Working document
The Preseason Signup Checklist for Lawn Care Owners
Work these four stages between November and March and you will start the season with a committed route instead of a phone list.
Free resources
Resources for Selling and Running a Mowing Season
Free tools and working documents for lawn care owners who want the season sold before the first cut and the route holding together through a wet June.
Everything on this page is built for the same operator: a lawn care or landscaping owner with one to eight crews who is still the main salesperson, still driving to estimates, and still deciding what a season package should cost. Nothing here needs a subscription, and none of it assumes you have an office manager to configure anything.
Start with the calculators if you are pricing next season or wondering whether your route has room for more accounts. Start with the preseason checklist if it is November and you want a plan for the offseason. Use the comparisons if you are shopping software and want a straight answer about which shape of tool suits a mowing heavy shop versus a mixed trade landscape company.
Free tools
Free Calculators for Lawn Care and Landscaping Owners
Run your own crew hour cost, visit counts and route numbers through these two calculators before you quote your next season package.
Comparisons
How MowSeason Compares to Other Lawn Care Software
MowSeason sells the whole season of mowing, mulch and cleanups in one signup, so the honest question is whether you need that or a broader system to run every job your trucks touch.
Main guide
How to Price a Season Long Mowing and Cleanup Package
It settles how a lawn care owner builds a season long mowing, mulch and cleanup package off crew hour cost and turns it into an offer a homeowner signs in one visit.
Magazine
The Cut List
Reporting on the working season in US lawn care: route economics, turf craft, seasonal contracts, crew labor and state turf rules.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page covers who writes The Cut List and why season packages, route density and the working year of a one to eight crew mowing operation are the only subjects this site pays attention to.
Work these by hand first, then let them run
The calculators and the preseason signup checklist need nothing but last season's account records and a few winter evenings, and plenty of good mowing shops run exactly that way for years. If you get through the November sort and decide you would rather not chase February follow ups between estimates, a walkthrough shows the same four stages running on their own. The free material stays free either way.