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How does yours measure up?
The honest comparison is not Moonfoos against another SaaS — it is Moonfoos against the way you run it today: the spreadsheet, the group chat, the paper timesheet. Here is what changes, line by line.
The four comparisons
Four questions, one answer each.
Every conversation about Moonfoos comes back to one of these four. The matrix below answers all of them side by side.
Moonfoos vs spreadsheets
The rota, the hours and the invoice, out of one file.
Moonfoos vs the group chat
The task, the proof and the record, out of the thread.
Moonfoos vs hotel PMS housekeeping
The PMS runs the room; Moonfoos runs the contract behind it.
Moonfoos vs paper timesheets
The hour, from the site, not from memory.
The matrix
Line by line.
Nine things a cleaning operation has to get right, and what each way of running it actually does about them.
| What it has to do | Spreadsheets | Group chat | Hotel PMS housekeeping | Moonfoos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduling & rounds | Rebuilt by hand each week, one file per manager. | Agreed in the thread, written down nowhere. | Strong — rooms, floors and status are what these systems are built for. | Assigned by load per site, and rebalanced when someone calls in sick. |
| On-site clock-in & hours | Retyped from paper at the end of the month. | A message saying the shift is done. | Usually not the shift record — the property system tracks rooms, not your hours. | Clocked at the site, by NFC tag or phone, as the shift starts. |
| NFC-verified hours | No such thing. | No such thing. | Not typically; the room status is the signal. | Every hour verified where it was worked, not where it was later remembered. |
| Quality control | A tick in a cell, with nobody’s initials on it. | A photo in the thread, unfindable a month later. | Well handled for the room: status, inspections, evidence for the guest. | Checklists, timed photos and a sign-off filed against the visit. |
| Collective-agreement rates | Applied by hand, from memory, under time pressure. | Not its job. | Not its job either — a property system does not compute cleaning payroll. | Day, evening, weekend and holiday rates applied as the hour is recorded. |
| Payroll & timesheets | A week of checking before the file goes out. | The hours are in the thread somewhere. | Sometimes exported, if the module has an export at all. | Generated from the clock-ins, tagged by shift type, ready for payroll. |
| Invoicing at completion | Assembled by hand at month-end. | The client asks, and someone reconstructs it. | Bills the room nights, not the cleaning contract behind them. | Generated when the task is completed, with the record attached. |
| Reports & budgets | A summary somebody typed up, already a week old. | Screenshots. | Operational reporting for the property, where it is installed. | Completion, response times and margin per site, from the same record. |
| Multi-site, one record | One file per building, until somebody has to add them up. | One thread per crew. | One property. A group runs several systems. | One portfolio, one record, with a view per building. |
The PMS column is fair on purpose. Room status, housekeeping assignment and the inspection trail are things a property system does well — better than a general operations platform should pretend to. The difference is what happens after the room is clean: the hours, the rates, the payroll file and the invoice belong to the cleaning contract, and that contract does not live in the property system.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Is this comparison fair?
The column for hotel property systems says what those products are genuinely good at, because they are — rooms, status and housekeeping assignment are exactly what they are built for. The comparison is not really against them. It is against the spreadsheet, the group chat and the paper timesheet, which is how a great many cleaning contracts are still run, and against the one thing a property system does not do: the hours, the payroll and the invoice behind the rooms.
What does a hotel PMS do that Moonfoos does not?
Run the hotel. Room inventory, reservations, guest status and the front desk all live there, and Moonfoos has no ambition to replace any of it. If you clean hotels, the two sit side by side rather than competing: the property system runs the rooms, and Moonfoos runs the cleaning contract behind them — the hours, the rates, the timesheets and the invoice.
Do we have to choose one?
No. Moonfoos is the record of the work that was done, and it is deliberately not trying to become your payroll platform, your accounting package or your property system. Each of those keeps its own job. What changes is where the numbers come from: the site, as the shift happens, rather than a reconstruction at the end of the month.
Where is Moonfoos the wrong choice?
If you run a single site with a handful of cleaners, and the rota, the hours and the invoice all fit in one file that has never once been wrong, then a platform is a cost you do not need yet. Moonfoos starts to pay for itself where there are several sites to hold together, where the rates change with the hour, or where clients ask you to prove what was done — and it is a poor fit for anyone who does not want the work recorded as it happens, since the record is the whole product.
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