CASE STUDY · CLEANING & SERVICES

    A single planning hub for clients, shifts and employees.

    A cleaning organisation scheduled dozens of employees across dozens of clients using loose Excel sheets and group chats. We built a central hub where admin, clients and field engineers work on the same schedule in real time.

    Impact in productionLive
    1 system
    For clients, shifts and personnel
    Realtime
    Drag & drop in calendar
    0
    Duplicate or forgotten shifts
    100%
    Insight per client
    Sector
    Cleaning / services
    Team
    Admin + field staff
    Volume
    150 clients, daily shifts
    Stack
    Web app + database + real-time sync
    THE CHALLENGE

    Planning was faster in WhatsApp than in the system, and every week something went wrong.

    Excel planning was the truth

    Different versions circulated between the office and team leaders. Changes were lost.

    Shifts were forgotten or double-booked

    Leave periods and changes were not always communicated. Clients sometimes noticed first.

    Client questions required investigation

    “Who is coming tomorrow?” or “Who came last week?” meant phoning and searching through sheets.

    Hours per week spent on planning work

    Coordination between clients, employees, and invoicing cost multiples of the actual execution time.

    OUR SOLUTION

    A shared planning hub where every shift has one place.

    We built a central web app with client management, employee management and a planning calendar. For each client, you immediately see who is coming when, with full history and upcoming shifts.

    Client calendar per client

    Day/week/month view per client with drag & drop. Empty slots immediately open an 'Add shift' dialogue for that client.

    Employee management

    Complete employee file with availability, skills and linked clients.

    Shifts & history

    Upcoming shifts and a searchable history per client, useful for invoicing.

    Leave & exceptions

    Holiday periods and exceptions are visually covered in the calendar; no more double planning.

    Real-time sync

    Changes made by the office are immediately visible to the team in the field straight away.

    Customer detail page

    One click on a client name opens a complete file page with tabs for calendar, shifts and history.

    THE APPROACH

    Live in 3 phases.

    PHASE 01 · WEEK 1

    Mapping the planning flow

    We mapped client, employee, shift and leave period, and decided which system holds the correct data.

    PHASE 02 · WEEK 2–3

    Build of client module + calendar

    Client list, client detail page, and the shared planning calendar with drag & drop and filters per client or employee.

    PHASE 03 · WEEK 4

    Migration & adoption

    Migration from existing sheets, short internal training and go-live. Excel versions were discontinued in the same week.

    RESULTS

    Measurable impact, from day 1.

    4 hours/week

    Saved on coordination and rework

    0

    Duplicate or forgotten shifts since go-live

    1 view

    Per client: calendar, shifts AND history

    100%

    Team works in the same system

    READY FOR YOUR STORY?

    Are you still planning with sheets, group chats and separate messages?

    In a free session, we'll look at how your planning can look in one place, without turning your whole way of working upside down.