Automaid

Automaid is online booking software for maid service providers, priced from $75 to $299 a month, built for cleaning businesses ready to scale. The name changed from Launch27 in May 2026 under the same owner.

Crayon

Crayon automates the same work. The difference is what happens to the parts that are wrong for your business. Automaid automates the product as designed. Crayon changes the design.

THE DIFFERENCE

The difference is what happens when it does not fit.

Every product on this page is a fixed shape. Where it matches how you work, it works well. Where it does not, you change how you work, pay a developer, or bolt on another tool. Crayon is the proven core for bookings, customers and payments, and the AI changes it when you ask. Rename what things are called. Add the field every job has to carry. Change what a button says.

SIDE BY SIDE

How they compare

Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.

	Automaid	Crayon
Built for	Maid services scaling on online booking	Service businesses, operations first
Entry price	$75 a month	$99 a month for the first year
Unbranded booking form	Pro, $150 a month	Included, on your own domain
The automation claim	Automate the product as built	Change what the product is, then automate it
Your own database	Shared platform	Your own isolated environment
Strongest at	An established booking product with a long track record	Fitting a business that does not run standard

OUTGROWING IT

Signs you have outgrown Automaid

Automation is only worth having on a process that is actually yours.

The automations are automating a workflow you would change if you could.
You are on Pro purely to get your own branding on the booking form.
Your service model needs a field, a rule or a step the product does not have.
You are running a second service line inside a maid service shape.
Integrations are doing work that should be one system doing it once.

Automating the wrong process makes the wrong process faster. Crayon starts by making the process right: you ask for the change, review exactly what it will do, and approve it. Then it runs.

PRICING

What each one costs

Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.

Automaid

Base$75 a monthUnlimited users and bookings, booking form with Automaid branding, customer portal, payroll calculator, card processing
Pro$150 a monthUnbranded and customisable booking form, time tracking, Google Calendar and Zapier, SMS via Twilio, QuickBooks, gift cards
Plus$299 a monthReferral engine, card pre-authorisation, cleaner and staff mobile app, English and Spanish, photo storage, multi-location

Crayon

Core$99 a month for the first year, then $199Bookings, customers, invoicing, scheduling, checklists with photo proof, your own environment.
Growth$299 a month for the first year, then $399Everything in Core, plus change mode, the AI front desk, automations and reporting.

USD. Crayon is in early access, so this is founding pricing.

THE HONEST PART

When Automaid is the better buy

You are already on it, it fits, and the switching cost is real. Staying is a legitimate answer.
You want a product with a decade of cleaning industry history behind it.
Your requirement is online booking and payments done well, with no need to change the model.

KEEP COMPARING

Or see every comparison, what Crayon costs on pricing, and how changing it works on the AI.

Sources

Every figure above about Automaid comes from these pages, read on 17 September 2026.

Automate the right process first.

Tell us the workflow you would change if you could. Then watch it change.

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Crayon vs Automaid

Automaid

Crayon

The difference is what happens when it does not fit.

How they compare

Signs you have outgrown Automaid

What each one costs

Automaid

Crayon

When Automaid is the better buy

Others in the same group

Crayon vs ZenMaid

Crayon vs BookingKoala

Crayon vs MaidCentral

Sources

Automate the right process first.

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