Breezeway vs CleanSync: which one fits a Jobber-running cleaning company?
Breezeway is the heavyweight in STR operations software. CleanSync is the lightweight Jobber-native integration. Here's the honest comparison: where Breezeway wins, where it's overkill, and what to use when.
TL;DR: Breezeway and CleanSync solve different problems for different buyers. Breezeway is host-side / PM-side operations software (task templating, owner reporting, inspections). CleanSync is a cleaning-company-side Jobber integration that turns Airbnb / Vrbo bookings into Jobber jobs. If you're a cleaning company on Jobber, you almost certainly want CleanSync; you'd only want Breezeway if you also operate as a property manager.
What Breezeway actually is
Breezeway is one of the most mature platforms in the short-term rental operations space. It's designed for property management companies managing 20+ units across multiple owners, and offers:
- Task management: detailed cleaning + maintenance task lists, templated per unit, dispatched by booking event.
- Inspection workflows: photo-based checklists, condition reports, before/after capture.
- Owner reporting: white-labeled reports owners receive showing what happened at their property.
- Vendor management: vendor profiles, scoring, payment workflows.
- Integration with PMS systems: Hostfully, OwnerRez, Hostaway, Streamline, Track, RealPage, and others.
The buyer is the PM. The user is the PM's team. The vendors (cleaners, maintenance, inspectors) execute work Breezeway dispatches.
Where Breezeway shines
Honestly: it's a great product for the right buyer. If you operate a PM company with 50+ units and you need:
- Templated task workflows per property (e.g., "Cabin checkout: gas check + thermostat reset + outdoor sweep + indoor turnover")
- Owner-facing reports that look professional and white-label cleanly
- Complex multi-vendor coordination (cleaners + maintenance + inspector + landscaper all dispatched from one tool)
- PMS-integrated bookkeeping
…Breezeway is one of the best options on the market. The product is mature, the team's experienced, and large PMs rely on it.
Where Breezeway is the wrong fit
If you're a cleaning company — not a PM — and your needs are:
- Get Airbnb / Vrbo bookings into your existing scheduling tool
- Have your crews see STR turnover jobs alongside your residential book
- Invoice the host (or your PM client) for the cleaning, the way you already invoice everything else
- Skip the overhead of templated multi-vendor workflows
…then Breezeway is an order of magnitude more product than you need. You're paying for owner reporting you'll never use, vendor coordination you don't need (you ARE the vendor), and a separate task management layer when your Jobber schedule already runs your team.
Where CleanSync fits
CleanSync is built for the other side of the host-cleaner relationship: the cleaning company that already runs on Jobber and just needs the STR booking-to-job sync layer.
- Free Jobber App Store integration. No subscription.
- Paste iCal URL, pick Jobber client, save. ~2 min per property.
- Bookings become Jobber jobs. Your crew sees them in their normal Jobber schedule. No new tool.
- Cancellations + reschedules handled automatically. No double-booked crews from a guest cancellation you didn't catch.
- Doesn't touch your non-STR work. Residential, commercial, recurring — all flow through Jobber untouched.
Quick start docs walk through the full setup. How CleanSync handles cancellations and reschedules covers the edge cases.
Side-by-side
| Dimension | Breezeway | CleanSync |
|---|---|---|
| Primary buyer | Property managers, hosts | Cleaning companies on Jobber |
| Booking → cleaning task | ✅ (own scheduler) | ✅ (writes into Jobber) |
| Lives inside Jobber | ❌ | ✅ |
| Owner reporting | ✅ (strong) | ❌ (use Jobber's invoices + reports) |
| Inspection / photo workflows | ✅ (strong) | ❌ (use Jobber's note + photo features) |
| Templated multi-vendor coordination | ✅ | ❌ |
| PMS integration | ✅ (Hostfully, OwnerRez, etc) | iCal only (which is what PMSes export) |
| Pricing | Per-unit subscription | Free |
| Best for | PMs managing 20+ units | Cleaning companies w/ Jobber + STR clients |
What if you're somewhere in between?
A cleaning company that's effectively a small PM (you take over operations for a few hosts, do the owner communication, handle pricing) is the genuinely hard case. Two options:
Option A: stay on the cleaner side. Use CleanSync to handle the booking sync into Jobber. Use Jobber's existing customer-facing features (job statuses, custom forms, customer notifications) for the lightweight PM-ish responsibilities. Cheaper, simpler, but capped — if you're managing 30+ units across multiple owners and the owner-facing reporting matters, you'll outgrow this.
Option B: graduate to Breezeway. When the PM-ish work becomes a meaningful part of your business (more time on owner reporting + inspections than on actually cleaning), Breezeway is the right tool. CleanSync can stay in place — it just becomes the source of truth for the STR side of your cleaning book, while Breezeway handles the host-side workflows.
In our experience these two stacks coexist fine. CleanSync runs cleaner-side, Breezeway runs PM-side, and the operator picks which they spend their day in based on what they need to do.
How to decide today
- Cleaning company on Jobber, STR turnovers are a slice of your book: install CleanSync free, ignore Breezeway.
- PM running 20+ units, your cleaners are external vendors: Breezeway is built for you.
- PM with in-house cleaning crew running on Jobber: install CleanSync for the cleaner-side scheduling, evaluate Breezeway separately for the host-side workflows. They're not exclusive.
CleanSync takes two minutes to install and there's no commitment — the only way to know if it removes your STR scheduling overhead is to try it. Install free · How it works · Cancellation behavior
Frequently asked
- What does Breezeway do?
- Breezeway is an STR operations platform — task management, inspections, cleaning + maintenance scheduling, owner reporting, vendor management. It's built for property management companies running 20+ units, not for cleaning companies serving STR hosts.
- Is Breezeway built for cleaning companies or for hosts?
- Hosts and property management companies. Cleaning companies are users of Breezeway in the sense that they execute tasks Breezeway dispatches, but Breezeway's primary buyer is the host or PM. Cleaning companies that come to it are usually following a PM client who's adopted Breezeway.
- Why use CleanSync instead?
- Different product, different buyer. CleanSync is for cleaning companies that already use Jobber and want STR turnovers to live in Jobber too. It doesn't try to replace Breezeway's host-side workflows; it adds the Airbnb / Vrbo sync feature on the cleaning company's existing Jobber stack.
- Can they coexist?
- Yes. A cleaning company can use CleanSync to populate their Jobber schedule from their own iCal feed access, while a PM client uses Breezeway on their side for owner reporting and task templating. The two tools don't collide — they sit on different sides of the host-cleaner relationship.
- What does CleanSync cost compared to Breezeway?
- CleanSync is free. Breezeway pricing is custom but typically starts in the $5-15/unit/month range for the operations product, with multi-tier upgrades for additional modules.