Gardener booking and scheduling software: A full round, less rounding up

Book one off jobs or recurring visits, quote larger work and take payment on site, all planned around your round.

No commission on new clients. No per client charges.

One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p on standard UK cards, only when you take a card payment.

The Youzse diary at Green Thumb Gardens on Friday 22 May, with 6 appointments across 2 people
6 appointments on one FridayOne column per gardenerRegular lawn care visit, 11:00 to 12:00

What gardeners see in Youzse

Real screens from Green Thumb Gardens, our demo gardening business, with the numbers it shows today.

The services list at Green Thumb Gardens: Garden clearance, £220, 4h, Clearance; Garden design consultation, £75, 1h 30m, Design; Regular lawn care visit, £45, 1h, Maintenance; Hedge trimming, £80, 2h, MaintenanceGarden clearance at £220

Your services, priced and timed

Garden clearance, garden design consultation and the rest of the menu each carry a price, a length and a category, ready to book online.

A review of Green Thumb Gardens for tree & shrub pruning, headed "Very professional", with the owner's reply underneathReplied to from the app

Reviews that name the work

Every review names who it was with and what was booked, this one for tree & shrub pruning. Reply from the same screen.

The chase first list at Green Thumb Gardens: Theodore Radcliffe, 1 invoice 32 days overdue, £243; William Carrington, 1 invoice 58 days overdue, £108£243, 32 days overdue

Know who to chase first

Overdue invoices line up by what is owed, £351 across 2 clients here, with how late each one is.

Fill the round, keep it recurring

Book one off jobs and recurring visits that repeat automatically, so your round fills itself. Quote larger projects, take payment on site and keep every customer on schedule.

No commission on new customers. No per job charges.

One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.

The Youzse dashboard on the mobile app

The round, billed without knocking

Garden maintenance is a round of small regular visits and collecting for it by hand eats an evening a week. A saved card charged before each visit, one-off charges for the extras and no more cash in an envelope under a plant pot.

Recurring billing handled for you.

2.5% plus 35p on standard UK cards, with the platform fee inside it.

Payouts on the Youzse mobile app

Twelve months, not one summer

The gardener who disappears in October has to win the round back in April. Keep the customer through the quiet months with autumn tidies and winter work and let the schedule roll over rather than restart.

Unlimited customers on every plan.

Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.

The customer list on the Youzse mobile app

Running a gardening business

Garden maintenance is paid by the hour and the plants decide how many hours there are. Between May and September the same garden takes half as long again as it did in March and hardly anyone prices for that.

Why a flat hourly rate underpays a gardener in June

  • A lawn that took twenty minutes in April takes thirty five in June. It is due every ten days instead of every three weeks
  • The volume of green waste roughly doubles and moving it is time, fuel and a charge at the other end
  • The only reason more work fits into a summer day is daylight and daylight is not something anybody can invoice
  • The visit a customer cancels is always the one in the week the money was already spoken for
  • Winter visits get judged against a summer expectation, so the hardest half of the year is the half that looks expensive

The maintenance year on a domestic round

MonthsWhat the round is doingWhat should also be selling
March and AprilFirst cuts, everything at once, every customer rings the same fortnightStanding arrangements rather than one-off tidies
May to AugustCutting on a ten day cycle, hedges from July onwardHedge work priced as its own job, not squeezed into the visit
September and OctoberGrowth stops, leaves start, the round feels slowClearances, borders cut back, gutters and jet washing
November to FebruaryTwo visits a month at mostPruning, structural work, turf repairs and planting

The gardener who stops in October has to sell the round all over again in April. The one who keeps a reduced winter visit keeps the customer, the slot and the position on the street.

A round is a shape rather than a list

Twelve gardens in one village is a business. Twelve gardens spread across fifteen miles is a driving job with some gardening in it. The difference never shows up in the hourly rate, it shows up in how many gardens fit into a Tuesday.

That makes turning work down a commercial decision rather than a rude one. An enquiry ten minutes off the route has to earn the round trip before it earns anything and taking it usually costs a slot you could have sold to somebody already on the run.

Say what is in the visit and what sits outside it

The awkward conversation in this trade is always about scope. A customer who books two hours means two hours of gardening. She has quietly included clearing the shed, moving a tree fern and running three bags of rubble to the tip.

Green waste deserves stating in particular. Taking arisings away costs fuel, time and a fee when you get there. A gardener absorbing that on every visit is running a disposal service he never charged anybody for.

Hedge cuts, clearances, turfing and pressure washing sit outside the round and get priced as their own work. Written down at the start, the customer asking for them is a sale rather than an imposition.

What a maintenance round needs written down

  • A cycle per garden, tighter in summer and longer in winter, agreed once
  • Payment that runs on the arrangement rather than on a knock at the door
  • Exactly what the visit includes and what is quoted separately
  • Whether green waste leaves with you and what that adds
  • Gate codes, dogs, where the outside tap is and what must never be cut back
  • A winter pattern agreed in September rather than abandoned in October
  • Which gardens sit on which run, so a new enquiry is judged first by where it lives

Built for gardeners

Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.

  • One off and recurring visits

    Fortnightly maintenance repeats on its own and one off clearances book online.

  • Quotes for larger jobs

    Quote a clearance or a planting scheme and the customer accepts it from a link.

  • Contactless payments

    Card payment in the garden with Tap to Pay on iPhone.

  • Rebooking reminders by job

    Set an interval on hedge cutting or a lawn treatment and the customer is nudged when it is due.

  • Automated reminders

    A reminder before you arrive, so side gates are open.

  • Customer history and notes

    What was cut, planted and treated on each visit, with notes on the garden.

Clear answers before you switch

The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.

Yes. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly visits repeat automatically so your round stays full without the admin.

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