Floor Stripping and Waxing Invoicing App (2026)
Floor care is after-hours work billed per square foot, with the real business sitting in recurring buff-and-recoat schedules between full strips. ShowTheReceipts ($15/mo) saves per-square-foot strip, recoat, and burnish rates, bills recurring maintenance contracts automatically, and sends per-site invoices on net terms with before-and-after photos attached.
How we picked
Entry-plan prices as published in 2026, taken from each vendor's own pricing page or a recent third-party summary. Judged on the solo floor-care contractor's workflow — per-square-foot pricing, recurring recoat schedules, after-hours job billing, and per-site commercial invoicing — not on janitorial workloading software, supply inventory, or crew payroll.
| Software | Starting price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| ShowTheReceipts That's us | $15/mo | Solo contractors: per-square-foot rates, recurring recoat contracts, per-site net-terms invoicing |
| Invoice2go | $9.99/mo+ | Basic mobile invoicing |
| Wave | Free / $16/mo | Free invoicing with light bookkeeping |
| Kickserv Flex | $19/mo | Budget scheduling with invoicing |
| Jobber | $29/mo (Core) | Companies scheduling several crews across sites |
You work at midnight and get judged at nine
A stripped and refinished floor just looks clean, that’s it. The facility manager never sees the yellowed, scuffed surface you started with, because they went home hours before you showed up.
Before-and-after photos aren’t really documentation in this trade — they’re the product you’re selling.
1. ShowTheReceipts — $15/mo
Per-square-foot strip, recoat, and burnish rates saved, recurring maintenance contracts billed automatically, per-site invoices with photos attached.
2. Invoice2go — $9.99/mo+
Basic mobile invoicing without recurring contracts.
3. Wave — Free / $16/mo
Free invoices plus light bookkeeping.
4. Kickserv Flex — $19/mo
Budget scheduling with invoicing.
5. Jobber — $29/mo (Core)
Scheduling for a company covering several sites with crews.
The service ladder to sell
- Burnish / high-speed buff — most frequent, lightest, cheapest
- Scrub and recoat — quarterly or semi-annual
- Deep scrub and recoat — annual
- Full strip and refinish — every few years, or on neglected floors
- Sealing — on new or fully stripped floors
Selling the ladder instead of just the strip is what turns a one-night job into a maintained account — and the floor lasts a lot longer too, which makes it a genuinely honest pitch.
Band your pricing by condition
A floor stripped last year and one with five years of built-up yellowed finish are the same square footage and a completely different number of passes. Two or three condition bands with stated prices is faster to quote and a lot easier to defend.
Count the coats on the invoice
“Four coats of finish” is a real specification. Two coats looks identical on the night and wears through in months — printing your coat count is the cleanest way to explain why the cheaper bid was actually cheaper.
Frequently asked questions
How should stripping and waxing be priced?
Per square foot, banded by floor condition and coat count — a floor with four years of yellowed finish takes several strip passes, while an annual maintenance strip goes fast. Bare square footage with no condition band is how contractors lose money on the worst floors.
Why sell a recoat schedule instead of one-off strips?
Because a floor maintained with regular scrub-and-recoat almost never needs a full strip, which is better for the customer's floor and far better for your schedule — predictable, lighter work at regular intervals instead of unpredictable all-night jobs.
Should before-and-after photos be attached to the invoice?
Always. You work overnight and the facility manager arrives to a floor that just looks clean. Paired photos are the only evidence of the transformation, and they're what justifies the price and wins the renewal.
How do I bill after-hours work?
It's the standard schedule in this trade, so build it into your rate rather than surcharging — but state the access window on the invoice. Where a customer demands a compressed window or weekend work, that's a genuine premium worth naming.