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Minimum Days Between Visits: Scheduling Recurring Commercial Carpet Cleaning

Most scheduling tools ask you to pick a date and repeat it: the first Tuesday of every month, forever. That works until the first Tuesday is a holiday, or the client is moving offices, or your night van is booked solid. Then someone moves the visit by hand, the repeat breaks, and three months later nobody is sure when the account is actually due.

Why Fixed Dates Break

Billing methods are covered in Card on File or Monthly Statement: Choosing How Each Commercial Carpet Account Pays. Before there is anything to bill, though, the visit has to happen on time. This guide covers how recurring commercial work is scheduled in CarpetBossPro.

Commercial carpet work bends around the client's calendar. Offices close for holidays. Schools have breaks. Churches have special services and events. A fixed calendar date ignores all of that. What the client actually cares about is that the carpet gets done about as often as they agreed, not on a particular day of the month.

Counting From the Last Visit

CarpetBossPro schedules repeat work by the minimum number of days between visits, set on each address. The count starts from the last completed visit. When the tech taps Complete, the clock restarts.

Common settings for commercial work:

• 14 days: a busy entryway or lobby that takes heavy foot traffic.
• 30 days: monthly office maintenance.
• 90 days: quarterly common-area hallways or conference rooms.
• 182 days: twice a year for a church sanctuary or a school wing.
• 365 days: a yearly deep clean on top of regular maintenance.

If a visit moves a few days for a holiday, the next one counts from when it was actually done. The schedule stays honest without anyone fixing it by hand.

Different Areas, Different Schedules

One building often has several schedules at once. The lobby every two weeks, the main hallway monthly, the private offices quarterly, and the whole floor once a year with a deeper method. Each area that runs on its own schedule can be its own address under the client, with its own minimum days and its own job details.

That keeps each area coming due on its own, and each one shows as its own line on a monthly statement. A facilities manager reading the statement can see exactly which areas were done that month.

Coming Due on the Waiting List

When an address reaches its minimum days, it shows on the Waiting List: a live map and list of every address that has come due, alongside new requests. Pins are colored by status — not due yet, due now, and overdue past a 7-day grace. The 7-day grace gives the office room to fit a visit into a good route without the account looking late, while still flagging the ones that have truly slipped.

The office uses the map to group commercial stops by area for the night route. More on reading the map is in the next guide, and grouping stops onto vans is covered in One Van on Homes, One on Commercial After Hours: Splitting the Dispatch Board.

Setting Minimum Days From the Contract

Many commercial accounts start with a simple agreement: “monthly,” “quarterly,” “twice a year.” Turn that into minimum days on each address when you set the account up. If the agreement says something more specific, like “no more than five weeks between visits,” set the minimum a bit lower than the maximum so the account comes due with room to schedule.

Write the agreement itself in a custom field on the client, so anyone in the office can check what was promised.

Job Details Ride Along

Recurring visits are the same job over and over. A new job at an address fills in from that address's last job: areas, square feet, carpet type, method and access notes. The tech's card looks the same every visit, and the checklist is waiting on the phone. When something changes, such as a new entrance or an added hallway, update it once and every future visit carries it.

Pausing and Ending Recurring Work

Sometimes a client pauses: a school over summer, an office that is renovating. The simplest approach is to leave the address as it is and let the office see it come due, then hold it off the schedule with a note. When the client is ready, put it back on a van. If a client ends the service entirely, stop scheduling the address but keep its history; the photos and checklists are useful if they come back later.

Recurring Work That Actually Recurs

Recurring commercial work is only valuable if it actually happens on time. Minimum days on each address, counted from the last visit, with the Waiting List flagging what is due and overdue, is what keeps it on time. For the rest of the commercial tools, visit the CarpetBossPro commercial carpet cleaning software page.