Looking for a Squeegee alternative?
Squeegee runs cleaning rounds: scheduling, invoicing and payments for window cleaners and other mobile cleaning businesses. We Sweep is built for chimney sweeps alone, with a sweep certificate for every flue, customers booking and paying on your own website, routes planned, unpaid jobs chased and next year's sweep prompted, for £0 a month. (We build We Sweep. Everything we say about Squeegee comes from its own website, checked on 19 October 2026.)
Squeegee vs We Sweep
Monthly cost
From £15.83 a month + VAT, and each plan is charged per user*
£0/month, £0 per booking — customers pay a £1.95 booking fee
Built for
Mobile cleaning businesses first, with pages for other trades including chimney sweeps*
UK chimney sweep businesses only
Chimney sweeping certificates
No certificate feature on its website — custom forms only*
Yes — completed on-site with pre/post photos, one per flue, with your trade-body numbers and the next sweep due
Customers book & pay online themselves
Customer portal; online quoting and booking is an optional add-on*
Yes — booking widget on your own website; card at booking, or cash, card at the door or bank transfer on the day
Payments
Direct Debit (GoCardless), a saved card (Stripe), tap to pay with Square, or record cash and bank transfers*
Card at booking, card at the door (QR/link), cash or bank transfer — unpaid jobs chased automatically at 3, 7 and 14 days
Reminders
Six-monthly or annual 'due' reminders by email and SMS; each SMS uses credits at £0.036 + VAT*
Confirmations, 24-hour reminders by email and free SMS, and an annual re-sweep prompt about 11 months after the sweep, for bookings made through We Sweep
Route optimisation
Yes — Day Pilot*
Yes — each day's jobs ordered to minimise driving
Works offline in the field
Yes — offline mode*
Yes — complete jobs, photos and certificates with no signal; sent when you're back in signal
Accounting
Built-in bookkeeping; no Xero, QuickBooks or Sage link named*
Xero, QuickBooks and Sage sync included at no cost to you — paid jobs post as itemised, VAT-correct invoices
Technicians included
Charged per user*
Unlimited, at no extra cost
| Squeegee | We Sweep | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | From £15.83 a month + VAT, and each plan is charged per user* | £0/month, £0 per booking — customers pay a £1.95 booking fee |
| Built for | Mobile cleaning businesses first, with pages for other trades including chimney sweeps* | UK chimney sweep businesses only |
| Chimney sweeping certificates | No certificate feature on its website — custom forms only* | Yes — completed on-site with pre/post photos, one per flue, with your trade-body numbers and the next sweep due |
| Customers book & pay online themselves | Customer portal; online quoting and booking is an optional add-on* | Yes — booking widget on your own website; card at booking, or cash, card at the door or bank transfer on the day |
| Payments | Direct Debit (GoCardless), a saved card (Stripe), tap to pay with Square, or record cash and bank transfers* | Card at booking, card at the door (QR/link), cash or bank transfer — unpaid jobs chased automatically at 3, 7 and 14 days |
| Reminders | Six-monthly or annual 'due' reminders by email and SMS; each SMS uses credits at £0.036 + VAT* | Confirmations, 24-hour reminders by email and free SMS, and an annual re-sweep prompt about 11 months after the sweep, for bookings made through We Sweep |
| Route optimisation | Yes — Day Pilot* | Yes — each day's jobs ordered to minimise driving |
| Works offline in the field | Yes — offline mode* | Yes — complete jobs, photos and certificates with no signal; sent when you're back in signal |
| Accounting | Built-in bookkeeping; no Xero, QuickBooks or Sage link named* | Xero, QuickBooks and Sage sync included at no cost to you — paid jobs post as itemised, VAT-correct invoices |
| Technicians included | Charged per user* | Unlimited, at no extra cost |
*From Squeegee's own website, checked 19 October 2026. Features and prices change, so check their site before deciding.
Why sweeps choose We Sweep over Squeegee
It's built for sweeps, not cleaning rounds
Squeegee's own website calls it a platform for mobile cleaning businesses. Its chimney sweep page talks about your customers' "clean", and the customer stories on that page come from window and exterior cleaners. We Sweep is made for one trade: appliances and flues, smoke draw tests and CO alarm checks, certificates and the annual re-sweep.
A proper sweep certificate on every job
Squeegee's website lists custom forms but no certificate feature. We Sweep produces a certificate for each flue at the property, with before and after photos, your HETAS or association numbers and the next sweep due, and files it in the customer's portal.
Customers book themselves on your website
On Squeegee, online quoting and booking is an optional add-on to its customer portal. With We Sweep the booking widget goes on your own site from day one, and customers either pay by card when they book or pay you on the day.
Nothing per user, nothing a month
Squeegee starts at £15.83 a month plus VAT, charged per user, and its SMS reminders use paid credits. We Sweep costs you nothing a month, with unlimited technicians and free SMS reminders; your customers pay a £1.95 online booking fee.
Your accounts in the package you already use
Squeegee builds its own bookkeeping in. We Sweep posts paid jobs into Xero, QuickBooks or Sage as itemised, VAT-correct invoices, so your accountant keeps working the way they do now.
Unpaid jobs chased for you
Anything not paid on the day is chased automatically at 3, 7 and 14 days, and the customer gets a receipt when they pay.
Frequently asked questions
Why do chimney sweeps look for a Squeegee alternative?
Squeegee is built around cleaning rounds: its website describes it as a platform for mobile cleaning businesses and lists no certificate feature. Sweeps who want sweep certificates per flue, customers booking on their own website and annual re-sweep reminders in one place look for software made for the trade.
Is We Sweep cheaper than Squeegee?
For your business, yes. Squeegee starts at £15.83 a month plus VAT and charges each plan per user, with SMS credits on top. We Sweep has no monthly fee, no per-user charge and nothing per booking: your customers pay a £1.95 online booking fee, and SMS reminders are free.
Can I bring my customers and bookings across?
Yes. We Sweep's import takes your existing bookings from a spreadsheet (CSV or Excel), and bookings you import in your first 14 days carry no booking fee, for you or your customers.
Is there a contract?
No. We Sweep is free to join, with no contract and no monthly fee, so you can set it up alongside Squeegee and switch when you're ready.
Weighing more options? See the full UK chimney sweep software comparison or the Joblogic alternative guide.