Free SOP checklists for cleaning businesses
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Three ready-to-use checklists based on more than 16 years of running Allora Cleaning. Use them to inspect jobs, welcome new clients and onboard subcontractors the same way every time.
What's inside
For recurring janitorial, residential and post-construction jobs. Check scope, common areas, restrooms and safety, record any corrections, then sign off on every site.
Every step from a signed agreement to the first service and quality follow-up: walkthrough, access details, scheduling, welcome message and billing.
The exact steps Allora Cleaning uses: experience and eligibility checks, required documents, work orders and pay terms, and a quality review of the first job.
How to turn a checklist into an SOP
A checklist becomes a working SOP when everyone knows who owns it, when it is used and where to find it.
- Give each checklist an owner who keeps it up to date.
- Decide when it is used: after every job, for every new client, before every new subcontractor starts.
- Record a short video of the task. At Allora Cleaning, the person who actually does the task records a 3 to 5 minute screen or walkthrough video, so no step gets skipped.
- Keep the checklist and the video together in one shared folder your team can open on their phones.
- Review it whenever something changes, and walk new hires through it in their first week.
Want help building the rest of your systems?
These checklists are a starting point. In Cleaning Business Coaching, we help you document your operations, set up the tools to run them and train your team to use them, so the business runs without you managing every detail.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Enter your name and email and you can download all three right away.
We don't offer SOP writing as a separate service. In our coaching programs, we help you build and roll out the SOPs your business needs.
Start with the work that affects clients most: quality checks, client onboarding, scheduling and complaint handling. Our guide to the nine SOPs every cleaning business needs covers the full list.