A lawn care crew runs on a route, not a pipeline. The same forty yards get cut every week or every other week, the mowing season pays for the winter, and the money that actually keeps the lights on is the recurring bill that goes out whether or not you remembered to send it. Most software for a landscaping business was built for one-off jobs and bolts recurring billing on as an afterthought — or leaves it in a separate app that never matches your books. Here is what to look for, and how Mortar handles the parts a landscaper actually cares about.
Recurring weekly and biweekly service, billed on schedule
The mowing account you sold in April should bill itself through October without you touching it. In Mortar you set up a recurring charge — weekly, biweekly, or monthly — on the customer’s saved card or bank draft (ACH), and it runs on that cadence until you stop it. A biweekly mow-and-edge account charges every two weeks; a monthly maintenance plan charges the first of the month. The money settles to your own Stripe account, not ours, so you are not waiting on a payout from a middleman.
That is the difference between chasing a stack of invoices every Friday and having the route bill itself. The full mechanics — proration, saved payment methods, what the customer sees — are in how to bill recurring service customers.
Recurring billing lives in Core, not a premium tier
Recurring weekly/biweekly/monthly service billing is part of the Core plan at $99/month — the same plan that adds scheduling. You do not have to buy the top tier to bill a route, and the money lands on your own Stripe. Stripe’s standard processing fee applies to card and bank draft charges — that fee is Stripe’s, not ours.
Quote on-site, invoice from the same number
You walk a property, price the spring cleanup or the new bed install on your phone, and the homeowner opens one link and signs on the spot. When the work is done, the invoice is generated from that signed quote — the same total, not re-keyed into a second app. Price a bed install at $1,850 and that is the number that gets signed, invoiced, and booked to your P&L. Nobody re-types it at the kitchen table three days later and fat-fingers an extra zero.
Price it in the driveway
Build the quote on your phone from a price book with your loaded costs baked in — mowing, mulch, cleanup, install — so a quote is a few taps, not a napkin.
Customer signs on their phone
They open one link, pick their options, and e-sign. No printing, no PDF emailed back and forth.
Invoice from the signed total
The invoice carries the exact quote total through untouched. Send it, take card or bank draft (ACH), and the payment posts to your books the moment it clears.
That single-total path is the whole point of a field service CRM: one calculation behind the quote, the invoice, and the P&L, so the three never disagree. Walk the one-off version end to end in how to send a quote and get paid.
Scheduling the week without a whiteboard
A signed job becomes a scheduled visit, and the visit is dispatched to a crew, who sees it on their phone the moment it’s scheduled or moved. Recurring accounts drop onto the calendar on their cadence, so Tuesday’s biweekly route is already laid out before you get in the truck. Scheduling and recurring service both live in the Core plan; you are not stitching the schedule together in a group text.
Your crew never sees your margins
Permissions are per person. A crew lead sees the address, the schedule, and what to do on the property — not the margin, the finances, or the settings. That is a product-wide capability on every plan, not an upsell. The office runs the numbers, the crew runs the route.
An embeddable contact form that captures the lead and its source
Drop a contact form on your own website and every "get a quote" submission lands directly on a new contact in the shared record — with its source attached, so you know the lead came from your site and not a referral or a yard sign. No inbox to babysit, no lead copied by hand from an email into a spreadsheet. The form is included with the Core and Suite plans. See why leads leak in the first place in stop losing leads in your service business.
On the Suite plan at $179/month, that attribution feeds the marketing tools — campaigns, review requests, and follow-ups — so you can see which channel actually books mowing accounts, and ask a happy customer for a Google review the day after a clean cut. Suite also adds cash-basis bookkeeping and white-label documents with no Mortar footer.
What it doesn’t do (and what we recommend instead)
Be clear-eyed about the boundary. Mortar does not measure a lot from satellite imagery — there is no aerial square-footage tool that auto-quotes a mow from an address. If measuring lots off a map is central to how you bid, keep a dedicated measurement tool for that step and bring the number into the quote yourself. Mortar owns the get-paid-and-bill-recurring core; it is not a lot-measurement product.
Same candor on the rest: more integrations are on the way, some features are gated to Core and Suite, and the payment processing fee is Stripe’s. None of that changes the core promise — one shared record, one number behind every job, and the money in your own account.
Three flat plans for a lawn care crew
Three flat plans, no per-technician fee, and every one includes the whole quote-to-cash core — contacts, estimating with e-sign, invoicing, and payments on your Stripe — plus a lead and job board. Pick the shape that matches your crew.
- Solo — $39/month, 1 seat. The full quote-to-cash core plus a lead and job board, for an owner-operator cutting alone. On-site quotes, e-sign, and invoicing are all here.
- Core — $99/month, 5 seats. Adds scheduling and recurring weekly/biweekly/monthly billing — the route engine — plus the website contact form you embed on your own site. This is the plan most lawn care crews want.
- Suite — $179/month, 15 seats. Adds cash-basis bookkeeping, marketing (lead attribution, campaigns, review requests, follow-ups), white-label documents, and priority support.
What each plan actually costs to run — including Stripe’s cut — is broken down in the real cost of field service software.
Can this software bill recurring lawn service automatically?
Yes. Recurring billing runs weekly, biweekly, or monthly on the customer’s saved card or bank draft (ACH), on the Core plan at $99/month. A biweekly mowing account bills itself every two weeks until you stop it, and the money settles to your own Stripe account. Stripe’s standard processing fee applies and is Stripe’s, not ours.
Does Mortar measure lawns or lots from a map?
No. There is no satellite square-footage measurement tool that auto-quotes from an address. If lot measurement is central to how you bid, keep a dedicated measurement tool for that step and bring the number into your Mortar quote. Mortar owns quoting, scheduling, recurring billing, and getting paid.
Can leads from my website land in the software automatically?
Yes. The embeddable contact form (Core and Suite plans) drops each submission onto a new contact in the shared record with its source attached, so you know it came from your site. No copying leads out of an inbox by hand.
How much is software for a landscaping business?
Mortar is three flat plans: Solo $39, Core $99, and Suite $179 per month, with 1, 5, and 15 seats included and no per-technician fee. Most lawn care crews want Core, because that is where scheduling and recurring route billing live.
Building Mortar — the all-in-one CRM for service businesses. One shared record, one number behind every job.