At the end of the tax year i just added up the income from my bank account for my turnover then added up all expenses matched them up with reciepts and thats it. Submitted it.
Cant you do that with MTD just via software ?
Cleaner planner records every expense,payment(and method),outstanding debt, turnover,etc. Basically everything to do with running a small one man window cleaning business . It does a lot more than just track my round. I dont have to add up my income/payments from my bank account at the end of the tax year as its already there to view 365 days a year in cleaner planner. Every expense is added through my cp phone app and synced to the main site throughout the year. I can print off quarterly reports or end of year reports whenever I need to. I currently keep a folder of all paper receipts for that tax year but this will all have to be stored digitally in future.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by Stoots on January 04, 2026, 10:48:21 am »I guess it depends how you do your bookeeping currently
I never used cleaner planner for my accounting anyway when i was sole trader i just used it to track my round. Because it was cash basis i just my business bank account for the details.
At the end of the tax year i just added up the income from my bank account for my turnover then added up all expenses matched them up with reciepts and thats it. Submitted it.
Cant you do that with MTD just via software ?
I never used cleaner planner for my accounting anyway when i was sole trader i just used it to track my round. Because it was cash basis i just my business bank account for the details.
At the end of the tax year i just added up the income from my bank account for my turnover then added up all expenses matched them up with reciepts and thats it. Submitted it.
Cant you do that with MTD just via software ?
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Anyone moved from CP to squeegee?
« Last post by dazmond on January 04, 2026, 10:04:26 am »Im Ltd so i dont understand how MTD works exactly as it wont apply to me.
Ive tried squeegee a few times and think its crap, cleaner planner is so clean and simple to use, i didnt like squeege at all it but i guess if you have to switch then you will have to get used to it.
Isnt there a way to continue to use cp and another software or is it all a faff now with mtd?
As for slips, just get a load of leaflets printed daz as above, i got 20k a few years ago for £120 and ive still got a box full in the shed. All i do on the first job of the day is write the price on a handfull, crack off them jobs then write another handfull its maybe a couple extra minutes a day to write a price on but it beats printing you`ll spend more time in faff and ink doing it your way.
I think it could be more of a faff switching over because cleaner planner works effortlessly for me. I too don't like squeegee but if it integrates with MTD then it should prove more simplistic in the long run.
As for printing slips. Its just the way I like to do it. It saves having to write price and date on each individual slip when im out and about and only takes 5 mins in the evening after work. The slips fit neatly in my wallet for easy posting while cleaning.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Nightmare customers
« Last post by Stoots on January 04, 2026, 09:46:01 am »Ive had dozens and dozens of bad customers over the years to get where i am today.
But like Daz says a lot of the time you can tell, quite a few times ive been doing a new one walked in the garden and thought shes not gonna pay and half the time im right. Quite a few doss holes round here unfortunately.
Bad payers come from anywhere as do messers but sometimes you just know and youve only yourself to blame.
But like Daz says a lot of the time you can tell, quite a few times ive been doing a new one walked in the garden and thought shes not gonna pay and half the time im right. Quite a few doss holes round here unfortunately.
Bad payers come from anywhere as do messers but sometimes you just know and youve only yourself to blame.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Nightmare customers
« Last post by Scottish Cleaning Service on January 04, 2026, 09:37:44 am »I have found a good way to deal with folk who always delay the payment, I tell them if they go DD then I will continue.