Cleaning verification for hotels
In a hotel, a clean is a guest room after checkout, plus the lobby, restrooms, fitness room and pool area. CleanZ records each one to your brand or property cleaning checklist: the steps, the products, photos and the supervisor's approval, in one sealed, audit-ready record you can find by room and date.
What a clean means here
- Guest rooms after checkout
- Stayover cleans when a guest asks for one
- Public restrooms, the lobby and elevators
- The fitness room, pool area and breakfast room
Who asks for proof
- Guests
- Complain about a room and want to know it was put right.
- Brand standards auditors
- Ask how rooms are inspected, and for the records.
- General managers and owners
- Want to know inspections happen, not only that they were signed off.
- Housekeeping managers
- Have more checkout rooms than inspectors on a busy day.
How a clean becomes a record
Room marked dirty
The housekeeping manager marks a checkout room, or the room attendant scans the tag by the door.
Checklist loads
The room picks its steps and products from your brand or property checklist.
Guided steps
One step per screen, in English, Spanish or Cantonese, with a countdown for each disinfectant's contact time.
Proof captured
Photos where your checklist asks for them, plus exceptions such as a stained mattress or a missing remote.
Rules check
The room can't be submitted until every required step and photo is there.
Supervisor review
The housekeeping supervisor approves from a phone, or sends the room back with a reason.
Spot check
On a sample of rooms, the executive housekeeper inspects in person and logs the result.
Sealed record
Locked once approved, and found later by room and date.
What you could save
The hours a supervisor spends checking cleans by hand, and what those hours cost. Try your own numbers.
A 200-room hotel, about 65 checkout cleans a day.
- 23,725 cleans a year
- 6 minutes to check one by hand
- 3.4 minutes per clean with CleanZ
- $31.74 an hour: a supervisor's mean wage of $22.22 (Traveler accommodation) divided by wages' share of total pay, 70.0%
| Approach | Hours a year | Labor cost a year |
|---|---|---|
| Checking every clean by hand | about 2,373 | about $75,310 |
| With CleanZ | about 1,344 | about $42,676 |
| Labor saved | about 1,028 | about $32,634 |
Compared with checking every clean by hand. Checking only 1 in 10 by hand costs less, but leaves 9 in 10 unchecked. Labor only, before the CleanZ subscription. Example figures; your numbers will differ.
Wages: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2023: 37-1011 First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Does CleanZ store guest information?
No. It records rooms, tasks, products, staff roles and results. Nothing about guests.
Does it replace our property management system?
No. CleanZ doesn't assign rooms. It runs beside your current system and adds the record of each clean.
Can room attendants use it in their own language?
Yes. Instructions come in English, Spanish or Cantonese, switchable mid-shift, and the app works without a signal.
What does a pilot look like in a hotel?
A paid 60 to 90 day pilot on one floor or one property, measured against a baseline you approve before it starts.
See how one clean becomes one record.
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