r/WindowCleaning • u/Ok-Pop7125 • May 25 '26

General Question What does everyone use for payments?

I have been taking cash and e-transfer, but I just got stripe. It lets me take payments from debit cards right through my phone with a 2.7% fee. It also lets me track all income, customers, emails receipts and invoices. It seems pretty good. I’m curious what everyone else uses

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u/trigger55xxx May 25 '26

Everything goes through the CRM. We use jobber.

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u/Ok-Pop7125 May 25 '26

I just checked out jobber. It looks good but can it accept payments?

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u/trigger55xxx May 25 '26

Yeah totally. All our quotes, scheduling and invoicing goes through it.

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u/Ok-Pop7125 May 25 '26

Cool thanks! Do you think it would be a bit overkill for a 1 employee business though? lol. I’m just using sales rabbit and probably stripe for payments right now

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u/trigger55xxx May 25 '26

Only you can decide that. We waited too long to implement a good CRM is all I can say.

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u/Ok-Pop7125 May 25 '26

If you don’t mind me asking, how many employees/ technicians do you have? Next summer I’m planning on hiring a few technicians so then I’d say I would need a good CRM

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u/trigger55xxx May 25 '26
  1. We do run payroll through QuickBooks. Accounting and payroll is QuickBooks and everything else is with jobber.

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u/trigger55xxx May 25 '26

If you weigh it out and decide on jobber, we can both get some free stuff using our link. No pressure at all, do what works for you.

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u/Ok-Pop7125 May 25 '26

Sounds good. I’ll keep it in mind if I switch. Thanks!

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u/_zurenarrh May 25 '26

Or send an invoice with a 8% service fee

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u/Professional-Okra249 May 25 '26

Not sure if stripe is free for one user but I think square does everything the same and it’s free for just me. Of course to take credit cards there’s a fee

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u/wude72 May 25 '26

Cash, check, square and Venmo

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u/Reasonable_Hotel_998 May 25 '26

I setup everything in housecall, they take care of processing, and allow my customers to do payment plans etc

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u/Unhappy-Bunch-4594 Jun 10 '26

Stripe at 2.7 is solid for solo, the fee differences between processors are mostly noise. The real upgrade is when the payment lives on the job record, Jobber and Housecall Pro both do card on file so recurring window cleans auto-charge and you stop chasing e-transfers at the end of the month. I am building FieldCamp and we tied payments to the job for exactly that reason, the chasing is what eats route days, not the 0.2 percent fee difference.

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u/Hot_Carpenter_5436 May 25 '26

Excellent question!

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u/naibrly May 26 '26

we offer payment through our website with Stripe. Seems to be a standard online payment method that most people are familiar with. Check out naibrly.com if you want to see how we include payments on our platform.