Guide
What a one-to-five-person lawn crew actually needs from scheduling software, what to look for, and what the big suites really charge at this size.
Lawn care is a route business: the same yards, weekly, in a tight order — until it rains, and Tuesday becomes Wednesday for twenty jobs at once. Then the season starts and stops: series that begin in April and end in November, per-visit pricing, and a crew that may be two people in spring and four by June.
Job volume is the quiet trap for lawn care: per-job pricing (ServiceM8's $29 tier caps at 50 jobs a month) runs out by the second week of May for a working route. Price your software by your busiest month, not your quietest.
DayBoard's answer is a flat $36 a month for up to five people: the board with crew lanes, recurring jobs in your local time, job sheets with photos and checklists, quotes that become jobs, invoices with pay links on your own Stripe account, and reminders included. It does not sync with QuickBooks (it exports a QuickBooks-ready file) and it does not text clients — the pricing page prints the whole out-list. If those two gaps are fine, the math usually settles it.
For the board, job sheets, quotes, invoices and reminders, a fair 2026 range is $36–60 a month flat for up to five people (DayBoard at $36, Kickserv at $60 with QuickBooks sync). The big suites run $128–189 for a two-person crew once reminders and sync are included — worth it only if you use suite features.
Booking pages, GPS and price books help some shops. If your week is jobs, quotes and invoices, they are rooms you rent and never enter. Decide from your last month of real work, not from a feature list.
For your whole crew — up to 5 people. No tiers, no per-person charges, no job cap. Or $349 a year and be done with it.