Resources for landscaping businesses
Practical tools and guides for pricing work, writing estimates and bidding contracts. Free, no email required, and written for people who already run a crew.
Landscaping pricing calculator
Work out what to quote from crew time, materials, equipment, overhead and the margin you actually want to keep. Includes the margin-versus-markup trap that costs most crews real money.
OpenTemplateLandscaping estimate template
A complete estimate you can print or save as a PDF, with a worked example and notes on what each section is for — including the exclusions block that prevents most disputes.
OpenTemplateLawn care contract template
A full service agreement you can print or save as a PDF, with notes on every clause - including the exclusions and weather terms that settle most arguments before they start.
OpenTemplateLandscaping proposal template
A design-build proposal built around three priced options rather than one number, because a single price is a yes-or-no question.
OpenGuideHow much to charge for lawn mowing
Why the going rate is the wrong question, what actually moves the price, three worked examples, and the five ways crews underprice.
OpenGuideLandscaping business insurance
What general liability, workers comp, commercial auto and equipment cover each actually do, the risks specific to this trade, and what moves the price.
OpenGuideHow to bid snow removal contracts
Four pricing models and who carries the weather risk in each, what to check on the site walk, what has to be in the contract, and five ways snow work quietly loses money.
OpenWhy these are free, and why there is no email form
Every one of these started as something we needed ourselves while building software for landscaping crews. A pricing calculator that treats margin properly, an estimate that lists what is not included, a contract that says what happens when it rains. None of it is complicated, and all of it is the difference between a season that makes money and one that merely looks busy.
There is no email gate because gating a template does not make it more useful, it just makes it more annoying. Use them, print them, change them to suit how you work.
A word on the numbers: anything that varies by supplier or region — bale coverage, seeding rates, overhead percentages — is an editable field with a sensible default rather than a figure we invented. Most calculators online publish one national number as though it were universal, and it is wrong in half the country.
Where a document carries legal weight, such as the contract template, it says plainly that it is a starting structure and not legal advice. Take it to a lawyer in your state before you rely on it.