Landscaping is two businesses in one. Project work — paving, decks, retaining walls, turf — needs itemised quotes with a lot of materials. Maintenance — mowing, hedging, garden care — is regular clients on a schedule with lots of small recurring invoices. Most apps do one or the other.
For the build jobs
- Itemised material + labour quotes — pavers, soil, turf, plants, timber, machinery hire and your labour as separate lines for a real price.
- Deposits and staged payments on bigger builds so materials and machine hire aren't coming out of your pocket.
- Variations — add the extra retaining or drainage as a line when the site throws up surprises.
For the maintenance clients
- Recurring jobs — set a client to weekly or fortnightly once and the mow/maintenance visit comes back on your schedule automatically.
- Batch invoicing — bill all your maintenance regulars at the end of the month in one go instead of chasing lots of little payments.
- Easy payment — a PayID or bank details on every invoice so regulars just tap and pay.
Running a lawn round
A mowing round is a different business from a landscaping build, even when it is the same ute. The money is small, regular and easy to lose track of, a $60 visit isn't worth a phone call to chase, hence why they pile up.
- The round rebuilds itself — set a client to weekly or fortnightly and the visit comes back on the schedule without you re-entering it. Skip one for rain and the next one still lands where it should.
- Bill the month, not the visit — batch every regular into one invoice at month end instead of twenty small ones nobody pays promptly.
- Seasonal reality — growth slows in winter and so does the round. Fortnightly over the cold months and back to weekly in spring is two taps, not a rebuild.
- Know which clients are worth keeping — the money screen shows what each regular has actually paid you over the year, which is usually not the order you would have guessed.
Typical work it handles
Paving and pathways, retaining walls, turf and synthetic lawn, garden beds and planting, irrigation, decks and pergolas, fencing, mulching and soil, plus recurring lawn mowing, hedging, weeding and general garden maintenance.
Try Yamate free — built for solo landscapers →FAQ
What's the best app for a landscaping business in Australia?
For a solo landscaper, the best app handles both project quotes and recurring maintenance. Yamate quotes itemised builds, runs maintenance clients on repeat, batch-invoices monthly and auto-chases late payers — from $19/mo (founder price, until 30 Sept) on iPhone and Android.
Can I run both one-off builds and weekly maintenance clients?
Yes — quote and invoice project work as one-off jobs, and set maintenance clients to recur weekly or fortnightly so they come back automatically and can be batch-invoiced.
Can I invoice all my maintenance clients at once?
Yes — batch invoicing lets you bill a month of regular maintenance clients in one go rather than one at a time.
Is this lawn care software, or landscaping software?
Both, that's the point of it. A lawn business and a landscaping business are usually the same ute, and splitting them across two apps is how the mowing round ends up un-invoiced. Yamate runs the lawn care scheduling side (weekly and fortnightly rounds that rebuild themselves) and the build side (itemised quotes, deposits, variations) in one place.
Does it work as lawn mowing software for a solo operator in Australia?
Yes. A one-person mowing round is the shape it handles best: recurring visits that come back on the schedule by themselves, month-end batch invoicing so twenty $60 visits become one invoice, and reminders that chase the stragglers for you. Built here, priced in AUD, GST handled the Australian way.
Tickets, safety and a crew
Yamate keeps your licence and insurance on file and tells you before they lapse — yours and your crew's. It'll draft a Safe Work Method Statement for a job from what the job actually is; you read it and sign it, and Yamate doesn't issue certificates or lodge anything with a regulator.
Got an apprentice or a couple of hands? You are not too big for it — pay runs, payslips, super and licence dates are in here too, on the same flat price.
Taken someone on? The Founder plan includes up to 3 people. For larger crews, the Company plan includes 10 people, then $15/month for each additional person, and gives everyone their own login so you choose what each of them sees. And if you get stuck anywhere, Ask ya mate — type a question and it walks you through the screens, suggesting the tap rather than doing it for you.
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