Below are several resources that you may find helpful with your lawn care business.  

Suggested Mobile Apps


Toggl 

A user-friendly time-tracking app to monitor hours spent on each lawn-the easy peasy time tracking tool you need in your life! With just one click, you can start and stop your timers effortlessly. And don't worry if you forget to hit start - you can always add and edit your time manually. FREE:


Clockify

Free time tracker with detailed reports and team collaboration features. Used by millions. Clockify is a time tracker and timesheet app that lets you track work hours across projects. Unlimited users, free forever.Clockify works across devices. Track time from anywhere — all data is synced online. FREE


Harvest

Offers time tracking, expense tracking, and invoicing capabilities.Harvest makes it easy to track time and expenses Integrate Harvest timers into the tools you already use.track time across all your projects. Then turn that data into reporting or invoices. FREE


Quickbooks Time Kiosk

(formerly TSheets Time Clock Kiosk) is a simple digital time tracking tool. Operates like a traditional wall-mounted punch clock.  Link it to your existing QuickBooks Time account..Robust features for managing employee hours. Offers mobile tracking and GPS location tracking


Hubstaff

Provides time tracking, GPS tracking, and productivity monitoring. Offers a free version with limited features, paid plans are reasonably priced for small businesses. You can easily turn it off and on so you can prove work was done when needed and off at other times. 14-Day free trial then minimum $10/month


TimeCamp

Thanks to enhanced billing accuracy, 83.4% of users tracking time for payments have seen a surge in profits. Log work hours, create payrolls, and manage employee attendance in one app.Monitor your projects’ time efficiency.Track time and use the data to boost your projects’ productivity and profits.


Everlance

Automatically tracks mileage using GPS and provides detailed reports. Everlance is your trusted companion for effortless, automatic mileage tracking and expense logging. Join over 3 million drivers. Average Everlance user saves $6,500 a year by maximizing mileage and business expense deductions.


Stride Tax

A mileage tracking app specifically designed for freelancers and small business owners. Stride’s mileage and expense tracker helps you:+ Save big on taxes + Track miles automatically + Log expenses like car washes and your cell phone bill + Take the hassle out of filing Most people save $4,000 or more at tax time by using Stride

Lawn Care Software


Yardbook

Start for free.  Scheduling, routing, estimates, billing, GPS, Credit card processing, inventory, time sheets, equipment maintenance,expense tracking.


CoPilot

General service based software.  All the major tools. Billing, inventory tracking, email marketing, CRM, optimized routing, autopay, client portal.


Jobber

Serves over 50 industries . Organize, manage, critical quoting, voicing, scheduling, payments, and CRM, all in one place.Jobber also offers a top-rated iOS and Android app.


Arborgold

Highly rated. Thousands of lawn care professionals use Arborgold each day to capture leads, create bids, schedule work, manage jobs, bill clients, and view KPI's, all-in-one system. Lawn, landscaping, pest control, oramentals, snow.


Realgreen

One stop shop.  Marketing pieces and target marketing along with all other tools. Works on tablets in the field. Good support system, New light version more affordable for new businesses. Great support.


Service Autopilot

Scheduling, routing, invoicing, GPS,CRM, all tools in one place. Billing, Integrates with Quickbooks.Payment automations. Does it all.  Good support and training.


Kickserv

General service business software. Includes tools from lead management, GPS tracking, and sales. Several tiers of packages. Not specific for lawn or landsccape businesses. Has a free version.


Spraye

Invoicing, scheduling and chemical tracking, auto-pay, credit card processing, automated customer communication, lead management and inventory. Built specifically for lawn care companies to make your operation more efficient and profitable. 

Free Resources

12 Free Marketing Resources

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This ebook will walk you through 12 free or nearly free resources to help you build your business. Make sure you are taking advantage of these resources.

Profiling Green Industry Customers 

Green industry customer profiling book

Stop wasting marketing money with random marketing. This 22-page pdf will help you target ideal customers for greater results. Profile before spending.

Equipment Assessment Guide

lawn care company status review

This ebook will walk you through the current status of your business and help you evaluate where you are are compared to your goals. Evaluate twice yearly.

5 Upsells You Can Add Immediately

5 upsells book on tablet

This ebook will get you started with 5 upsells/add-ons that you can add to your business without a special license. High profit, low entry cost  services. 

Free Resources 

Getting Acquainted With The Trees - Book

Getting aquainted with the trees book

This page book was written in 1904 by J. Horace McFarland. It has flowery descriptions of trees and is fun to read. Public Domain. 123 Pages

Lawn Care Equipment Assessment Guide

Lawn Care equpment assessment

Stop wasting marketing money with random marketing. This 22-page pdf will help you target ideal customers for greater results. Profile before spending.

Overcome Imposter Syndrome ebook

Overcome imposter syndrom lawn care owners

Working with customers you get so many questions that you may not know the answer to. Especially when you are new. This book will ease that scarey feeling..

SEO Domination

SEO Domination ebook

Getting your website on page one of Google means thousands of dollars of new business.  After you read this ebook you will know where to focus your time.

Free Resources

Acres of Diamonds

Acres of Diamonds on tablet

This is a book classic by Russel H. Conwell in 1915. Only 29 pages. Every man can make more of himself in his own environment, his own skill, his own energy, and own friends.

Entrepreneur Mind

Entrepeneur Mind ebook

Being an entrepeneur can have big rewards but can be a hard stressful life. You have to keep focused on your goals and your plan to get there. This ebook can help you. 

Facebook Marketing Influence

Facebook Marketing Influence

After your website and business listings, having a positive profile on Facebook is important to building your cutomer relationships and attracting new business.         

Overcoming Resistances

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This short pdf is focused on overcoming resistances and believing in positive outcomes. Lawn of Attraction type teachings to bring about positive results.

Free Resources

The Folk-Lore Of Plants

The Folk-lore of plants softback book

This is a book classic by Russel H. Conwell in 1915. Only 29 pages. Every man can make more of himself in his own environment, his own skill, his own energy, and own friends.

The Folk-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare

The fol-lore and garden-craft of shakespeare book

Being an entrepeneur can have big rewards but can be a hard stressful life. You have to keep focused on your goals and your plan to get there. This ebook can help you. 

The Romance of Plant Life

softback book The romance of plant life

After your website and business listings, having a positive profile on Facebook is important to building your cutomer relationships and attracting new business.         

The Plants and Trees of Scripture

The plants and trees of scripture book softback

This short pdf is focused on overcoming resistances and believing in positive outcomes. Lawn of Attraction type teachings to bring about positive results.

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Arborwear clothes

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If you need high quality shirts that are selected for Green Industry work, then check Arborwear. High quality clothes for rugged work. Industry specific clothes like chainsaw pants, sun-water resistant, and water resistant boots.

Cafepress

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Cafepress

 One of the first big self printing companies, Cafepress still gets high reviews. If you want to order clothes, drink bottles, etc. they are still a good choice. Set a up a Cafepress store on your website and offer customers/ball teams, etc the ability to order things with your logo.

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Receipt Management

Managing your receipts is a key process for budget management, tax information collection, and general business planning.  These are a few recommended apps for lawn care companies. 

Expensify

Capture and store receipts with expense reporting features. Expense management, Company credit card, expense receipts and tracking. Bill pay, invoicing, payroll, travel. Two levels of pricing starting at $5 per month.

Shoeboxed

Scan and organize receipts to easily track expenses. The #1 receipt scanner app loved by over a million businesses. #1 best receipt tracking app, Forbes 2024. Turn your receipts into data with automatic data extraction for expense reporting, tax prep, and so much more. Use email to send receipts, scan them in, or put your receipts in an envelope and mail them.  Shoeboxed will enter everything for you.

Wave Receipts

Part of Wave's free accounting software, helps manage receipts and expenses. Backs up your receipts to the cloud for extra peace of mind Scans unlimited receipts and bulk-imports up to 10 receipts at a time. Take a photo or upload a receipt on-the-go from your mobile device, upload receipt files from your desktop at waveapps.com, or send your receipt files or e-receipts directly to Wave via your unique email forwarding address. Then, sit back while Wave scans and processes each receipt with optical character recognition (OCR) technology to automatically create a new bookkeeping record. $8 a month or $72/year 

Neat (Used to be Neat Receipts)

Scan in receipts, check assigned category, done. Reports by vendor, by date, by amount.  Scanner will cost you a little over $300 but has a lot of capabilities. Software will be $288 per year.  Works great for uploading all documents and receipts, invoices, etc in your office.  Downside is price and when you no longer pay for your subscription, you do not have access to the software and all your information. Theree is no bulk downloads available so may need a subscription for as long as you want to see your information. For tax purposes you will want to be able to access your information for seven years so make sure you read the terms when you sign up. 

Product Inventory Apps

Inventory control is important to staying within budget.  Product can be ruined if it sits too long and is just money sitting and being wasted.  In states with strict inventory laws, like California, matching product in with product out can be challenging.  These apps can help make inventory easier.  Some lawn care software includes an inventory componant.


Green Industry Apps

Zoho Inventory

Zoho Inventory offers a free plan for small businesses, allowing you to manage stock levels, track product movements, and receive low stock alerts. Very robust.  Made for manufacturing companies that would have many parts that are built into a new item. Would work for landscaping or contracting where a lot of parts are used in one project. All the bells and whistles. Free limited plan. 

inFlow Inventory

inFlow offers a free edition with basic inventory management features, including product tracking, stock adjustments, and reporting. inFlow is an all-in-one system that aims to be usable for anyone—regardless of technical knowledge—right out of the box. Similar to Zoho. Automatic ordering, free 14 day trial.

Real Green, LawnCare Pro, Service AutoPilot, etc

Several of the robust all inclusive software programs include at least simple inventory tracking. For example, when you post services in RealGreen, the amount of product used is automatically deducted. You have to manually enter your products after you receive them and set up your rates.  When lawns are blanket treated with spray or granular, these amounts should stay within 10% accuracy.  For spot spray herbicides, field workers would need to estimate the amounts use on each lawn and those amounts would be entered manually to keep amounts fairly accurate. 

Odoo Inventory

Odoo offers a free version of its inventory management module, enabling you to track products, manage stock locations, and handle internal transfers.Create and manage specific storage locations, like shelves, aisles, cold storage rooms, and pallet racks.Dedicated dashboards with order fulfillment, purchasing, quality, picking, packing, and receiving.

Stockpile

Stockpile is a completely free inventory management solution that allows you to track stock levels, set reorder points, and manage product usage efficiently.Stockpile has tons of useful features: add inventory, take returns, record sales and damaged goods. Manage users via a tiered access model while you administer locations, physical areas/shelves, manufacturers and preferences. And get valuable information about inventory turnover through our reporting module. Stockpile is the only free online inventory system that won't limit the number of items, locations and users you need to run your small business. 

FREE Lessons and Courses

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Jasper AI for Content

Jasper AI is a writing software that offers limited free use. This course will show you how to use Jasper AI or other program to make your writting for marketing go much faster.

ChatGPT Master course
ChatGPT Mastercourse

Set up ChatGPT and then use prompts to save you time and money in your business. The free version of ChatGPT is all you should ever need for your business. 

Google Tools Classroom
Google Tools Classroom

Google offers many free software programs that will help you with your business. This course will show you great free programs and suggest ways to use them.

Organizing your business with Microsoft 365
Organizing Your Office with Office 365

Short videos training you on how to set up Office 365 and use the programs to organize your business.  Skip around and watch the ones you need and skip the rest.

Setting Up Microsoft 365 Video Course
Setting Up Office 365 Video Course

Short videos going step-by-step through set up of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more. 

Mowing Safety Video Lesson
Mower Safety

Mower safety online video course. 16 min. Training video for new and current employees. Touches on major safety points of mowing. Safety equipment, PPE, best practices.

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