CleanClac + Smoobu: automate your cleaning from A to Z

A booking comes in on Booking.com at 11:12pm for an arrival two days later. Smoobu updates your calendars instantly, blocks the dates on Airbnb, sends the welcome message. Perfect. But who tells your cleaner? You, the next morning, via WhatsApp, hoping you don’t forget. This is exactly where the automation chain breaks down for most hosts: the PMS orchestrates bookings perfectly, but cleaning slips back into manual management. Here’s how to close that loop by connecting CleanClac to Smoobu.

Smoobu, an excellent conductor for your bookings

Let’s give Smoobu its due. This Berlin-based software is an all-in-one platform for short-term rentals, combining a channel manager, PMS, direct booking engine with website creation, automated guest messaging, digital welcome guide, statistics and invoicing. Its real-time sync with major portals (Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and about fifteen other channels) eliminates the risk of double bookings, every multi-platform host’s nightmare.

If you’re still hesitating between a simple channel manager and a full PMS, our guide Channel manager, PMS, cleaning tool: who does what? explains the difference. Smoobu ticks both boxes, with particularly deep integration on Airbnb and Booking.com (rates, messaging, service fees).

Independent reviews rate it as ideal for independent hosts managing 1 to 5 properties, mainly on Airbnb and Booking.com. As for price, as of 6 August 2026, expect around €29/month for one property on the Professional Flex plan (plus 0.9% fee per booking), or about €31.50/month on the Prepaid version with no booking fees, with each additional property adding about €9.60/month (official Smoobu pricing). The trial is free for 14 days, no credit card required.

In a market where platform-booked nights in the EU reached 951.6 million in 2025, up 11.4% year-on-year according to Eurostat, this kind of tool is no longer a luxury: it’s the foundation of any serious rental business.

Cleaning: the missing piece Smoobu doesn’t provide natively

On the operational side, Smoobu makes a clear and documented choice. It offers unlimited read-only Assistant accounts for cleaners, housekeepers, concierges or owners, with custom access control, as well as automatic arrival and departure notifications to keep teams informed. Useful, but that’s where it stops: there’s no full cleaning task management module, with assignment, checklists, execution tracking or photos.

This isn’t a criticism, it’s the publisher’s official position: their housekeeping help page explicitly refers users to specialist partners in their marketplace for cleaning operations. An independent 2026 review confirms it: Smoobu does not include native task management features.

In practice, with Smoobu alone, your cleaner can view a read-only calendar and receive a departure email. They cannot:

• Receive a scheduled task with date, time slot, estimated duration and property-specific instructions.
• Follow a room-by-room checklist to ensure nothing is missed between guests.
• Provide proof of attendance with photos, check-in or end time.
• Report an issue (damage, forgotten item, out-of-stock supplies) in a structured way.

And it’s precisely at this last step that your rating is made or broken. According to a Vrbo survey in April 2026 of 1,758 travellers, 78% cite spotless cleanliness as the top sign of a quality listing, and 86% say they’re willing to pay more for a higher-quality property (Vrbo, via Businesswire). Automating bookings without automating cleaning secures only half the journey.

What the CleanClac connector adds on top of Smoobu

CleanClac is a cleaning management app (web, iPhone and Android) designed for short-term rentals. Key point: CleanClac does not replace Smoobu, it connects to it. Smoobu remains your source of truth for bookings, rates and guest communication; CleanClac takes over for everything that happens between one guest’s departure and the next arrival. For more on this, see Does CleanClac replace your PMS? No, and that's intentional.

The cleaning schedule fills itself

Once the Smoobu connector is activated, every booking recorded in Smoobu is picked up by CleanClac: a guest departure automatically creates a cleaning task, scheduled at the default slot you’ve set for the property. Last-minute booking at 11:12pm? The corresponding clean appears in the schedule without you lifting a finger. Cancellation? The schedule updates. You never have to re-enter a date again.

Every task comes with its illustrated checklist

For each property, you create an illustrated checklist from a catalogue of around 200 tasks organised by section: cleaning, finishing touches, linen, restocking, comfort, special touches. The cleaner ticks off each item, room by room. The same quality standard is maintained at every changeover, whether it’s your regular cleaner or a stand-in seeing the property for the first time.

Proof replaces blind trust

At the end of each job, the cleaner sends photos or a video timestamped by the server, with a digital fingerprint and GPS location. Neither the cleaner nor the manager can backdate a proof. In case of a dispute with a guest over cleanliness, you have a dated and geolocated record. CleanClac adds an on-site geolocated check-in, the actual cleaning duration with an “Overdue” label if it runs late, and a property condition rating on arrival (1 to 5 stars) given by the cleaner. For more on this quality control logic, see Cleaning Quality Control: Always Require Photos.

Team, access and stock are all managed

Your cleaners are unlimited and free, for life: CleanClac charges per property, never per team member. The access vault sends codes and key box location to the day’s cleaner only. Consumable stocks per property (toilet paper, pods, welcome products) have a gauge with low-stock alerts. An integrated messenger links manager and cleaners, and a Manager role lets you delegate a group of properties. If you need a cleaner, the “Find a cleaner” feature identifies profiles near the property for free, with a radius in kilometres.

Setup: how to actually connect the two

Getting started takes about an hour for a medium-sized portfolio, in four steps.

1. Create your CleanClac accountThe trial is free for 14 days, no credit card, with unlimited properties during the trial. Enough to test the duo on a full cycle of real bookings.
2. Activate the Smoobu connectorIn CleanClac and link your properties: each Smoobu property is matched to its CleanClac equivalent, and existing bookings are imported into the schedule.
3. Configure each propertyDefault cleaning slot (e.g. 11am, 2pm between 10am check-out and 3pm check-in), estimated duration, illustrated checklist, access codes in the vault, stock thresholds.
4. Invite your cleanersThey install the app (free for them), see their upcoming tasks, and receive each new cleaning job created by a Smoobu booking.

From there, the chain is complete: booking on any channel, Smoobu sync, automatic cleaning task creation in CleanClac, cleaner notification, checklist, photo proof, property ready.

A tip for the first week: check daily that each Smoobu booking has generated its cleaning at the right time, and adjust estimated durations: allow about 60 minutes for a 2-room flat of 50m², more if laundry is on site.

Use case: a 10-property management company using Smoobu

Let’s take a typical example. A management company handles 10 flats for owners, all distributed via Smoobu on Airbnb, Booking.com and a direct site. Three cleaners share the changeovers, with peaks on Saturdays.

Before: the manager exports each day’s departures from Smoobu every morning, organises rounds on a WhatsApp group, answers questions (“what’s the code again?”, “are there sheets left?”) and calls in the evening to check if everything’s done. A last-minute booking on a Saturday night sometimes slips through: on Sunday morning, no one is notified.

After connecting CleanClac: Smoobu departures automatically create cleaning tasks, each cleaner sees their jobs with checklist, access codes and instructions. The manager opens her dashboard around 5pm: jobs completed, timestamped photos, arrival condition ratings, stock alerts on two properties. On a Saturday with 14 changeovers, she knows in real time what’s ready and what’s running late thanks to the “Overdue” label.

The financial impact is real. A cleanliness rating slipping below 4.8 costs about 20% fewer bookings, and below 4.7 the loss can reach 30% of revenue according to 2026 industry analysis. For the average French host earning about €11,200 per year per property, every tenth of a point in cleanliness rating matters.

How much does the Smoobu + CleanClac duo cost?

Let’s do the maths, using prices as of 6 August 2026.

• Smoobu: about €29/month for 1 property (Professional Flex, plus 0.9% per booking), about €9.60/month per extra property.
• CleanClac: from €9.99/month for 1 property, €14.99/month for 2, 3 properties, €19.99/month for 4, 5, then +€4/property beyond that. Annually: €59.99, €89.99 or €119.99 depending on tier (+€24/property beyond). Cleaners themselves are always free, no matter how many you have.

For a host with 3 properties, the full cleaning layer is just €14.99/month, about half the price of a single studio clean in the provinces (charged €22, 35 according to 2026 price guides). For our 10-property management company, it’s €19.99 + 5 × €4 = €39.99/month, to be compared with sector management commissions, usually between 15 and 25% of collected rent.

Both tools offer a free 14-day trial with no credit card, so you can test the duo on your real bookings before spending a penny.