If you run an oven cleaning round, you already know the problem. The phone rings. A customer wants a slot. You are sitting in the van between jobs and you cannot remember exactly where you are on Thursday afternoon, or whether the new caller is five minutes away or an hour in the wrong direction.
So you tell them you will call back. And sometimes you do. And sometimes you do not. And the job goes to someone else.
That is the problem Job Bookers was built to solve. Not by a software company, but by a working oven cleaner from Norfolk who had the same problem and got fed up waiting for someone else to fix it.
What oven cleaners actually need from a booking app
Most booking software is designed for businesses with a receptionist and a desk. Oven cleaning does not work like that. You are on the road, signal comes and goes, and you need to make decisions in seconds, not when you get back to a laptop. So the features that matter are different.
See your week at a glance. Not a spreadsheet. Not a list of rows. A proper visual diary that tells you immediately what is booked, where, and what still needs invoicing.
Find nearby gaps. This is the big one. Job Bookers has a feature called Find a Gap. You tell it the area you want a booking in, and it shows you available slots near your existing jobs. It calculates real drive times, not straight-line distance. So you are not booking a job in Norwich when your last job is in Fakenham and your next is in Diss.
Send reminders without thinking. Customers forget. A quick text the day before saves you a wasted morning. Job Bookers lets you send a personalised SMS in one tap: name, day, time, your sign-off. Done.
Invoice without going back to a desk. If you use Xero, you can create a draft invoice directly from the booking screen. No double entry. Mark the job done, tap once, and the invoice is waiting in Xero.
Works offline because rural oven cleaning is not always in signal
A lot of oven cleaning rounds cover villages and rural postcodes where phone signal is unreliable. Job Bookers was specifically built for this. It caches your diary locally so it keeps working when you lose signal, and syncs everything when you are back in range. You will never get a blank screen mid-job.
Your business name, not ours
Job Bookers lets you set your own logo, business name, and colours. So when you are using the app with a customer present, they see your brand, not someone else’s software.
How much does it cost?
Twenty pounds a month after a 30-day free trial. No credit card required to start. For most oven cleaners, that is less than one job. If it saves you one wasted journey a month, which it will, it has paid for itself.
Give it a try
Job Bookers is available now on Android. Start your free 30-day trial, no card and no commitment. If it does not fit your round after a month, you have not lost anything.
And if you have a feature that would genuinely help your working week, get in touch. The best ideas in this app came from real tradespeople. The next ones will too.