Landscapers and groundworks
Software for landscapers and groundworks
What is different about this trade
Nothing above a job was needed to handle a three-month contract, and that is worth knowing before anybody proposes one. A job is the work; a visit is a block of one person's time. Forty visits with two people on half of them is one job with a diary, not a project-management layer bolted on top.
How it handles your day
One job, as many visits as it takes
A crew on one visit
Capacity, not just clashes
Materials at cost, tax done right
Money in stages against the work
Questions, answered
Can one job run for three months?
Yes. It is a job with forty visits in its diary. Nothing above the job was needed for it, which is deliberate — a separate contract layer would mean two places to look for the same answer.
Can I put three people on one day?
Yes — one visit with a lead and helpers. Everybody on it shows busy, and moving the visit re-asks all of them, because free on Monday is not free on Tuesday.
Can I invoice monthly against a long contract?
Through payment stages, yes. Applications for payment and valuations as a document type of their own are not supported, and a staged invoice is the nearest thing to one.
Does it understand CIS on groundworks?
Yes, properly. Labour only, on the net, with an uncategorised line treated as unknown and refused by name rather than guessed at — because guessing is a guess at somebody's tax.
What if a day is rained off?
Standing the day down before anybody travels gives the slot back and counts for nothing. Getting there and finding the site unusable is a wasted journey, counted as one.
How much is it?
£29.99 a month for the whole business — every feature, every person, no add-ons. 60 days free and no card to start.
Before you start
When you sign up you are asked what the business does. Pick Landscaping & Groundworks — the app uses it to decide what to show you, so the screens arrive already suited to the work rather than needing switching off one at a time.
The arithmetic behind this is free to use without an account — try the day rate calculator, which runs the same code the invoices do.
See it being done
Step-by-step guides with a short recording of each one, free to read without an account.
A job that takes more than one visit
Book a job across several days or several machines, put two engineers on the same visit, see what still needs a slot, and let the diary tell you when a day will not fit.
Getting your CIS back
The statements contractors owe you, which ones are late, and what the tax year adds up to.
Take the money in stages
A deposit, then materials, then the balance — each one its own invoice, always adding up to the quote.
Also worth a look
Most businesses on this list do more than one of these. It is the same product and the same price either way.
Builders and main contractors
Months, stages, subcontractors and retention — with money held back recorded properly so it never reads as an overdue invoice.
Painters and decorators
Priced by the day more often than by the job. Days counted from the diary rather than estimated, part days rounded up, and never to zero.
Try it on your own work
60 days free with everything switched on, and no card to start. If you would rather ask something first, there is a person on the other end.
£29.99 a month for the whole business after the free 60 days.