Recurring service. Recurring fees.
Weekly cleanings, monthly lawn care, seasonal pool service. The money's good. But every percentage point on processing comes out of your truck's gas tank. Dough cuts the fee with surcharging — or interchange-plus pricing if you'd rather not charge customers — and reinvests the margin into a free website, social, or AI for your business through Boost. Mobile terminal in the truck. Recurring billing that doesn't break.
See what your business would save
Send us your last statement and we'll show you exactly what your monthly bill would be on Dough — plus which Boost tier your volume qualifies for.
Home services has 4 processing problems most owners never bother to fix.
You're running trucks, paying crews, and chasing payments. Your processor is the last thing on your mind — until you actually look at the statement.
3% on every recurring charge
$150 weekly clean × 4 weeks × 100 customers × 3% = $1,800/mo to your processor. Across a year that's a new commercial mower.
Recurring billing that breaks at season change
Winter cards expire mid-season. Stripe's algorithm flags a sudden volume spike when you start summer pool service. Your team chases payments instead of doing work.
"I'll send a cheque" never shows up
You finished the snow contract in March. Customer said cheque's in the mail. It's now October. They still haven't paid. No virtual terminal means no easy way to charge their card on file.
Your website is your business card from 2017
New customers Google "cleaners near me" before they call. Your old site has no quote form, no gallery, and a phone number that doesn't tap-to-call on mobile. The competitor with the better site books the lead.
Three reasons home services owners switch and stay.
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Recurring billing that actually keeps running.
Your business is built on recurring contracts — weekly cleans, monthly lawn programs, seasonal pool maintenance, annual snow contracts. Authorize.Net on a real merchant account handles them without random freezes or seasonal-volume flags. Failed cards retry on a schedule. Your team stops chasing payments.
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Mobile terminal where the work happens.
The Clover Flex is wireless with built-in 4G. Take payment at the customer's front door, on their lawn, beside their pool, in their driveway. Tap, chip, swipe, contactless. Customer signs on screen, you print or email the receipt on the spot. No more "I'll come back for the cheque tomorrow."
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Surcharging or IC+ — both kill the markup.
On bigger one-off jobs ($1,000+ deep cleans, $5,000 landscape installs, seasonal snow contracts), surcharging works well — customers rarely fixate on a 2.4% line item on a big invoice. For smaller recurring services we usually recommend interchange-plus pricing instead — same lower bill, no customer-facing fee.
$45K/mo cleaning company on Stripe, switching to IC+
Estimate based on a typical residential cleaning card mix and recurring ticket size. Real savings depend on your service mix, average ticket, and current processor. Send your last statement and we'll show you the exact math for your business.
The terminal that rides shotgun.
Home services work happens at the customer's door, in their yard, beside their pool. Your terminal needs to go where the work goes.
Clover Flex
Wireless. Handheld. Built-in receipt printer. WiFi and 4G. Goes wherever the truck goes — driveways, backyards, pool decks. Tap, chip, swipe, signatures on screen, receipts printed on the spot.
- Tap, chip, swipe, contactless
- On-screen signature capture
- Built-in receipt printer
- WiFi + 4G — works anywhere
- Free if your business qualifies
Authorize.Net
The recurring billing engine. Auto-bills weekly cleanings, monthly lawn programs, seasonal pool service. Failed cards retry, you get notified before declines.
Converge virtual terminal
For invoicing customers who said "I'll send a cheque" but never did. Type the card from your office, charge it, email the receipt.
Multiple Clover Flex units
One per truck or crew. All link to the same merchant account so end-of-day reconciliation is one report.
Newland N910
Wireless handheld backed by Elavon instead of Fiserv. Same capabilities as the Flex, different rails.
Terminal pricing depends on which contract you sign — month-to-month or four-year term with a free terminal. See all our terminal options →
The numbers most home services operators don't realize they're losing every month.
"I was on Stripe for years because that's what my Jobber setup defaulted to. Switched to Dough and dropped about $700 off my monthly bill. Plus they built me a real website. Honestly I should have done this two years ago."
A typical Canadian cleaning company — anonymized example, $45K/mo card volume
Most home services businesses look like this — heavy recurring volume, big seasonal swings, on Stripe because that's what their field service software defaulted to during onboarding. Switching to interchange-plus pricing typically saves $500 to $1,000 a month. The Pro tier of the Boost program kicks in around $30K/mo and includes a free website with quote form and project gallery.
Typical operator numbers
The website your customers expect in 2026.
New customers Google "cleaners near me" or "landscaper [your city]" and click the first credible site. If your site is from 2017 with no quote form, you're losing leads to the competitor with the cleaner site. Boost fixes that — funded by processing fees you'd pay anyway.
Business website with online quotes
Five to seven pages. Services, service area, hours, gallery of past jobs, online quote form. Hosted free at the Pro and Premium tiers.
Monthly social content
Posts for Facebook and Instagram every month — graphics and captions. Before-and-afters, seasonal reminders, service spotlights. Up to 12 posts a month at Premium tier.
Custom AI assistant
A GPT trained on your services, service area, and FAQs. Lives on your website. Books quote requests at 9pm when you're at the dinner table.
Google review card
Free at every tier. A tap-to-review NFC card you leave with the customer at job end. They tap their phone, land on your Google review form. Reviews drive next-season bookings more than any ad.
If you show up at a customer's house, we can help.
Doesn't matter what you're there to do — if you take a card, we'll process it.
Quick answers, no fluff.
The questions every home services operator asks before switching. If yours isn't here, call us at (647) 691-9085.
Customer signs on the screen, you print or email the receipt on the spot. Most home services operators keep one in the truck.
Failed cards retry, you get notified before declines hit, and your team stops chasing payments. Set up on Authorize.Net or Converge.
Works for one-off jobs, big quoted projects, and the inevitable customer who says they'll "send a cheque" but never does. See all terminal options →
Dough handles your signage and your provincial registration as part of onboarding.
For smaller recurring services like $150 weekly cleans, we often recommend interchange-plus pricing instead so there's no customer-facing surcharge — the savings still come from cutting the markup on your processing bill.
Most home services operators keep their existing software for scheduling, routing, and invoicing — Dough just replaces the payment processor on the back end.
Home services with proper photo documentation usually win the majority of disputes. We coach you through the response.
The Pro tier includes a five-page website built for you, hosted free, with online quote form and gallery of past jobs.
Make more dough from every house on the route.
Send us your last statement. We'll show you exactly what your business would save and which Boost tier you'd qualify for. No commitment, no pushy reps.