At JAS, no. Our published commercial terms fit in one sentence: “No long-term lock-in — we earn the contract every visit.” You approve a written scope of work and a price, we hold your schedule, and you are billed after each completed visit — not for a prepaid term. Much of the industry does ask for more, and that contrast is worth understanding before you sign anything.
That’s the standard a building should be held to. If you’d rather have it in writing, tell us about the space — we walk it and come back with a scope of work and a price, usually within one business day.
What “no lock-in” means in practice
The sentence isn’t a slogan — it’s the billing model. Our janitorial services page answers this exact question in its FAQ and spells it out: you approve a written scope of work and a price, we hold that schedule, and “you are billed after each completed visit rather than prepaying a term.” A vendor paid per visit has to earn September the same way it earned August. Under a prepaid term, the risk of a slipping standard sits with you; under a per-visit model it sits with us — which is exactly where it belongs.
What holds the relationship together isn’t a term clause — it’s evidence. On eligible completed visits you get a CleanCheck report — that visit’s task-list status and customer-safe photos — measured against the scope you approved. If the standard slips, the same page says it plainly: that report “is the evidence to bring us, and we fix it.” Retention gets earned with reviewable work, not with a twelve-month signature.
What the industry usually asks you to sign
Pick up a template commercial cleaning agreement — the kind national franchises and form libraries circulate — and you will usually be reading four shapes: an initial term, often twelve months; an auto-renewal clause that extends it for another term unless somebody speaks up; a written-notice window, typically 30 or 60 days, outside of which notice doesn’t count; and sometimes an early-termination charge if you leave early. None of those shapes is a scam. A guaranteed term lets a vendor amortize equipment and hiring, and for a large facility with specialized machinery it can legitimately price lower.
But read the four together, because together they decide one thing: what it costs to leave when month six doesn’t look like month one. A twelve-month contract with auto-renewal and a 60-day notice window isn’t a twelve-month contract — it’s a contract with two exit months a year, if you remember the date. We’ve already written the full checklist of what a commercial cleaning contract should say, clause by clause; the exit is the clause that post tells you to read first.
You still sign something: the scope of work
“No lock-in” does not mean a handshake deal. What you approve before we start is a real document — it just describes the work, not a term. The janitorial page publishes it as a rule: “You get the exact task list in writing before the first visit.” The process is published too: we don’t post an instant online price for buildings because scope varies too much — “we walk the space, then send a written quote, usually within one business day.”
The floor, for reference: in Miami-Dade, commercial cleaning starts at $185 per weekly visit for spaces up to 1,000 sq ft, and what moves it from there — size, layout, frequency — is laid out on the office cleaning page — along with the sentence that governs everything else: “the price you approve is the price you pay.” The exit lives in the Terms, in one sentence: “Recurring plans renew automatically at your chosen frequency until you cancel — in your account, or by text or email.” Individual visits keep their own window: free up to 24 hours before, $25 inside 24 hours. Set that against a 60-day notice window: here, leaving is an errand, not a negotiation.
Where the no-term model actually matters
First, when you’re comparing against hiring your own staff. A janitor on payroll is the longest-term contract there is — a salary, insurance, vacation coverage, and a termination if the arrangement fails. We ran that full comparison in in-house janitor or outsourced office cleaning; the per-visit model is the half of that math almost nobody puts on the table.
Second, when you want to try before committing to a cadence. You don’t have to start with a recurring plan: biweekly, monthly, and one-time visits start from a different base, so a single deep visit is a legitimate way to see the standard before you set a schedule. The numbers for that route are in how much a one-time office deep cleaning costs. If the work holds up, the cadence conversation starts with evidence in hand — yours, not ours.
FAQ
So is there no contract at all?
There is a document — it just isn’t a term. You approve a written scope of work and a price before the first visit, and that approved scope is the working agreement: it is what each visit is checked against. What you are not signing is a prepaid twelve-month commitment you would have to buy your way out of.
How do we stop service if we need to?
The published terms make the exit administrative, not contractual: recurring plans renew automatically at your chosen frequency until you cancel — in your account, or by text or email. Individual visits keep their own window: cancel or reschedule free up to 24 hours before the appointment, with a $25 fee inside 24 hours.
Is the price higher because there’s no term commitment?
The commercial floor is $185 per weekly visit for spaces up to 1,000 sq ft, and the price scales with the published factors — square footage, layout, restroom count, and how often we come — not with how long you promise to stay. The exact commercial price is confirmed on a scoping call, and the price you approve is the price you pay.
Part of the JAS operating playbook, not legal advice: this is how our own commercial terms are written, and how to read someone else’s.