> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gridbeds.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Housekeeping > Room statuses, the day's plan for housekeepers, and how cleaning jobs are generated. Housekeeping is a dashboard tab: **Dashboard → Housekeeping** ("Room status and housekeeping management"). You need permission to view housekeeping. It is where a housekeeper lands after signing in, since they have no Today tab: see [Front desk](/en/front-desk#where-you-land). On Today, the **Rooms ready** reading and the **Housekeeping queue** card are for members with this permission, and are left out when the property tracks no individual rooms. The tab has three parts: **Board**, **Today's plan** and **Setup** (with permission to manage housekeeping). The plan and setup work on one property: the one in the switcher or, while the switcher names several, the one you pick above them. Picking one there leaves the switcher as it is. The board updates live: when a room's status changes or a cleaning job is assigned or done, on any device, it shows without reloading. ## Room statuses | Status | Next | | - | - | | **Dirty** | Cleaning | | **Cleaning** | Clean, or back to Dirty | | **Clean** | Inspected, or back to Dirty | | **Inspected** | Dirty (after the next departure) | At check-out — including a guest's self check-out — the assigned room becomes **Dirty**. Separately, a room can be Available, Maintenance, Blocked or Retired; rooms in maintenance or retired get no cleaning jobs. ## The board Four cards with the number of rooms in each status, the **Arrivals needing cleaning** strip and the **Housekeeping Board**. Each room card has one button for its next step: **Start cleaning** (Dirty), **Mark clean** (Cleaning) and **Inspect** (Clean, with permission to manage housekeeping). One press moves the room. The ⋮ menu still has every other status: back to Dirty, **Override (skips the flow)** after a confirmation, and **Assign housekeeper**. The card also says what the front desk knows about the room on the property's operating day: **Occupied** or **Vacant**, **Departure today** (the guest leaves today, or should have left) and **Arrival today** — in orange while the room is not ready yet. In the **Arrivals needing cleaning** strip, press a room to show only that room on the board, or **Show these rooms** to show all of them; **Show all rooms** brings the board back. With permission to manage housekeeping, tick rooms — or a whole column with the box next to its name — and choose **Set status** to give all of them one status. On a phone the board shows one status at a time: pick it from the bar above the rooms. The bar with the selected rooms stays at the bottom of the screen. A housekeeper who may only view housekeeping can move only the rooms assigned to them, between Dirty, Cleaning and Clean. Inspection is for a housekeeping manager. A room someone is waiting for in the [Arrival queue](/en/arrival-queue) shows **Guest waiting**: finish it first. Releasing it (to clean or inspected, as the property chooses) checks the waiting guest in or tells them. ## Today's plan Gridbeds generates cleaning jobs every 15 minutes, and immediately after a check-out, an extension, a room move or a cancellation: | Job | Default time | When | | - | - | - | | Departure | 30 min | After the guest leaves; urgent ("Back-to-back") when someone arrives the same day. Until the guest leaves it shows "Waiting for departure". | | Stay-over, full service | 20 min | Every N nights of a stay (3 by default), unless the property's occupied rooms are serviced only when the guest leaves. | | Stay-over, light service | 12 min | On the other nights of a stay, when the property's occupied rooms are serviced every day. | | Vacant touch-up | 8 min | A vacant room that is dirty. | Deep cleans and turndowns are never generated automatically. Each job carries an "arrival by \{time}" deadline — the booking's check-in time, the property's, or 14:00. On the plan screen, every housekeeper has a column with "\{load} / \{capacity} min", and **Unassigned** collects the rest, most urgent first. **Drag and drop** jobs between housekeepers, or group by section or floor and click **Assign all**. The housekeeper gets a notification that rooms were assigned to them. Setting a room to **Cleaning** starts its job; **Clean** or **Inspected** finishes it. ## Setup * **Sections and rooms**, with a **Default attendant** per section. * **Credits** — 1 credit = 1 minute. * **Attendants** — the maximum per shift and **In today**; the default capacity is 360 minutes. Apartments, villas and the other single-unit properties appear on the board and in the plan too, like a room: each such property has its one unit, named after the property. ## How often an occupied room is serviced Each property says it on its form, step **Policies**, section **Housekeeping**: * **Occupied rooms are serviced** — **Every day** (a full service every N nights and a light one on the other nights), **Every few nights** (only the full service, every N nights) or **Only when the guest leaves** (nothing during the stay); * **Full service every … nights** — N, counted from the guest's first night; 0 never gives a full service. The departure clean always happens. A new property starts with its kind's answer — every day for a hotel, every few nights for a guesthouse, only when the guest leaves for an apartment — and properties that existed before keep being serviced every day until you change it. See [Property types](/en/getting-started/property-types). This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.