Register as a cleaner
Work for yourself, choose your own jobs, and get paid from your own clocked hours. You keep your independence — we handle the customers, payments and scheduling.
Claim local jobs
Only jobs in your postcodes, priced before you accept.
Insured & vetted
Verified contractors earn customer trust and more work.
Automatic invoices
Every clock-out creates an invoice line for your records.
Mandatory. You cannot claim or accept jobs until the office has verified a current certificate with at least £1m cover.
A bank statement or household bill dated in the last 3 months, showing your name and address. Admin-only — customers never see it.
Take a live selfie
Used to confirm the person on site is you. You can also be asked for a quick selfie when clocking in.
v1.2 (UK self-employed contractor terms)
1. Independent contractor status
You are engaged as a self-employed independent contractor, not an employee or worker of USparkle & Co. Nothing in this agreement creates a contract of employment, and you are free to accept or decline any job offered through the platform, and to work for others.
2. Tax, National Insurance and self-assessment
You are solely responsible for registering with HMRC as self-employed, for filing your own self-assessment tax return, and for paying your own Income Tax and Class 2/4 National Insurance contributions. No tax is deducted at source from your payouts.
3. Substitution and equipment
You control how the work is performed. Where you cannot attend a claimed job, you must release it through the app before the 48-hour cut-off so it can return to the open pool. You provide your own transport and may use your own equipment or materials supplied on site.
4. Quality standards
You agree to complete the published job checklist for each clean, to clock in and out on site as proof of service, and to maintain a customer rating consistent with agency standards. Repeated no-shows or unresolved quality complaints may end this agreement.
5. Non-circumvention
For 12 months after the last job introduced by USparkle & Co, you agree not to provide cleaning services directly to that customer outside the platform, nor to solicit platform customers away from the agency.
6. Liability and insurance
You must hold valid Public Liability Insurance of at least £1,000,000 for the duration of this agreement and supply a current certificate on request. You are liable for loss or damage caused by your own negligence, and you indemnify USparkle & Co against claims arising from your work.
7. Payment terms
Payouts are calculated from your verified clock-in and clock-out records at the agreed hourly contractor rate. An invoice line item is generated automatically on completion and paid on the next payout run.
Your signature is stored with the agreement version, date and time, and the device details of this session.
You work for yourself on USparkle Squad, so you register with HMRC as a sole trader and pay your own tax and National Insurance. Watch the short guide, then use the links below.
- 1Register online with HMRC as a sole trader — you will get a Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR) in the post.
- 2Create a Government Gateway login so you can file your tax return.
- 3Keep every invoice and receipt — USparkle Squad payslips, expenses and tax summaries are in your Earnings tab.
- 4File your Self Assessment and pay by 31 January each year; the app reminds you as the date gets close.
Do this as soon as you earn more than £1,000 in a tax year — it is free and takes about 10 minutes.
You need this to file your Self Assessment tax return each year.
What counts as self-employed, records you must keep, and deadlines.
Free live and recorded HMRC sessions on tax, expenses and payments on account.
Complete your details, insurance certificate, selfie and signed agreement to submit.