A large part of your lawn care service is the billing and payment system. With this in mind, we’ve rounded up examples of high-quality free and paid lawn care billing software.
Since there are dozens of different billing software systems available, narrowing down your choices can be a time-consuming and difficult process. We’ll give you short overviews of each of these billing and payment software systems, and you can decide which one works best for your business.
Best Lawn Care Software for Billing and Payments
| Business Software for Lawn Care Providers | Cost | Features | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ProBase | Free. No cost to you monthly or annually, developed by the team that created LawnStarter. | ProBase features include invoicing, drag-and-drop scheduling, payment processing, route optimizing, per-crew job views, AI service notes, and tip collection is built in. | Best for small lawn care companies running 1 to 5 crews and 50 to 200+ stops a week. Bonus: ProBase sends you nearby lawn care jobs so you can add to your customer base and income. |
| 2. Lawn Love | Free, but you must sign up to be a Lawn Love lawn care provider. Apply here to be a Lawn Love pro. | Lawn Love’s pro app features include map view showing jobs near you and route optimization, customer communication, and requests for reviews and tips. | Best if you are a Lawn Love lawn care provider exclusively, meaning you get all your jobs from Lawn Love. |
| 3. 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. | Smart option for small lawn care companies (free plan) with costs increasing as the size of your business grows. |
| 4. 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. | Smart option for small lawn care companies (free plan) with costs increasing as the size of your business grows. |
| 5. CLIP Lawn Care Software | Prices not on website. Three plans: Basic, Pro, and Enterprise. Sign up for a demo, I guess, to learn pricing details. | CLIP’s features include scheduling, invoicing, payment processing, client account info, automatic reminders, and detailed reports so you can track cash flow and profits. | Gets good reviews, but we don’t know if there is a free plan to start with or the cost of any paid plans. |
| 6. RealGreen by WorkWave | Prices not on website. You have to fill out a form to find out the price of any of the three different plans, and who wants to do that? | RealGreen features include CRM software, lawn scheduling and work orders, routing, email marketing, and a sales chatbot. | Seems like solid lawn care software for your business, but pricing for its 3 plans is a mystery. Good luck. |
| 7. Service Autopilot | Starts at $49 per month (plus signup fee) for Startup plan, Pro plan at $199 a month (plus signup fee), Pro Plus costs $499 a month (plus signup fee), and Elite (even higher cost, contact for pricing). | Service Autopilot’s features include instant invoicing, scheduling, route optimization, same-day automated payments, and a reports center to better manage your business. | Best for established, mid-to-large lawn care businesses with multiple crews or high-volume recurring maintenance operations. |
| 8. ArborGold | Starter plan costs $129 a month, Professional plan costs $249 a month, and the Enterprise plan costs $499 per month. | Features include estimating, scheduling, job costing, invoicing, mobile updates and tracking, and messages and appointments. | ArborGold is best for small- to medium-size green-industry businesses that offer diverse services beyond basic mowing. With the Starter plan at $129 a month, this simply is not affordable for lawn care pros just starting out in the business. |
1. ProBase
ProBase is free business software for lawn care providers running 1 to 5 crews and with 50- to 200+ stops a week. ProBase is from the team that built LawnStarter, so the lawn care connection is strong with this business software.
ProBase is simple to use. Sign up, upload your contacts, schedule jobs on the calendar, generate and send invoices, and get tips and reviews from your customers. And it’s all free. How does ProBase make money? ProBase will offer you lawn care jobs near you, and if you claim the job, ProBase gets a cut of the final price.
Sign up here for ProBase. Signing up also is free. What will you do with all that time saved on bookkeeping and chasing down customers for late payments?
2. Lawn Love
Lawn Love offers its lawn care providers a comprehensive software suite with a powerful app that makes it easy and quick to handle your professional lawn care business’s administrative tasks like billing and payment processing. Lawn Love’s all-in-one platform gives you a centralized location to track your business’s financial health.
For example, you can pick up jobs near you to fill up your calendar. Once you have jobs lined up, you can review them to create your schedule for the day or week.
Lawn Love processes payments instantly, so there are no long delays. You get a clean and user-friendly interface, and your customers can instantly rate your work — and tip you — to help you grow a reputation as a high-quality lawn care business.
3. Yardbook
Yardbook offers a free plan, but most users opt for one of the paid tiers. Yardbook uses a sponsored business model very similar to Facebook and Google. This model gives Yardbook the freedom to offer free software to its users while it works to improve the product. If you need a more sophisticated setup, you can opt to pay for the premium features.
You can set up a pricing catalog, create invoices, track expenses, collect payments, schedule jobs, set up timesheets, and set up sales. This software has a very user-friendly setup with interactive tools.
4. LawnPro Software
LawnPro Software has four pricing packages with a free tier that allows you to have up to 50 accounts. The next tier is $39 per month, and you get unlimited customers. Each tier offers estimates, invoices, a mobile app, client portal, employee logins, drag-and-drop scheduling, an online payment option, and more.
You’ll get predesigned templates to which you can add your company’s logo and information, and the mobile app allows you to work anywhere. The clean interface is easy to navigate, and you can save customer portfolios with pictures for each job.
5. CLIP
CLIP has 3 paid plans. You can set up individual user accounts with their property and information.
The software keeps track of each customer’s estimates, history, upcoming jobs, routes, and invoicing. The customer portal allows your customers to log in and view past bills, upcoming bills, and make payments. Finally, you can set up service reminders and assign certain teams to specific customers.
6. RealGreen by WorkWave
RealGreen by WorkWave is a cloud-based software that comes with a comprehensive range of intuitive tools. It’s mobile-ready, has a clean interface, and offers end-to-end field service software. You can use this software to schedule jobs, routing, dispatch your staff, monitor their progress, bill your customers, and collect and process payments.
Everyone will be able to see the same interface, and this makes it easy to keep all of your workers on the same page. You can pick from different software suites, and you can book a demo before you purchase the software to see if it’s a good fit or not.
This software can make smaller businesses look bigger, giving your clients a greater peace of mind.
7. Service Autopilot
Service Autopilot works well for lawn care, snow removal, landscape maintenance, irrigation, tree care, and pest control, but there is no free plan or free trial.
This software comes built specifically for commercial and residential companies, and you get an all-in-one platform that seamlessly automates office tasks.
8. Arborgold
Arborgold has over 25 years of experience with designing and implementing software for lawn care and landscape companies. It works to help you schedule work, bid jobs, manage customer leads, track your inventory, invoice customers, and manage projects. All of these tools are on one interface.
You’ll be able to automate any recurring billing for repeat customers, optimize your drivers’ routes, and connect your employees to the office through their smartphones. You can sign up for a free demo to try Arborgold before you buy it.
How software can help your lawn care business
Managing your daily operations and making sure you get your money doesn’t have to be stressful or time-consuming. You can use free or paid lawn care billing software to automate a lot of these processes and free up time to concentrate on your business.
We’ve rounded up these eight options for you to compare. Some are free, and some have paid options. Take a few minutes and compare your options. You may find the software suite that will streamline your operation.
And don’t forget us — Lawn Love — or ProBase. Lawn Love software is free if you sign up to be a pro, and ProBase, from LawnStarter, is free for use with all your customers. With both, you’ll find more jobs near you, so you’ll make more money. And with Lawn Love’s software, we handle the scheduling and billing, making your job easy.
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