[a900]

Does anyone use a service for price increases that takes a standard message and inserts their price rise from say an excel sheet?

I’m looking to increase them again in April so informing in March.  Last year I manually text most of the customers which was a fair bit of work

[NWH]

You’re a very very brave man.

[Slacky]

I put em up and don't tell them.

[NWH]

If mine go up I do the same I just text what they owe.

[Splash & dash]

We just put a slip through the door when doing a clean saying new price as of next time will be xx

[SB Cleaning]

I put em up and don't tell them.

I have done that with a few customers I hardly ever see before and no one mentioned a thing.

[dazmond]

I post price increase letters the month before their next clean

[dazmond]

[dazmond]

You’re a very very brave man.

Why?I've not put any prices up since 2020 and inflation has rocketed (in the last year especially).

I'll be putting up over 300 jobs in April

[NWH]

I’d rather do an extra job on the way home Daz there’s enough worries for people going around why give them another one that let’s face it the majority of people can do without,we are a luxury service yes the vast majority of my customers will still want them cleaning but I think a price increase at the moment for me is not needed.
That’s the beauty of this job if at any point you want to earn more or you need to make up for a day off it’s easily overcome.

[SB Cleaning]

I put mine up last year and im putting them up again this year.

[Splash & dash]

I put mine up last year and im putting them up again this year.

Yes I put up ours last year and am looking at increasing some again this year , many are expecting it had a couple today ask if prices are going up so I said yes in march , they were fine with it . My reasoning is prices go up weekly in Tesco so ours need to go up annually at the moment

[AuRavelling79]

I put some up in the summer, about 10% on the basis of rocketing fuel increases.

Some other increases I will go for in April when the pensioners get 10.1% on their state pensions.

[Stoots]

I'll be putting mine up again , put a lot up last year but everything keeps going up so why shouldn't window cleaning.

There may have never been a better time to put prices up, they are expecting it so don't disappoint them.

Looking forward to my mortgage payments going a couple of hundred quid a month this year so I'm sure they can manage a quid or 2 extra each to cover it.

I text all my price increases with text local via cleaner planner. Can do your entire round in minutes.

[Jay Le Huray]

I always do mine in January, I'm in the process of doing it now, no problems so far

[deeege]

Residential always go up around 10% or to the nearest £1 atleast every other year.

Commercial I’ve took my eye off the ball and havnt increased for years but have started to put them up now with no issues so far.

[dazmond]

I’d rather do an extra job on the way home Daz there’s enough worries for people going around why give them another one that let’s face it the majority of people can do without,we are a luxury service yes the vast majority of my customers will still want them cleaning but I think a price increase at the moment for me is not needed.
That’s the beauty of this job if at any point you want to earn more or you need to make up for a day off it’s easily overcome.

The 78 year old guy who I know who still cleans windows charges £4 for bungalows because he s not put his prices up for 30 years...its ridiculous!

[dazmond]

I could never put prices up every year...that means some jobs are going up every 7th clean.far too often IMO...every 3 years is what i do and some customers still think they only went up the previous year!

[deeege]

I could never put prices up every year...that means some jobs are going up every 7th clean.far too often IMO...every 3 years is what i do and some customers still think they only went up the previous year!

Edited my post Daz, residential every other year was meant to write. Commercial I’ve been waaaaay to slack, some havnt gone up for 8 years (but they are still well priced)

[Stoots]

Every 2 years is about right. But at the moment price hikes on everything are ridiculous. Inflation is supposed to be about 10% or so but lots of things have gone up way more than that.