Renewals live in your thumbs
A 140 property book means 140 text threads in March, and half of them go quiet until the grass is already ankle high. You end up cutting for people who never confirmed a price.
About 23 office hours per spring
Seasonal packages for lawn and landscape crews
MowSeason turns mowing, mulch and cleanups into a single agreement a homeowner accepts in February, then holds every visit behind it on a fixed cutting cycle. When a storm parks over your county on Tuesday, the week reshuffles itself and the customers hear about it before you do.
The March scramble
Nobody in this trade gets paid for the six weeks of texting, quoting and rescheduling that happen before the first cut. That work is invisible on the invoice, and it eats the part of the year when your equipment is idle and your payroll is not.
A 140 property book means 140 text threads in March, and half of them go quiet until the grass is already ankle high. You end up cutting for people who never confirmed a price.
About 23 office hours per spring
Rain pushes Tuesday onto Thursday, Thursday onto Saturday, and the crew leader finds out in the truck. Two properties get skipped, three get cut twice, and one customer calls the office annoyed.
4.5 idle crew hours per rain day
Cut it, bill it, repeat. That model pays fine in June and pays nothing in January, so you float payroll on a line of credit and hope the mulch deposits land early.
Roughly $9,400 of winter cash gap
The crew pulls a dead shrub, tops off a bed, edges a walk that was not on the ticket. It gets mentioned at the shop at 5:40 pm and then it is gone.
$60 to $180 lost per property
How a season gets built
MowSeason was written around the way an owner actually plans: package first, agreement second, route third, weather fourth. You are not managing tickets. You are selling a season and then protecting it.
Pick the service lines you already sell: 26 cuts on a seven day cycle, 4 cubic yards of hardwood mulch, a spring cleanup, a fall cleanup, two hedge rounds. MowSeason prices the package against your hourly target and shows the margin before you send it.
The homeowner gets a plain page with the visit count, the window for each service and one monthly figure from April through November. They sign on a phone, choose monthly or prepay, and the card or bank account goes on file in the same step.
Every signed package drops its visits onto the crew calendar at the cycle you set, seven, ten or fourteen days. Properties group by subdivision so the truck stops moving, and each crew gets a printable day sheet with gate codes and dog notes.
When the forecast crosses your rain threshold, MowSeason lifts the day, slides it to the next open slot inside the cycle, and texts the affected customers with the new window. Nobody loses a visit and nobody gets double cut.
What is inside
No generic job board bolted onto a calendar. Each part of MowSeason exists because a lawn care owner lost money on that exact thing.
Assemble cuts, mulch yards, cleanups, aeration and hedge rounds into one sellable product with a single monthly figure. Save it as a template and reuse it across every quarter acre lot in the same subdivision.
Set a seven, ten or fourteen day cycle per property and MowSeason lays the whole year of visits down at once. Skip weeks, holiday shifts and mid season cycle changes recalculate the rest of the season instead of breaking it.
Rain thresholds are set per crew, per county, and the route rebuilds itself the night before rather than at 6 am in the yard. Affected customers get an automatic text with the new visit window, so the office phone stays quiet.
May grows three times faster than August, and your pricing should already know that. MowSeason tightens the cycle during the spring flush and stretches it through summer dormancy, keeping visit counts inside the number you sold.
The crew leader taps the extra service on the day sheet, snaps a photo of the shrub or the bed, and it lands on the next invoice with the picture attached. Owners recover work that used to evaporate on the ride back to the shop.
In January, MowSeason rebuilds last year's book with your price increase applied and queues every agreement for one review pass. The season ledger shows signed revenue, remaining visits and unbilled add ons on one screen all year.
What changes by June
Figures below are the median across 96 companies that ran a complete season, from first agreement in February through the last fall cleanup.
The renewal roll sends last year's book back out with the new price already applied, so the owner reviews rather than rewrites. Most of the book closes before the first mower comes off the trailer.
Weather shifts, skip weeks and crew swaps stop being phone calls. The route rebuild runs the night before and the day sheets print themselves at 5 am.
Extra work gets captured at the property with a photo instead of remembered at the shop. Across a 140 property book that is real money that used to disappear.
Visits group by subdivision and the stop order follows the actual cycle, not the order the calls came in. Nineteen fewer miles is close to forty minutes of paid time returned to cutting.
From the yard
Three companies, three very different climates, one shared complaint about March.
We ran 118 properties on per cut billing for eleven years and I did every renewal by text message. First February on MowSeason I sent the whole book in an afternoon and had 94 signed inside two weeks. My wife does the office and she got her evenings back, which honestly mattered more than the money.
Central Texas summer is the opposite problem. Grass stops in July and customers still expect somebody in the yard, so the cycle stretching feature saved us about forty visits we would have eaten. The crews like the day sheet because the gate codes and the dog notes are right there instead of in somebody's head.
Wisconsin rain used to cost me two days every time it landed on a Tuesday. Now the route moves itself overnight and the customers get the text before I am even awake. Last season we billed $31,000 in mulch and cleanups that came off the truck photos, work that used to get forgotten by Friday.
Plans
Every plan carries unlimited properties and unlimited agreements. You pay for the number of crews you are dispatching, and you move up or down whenever the season does.
One truck, one crew, the owner still on the mower most days.
$29per month, USD
Two trucks running separate territories with an office person on the phone.
$69per month, USD
Three to eight crews, a dispatcher, mulch and cleanup divisions of their own.
$139per month, USD
All three plans are billed monthly in US dollars and can be cancelled at any time from the billing screen. No annual commitment, no setup fee, and no charge for the properties or agreements you load.
Straight answers
If the one you care about is missing, write to us and it gets answered by a person, usually within a few hours.
You pay by the number of active crews on the calendar, not by property count. Solo Crew is $29 per month, Two Crews is $69 per month, and Full Season is $139 per month with unlimited crews and the renewal roll. Plenty of operators in the north drop from Full Season down to Solo Crew in December and step back up in March, and moving between tiers takes one click. Nothing is prorated against you, the change lands on your next invoice.
Most companies import their property list and send their first agreements the same afternoon. You upload a spreadsheet with address, contact and last year per cut price, then map the columns once. Building your first package template takes about twenty minutes because you are describing work you already do: cuts per season, mulch yards, cleanup visits. The median across new accounts last spring was two days from empty account to first signed agreement.
You do, completely. Every property record, agreement, visit note and job photo belongs to your company, and you can export the whole account to CSV whenever you want without asking us. We never sell, rent or share your customer list, and we do not use your route data to build a competing service. If you leave, your export stays available for ninety days after the final invoice.
MowSeason pushes signed agreements and monthly invoices into QuickBooks Online, and it syncs each crew calendar to Google Calendar so the guys see the day on their phones. Card and ACH payments run through Stripe or Square on your own merchant account, so deposits land in your bank and not ours. There is a CSV import for property lists and an outbound webhook if your bookkeeper wants the raw rows.
Every plan is billed monthly and you can cancel from the billing screen at any time, with no phone call and no retention script. Your account stays open until the end of the period you already paid for. Before it closes you can export properties, agreements, visit history and photos in one archive. Northern operators usually pause instead of cancel, which keeps the data warm for next March.
That objection is fair, and the answer is in how the offer reads. Homeowners rarely refuse the season itself, they refuse a number they cannot picture, so MowSeason writes the agreement as one flat monthly amount from April through November with the visit count spelled out line by line. In the 2025 season, agreements sent through MowSeason were accepted by 71 percent of existing per cut customers within nine days. The ones who decline stay on your per visit list and the software keeps billing them the old way.
Talk to us before February
A demo runs about twenty five minutes and we do it with your own numbers: property count, average cut price, how many crews roll out on a Monday. By the end you will have a package built for one real customer of yours and a signed agreement you can send that afternoon if you want to.
Every request is read by a person, not a routing bot, and answered within one business day. Prefer plain email? Write to jimenezjulien42@gmail.com.