Clothes make the man. –German proverb
The importance of (clean) clothes is a lot in this modern society. A person is judged by what he/she is wearing. So, people always need clean and attractive clothes. So if you are in business that provide (clean) clothes, you will never run out of trade.
Today people don’t even have time to go to laundry centers, to stay there and wait until their clothes are washed and dried. People need something that diminishes their efforts to go to such laundry outlets. Here enters on-demand laundry app. With this kind of apps, the customers can set a pickup and drop location and time for the clothes and the employee of the on-demand laundry service will come to receive/give the laundry.
If you have decided to start a laundry business (Laundromat), you need some pre-venture knowledge to succeed in this on-demand laundry service business.
Let’s begin with,
Researching Prerequisites
- Does your city or town need another on-demand laundry service?
- What does the existing laundry outlets lack which you can provide?
- How much do these outlets earn on one individual service?
Getting Started
All these companies started their first branch in one or other metropolitan city like New York, Washington, etc. This gives them a lot of exposure towards their customers as their target customers are the one who do not have time to do their own laundry. So the idea that could be a complete failure in urban towns became a smashing success story in such metropolitan cities.
Washio shut down in the year 2016 due to heavy competition from its competitors Rinse, Flycleaners and Cleanly. But, Cleanly is one of the companies that is still standing strong and the reason for their long and successful survival is their thinking of first focusing on profitability rather than scalability. Cleanly has achieved this success by making slow and methodical expansion across America instead of selling bulk franchises.
Initial Requirements
Business Registration
A Base Of Operation
Business Model
Crowdsourcing
Digitizing
The Cost To Start A Laundry Business
How much does it cost to start a laundry business with on-demand laundry app like Uber, Cleanly?
Well, the short answer would be around $200,000 to $400,000 and more as you grow bigger in size. Now let’s get a detailed budgeting of setting up a laundry business.
Building a Laundromat will cost you more than an already existing one. If you choose to build your own Laundromat for somewhat 2,000 sq. foot space will cost between $200,000 to $500,000 including the machines (washing machines, dryers, etc.)
If you own a space and only need to buy machines, the top-load washing machines will cost you around $500-$700 each, while the front-loading machines will cost between $3,500 to $20,000 each, depending on the size of the machine. Dryers will cost you around $5,000 to $6,000 per dryer. All in all, to fully stock your Laundromat you would need $150,000 to $400,000.
App like Uber For Laundry or On-Demand Laundry App Development is a must for this business and to do that you need to hire an app developers. The cost of building laundry app like uber depends on factors like what features you need in the app, how many platforms (Android, iOS etc.) are you thinking to build it for and many others. Developing an on-demand laundry app will cost you around $10,000 to $25,000.
Conclusion
Man is searching for automation in all the walks of life, and the one who can provide this automation will have his money. You need to make your on-demand laundry app a full-circle loop which starts from picking up the dirty laundry to dropping off fresh ones.
Giving a complete service with a luxurious touch will help you win the hearts and money of your customers. And to achieve such feats you need to have manpower and technology walk hand-in-hand. If you are motivated to create your own Laundry and dry cleaning service app then get in touch with the best mobile app developing company to fulfill your entrepreneurial dream.
