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Free Gutter Cleaning Software,
Forever.

Send a single-story or two-story flat-rate estimate from the truck, lock spring + fall biannual residentials onto recurring billing, attach the photo of the clogged gutter so the price tells itself, and let Menutize text the customer a one-tap Google review link the second the ladder comes off the gable. $0/month. Forever.

Free CRM, invoicing & payments — forever. Save $300–$1,000/yr vs the $49/mo platforms.

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What's Free, Forever

Everything you need to run a gutter cleaning business — and not a feature gated behind an upgrade. No credit card to start. No "trial expired" emails in 14 days.

Customer CRM

Every customer, job, photo, and note in one place. Searchable. No per-seat fees.

Estimates & Quotes

Send branded single-story / two-story flat-rate estimates with before/after photos from your phone. Customer approves with one tap.

Invoicing

Auto-generate clean invoices the moment a job closes. No QuickBooks license required.

Card & ACH Payments

Customers pay online. Money lands in your account in 1-2 business days. Standard processing rate, no monthly fee.

Google Review Requests

Auto-text every happy customer a one-tap review link the moment you mark the job done.

Tip Collection

Built-in tip prompts at checkout. Crews actually keep the cash because tips route to the operator.

Built for the way gutter cleaning actually works.

Gutter cleaning isn't general handyman work. You're pricing by single-story flat, two-story flat, or linear foot of gutter, you live and die on spring and fall biannual rounds, you upsell gutter-guard install at $7-$12/foot at the last stop because the ladder's already up, and the late-October leaf rush is 60 customers wanting service the same week. The free plan accounts for all of it.

Most "free" small-business software is a generic invoice template with a Stripe button bolted on. It works fine for a freelance designer and falls apart the second a homeowner with a clogged downspout in late October calls and three more leads come in while you're still on the first rooftop. Menutize was built around the four workflows below — the ones that actually decide whether a gutter cleaning shop has a steady year or just two brutal months and ten quiet ones.

Linear-Foot or Single/Two-Story Flat-Rate Estimates

A 1,200-square-foot ranch with 140 linear feet of gutter prices differently than a two-story Colonial with 220 feet and three valleys, and your estimate should know that. Build line items either way: $1.25/linear foot when you measured, or a flat $185 single-story / $295 two-story for the typical residential job. Add the $45 downspout flush, the $25 minor gutter repair (re-pitch a sagging run, replace a hanger), and a per-clog photo line if you want it itemized. Save your most common configurations as a service menu and they auto-populate next time. Customers see the math, tap to approve, and pay through the link before you've packed up the ladder.

Recurring Spring + Fall Biannual Billing

Residential gutter cleaning is two-rounds-a-year work for the customers who get it: May for the maple-seed flush after the trees finish dropping, and late October for the leaf-and-shingle pack right before the freeze. Set the homeowner up on a recurring agreement once — $185 in May plus $185 in late October — and Menutize charges the card on file on each renewal date, drops the visit on your Google Calendar, and texts the homeowner the week of. Spring and fall are 80% of the year's revenue for residential gutter operators; getting them on autopilot is the difference between a steady year and a 60-customer panic in late October. Most operators on Menutize have 40%+ of revenue locked into recurring biannuals within a year.

Estimate & Invoice Open-Tracking

A $295 two-story quote sitting unread is a different problem than one the homeowner has opened twice but hasn't approved. Menutize logs the moment the customer opens the estimate email, the moment they view the live estimate page, and does the same on every invoice through to the moment they pay. You stop guessing whether the spouse has actually seen the quote, you stop chasing leads who already moved on, and your follow-up calls land on the right people at the right time. In late October when 60 prospects are in the pipeline at once, knowing which ones opened the bid twice (and which never opened it at all) is the difference between a 30% close rate and a 55% close rate. Most field-service tools gate this behind a paid tier; we ship it on the free plan.

Before/After Clogged-Gutter Photo Documentation

The matted leaf-and-shingle dam packed under the downspout strainer is the picture that turns "why is this $245" into "oh, thank god you got it" — especially on two-story residential where the homeowner has no idea what's actually up there. Snap before/after photos from your phone, attach them to the customer record, the job record, and the invoice the homeowner sees. Same workflow doubles as your liability log: a year later when a customer calls back claiming the gutters were already pulling away from the fascia, the date-stamped photo settles it. Photos also power the gutter-guard upsell — one shot of the maple seeds you just dug out is worth more than five paragraphs of pitch.

Three Things Every Gutter Cleaner Wishes They Had

Most "free" software either nags you to upgrade or leaves out the features that actually move the needle. We made the three biggest ones core to the free plan.

Auto Google Reviews

The moment you mark a gutter cleaning job complete, the customer gets a one-tap review link by text. No copy-paste. No "I'll do it later." Most operators see their Google rating climb half a star in the first 60 days — and in residential gutter cleaning, the next homeowner two streets over picks you on the map pack ranking and the star count when leaves start falling.

Included free, forever.

Tip Requests at Checkout

Customers see a 15/20/25% tip prompt right at payment — same flow they're used to from Square or DoorDash. Gutter cleaners on the free plan typically see 12-18% of invoices come back tipped, with bigger tips on two-story jobs where the homeowner watched you climb the 28-foot ladder.

Included free, forever.

Google Calendar Two-Way Sync

Every booking lands in your real Google Calendar. Block time on your phone — Menutize sees it and won't let customers book over you. The free plans on most gutter cleaning CRMs don't include calendar sync. Ours does.

Included free, forever.

Why Gutter Cleaning Businesses Pick Menutize Over the $49/mo Platforms

The legacy field-service tools were built for 20-truck shops. You're a 1- or 2-person crew with a ladder and an extendable wand. You don't need a dispatch board with seven-figure routing — you need invoicing that doesn't cost $588/year.

Feature $49/mo platform Menutize Free
CRM, estimates, invoicing Included Included — $0
Online card & ACH payments Standard processing Standard processing — no platform markup
Google review automation Often $20+/mo add-on Included free
Estimate & invoice open-tracking Higher tier only Included free
Tip collection Rarely supported Included free
Google Calendar two-way sync Higher tier only Included free
Recurring billing on card on file (biannual cadence) Higher tier only Included free
Per-seat fees $29-49 / user / mo $0
First-year cost (1 owner, 1 helper) ~$1,176 $0

Comparison reflects published pricing from common field-service platforms as of May 2026. Card-processing fees still apply on both sides; Menutize uses standard Stripe rates with no platform markup.

“Last October was a nightmare — 58 fall cleans booked in two weeks, half of them texting me at 7am asking when I'd be there. Switched to Menutize free over the winter, set every single biannual on recurring autopay, and this fall the schedule just… ran itself. Open-tracking on the new-lead estimates told me which $295 two-story bids were actually being read — close rate jumped from like 32% to almost 60%. Auto Google review request took us from 4.4 to 4.8 stars in two months.”

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Aaron Schmitt
Allegheny Gutter Pros · Pittsburgh, PA

Gutter Cleaning Software Questions, Answered

The ones operators actually ask before they sign up.

Is Menutize really free for gutter cleaners? What's the catch?
Yes, free forever. CRM, estimates with before/after photos, invoicing, online card and ACH payments, recurring biannual billing on card on file, automated Google review requests, tip collection, estimate and invoice open-tracking, and two-way Google Calendar sync are all included on the free plan. The only thing you ever pay is standard payment processing on cards (~2.9% + 30¢, same as Stripe direct) and ACH (0.8%, capped at $5). No monthly fee, no per-seat fee, no credit card required to sign up.
Can I price by linear foot of gutter or by single-story vs two-story flat rate?
Yes. Build line items either way and mix them on a single estimate — for example $1.25/linear foot on a 180-foot ranch run, or a flat $185 single-story / $295 two-story for the typical residential job, plus a $45 downspout flush add-on and a $25-per-clog photo documentation line if you want it itemized. Save your most common configurations as a service menu and they auto-populate next time. Customers see the math, tap to approve, and pay through the link. Most gutter operators settle into single-story flat / two-story flat for residential and per-linear-foot for commercial.
How do I lock in biannual residential customers for spring + fall?
Set the homeowner up on a recurring agreement once — say, $185 in May plus $185 in late October for a single-story spring + fall clean — and Menutize charges the card on file on each renewal date, drops the visit on your Google Calendar, and texts the homeowner the week of. Spring and fall are 80% of the year's revenue for residential gutter operators, so locking those rounds in on autopilot in January means you stop hand-chasing 60 customers in late October. Most operators see their no-show and cancellation rate drop by half once the card is already authorized.
How does Menutize handle the leaf-season chaos in late October?
By taking the booking-and-billing paperwork off your plate when you need the time most. Recurring fall customers are already scheduled and pre-charged, so you're not playing phone tag with 60 homeowners while the leaves are still falling. New leads book themselves through your booking page (with calendar conflicts respected automatically), and the auto Google review request fires the second you mark each job complete — turning a brutal four-week sprint into a wave of fresh 5-star reviews right when next year's prospects are searching. We don't ship drip "your fall clean is in 2 weeks" SMS on the free plan (that's a $19/mo Automations add-on); but the recurring billing and calendar pieces alone usually take the worst of the chaos off.
Can I see when a customer opens an estimate or invoice?
Yes — Menutize logs every estimate email open, estimate page view, invoice email open, and invoice view, and pings you the moment it happens. You stop guessing whether the homeowner has actually seen the $295 two-story quote before you call to follow up. The estimate that's been viewed twice but unsigned is the one to call right now. The estimate that hasn't been opened in 5 days is the one to re-send. Most field-service tools either don’t ship this or gate it behind a paid tier; we ship it free.
Can I attach the photo of the clogged gutter to justify the price?
Yes. Snap before/after photos from your phone — the matted leaf-and-shingle dam packed under the downspout strainer is the picture that turns "why is this $245" into "oh, thank god you got it". Photos attach to the customer record, the job record, and the invoice the homeowner sees. The same photo log helps two-story residential where the owner can't actually see what you cleaned, and it settles disputes a year later when somebody calls back claiming the gutters were already clogged.
What about commercial flat-roof scupper work?
Build a separate commercial menu — flat-roof scupper clean per square of roof, parapet drain inspection, downspout flush — and put property managers on monthly or quarterly recurring billing. Menutize charges the card or ACH on every cycle, generates the invoice, attaches your before/after photos, and reminds the manager nothing's about to bounce. Commercial flat-roof recurring is the predictable revenue base that pays the truck note in winter when residential goes quiet. Most gutter operators on Menutize have 25-30% of revenue locked into commercial recurring within a year.
Can I upsell gutter-guard install at the end of the clean?
Yes. Add gutter-guard install as a line item the customer can opt into right on the original estimate, priced per foot installed (typical $7-$12/ft for micro-mesh, $4-$6/ft for foam or brush). The same approve-and-pay flow that signs the base clean also signs the upsell. Most operators see 1 in 5 residential customers add guards when they're presented at the estimate stage instead of pitched at the door — especially if you attach a photo of the maple seeds they'd never have to dig out again. We make the line item easy to add; we don't promise drone-roof inspection or AI gutter-condition scoring (those aren't features Menutize ships).
Does Menutize sync with my Google Calendar?
Yes — two-way sync, included in the free plan. New bookings on your Menutize page show up on your Google Calendar instantly. Block time on your phone (kid's game, dentist, ladder service drop-off) and Menutize won't let customers book over you. Move a job on the Google Calendar app and Menutize updates the customer's confirmation. Most free CRMs in this space lock calendar sync behind a $29/mo upgrade. We don't.
How do customers tip me through Menutize?
Tip prompts appear automatically on the payment screen — same 15/20/25% buttons customers are used to from Square and DoorDash. About 12-18% of residential gutter cleaning invoices come back tipped, usually $15-30 a pop, with bigger tips on two-story jobs where the homeowner watched you climb the 28-foot ladder. Tips route to whichever account the operator chooses, so the tech in the field actually keeps what the customer left.
How does the automated Google review request work?
The moment you mark a job complete in Menutize, the customer gets an SMS with a one-tap link straight to your Google Business Profile review screen — no copy-paste, no "search for our business name". You connect your Google Business Profile once during onboarding (about two minutes). Gutter cleaning is a fast trade to climb the local map pack because the work is dramatic and customers are genuinely relieved — most operators see their Google rating climb half a star within 60 days, right before next spring's search traffic hits.
Does Menutize do route optimization or 2-story permitting paperwork?
No on both — let's be honest about it. The Google Calendar shows your week's stops with addresses and you decide the order based on geography (most gutter operators know their own neighborhoods better than any algorithm). We don't generate OSHA fall-protection paperwork or 2-story permitting documents — those aren't Menutize features. What we do is take the estimate-invoice-payment-recurring-review paperwork off your plate so the time you have left can go into ladder work, not laptop work.
Does it work for solo operators and 2-person crews?
That's exactly who Menutize is for. The legacy field-service tools charge per seat ($29-$49 per user per month), so a 2-person crew ends up at $58-$98/mo just to let the helper see the schedule. Menutize Free is unlimited users on the free plan, no per-seat fees ever, and the workflows are designed for the owner who's also the climber, the dispatcher, and the bookkeeper. Add the helper later for the same $0.
How does Menutize make money if it's free?
On the free plan, Menutize earns a small payments fee — about 0.5% on top of the standard processing rate when you take card or ACH payments through the system. There is no monthly fee, no per-seat fee, no upgrade nag. A gutter operation running $9,000/mo through Menutize pays us $45/mo on payments. The same shop on a $49/mo CRM pays $588/yr in fees plus the same processing rates — and that CRM doesn't include the review automation, tip prompts, calendar sync, recurring billing, or open-tracking. Operators on the free plan typically pay us less in a full year than two months of the $49/mo platforms.
What happens to my customer data if I leave Menutize?
You own your data. Export your customer list, jobs, recurring agreement history, photos, and invoice records to CSV at any time, no upgrade required, no waiting period, no support ticket. We've never built clunky exports on purpose to lock people in — that's the kind of thing we built Menutize to get away from. Cancel any time and walk out with everything.
How long does setup take for a gutter cleaning business?
About 10-15 minutes to be ready to send your first estimate: sign up (no credit card), connect Stripe for payments, connect your Google Business Profile for the auto review request, hook up your Google Calendar, and add a service menu. Most gutter cleaning shops start with five menu items: single-story residential clean, two-story residential clean, downspout flush add-on, gutter-guard install (per foot), and commercial flat-roof scupper. You can import your existing customer CSV later, or just let your customer list build naturally as new jobs come in.

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Estimates with photos, invoicing, payments, recurring spring + fall billing, Google reviews, tips, calendar, open-tracking — all on the free plan, all the time. Set up takes 10 minutes. No credit card.

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