Software guide · Lawn care & landscaping
Compare Jobber, LMN and Yardbook using recurring maintenance, weather exceptions and separate enhancement jobs. The key test is whether moving one visit preserves the future series and produces the right billing for each agreement. A custom build needs to reproduce those rules, not just display stops on a map.
A recurring lawn contract and this week’s visit are related but different records. Lawn care software should let a crew move or skip one visit without accidentally changing the whole agreement or billing for work that was not done.
The cost case · Lawn care & landscaping
Start with the bill and one costly workflow. The comparison is straightforward: recurring software costs you can actually remove, minus the hosting, AI, integrations and upkeep a replacement needs. Time saved is a separate gain, and only becomes margin when the business can use it.
Current software · researched prices
$327/ month
$3,924 a year in this worked example
10-employee landscaper on LMN Starter
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A source-priced scenario, not a claim about your invoice. Check required modules, usage fees and your negotiated terms.
A focused tool · under your control
One time: map the rules, build, test edge cases, move only the data needed and train the people who use it.
Each month: affordable hosting, coding-AI usage, any database or integrations, backups and maintenance. Price these for the actual application; a $0 or low hosting tier is not the total cost.
You control: the code repository, domain, data and service accounts. Someone on your side owns updates, access, recovery and support.
The exact replacement cost depends on scope and usage. Bring your invoice and one frustrating task; we’ll map what can stay, what could be owned and the costs to verify.
Get a free 30-minute cost and workflow reviewBuild the customer and job workspace, then estimates, scheduling and customer updates. Connect accounting and payments through a verified handoff.
Use the buying and migration brief above to check records, edge cases and acceptance tests before deciding what to replace.
Source-recorded terms. Confirm your own agreement and export access before planning a move.
The free site build comes with a 12-month commitment to the monthly plan.
Vendor source ↗Recorded Sep 26, 2026Every plan requires an annual contract, including the monthly payment option.
Vendor source ↗Recorded Sep 26, 2026Plans auto-renew for the same period unless non-renewal notice is emailed at least 30 days before the period ends.
Vendor source ↗Recorded Sep 26, 2026If an Order does not state a term, the committed term defaults to three years.
Vendor source ↗Recorded Sep 26, 2026These terms appear in the same research category. Check your specific workflow before treating products as interchangeable.
A shortlist to investigate
Fit notes are our assessment of the linked vendor descriptions, not hands-on product reviews. Feature sources checked Oct 1, 2026; pricing records below retain their own dates.
You want to evaluate recurring field-service jobs and their individual visits.
Jobber distinguishes the overall job from scheduled visits and documents moving and completing visits.
Move one rain-delayed visit and check whether future occurrences and billing remain correct.
You need to investigate scheduling specifically for landscape crews.
LMN describes crew assignment, route planning and schedule changes for landscape work.
Demonstrate both a recurring maintenance round and a multi-day installation with your crew constraints.
You want to compare a landscape-focused set of scheduling and invoicing tools.
Yardbook lists route optimization, job scheduling and job-based invoicing.
Create a skipped visit and a separate enhancement job, then inspect the invoice treatment.
A practical buying brief
Use these questions with a vendor or a builder. The point is to see your own work completed, including the awkward cases.
| What matters | Ask this | Then demonstrate this |
|---|---|---|
| One visit versus the series | Can a rain delay move only the affected visit? | Move Tuesday’s stop to Thursday. Verify next Tuesday stays unchanged unless staff explicitly choose a series change. |
| Skipped work and billing | Is a missed visit treated according to the customer’s actual agreement? | Compare a hypothetical per-visit customer with a flat-monthly customer. Skip a visit and inspect each draft invoice without assuming identical treatment. |
| Crew and route capacity | Can a route look short but still contain too much work? | Combine travel with service durations and crew availability. Add a long one-off task and check whether it fits the day. |
| Extra work | Can a separate hedge-trimming quote remain distinct from weekly mowing? | Approve an enhancement, schedule it once and track its time and charges without changing the recurring mowing price. |
A text checklist with space to record what works, what fails and what needs a follow-up.
Your demo script
A synthetic evaluation scenario to run with a vendor or builder. These are proposed acceptance criteria, not results of a hands-on product test.
Request clients, properties, recurring agreements, visit schedules, open quotes and service history. Record the recurrence rule as well as the next date; importing a single appointment does not recreate a season. Reconcile active customers by property, agreed service, crew and billing method. Review skipped or postponed work so it is not imported as completed. Keep enhancement quotes and open balances separate from recurring work. Ask how photos, site instructions and historical crew time can be retained.
A custom first phase could improve quote intake, property records or crew completion reporting. Replacing the operational system needs explicit recurring-visit rules, weather exceptions, route capacity and invoice handoffs. Keep specialist landscape estimating or accounting where it earns its cost, and compare support effort alongside the subscription.
Compare costs, recovered admin time and margin on this page →
Workflow documentation checked Oct 1, 2026. Pricing tables elsewhere on this page retain their own capture dates. The demo scripts and migration guidance are our proposed evaluation method, not hands-on vendor reviews.
For lawn care & landscaping, our worked example runs $327 a month, which is $3,924 a year. 33 of 73 vendors have quote-only pricing in our research.
10-employee landscaper on LMN Starter
Where the money goes
The route and estimating software is the base: LMN Starter is $297 a month for one office license and five crew licenses, GorillaDesk goes from $49 for one route to $149 for three, and SingleOps adds from $55 per extra office user. Contracts do the holding. Aspire defaults to a three-year term if the order is silent, FieldRoutes defaults to two years with all remaining payments due if you leave, and Arborgold requires an annual contract even on monthly billing.
Keep your estimating and job-costing tool, payment processing and any aerial measurement service you quote from. Satellite takeoffs like Deep Lawn or SiteRecon are imagery you rent, not build.
Ask providers to demonstrate this workflow using your edge cases. Check which plan includes each step, what costs extra and how your records can be exported.
64 vendors and options researched for lawn care & landscaping
Listed A to Z, not ranked. Prices and every quoted catch come from each vendor's own pricing page or terms, linked and dated. 33 have quote-only pricing in our research.
AI-based takeoffs for construction estimators (formerly marketed to landscape contractors as Attentive.ai).
Website design, SEO and PPC for contractors and trades.
Landscaping and lawn care digital marketing agency: websites, SEO, PPC.
Websites, SEO and PPC for lawn and landscaping companies.
Lawn care and landscaping business software with chemical application tracking, routing and billing (per third-party description).
Sales and marketing agency for lawn and landscaping companies.
Digital marketing and websites for landscapers and lawn care companies.
Marketing built exclusively for lawn care and landscaping companies: websites, SEO, ads, automation.
There is a 12-month agreement; leaving earlier reverts the website to its original state, and ownership passes only after 12 months.
“If you leave before 12 months, the site reverts to its original state.”lawnandlandmarketing.com, Sep 26, 2026
Template lawn care websites for a monthly fee (per search snippet).
All-inclusive digital marketing for multi-million-dollar lawn care and landscaping companies.
Lawn care websites with SEO under a monthly 'Everything's Included' subscription.
Aerial imaging, property measurement, estimating and visual proposals for landscape contractors.
A search credit is consumed whenever a new aerial image is requested, including copying a page or project that uses aerial imagery.
“A search credit is used any time a client requests a new aerial image”youraspire.com, Sep 26, 2026
Marketing and website agency for home services and legal.
Scorpion publishes no prices or contract terms; pricing starts with a consultation form.
“Fill out the form and our experts will be in touch shortly.”scorpion.co, Sep 26, 2026
Enterprise pest control, lawn care and arbor care software (scheduling, billing, renewals, commissions) now under FieldRoutes.
Full-service digital marketing agency with a landscaping marketing page: websites, SEO, PPC.
Full-service digital agency with a hair salon web design practice.
The inquiry form's lowest monthly budget option is $2,500-$5,000 per month.
“$2,500-$5,000 per month”thriveagency.com, Sep 26, 2026
Free lawn care and landscaping business software (scheduling, invoicing, CRM); premium plans for larger companies.
Specialist agencies in this business category
These agencies appear in the business-category research but do not yet have a full software pricing profile. Rates are shown only when verified from the provider's own source.
Price basis: Quoted local SEO, Google/LSA, website, paid social, AI/chat and AEO services
Price basis: project scope / monthly retainer; ask for written quote
Price basis: project scope / monthly retainer; ask for written quote
Price basis: Project or retainer; request written scope
Price basis: Project or retainer; request written scope
Price basis: unpublished project or campaign pricing
Price basis: published plan or scope-dependent marketing service
Price basis: unpublished project or campaign pricing
Price basis: unpublished project or campaign pricing
Questions owners ask
A one-off weather move should preserve the intended recurring series unless staff explicitly change it. Review crew capacity, customer communication and billing separately. Moving a visit is not the same event as completing it or issuing a credit.
Only if it also supports the records and rules you need for agreements, properties, quotes, completed work and billing. Route ordering solves one task. Test a skipped recurring visit and a separate enhancement job before treating routing as a complete replacement.
LMN Starter is $297 a month and includes one office/crew-lead license and five crew licenses; Professional is $648. There's a one-time onboarding fee with no published amount, and more licenses cost extra at an unpublished rate.
Yes. Jobber lists a professional website among its Core features, and Core is $49 a month on no-commitment billing. The Marketing Suite is a separate $99 a month, and the low headline prices are introductory before they revert.
Yes, but the early termination fee is the monthly fee times the months left in the term. Renewal is automatic unless you give written notice before the period ends, and Service Autopilot's schedule lets Xplor raise fees 7% a year.
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