Florida wholesale supply partnerQuote-based pricing · Statewide delivery
Your dependable wholesale partner for janitorial and cleaning supplies across Florida.
Bathroom & Rags Supplier makes it easy for facilities and cleaning companies to buy commercial janitorial, restroom and cleaning supplies at wholesale — with an account built for how businesses actually order.
Net terms and PO eligibility are subject to approval. Open a business account / request a quote — or call (954) 923-9679.
“Wholesale” on its own is a claim, not a number. What actually moves your cost per month is buying the right unit and comparing on the right basis, and two mistakes account for most of the money we find when we go through a competitor’s invoice line by line.
Mistake one: comparing case price instead of cost per use. A concentrate that costs more per gallon than a ready-to-use product is usually far cheaper in the bucket. Divide the case price by the number of ready-to-use gallons it actually yields at label dilution, then compare. The same logic applies to paper: compare bath tissue on cost per thousand sheets and roll towel on cost per foot, not on cost per roll or per case, because pack counts and sheet counts differ between brands that look identical on a shelf.
Mistake two: buying the cheapest case of the wrong item. A thinner can liner that splits and gets double-bagged is more expensive than the heavier one, and a lower-count towel that makes people pull three instead of one is more expensive than the better sheet. Cost per use is the only figure that survives contact with a real building. Our supplies calculator will estimate monthly usage from headcount or room count if you want a starting point to price against.
A business account changes the arithmetic in three specific ways: you buy at case and pallet tiers rather than shelf units, your pricing is held between orders rather than re-quoted each time, and a standing order lets us consolidate a delivery instead of shipping you four small ones. That last point matters most outside our South Florida van routes, where orders travel as freight and consolidation is where the savings actually sit.
This is the single most common misunderstanding we see from cleaning companies opening an account, and it is worth getting right before your first order rather than at an audit.
A Florida Annual Resale Certificate lets you buy tax free the property and services you are going to resell. It does not cover what your own business uses. The Florida Department of Revenue is explicit that you may not use the certificate for property or services that will be used by your business, and its guidance on cleaning services states that businesses must pay sales tax and surtax on equipment, cleaning products, disinfectants, deodorizers and other supplies used or consumed in providing cleaning services.
In practice that means two account holders can look identical and be taxed differently:
There is a second trap behind that one. If you buy something tax free for resale and then use it yourself, Florida expects you to report and pay use tax on it. Buying “everything on the certificate” and sorting it out later is not a neutral choice.
We are a supplier, not your tax adviser, so the sensible sequence is: confirm with your accountant which of your purchases are genuinely for resale, then send us the certificate and tell us which categories it applies to. We will apply exactly that and no more. Getting this right at setup avoids the far more annoying job of unpicking it across a year of invoices.
Account setup takes minutes when these are in one message, and days when they arrive one at a time:
Net terms and PO eligibility are subject to approval, and we will tell you where you stand rather than leaving it open.
Once the account exists, the biggest remaining saving is order frequency. Set a par level for each item — the quantity that triggers a reorder — based on your peak week rather than your monthly average, since running out costs more than holding does. Then place one consolidated order on a fixed day rather than three reactive ones. For sites we deliver to by freight, that single change usually beats any line-item negotiation.
If you would rather not think about it at all, a standing monthly order ships the same list on the same cycle and can be adjusted any month. Multi-site operators can run one account with separate delivery addresses and consolidated billing, which is normally what people actually want when they ask about “multi-location ordering.” Delivery runs across Miami-Dade to Palm Beach on our own vans, with statewide freight everywhere else in Florida.
Yes, for qualified businesses and subject to credit approval. Tell us your ordering volume and billing contact when you open the account and we’ll confirm where you stand rather than leaving it open.
Send us your resale or exemption certificate and we’ll apply it. Note that a Florida Annual Resale Certificate covers property you resell, not supplies your own business consumes — the Department of Revenue is explicit that cleaning products, disinfectants and other supplies used in providing cleaning services are taxable. Confirm the categories with your accountant and tell us which apply.
Generally no. Florida treats supplies used or consumed while performing a cleaning service as taxable to you, even though the same certificate covers goods you resell. If you buy tax free for resale and then consume the item, Florida expects use tax to be reported on it. We are a supplier rather than a tax adviser, so confirm the split with your accountant and we’ll bill accordingly.
Yes, from qualified businesses. Tell us at setup whether your accounts payable process requires a PO number on the invoice and we’ll build it into your account so invoices are not rejected later.
Yes. One account can carry several delivery addresses with consolidated billing, and a standing monthly order ships the same list on the same cycle with adjustments allowed any month. Delivery runs Miami-Dade to Palm Beach on our own vans and statewide across the rest of Florida by freight.
Pricing is set at case and pallet tiers against the items you actually buy, and it is held between orders rather than re-quoted each time. Send your last supply invoice or a photo of your supply closet and we’ll price your real list, then beat your current invoice line by line where we can.
