The short answer: A custom website for a window cleaning company runs $3,500 to $12,000+ as a one-time build. A one-truck residential operation working a single metro usually sits near the bottom of that range, and the number climbs when you carry commercial accounts, drive a route across a lot of towns, sell add-on work alongside the glass, or want quoting and booking built into the site instead of bolted on later. Ongoing SEO is a separate monthly line item and is not part of the build price. Nobody can quote you honestly until they know how many towns and how many services need their own page.
Window cleaning is route work. The same houses come back on a schedule, storefronts come back more often, and growth mostly comes from adding stops near stops you already drive. A site for that business is not a brochure. It is what fills the holes in the route.
So the build has to carry a few specific things:
The general case for why any website costs what it costs is argued in our website cost guide. This page is only the window cleaning version.
The range is wide because the businesses inside it are. Here is roughly what each end buys.
A tight custom site. Home page, one or two service pages, an about page that makes you look like a real company, service area pages for the towns you drive today, and a quote form that lands on your phone. Right for one truck, residential, one metro. Small on purpose, and still custom, which matters, because a template hands you a layout anybody else in your market can buy too.
More services, more towns, and commercial handled as its own audience with its own page, its own proof and its own contact path. Review requests get built into the follow up so asking is not something you have to remember, and tracking goes in so you can tell which town page produced the call.
Several crews or locations, a deep service area layer, a commercial section that answers what a facilities manager asks before switching vendors, and usually some custom tooling, which is priced on its own. Calculators start at $600, most workhorse tools run $1,500 to $4,000, and online ordering or a small store starts at $3,500. Tool Care after launch is $75/month per tool. One example of that kind of tooling: a one-tap review request tool we built for a New Jersey glass and mirror shop. More of that on the custom tools page.
Two things push a window cleaning build up the range, and both are good problems to have.
Commercial contracts. Storefronts and offices steady the business, because they come back on a schedule whether or not it was a good spring. But commercial buyers read differently than homeowners. They want insurance, scheduling, who is on the crew, how you handle upper floors. That is its own set of pages and its own quote path, and it adds real hours to a build.
Add-on services. Every service you genuinely sell is a page that has to be written well enough to earn its own rankings. If you also do gutters, screens or pressure washing, those are not bullet points on the home page. They are pages. They are also why your average stop is worth more than the outfit that only does glass.
What pulls the number down is just as plain. One town instead of nine. Two services instead of six. Photos you already own. Copy decisions made in one sitting. No booking system in version one.
As a worked example, say a residential clean averages $300 in your market. A $6,000 build is twenty of them. Run it with your own average ticket before deciding the number is big. It is arithmetic, not a prediction about what any site will produce.
The monthly side of the budget is a separate question: see what SEO costs for a window cleaning company.
If your route is already full in season, the site is not there to make the busy months busier. It is there to fill the slow ones, open the commercial lane, and stop you from renting the same leads back every year.
A sane order to spend in:
Two things worth knowing before you sign with anyone: our work is month to month, and you own the site, the content and the accounts. If you leave, all of it leaves with you.
If you would rather see it than read about it, we will build a free mockup of your window cleaning site. Holding a quote from somebody else? The what should you pay tool is a free sanity check. We are Orlando-based and have worked with local service businesses nationwide since 2008. Call or text (407) 694-2055, or start on the window cleaning page.
Yes, and for most window cleaners that is the right call. Build the towns you drive today, then add pages as you add stops. A custom build is structured so a new service area page drops in without touching the rest of the site. Adding two pages next spring costs far less than guessing at twelve towns today.
It will get you online. It usually will not get you found, because the template decides your page structure, and page structure is what has to flex in a business with many towns and several services. We laid out the tradeoff in <a href="/blog/custom-website-vs-template">custom website vs template</a>. If money is tight, a small custom build beats a big template one.
A quote form is enough for most residential window cleaning, because the price depends on the glass and the access. Booking earns its keep when you run set routes and want repeat customers to schedule themselves. Online ordering or a small store starts at $3,500, so it is a real decision, not a checkbox. See <a href="/ecommerce">ecommerce</a> if that is where you are heading.
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