Landscaping CRM
- Annual contract price
- $8,515
- Crew hours a year
- 110
- Labor with overhead and profit
- $6,600
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs you enter, by the method stated below it. HardscapeDesk publishes no market rates and no material densities: the tons per yard is your supplier's figure, and the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own.
A landscaping CRM is not a sales pipeline with deals and stages. It is the list of properties you maintain and the contracts on each: how many mowing visits, how many cleanups, how many yards of mulch, what it was priced at, when it renews and what the estimate said last spring. The valuable field is not the last contact date, it is the renewal date, because that is what fills next season's schedule before the competitor's flyer does. This guide is about what a landscaping CRM has to hold, and the free commercial landscape maintenance contract tool on this site prices the contract that goes in it.
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Build the list around properties and contracts, not contacts
One customer can be one house, a property manager with fourteen sites, or an HOA with common areas on three schedules. Modelling that as contacts collapses it into a phone number. Modelling it as properties with contracts attached is what makes the renewal list, the visit count and next year's pricing fall out of the same data.
Let the contract history do the selling
The strongest renewal conversation is not a marketing email; it is last year's contract with this year's visits and materials beside it, and the price per visit that came out of them. That conversation only exists if the contract was priced from its parts and kept. A CRM that holds the priced contract is a CRM that produces the renewal.
Make the renewal list a query, not a memory
Which contracts renew in the next sixty days, which properties had a cleanup visit but no mulch, which customer's estimate from spring was never won: these are the lists that fill a slow month. They are trivial to produce from properties with dated contracts against them and impossible from a phone's contact list.
Landscaping CRM: common questions
What is the best CRM for a landscaping company?
The right test is whether it holds properties and priced contracts with renewal dates, not whether it holds deals. A general CRM stores the customer and the conversation and gives you nowhere sensible to put the visit count, the mulch yards and the price per visit, which are the fields that generate next year's work. Trade-specific tools hold them; that is most of the difference.
Can I use a spreadsheet instead?
For one crew, honestly, yes, and many good businesses run that way for years. It stops working when two people need it at once, when the contract's parts have to be attached to the property rather than typed into a cell, and when the renewal list has to come out of it every month rather than once.
Does HardscapeDesk have a CRM?
It has the part a landscaping contractor needs: customers, jobs, and every estimate and maintenance contract saved against them with its parts and its date. It does not have a sales pipeline, email sequences or a lead-scoring model, because a landscaping company's next year comes from its renewals, not from a funnel.
HardscapeDesk Pro
Keeping what you make
The estimates are free forever. Pro turns them into your paperwork: your name and logo on it, no watermark, every estimate and maintenance contract filed against the customer and the job, your rates remembered, and a clean export when the accountant asks.
- Download as PDF
- No HardscapeDesk watermark
- Save every estimate and reopen it later
- Your logo and license on it
- Export every estimate in one go
- Visit reminders emailed to your maintenance customers
- Connect your own Stripe account and get paid online
- Connect your QuickBooks Online or Xero
$49per month, whole crew
Start HardscapeDesk Pro PricingRenews monthly at the price above until you cancel. We email you before any price change.
Will it do what you need for Landscaping CRM?
Tell us what your crew needs and we will tell you straight whether HardscapeDesk Pro does it today, whether it is coming, or whether you are better off with something else. A person reads these and replies.
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On the worked example, 30 mowing visits at 3 crew hours and 2 cleanups at 10 hours are 110 crew hours a year, $6,600 of labor with 25% overhead and profit at a $48 loaded rate, and with $1,915 of mulch and treatments the annual contract is $8,515, billed as $709.58 a month.
Commercial landscape maintenance contract (Annual contract price): $8,515, HardscapeDesk, worked example.
Cite as: "Landscaping CRM, HardscapeDesk", updated 2026-09-05, https://hardscapedesk.com/landscaping-crm/.