[Sean Dyer]

Any of you that sub high street stuff just a quick question

If you clean a store 3 x a week , do you invoice at 3x the price x 52 / 12 calendar months?? And invoice every calendar month

Or invoice each month for the amount you've done?
ie some months 12 cleans other 13 +

I know it might sound weird but just wondered , as i submitted a quote for a store like this but they got the figure wrong by adding up 4 weeks worth and multiplying it by 12 , so just realised theyve cut 4 weeks cleaning off the yearly total ...if its 52 weeks a year work which i imagine it is

Make sense?
 So just wondered how its done usually
Thanks

[mci services]

I normally invoice for work done but I had the same problem as you with one company, So I agreed a fixed monthly payment of 52 divided by twelve so I get the correct amount over the year, hope that makes sense

[mci services]

To elaborate it was one clean a week at £9 so some months it was £36 and others £45, but this was to confusing for the girl in the office so I did 9x52/12 and bill her £39 a month,

Reading your post again yes they are wrong they should x by 13 not 12

[Dean Taberner]

Price of clean x the number of cleans carried out in the month.

[Sean Dyer]

I emailed and got it sorted thankfully, i was worried as they had accepted the previous quote and this bumped it up by another £20 a month , but they took it,

TBH if they didnt it would of just got 48 weeks worth 

Yes STU MAC, That seems the easiest way to me too, no thought for anyone when invoicing, only problem is if you miss any cleans :0 but i can just stick an extra one in another week or something...

Do any of you have 52 weeks a year shops?

[mci services]

I emailed and got it sorted thankfully, i was worried as they had accepted the previous quote and this bumped it up by another £20 a month , but they took it,

TBH if they didnt it would of just got 48 weeks worth 

Yes STU MAC, That seems the easiest way to me too, no thought for anyone when invoicing, only problem is if you miss any cleans :0 but i can just stick an extra one in another week or something...

Do any of you have 52 weeks a year shops?

Yes but my brother covers them if I go away and I cover his when he goes away

[Dean Taberner]

Price of clean x the number of cleans carried out in the month.

Yes about 200 of them. :-o

[Sean Dyer]

You just get staff to cover your back?

[Dean Taberner]

Windows can be very distressing at times Sean.

[Sean Dyer]

i know i think its about to get worse

The thing i liked about this job was not being tied to it, but i think with shops it is worse as you have to be there... But i don't like to turn down work and although i've only got 2 at the moment , i have a friend who is a maintenance manager for NW at a very big chain and more could come from it, so didnt want to say no... But i m unsure at the minute if its something i want but if i get enough i wont have to do em myself.... will see how it goes might get the wife on em one day a week haha

[Paul Coleman]

Any of you that sub high street stuff just a quick question

If you clean a store 3 x a week , do you invoice at 3x the price x 52 / 12 calendar months?? And invoice every calendar month

Or invoice each month for the amount you've done?
ie some months 12 cleans other 13 +

I know it might sound weird but just wondered , as i submitted a quote for a store like this but they got the figure wrong by adding up 4 weeks worth and multiplying it by 12 , so just realised theyve cut 4 weeks cleaning off the yearly total ...if its 52 weeks a year work which i imagine it is

Make sense?
 So just wondered how its done usually
Thanks

I've done it both ways for different companies.
A shop I used to do was once a week.  I did weekly price x 52 then divide by 12 to give same amount each month.  Another job that I recently started is twice per week.  Each month I invoice on the number of cleans done within that calendar month.  Usually it will be 9 but very occasionally it could be 8 (February) or 10 if the first clean falls on the first day of a 31 day month.
IME there isn't a "usual" way.  It just needs to be agreed beforehand.

I have reciprocal arrangements with other trustworthy local shiners for holidays etc.