Cleaners
Cleaning goes best when nobody is home, which is exactly what makes it awkward: someone has to let the cleaner in. Most renters solve it by taking a morning off or leaving a key under a mat. Enterkey gives the cleaning company a repeating window and a code instead, so the visit happens whether or not you are there.
Every other Thursday, without a morning off
Cleaning is booked on a rhythm: alternate weeks, the first Monday, every Thursday at nine. Put that rhythm into schedules once, with an unlock time and a lock time, and the entrance opens for the visit and closes again after it.
Make the window slightly wider than the booking and traffic stops mattering. Unlocking at 8:45 for a nine o'clock appointment means an early arrival is not a phone call, and a late one is not a wasted trip across the city.
One code for the company, not a key per cleaner
Cleaning companies rotate staff. Hand over a physical key and you have handed it to a business rather than a person, and you will never know how many copies exist. A PIN belongs to the arrangement: give it to the office, let them brief whoever is on the route this week, and change it the day you switch companies.
A short welcome message can carry the instructions you would otherwise text every time: the floor, the door, where the vacuum lives. Two hundred and fifty characters is plenty, it is a one-time $4.99 purchase, and it plays for everyone in your group.
Confirming the visit before the invoice
The activity log shows the time the entrance opened and which schedule or key opened it. When a bill arrives for a week you are not certain happened, that is the ten-second check.
That is everything the log shows you: a time, and which key or schedule opened the entrance. If the panel half of this is unfamiliar, start with the apartment buzzer guide and come back.
How it works, step by step
Match the window to the booking
Create a schedule on the cleaning days, unlocking fifteen minutes before the appointment and locking after it. A two-hour window covers a two-hour clean comfortably.
Add a code and give it to the office
Put the PIN on the schedule and pass it to whoever dispatches the work, rather than to one staff member's personal phone.
Record the greeting once
Set a welcome message with the floor, the unit, and anything the cleaner needs to find. You will never text those directions again.
The cleaner buzzes, says the code, and starts
The code opens the entrance. Your greeting is what they hear at the panel: the floor, the unit, and where the vacuum lives. Nobody had to be home, and nobody had to take a call at the office.
Check the log, then pay the invoice
Entry times in the log line up with the visits you were billed for. If a week was skipped, you will know before the payment goes out.
Frequently asked questions
The company sends a different cleaner most weeks. Does that break it?
No, because the code belongs to the arrangement rather than to a person. The office briefs whoever is on the route, and nothing on your side changes when the staff do.
That is also the argument against a physical key: a key given to a company outlives every individual who ever carried it.
How do I cancel a single visit?
There is no skip button for one occurrence of a repeating window, so the simplest move is to tell the company not to come and leave the schedule alone.
An unused window opens nothing by itself: the entrance only opens when somebody presses your unit and enters the code. If you would rather it were shut, edit or delete the schedule and put it back afterwards.
How do I keep the code from spreading?
Give the cleaning arrangement its own PIN and do not reuse it for guests, deliveries or anything else. If it does get around, change it in the app and the old digits are dead immediately.
Can I use this for a one-off deep clean?
Yes, and a schedule is overkill for it. Arm a single key for the length of the job: durations run from five minutes up to twelve hours, which covers a full day of work, or permanent with a PIN.
The clean should not depend on whether somebody can take a morning off to open a door.