Landscaping estimates that already know the line items.
Load the template for the job, sod to hardscape, fill in your prices, and watch the margin on every line. The client gets a clean itemized quote. You get to stop doing math in the truck.
You could keep fighting the spreadsheet.
Spreadsheets are free, and they price accordingly. Delete one row and the formulas give up. The version history lives in the filename. After all that, it still prints like a bank statement. Estimatery already knows the shape of an estimate. You fill in the numbers.
How it works
Pick a template: sod, irrigation, lawn care, design, hardscape. Every line the job needs is already there, prep through cleanup. You'd have forgotten the utility locate. Everyone forgets the utility locate.
Add what each part costs you and it shows what you'll actually make, updated as you type. Only you see this part. The client gets a quote, not your nursery invoice.
One switch shows exactly what the client gets: scope, prices, one total. Send it as a PDF, Excel file, or link. Nothing left blowing across the driveway.
A screenshot of the actual builder. Not a mockup. We checked.
Built for the person who actually watches the budget
Generic quoting tools fit no one in particular. Estimatery starts from how landscaping jobs are actually priced: real numbers for you, a clean itemized quote for the client.
Tell it what each part costs you and it shows what you'd actually take home, updated as you type. No second spreadsheet. No midnight math.
The client PDF gets a real letterhead and totals that line up. The Pro version adds your name and logo. Your logo. On documents. Living the dream.
Your working version has your costs and profit. The client's version has prices and a total. Same estimate, nothing copy-pasted between files, nothing to forget.
Never price the same job from scratch
Each template is the line-item checklist for that kind of job, prep through cleanup. Prices stay blank because they're yours, and they swing by region anyway. Load one, delete what doesn't apply, price the rest.
Old lawn out, new lawn down. Priced by the square foot, watered by the client.
Design through startup. The part of the yard that works at 4 a.m.
Mowing, turf care, and both cleanups. Recurring, much like the grass.
Survey to warranty walkthrough. The plan, the plants, and the invoice.
Excavation through sealing. A patio is mostly what's underneath the patio.
Five templates covering how landscaping work actually gets quoted. Missing your specialty? Say so. Tree work has its own templates.
Everyone else makes you give something up.
A spreadsheet is free, but you do everything. An invoicing app hides your costs, then bills you monthly forever, like a gym. We’re the only column without a catch. We checked twice.
| Estimatery | Spreadsheet | Invoicing app | Template PDF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industry line items, built in | ● | —blank page | ○generic | ○generic |
| Live margin while you price | ● | ○by hand | — | — |
| Client never sees your costs | ● | ○if you remember | ● | ● |
| Pay once, no subscription | ● | ●free | —monthly | ○ |
● built in · ○ manual or partial · — not really
Free is the whole tool
Nothing in the builder or the exports is held back. Pro exists to put your name on the paperwork. The national debt is not our business model.
Questions
The full guide (units, tax math, deposits, exports) lives on the Help page. It’s genuinely thorough. We’re as surprised as you.
No. The whole builder and every export work without one. Your estimate autosaves in this browser, which means it lives on your machine, which means it's already more organized than the passenger seat. A free account adds one cloud-saved estimate; Pro makes that unlimited.
Yes. Unlimited sections and lines, all templates, all modifiers, the live P&L, and every export format. Pro only changes whose name is on the paperwork and lifts the cloud-save cap. The tool is free. The mulch is not. We can only fix one of those.
Field service apps charge monthly for routing, scheduling, and a CRM you didn't ask for, with an estimate feature somewhere in the menus. A spreadsheet is free right up until you email the client your costs. Estimatery ships with the landscaping templates, quotes the way the work actually bills, and keeps the P&L where only you can see it. Also it's free. Genuinely.
No. Client views, exports, and share links are built from a copy that only ever contained client-facing fields. Costs, margins, and internal notes are never in the file. There's no toggle to forget because there is no toggle. Fewer moving parts, fewer callbacks.
No. You pay $39 once. No renewal, no monthly fee, no per-crew seat math. It puts your branding on client-facing exports, removes our footer, makes cloud saves unlimited, and adds a reusable catalog of your saved line items.
Anonymous estimates live in your browser's local storage. Nothing leaves your machine unless you share, export, or save to an account. Share links carry a compressed, client-safe copy inside the link itself. Math, not magic.