Lawns by the square metre, edging by the metre, plants by the plant.
Measure it on site, price each part off your own rate, and hand the customer one number they can say yes to on their phone.
Quoting today: you give it an area, a length or a countWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The garden was bigger than the plan and the cartage was bigger than the garden. Measure it on site, areas and lengths and counts, and price cartage as its own line rather than out of the margin.
- The digger hire is on the quote. The day it rained isn't. The clock is what tells you. Hours land against the job, so the gap between what you priced and what it cost is a number rather than a feeling.
- You know paving takes an hour a metre. You quoted forty minutes because the customer flinched. Quote the hour. The rate is the rate, and within a few jobs the clock will tell you whether you were right to hold it.
What you measure, and what falls out.
Tap the dimensions in on site. Stringline works the quantities out from what you measured, so your pricing stays accurate.
Your rates. Minutes for one of a thing, times what your labour costs.
A rate is how long a piece of work takes you for one square metre, one metre or one of them, and what your labour costs. Multiply it by what you measured, add the materials and your margin, and that is the item on the quote. These examples are made up; yours won't be.
- Lawn, prep and lay
- 20 min / m²
- Paving
- 60 min / m²
- Timber edging
- 15 min / lm
- Plant, PB5
- 8 min each
Then your crew's hours check it. Every hour is against the work that priced it, so when a rate is costing you more than you charge for it, Stringline tells you and offers to put it up. You approve it, and every quote after that uses the new rate.
The ones landscapers ask us.
Plants priced each, lawn by the metre?
Plants are counted items at your planting rate, with the plant itself as a material. Lawn is an area. Edging is a length. One quote, three shapes, all off your own rates.
Cartage and machinery hire?
A charge if it is on every job, a material at cost plus margin if it is this job only. Either way it is on the quote where the customer can see it.
Maintenance visits for the same garden?
Put a next service date on the job and on the day it either emails your customer or comes back as a task on your list, whichever you have chosen, with Quote the service ready to open the next one off your own rate.
What landscapers get today.
Landscapers quote on the general measure-up: an area, a length or a count, each priced off your own rate, with the trade's usual price book categories suggested.
- Areas, lengths and counts measured on site, each priced off your own rate
- A landscaping price book, set up with your categories, in minutes and what your labour costs
- A proposal the customer accepts online, and follow-ups that stop once the quote is answered
- Quote to job without retyping, crew on a board, clock-on from the ute
- Deposit, progress and final invoices off the quote, with overdue reminders
- Rates that tell you when the clock disagrees with the book
- Before and after photos on the job, from the phone
- Materials ordered from the quote and emailed to your supplier, closed off by their invoice
- Card payments on your invoices, and invoices into Xero with the payments coming back
- Quote templates, and a price book read out of your old quotes
- A wishlist board, where you put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for
Something missing? Every account has a wishlist board, where you can put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for.