A full round that doesn't feel like it pays
The round is full. You work long days. The total at the end of the month looks fine, but not as good as it should for the hours you put in. Some days you finish early and feel you earned well. Other days you finish late, tired, having driven a lot.
You have a feeling about which parts of the round are good and which are not. The estate near the school is quick and close together. The big houses out past the village take ages and the drive is long. But you do not know for sure, and you certainly do not know by how much.
Takings are recorded by customer; time is not recorded at all
Round records hold the price of each house and whether it was cleaned. They rarely hold how long it took, and never how long it took to get there. Without time, you cannot see earnings per hour.
- Cleaning time per house is not recorded.
- Travel between houses and areas is not measured.
- Takings are totalled by day or month, not by street or area.
- Outlying customers added years ago are never reviewed.
- Decisions about where to leaflet are based on gut feeling.
Long days on work that pays less than you think
Parts of the round that pay poorly per hour make every day longer. Leafleting in the wrong area adds more of the same. And the outlying customers who take the most time are often the ones on the oldest, lowest prices. Without figures, you keep them out of loyalty or habit.
It works the other way too. Some streets you think of as hard work may actually earn well, because the prices are good and the houses are close together once you are there. Without the figures, you might trim the wrong part of the round.
A street-by-street earnings view
We build a simple analysis on top of your round records.
- When you mark houses done on your phone, the time is recorded automatically, so cleaning time and gaps between houses build up without extra effort.
- Travel between houses and areas is calculated from the addresses using a mapping service.
- For each street and area, the view shows takings, cleaning time, travel time and earnings per hour, over a period you choose.
- Streets and customers well below your average per hour are highlighted, with their price, frequency and distance from the rest of their day.
- You can test changes before making them: what if this street were repriced, moved to a different day, or dropped.
- A map shows the round coloured by earnings per hour, so the best and worst areas stand out.
| Question | Gut feeling | Street-by-street view |
|---|---|---|
| Which areas earn best per hour? | A sense of it | Measured from your records |
| Is that village worth the drive? | Loyalty says yes | Earnings per hour including travel |
| Where should I leaflet next? | Where there are houses | Near your best-earning areas |
| Which customers to reprice? | The ones you remember | Highlighted by earnings per hour |
What you do with the figures is up to you. Some low-earning customers are worth keeping for other reasons, and only you know those.
Decisions about the round based on its figures
You can see which parts of the round are paying for your time and which are not. Leafleting goes near the best areas, to make them denser. Repricing and moving decisions have numbers behind them. And over a year, the round can shift towards the work that pays, without upsetting it all at once.
Day to day, nothing changes except the tap you already make. The figures accumulate in the background, ready for when you want to look.
Would you like to know which streets pay?
- Your round is full but earnings do not match the hours.
- You have outlying customers who take a long drive.
- You do not record how long each house takes.
- You leaflet without knowing which areas earn best.
- You have customers on old prices you have never reviewed.