What TurfPlanner Does and Who It Is For

TurfPlanner is free business software for lawn care and landscaping companies. It handles estimates with online approval, recurring jobs and crew schedules, invoices with a pay link, card payments and sales tax reports. It is built for the owner or office person of a route business, from one mower to a crew of several, who would rather run the paperwork from the truck than from a spreadsheet.

What does TurfPlanner actually do?

It covers the work from first call to paid invoice. You send an estimate for a property, and the customer approves it online with a signature. Recurring jobs, crews and the calendar live in the same account. When the job is done, you build an invoice from it, send the PDF with a pay link, and record any check or cash payment against the same invoice.

Reporting sits on top of those records. The Free plan includes sales tax, aging and payment reports with CSV export, so the figures you need at tax time come from the same jobs you billed. The iPhone crew app is still in TestFlight, which means most of your daily work happens in the web platform for now.

How does one job move through TurfPlanner?

Take a single lawn from first contact to paid invoice. You create the customer and the property, then send an estimate with the price for the work. The customer approves it online with a signature, and the job can go onto the crew calendar. Once the crew finishes, you build the invoice from the completed job and send it with a pay link. If the customer pays by card online, the card payment shows up against that invoice, and any check or cash payment gets recorded on the same record.

Each step leaves a record, which is the point. When tax season comes, the sales tax and payment reports should pull from those same invoices, so you are not rebuilding the year from bank statements and texts.

Who is TurfPlanner for?

It is for lawn care and landscaping companies that bill for recurring and one-time service. That market is large. According to IBISWorld, there were 556,238 landscaping services businesses in the United States in 2026, up 1.8% from 2025. That count covers the whole industry, so it shows how big the field is. It says nothing about how many companies work your side of town. Each of those businesses has to price jobs, schedule crews and get paid, whatever tools it uses now.

The fit depends on how many people you pay and how many locations you run:

If you are a homeowner who wants reminders for your own yard, the roundup of lawn care apps for homeowners is the better read. This post is about the business side.

What does TurfPlanner cost?

The Free plan costs $0. The Business plan is $34.99 a month and removes the card platform fee. Enterprise is $49.99 a month and adds a second branch and assisted onboarding with data import. The limits matter as much as the price for a small operator, so the plan settings are below.

These figures come from TurfPlanner's plan settings and match the pricing page. Pricing your mowing is a separate question from which software you use, and the per-property method in the mowing pricing guide covers that part.

How do card payments get charged on the Free plan?

On the Free plan, TurfPlanner takes a platform fee of 1% on card payments made online, capped at $25 per payment. Card processing runs through Stripe, and Stripe's standard rate for domestic cards is 2.9% plus 30 cents per successful payment, according to Stripe's US pricing page. The platform fee sits on top of that. Business waives it, so the subscription pays for itself once card volume passes $3,499 a month, provided no single payment is over $2,500. The getting started example runs those numbers for a sample month.

What does the Business plan add besides the fee waiver?

Business adds the things a growing route tends to need next, according to the plan list on TurfPlanner's pricing page. Those are automatic payment and estimate reminders, priority support, and any new Business features, which roll out to that plan first. The page describes Business as Free with the platform fee waived, so you do not give up any of the Free features by upgrading. Enterprise includes everything in Business and adds a second branch or location.

Reminders are the piece to weigh. If customers pay late more often than they pay on time, the reminders may be worth the $34.99 even at a low card volume. If your customers pay promptly, you can skip them and stay on Free.

Who should look elsewhere?

Check two things before you sign up. The crew app is iPhone only for now, so a crew that runs Android phones will need the web platform for everything. The pricing page also does not list route optimization or job costing. If either one is a must-have for your business, confirm it before you move your books over.

Is TurfPlanner worth trying first?

Yes, if the Free plan covers what you need today. It has no subscription fee and no card requirement to sign up, so the cheapest test is to send one real estimate and one real invoice through it. If the paperwork gets out of the way, you can move to Business later when card volume justifies the $34.99.