You check your turnover app's bill and the monthly line says $0. Reassuring, until you scroll down and see a fee taken from every cleaning, around ten dollars an assignment. That is the part that adds up. A monthly price is a number you notice once. A per-cleaning fee is a number you pay every single turnover, which is exactly when you are least likely to be counting.
This is about fee structure, not product quality. Turno is a capable tool. The point is what a per-clean fee does to your yearly total, and whether you need the marketplace it pays for.
The fee that hides inside "free"
Turno does not have to carry a monthly subscription. On its pay-through path there is no monthly fee, so the bill genuinely can read $0 a month. The charging happens per cleaning instead. Turno lists a 5% commission on marketplace cleans, and in practice, on a normal clean, that lands around $10 an assignment.
There is a second path, a per-property subscription of roughly $8 to $10 USD per property per month, for hosts who bring their own cleaners across several properties. But plenty of hosts stay on the $0-monthly, pay-per-clean route and never see a subscription line at all. Either way, you are paying, just in a place that is easy to overlook.
What $10 a clean adds up to
Per-clean fees feel small and total large, because turnovers are frequent. Run the numbers on your own place.
One rental, about four turnovers a month:
- Roughly 48 cleans a year, near $480 a year at $10 a clean.
- On BowReady: $0. One and two-property hosts are free.
Five rentals, about four turnovers each a month:
- Around 20 cleans a month, 240 a year, near $2,400 a year.
- On BowReady Starter: one flat $9.99 CAD a month, about $120 CAD a year, covering all five.
Adjust the clean count and price to match your properties, but the shape does not change: a fee on every clean grows with how busy you are, which is the opposite of what you want. A flat plan does not move when you get busier.
One flat plan covers up to five properties, and no fee is taken from any clean.
BowReady takes 0% of a clean
No money moves through BowReady. You pay your cleaner directly, your own way, and BowReady never sits in the middle. It tracks what is owed, lets you mark a turnover paid, and can export a report, but it never takes a percentage and never adds a per-transaction fee.
Mark a clean paid and keep a record, without a single cent routed through the app.
Why the per-clean fee exists, and why you may not need it
That fee is tied to Turno's marketplace and payment rails. It will find you a cleaner and move the money for you, which is genuinely useful if you have neither. Most established hosts have a cleaner already. If you do, a per-clean fee is paying for a marketplace you are not using.
BowReady assumes you bring your own cleaner. You connect your calendars, name a primary and an optional backup, and the app runs the coordination: it turns each checkout into one job, collapses the same booking across channels, hands a declined job to your backup, and reminds your cleaner on assignment, 24 hours before, and 2 hours before, in local time.
Your cleaner's whole job on one screen, with nothing taken from what you pay them.
Bottom line
A $0 monthly line is only half the price. If your tool takes about $10 from every clean, a single busy rental is roughly $480 a year, and five climb into the low thousands. BowReady is free for your first two properties and a flat $9.99 CAD a month for up to five, with nothing taken from what you pay your cleaner. When you compare turnover apps, read the per-cleaning line, not just the monthly one.
Not ready to pay anything yet? Start on your first two properties for free and see the whole flow first. The same view is in the Web Portal if you would rather look on a laptop.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Turno charge a monthly fee?
Not on every plan. On the pay-through-Turno path there is no monthly subscription, which is why many hosts see $0 a month. The cost lands per cleaning instead. Turno lists a 5% commission on marketplace cleans, which in practice tends to come to around $10 per assignment. There is also a per-property subscription, roughly $8 to $10 USD per property per month, for hosts using their own cleaners across several properties.
What does a per-cleaning fee add up to over a year?
It scales with how busy you are. One rental with about four turnovers a month is roughly 48 cleans a year, near $480 at $10 a clean. Five rentals at the same pace is about 240 cleans, near $2,400 a year. The busier you get, the more it takes.
How much is BowReady, and does it take a cut of each clean?
BowReady is free for your first two properties, then a flat $9.99 CAD a month (about $6.99 USD) for up to five. It takes 0% of a clean, because no money moves through the app. You pay your cleaner directly and BowReady just tracks what is owed.
Do I need a cleaning marketplace?
Only if you do not already have a cleaner. Turno's per-clean fee pays for its marketplace and payment rails, which find you a cleaner and move the money. If you already have a cleaner you trust, BowReady runs the coordination without a marketplace and without touching payments.