What can a scheduling app do for your lawn care business’s bottom line? Efficient scheduling ultimately puts more more money in your pocket.
That’s how Lawn Love’s Pro App makes it easy for lawn care pros to get started and how ProBase, developed by the team behind LawnStarter, can make your life simpler and your wallet fatter.
Both are free scheduling and routing tools. That alone will save you $39 to hundreds of dollars a month in subscription fees from lawn care business software vendors. That’s money you can plow back into your lawn care business.
Here’s the key difference between Lawn Love’s Pro App and ProBase:
- Lawn Love’s Pro App is best if you get all your lawn care jobs from Lawn Love. Apply to become a Lawn Love pro. It’s free to sign up.
- ProBase is best if your lawn care jobs come from your own lawn care website, Lawn Love, LawnStarter, other marketplaces, or word-of-mouth and door-to-door marketing. With ProBase, every job — no matter where it comes from — is in one place.
More customers, more scheduling challenges
Managing your lawn care business becomes increasingly challenging as you add more customers to your route and try to fit all of them into a recurring schedule.
Customers typically want services within 24-48 hours of when their lawn first shows signs of needing them.
Having a list of customers and their addresses is not enough to plan your routes and take into account things like traffic, how long each job will take, and more.
That’s where scheduling and routing tools will help.
5 benefits of scheduling and routing apps
1. Map view displays nearby jobs
By looking at your map view within the app, you can get an idea of who is near or far from you and how your customers are distributed throughout your area. You can select jobs from within the map view that you’d like to take, allowing you to create an efficient schedule.
You can even notify your customers when you’re on the way. With ProBase and Lawn Love’s Pro App, route optimization is so simple.
2. Easy online payments
The right app can take payments from your customers automatically and can help you track your total earnings.
Often lawn care professionals have to circle back through their route to collect checks or other forms of payment, wasting time and fuel.
Lawn Love’s and ProBase’s digital payment system eliminates all these extra trips, as you don’t need to interact with the customer face to face to collect your payment,
3. Far less administrative work
Most lawn care professionals choose lawn care work because they don’t like paperwork or the administrative headaches and they prefer to work outdoors.
The right app will allow you to handle all your office work while you’re in the field. This includes scheduling, providing quotes, collecting payments, and tracking customer reviews.
Lawn Love’s Pro App and ProBase are just the right apps to handle all that work for you.
4. Improve customer management and communication
You can use Lawn Love’s Pro App or ProBase lawn care app to re-quote a job in real time if you arrive at a property that is overgrown or requires a different service or additional time.
Communicating with your customers in real-time helps you schedule service efficiently and keep customers happy.
5. Reschedule jobs
Sometimes your schedule becomes too packed, or an unexpected emergency pops up making it impossible to complete the jobs you had originally set out to do that day. Life happens.
Rescheduling work should be easy and fast. Simply reschedule your job within the Lawn Love Pro App or ProBase to notify your customer of the new time.
Other top apps for lawn care service businesses
Some of the top app choices for managing a lawn care business include reference apps, document management apps, and turnkey apps for lawn care businesses. The following are a few examples of different types of apps that might be useful for your business:
Service Autopilot
Service Autopilot was designed exclusively for lawn care and landscaping businesses by an entrepreneur who built a multimillion-dollar lawn care empire. You can use the app to manage all daily operations, including routing, scheduling, giving estimates, invoicing, and taking payments. There are predesigned templates for invoices, business forms, and even marketing.
Cost: Plans start at $49 a month (plus signup fee)
RealGreen by WorkWave
RealGreen by WorkWave is a great turnkey app for managing a lawn care or landscaping business. The app helps to keep multiple work crews and managers connected and on-target to meet company goals. You get real-time views of field work, back office operations and vehicle locations.
The app makes it easy to handle seasonal demand and off-season projects. You can run your business on-the-go — even if you’re actively participating in the work.
Cost: Fill out form to get pricing.
Other lawn care software options include:
| Business software for lawn care providers | Cost | Features |
| LawnPro | Free startup plan for 1 user, $39 a month for up to 3 employees, $129 a month for 7 employees, $249 a month for 15 employees. | LawnPro’s features include a customer CRM, scheduling, AI route optimization, time-tracking, invoicing, tip collection, and 2-way text messaging. |
| Jobber | 14-day free trial, then so many pricing packages and more add-ons for additional costs. Pricing starts at $21 a month, $70 a month, and $105 per month for an individual. Prices are higher for plans for 2-5 people, and higher for other tiers of employees. | Features for the cheapest individual plan include: Book and schedule jobs, send quotes and invoices, online payments, track performance with built-in reporting, connect 100+ tools through the app marketplace. |
| RazorSync | 2-week free trial, then Solo plan (up to 2 users) costs $85 a month, Team plan (up to 7 users) costs $195 per month, and Pro (up to 15 users) for $439 a month, and an Enterprise plan. | Features include automated billing, at-a-glance customer history, job tracking and scheduling, GPS mapping, SMS and text alerts, estimating and invoicing. |
| YardBook | Free Starter plan, Business plan for $34.99 a month, Enterprise plan costs $49.99 every month. | Yardbook’s features include estimates, payments, routing, and an upselling suite. |
| ServiceTitan | ServiceTitan doesn’t list pricing on its website. A search online suggests ServiceTitan’s pricing starts at $245 per month, making it one of your priciest options, especially if you are a new lawn care provider. | Features with ServiceTitan’s starter plan include: dispatching, scheduling, call booking, and invoicing. |
Other helpful tools for your lawn care business:
DocuSign
DocuSign is a perfect complement to your management app because it specializes in producing and storing documents and contracts that customers can sign when you’re on-the-go. Your clients can view what they’re signing, ask questions and expedite essential service paperwork electronically.
Cost: Plans start at $11 a month, billed annually
Harvest Landscape
Harvest Landscape is a specialty app that can help you estimate how much soil or mulch is needed for planting purposes, based on the depth and coverage area.
Cost: Contact for pricing for services you want/need.
Slack
The Slack app enables everyone in your company to collaborate, send messages, plan lawn care strategies and manage special projects, such as big landscaping jobs with many moving parts. You can use the app for free in the basic plan.
Cost: Free for the Basic plan.
Turf Doctor (from Purdue University)
Purdue University’s Turf Doctor app provides information for identifying lawn pests and diseases and choosing the best treatment products, such as herbicides, fungicides, growth regulators, adjuvants, insecticides, etc.
Cost: $1.99 (one-time charge)
Scheduling and routing tools save time and money
Whether you’re just starting out or an established and growing lawn care business, scheduling and routing tools will make your life easier. These are included in nearly all the lawn care business software suites, but you’ll pay a monthly or annual fee for nearly all of these.
With ProBase and Lawn Love’s Pro App, you don’t pay anything. What you get is free scheduling and route optimization — and a tipping feature almost no one else offers — from a team that knows how to serve lawn care pros. ProBase was built by the team behind LawnStarter, which was founded in 2013. Lawn Love, founded in 2014, is built for lawn care pros partnering with Lawn Love to grow their businesses.
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