Priced the way Landscaping work is billed
A mow & edge and a hedge & shrub trim don't get quoted the same way, so why would every trade? SideWRK prices Landscaping the way the work is really billed: off a per-visit service menu (e.g. mow & edge at $55), with lawns measurable per square foot. Tap the work, put in the numbers, and the line prices itself — no napkin math, no undercharging a job because you rushed the quote.
What Landscaping jobs actually run
These are the starting numbers SideWRK loads for common Landscaping work — researched to be realistic, so you can send an estimate that isn't a guess. Adjust any of them to your market in a tap.
Typical starting prices in the app — your area, your materials, and your reputation move them. You set your own; these just keep you from undercharging on the first quote.
Sod / seeding, priced out
Numbers only mean something on a real job, so here's how SideWRK builds the ticket on a common one:
SideWRK puts the parts on at what you actually paid — so the $630 of labor is what you clear, not a marked-up parts total dressed up as profit.
What moves a Landscaping price
Two Landscaping jobs that look the same on paper can be a hundred dollars apart once you're on site. Here's what actually changes the number — the things to size up before you quote:
- Lawn size — a per-visit mow prices off the square footage and how much you're actually cutting each time.
- One-time vs recurring — a cleanup or install is a project price; weekly service is a route price, and they're not the same math.
- Haul-off — bagging clippings and hauling debris is a real cost, not something to absorb into the mow.
What a Landscaping job puts on the record
Every trade documents something different, and Landscaping is no exception. SideWRK captures the service plan and how often you come and the rest of what your work needs on the record — the details that protect you and make the invoice stand up:
- the service plan and how often you come
- an irrigation and backflow-test flag
- your pesticide applicator number
- a per-application pesticide log — product, EPA reg number, rate, date, target, applicator
- an auto-renew disclosure
Example note on a job: "No warranty on new sod or plantings without customer watering."
How to price a Landscaping job in SideWRK
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Start the job and add your work
Open a Landscaping job and tap a suggestion like "Mow & edge" or "Spring / fall cleanup" — the common work is already loaded, so you tap instead of type.
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Price it off a per-visit service menu
Enter the numbers and the line prices itself, off a per-visit service menu (e.g. mow & edge at $55), with lawns measurable per square foot. Put parts on at your cost so what you clear is real profit, not just the Landscaping ticket total.
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Note the details
Add a plain-English note — for example, "No warranty on new sod or plantings without customer watering." — and a photo of the work.
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Log what the job needs
Capture the Landscaping-specific records: the service plan and how often you come, and an irrigation and backflow-test flag.
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Send it and get paid
Send the Landscaping estimate for approval. Your customer approves from their phone, the invoice goes out, and you get paid — card or Apple Pay, on the spot.
Staying on the right side of the rules
SideWRK documents your Landscaping work — it doesn't make you licensed, and it says so plainly. What to know: maintenance is usually exempt, but irrigation, hardscape, and lighting installs need a license over the minor-work limit — and any pesticide use needs an applicator license and per-application records. The app flags the permit and license triggers so they never surprise you mid-job.
Landscaping pricing — common questions
How do I price a Landscaping job in SideWRK?
You bill off a per-visit service menu (e.g. mow & edge at $55), with lawns measurable per square foot. Add the work — Mow & edge, Spring / fall cleanup, Mulch install — enter the numbers, and each line prices itself. Parts go on at your cost, so you see real profit and not just the total.
What does a typical Landscaping job cost?
It depends on the work, but as a realistic starting point a common job like sod / seeding runs about $900 in the app — roughly $630 of that is your labor and about $270 is parts at your cost. Common Landscaping work ranges from about $55 to $900. Those are defaults you can change — you always set your own prices.
What does SideWRK document on a Landscaping job?
The records Landscaping work actually needs: the service plan and how often you come; an irrigation and backflow-test flag; your pesticide applicator number. They stay on the job as you work, so the paper trail is built instead of reconstructed later, and the disclosures this trade needs print on the estimate and invoice themselves.
Do I need a license to do Landscaping work?
That depends on your state and the job, but here's the shape of it: maintenance is usually exempt, but irrigation, hardscape, and lighting installs need a license over the minor-work limit — and any pesticide use needs an applicator license and per-application records. SideWRK documents the work; it doesn't certify you, and it flags the permit and license triggers so nothing sneaks up on you.
Does SideWRK work for trades other than Landscaping?
Yes — it runs all 42 trades, each priced and documented its own way. If you run more than one, the Multi-Trade plan unlocks them all and switches between them in a tap.
Your first jobs
The menu above answers what to charge. Your first jobs decide whether the number held. The pricing argument gets settled in one place; the app's part is keeping the number you set from leaking away one quote at a time.
- Settle the rate before the season settles it for you. How to Price Landscaping Jobs for Profit is this trade's pricing deep-dive — the hourly cost floor under your prices, an autopsy of one cleanup quoted by the hour, and the minimum that keeps a one-off call from costing you money. Read it before you print a rate card; everything below assumes you did.
- Your floor, held by the app instead of your memory. Set a landscaping minimum once in Shop, and any job that comes in under it gets flagged with the shortfall — one tap adds a real "Shop minimum" line that runs through the total, the tax and the invoice like every other line. Nothing gets blocked; quote it low on purpose if you want to. Each trade you run keeps its own floor.
- Count the ones that didn't land. A quote that goes quiet gets marked lost in one tap, with a reason attached — price, timing, ghosted. The Money tab keeps the running close rate off those: how many of the last 90 days' decided quotes you actually won. Guessing why bids die is how you end up cutting a price that was fine.
Repeat business
Landscaping is the rare trade where the second sale is easier than the first. The truck is already parked out front — what that's worth depends on whether you work it:
- The one-time job is the audition. A cleanup customer just watched you work. Before the trailer's loaded: "I run a weekly route through here — $55 a visit, and the yard never gets back to this point. Want a standing spot?" That's the whole pitch, and it lands best while you're both looking at the finished lawn.
- Sell the seasons to the route. The fall cleanup, the spring mulch refresh, the aeration pass: the menu's project work belongs to the customers you already mow. No new driveway to find, no stranger to win over — the visit is already on the calendar.
- One text, one person. "It's [your name] — we did your cleanup in April. The weekly schedule is filling for summer, want on it?" Sent from your own phone, to one person, under a minute. Never a blast; a message written for one yard reads like it.
- Ask about the house next door. There's a specific way to ask, and a system for turning the answer into a street — four levers, worked out in Three Lawns on One Street Beat Three Across Town.
How a landscaping week bills
Per visit and per service — a menu, not a meter. Open a landscaping estimate in SideWRK and the form deals this six-service menu: tap one, the line fills in, the price stays editable. Two of them, the lawn cleanup and the aeration pass, live only here rather than in the starting numbers above.
The estimate form's tap-to-fill menu, straight from the app. Lawns can also price per square foot — measure the lot from the sky and the footage fills the line.
Four taps off the menu, each its own line, so the customer sees what every dollar bought. The mow is the reason you were there; the other $980 is the season's work, sold to a yard you already service.
The rhythm underneath it all is recurring. Set up a plan on the customer — the work, the price, the cadence — and the app auto-creates a pre-filled job each cycle, sitting in your jobs ready to do and get paid. The weekly base gets built because something remembers to build it. That's recurring jobs, and for a route trade it carries the whole season.
Multiplying jobs
In most trades you multiply jobs by finding more customers. In this one you multiply them by shrinking the map, and by letting the app run the follow-ups you'd never get to from the truck:
- Density is the raise nobody quotes you. Add up this week's drive time between stops; past 20–25% of your clock, the map is the problem, not the rate. Three Lawns on One Street Beat Three Across Town runs the full comparison with dollars on it — 45 scattered lawns against 28 clustered, the fuel, the miles, and the add-on work the freed hours buy. It's this trade's route deep-dive, and it sits in this chapter on purpose: clustering is how one job multiplies into a street.
- Plans build the base on autopilot. Every yard on a recurring plan spawns its own pre-filled job each cycle, so your Thursday builds itself and an open slot shows weeks out. That slot is where the next-door lead goes.
- Follow-ups you don't have to remember. A quiet estimate gets a nudge at 3 and 7 days. A finished job asks the customer for a review. An unpaid invoice gets a reminder at 3, 7, and 14 days with a pay link. All by email, and each one is a toggle you own.
- The yard is the ad. Pair a before and after from the job's own photos into the gallery on your public page. A homeowner deciding between two landscapers picks the one whose work they can see.
See the plans, the follow-ups, and the gallery running on a sample business in the live landscaping demo — free, no signup.
Price it now
Size the lawn, pick the services, put your own rate in — the same free calculator the landscaping page runs, right here:
The paper worth keeping
The records list above says what the app captures. This is why each record earns its keep — and what it saves you from reconstructing later:
- The property, on the record. Label, service address, the plan and how often you come, the irrigation and backflow flag, the gate code in the notes. When the "same as last spring" call comes in March, you read the record instead of squinting at memory — and the quote goes out while the other guy is still driving over to look.
- The spray log, kept as you work. Applying pesticide, weed control, or fertilizer for hire generally takes a state applicator license, plus a record of each application — product, EPA registration number, rate, date, target, applicator — kept on file, often for two years. SideWRK logs each application on the job as you make it and holds your applicator number on the property record. The license itself stays yours; the app is the notebook.
- The auto-renew disclosure. A recurring plan that renews itself has to say so. Several states — California and New York among them — require the renewal terms disclosed plainly, the customer's separate consent, and an easy way to cancel. The app carries the disclosure language on the paperwork; putting your plan's real terms in front of the customer — and getting their separate yes — stays your job.
- April, already done. Numbered invoices, payments, fuel and equipment receipts — it all rolls into a year-end wrap-up: rows, category totals, CSVs, and a printable summary your preparer can actually use. The shoebox of receipts, gone.