Templates for Service Businesses.
Job, route and pricing tools for cleaning companies, maid services, janitorial and commercial cleaners, turnover crews, and anyone else running a route of recurring clients out of one van. Work out what an hour of your own time costs, charge every visit the drive it really consumes, and find out which clients and which days actually make money.
The drive is part of the job
Almost every template built for this trade prices the hours you spend on site. But a two-hour job forty minutes away does not cost you two hours — it costs most of a morning, and the difference lands quietly in whatever is left at the end of the year. The tools here price the whole clock: overhead, the van, your own pay, the crew, the supplies, and the driving between stops.
New to the numbers? Start free with the recurring job schedule planner — no signup — then read what route density is and why it sets your real hourly rate.
Weighing your options? Compare a spreadsheet vs field-service software for the stage your business is at. Quoting fixed prices for plumbing, electrical or HVAC work instead? The service-trades hub is the one you want.
Recommended tools
The service-business job and route toolkit
4 templates
A job-and-route manager that costs every recurring client including the drive, a flat-rate pricing book for the fixed-price side of the work, and the shift and time tools behind the labor — in Excel and Google Sheets.
- $29.95 Spreadsheet
Cleaning & Service-Business Job & Route Manager — Cost Per Hour, Route Density, Client Profit & Quoting (Excel + Google Sheets)
A cleaning-business workbook that prices the whole clock, drive time included — so you see which recurring clients and which service days really pay.
Operator OSView details - $29.95 Spreadsheet
Flat-Rate Pricing Book for Service Trades — Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC & Appliance Price Book, Billable Rate & Markup Calculator (Excel + Google Sheets)
Flat-rate price book for service trades — set your billable rate, cost each task, and build a clean menu for plumbing, electrical, HVAC & appliance work.
Operator OSView details - $24.95 Spreadsheet
Shift Schedule & Labor Cost Workbook — Weekly Staff Scheduling for Excel & Google Sheets
A shift schedule and labor-cost workbook for Excel & Google Sheets: staff the week, price the hours, and check labor cost against your sales target.
Team & TalentView details - $4.95 Excel
Time Tracker - Excel
It's Friday afternoon and you owe three clients an invoice. This excel time tracker logs hours by project, team member, and priority, then totals them for you.
Project ManagementView details
Where we fit
Between a blank page and rented software
Most tools force a choice between a blank spreadsheet you build from scratch and a monthly app that's overkill. Ardent Workshop is the rung in between — structure you own.
- № 01
Blank spreadsheet
Free, but you build and maintain every formula, tab and layout yourself.
- Free
- Infinite setup
- No structure
- № 02 You are here
Ardent Workshop
Owned, structured, connected workbooks — a one-time price, yours to keep.
- One-time price
- Structured & connected
- Yours to own
- № 03
Generic SaaS app
Powerful, but overkill, rented and locked-in — built for someone bigger than you.
- Monthly rent
- Overkill
- Lock-in
Running an operation that's genuinely outgrown the file? Ardent Seller isn't the generic SaaS app this ladder warns about — it's maker-first software built by the same workshop: your data stays yours, you can start free or pay as you go with no subscription required, and it's sized for your operation, not someone bigger. The platform to graduate to when a spreadsheet honestly can't keep up.