Know what every landscaping job actually made you.
Log the quote. Log the actuals. YardMargin shows you the real profit and tells you exactly what to change on the next one.
14 days free. Cancel anytime. Works alongside your current quoting tool.
Irrigation repair, Riverside
Irrigation maintenance
Labor ran 1.5 hours over your estimate. The price still carried it.
Inside the 15-25% net benchmark for irrigation maintenance.
Quote, track, learn, improve. Most landscaping businesses only do the first one.
Nobody tracks the actuals
The quote goes out and the thinking stops. What the job really cost never gets written down.
Nobody knows why it ran over
Was it the crew, the customer, the weather, or just a bad price? Guessing is not a system.
Nobody sees the pattern
One customer is always thin. One crew is always slow on one job type. Nothing surfaces it.
YardMargin runs the whole loop for you, then names the customer and the crew costing you margin.
This is what you see after the crew packs up.
Real output from the app. About a minute of entry per job.
Paver patio, 320 sq ft
Hardscape installation
Materials came in 6% under quote.
Reuse this supplier and quote at the same price on your next patio.
vs. industry range for Hardscape installation: 20-35%
Commercial parking lot, monthly contract
Commercial grounds maintenance
Plain-English explanation
Two callback visits were logged as extra work but never invoiced.
Bill logged extra work as an add-on instead of absorbing it.
Below the 10-15% industry range for Commercial grounds. A real loss, not a thin margin.
What YardMargin figured out
Crew 2 runs hot and cold, depending on the work.
- Irrigation maintenance2.7 h slower
- Lawn mowing / maintenance1.4 h faster
Average variance against your estimate, across their completed jobs.
Riverside HOA: 23% avg margin vs. your 32% average (−9 pts).
Consider pricing their next job higher to close the gap.
14-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
The benchmark isn't a guess.
These are real industry benchmarks. The net margin ranges successful landscaping businesses actually run on.
Before the job, enter your costs and YardMargin shows the minimum price you need to land inside the range for that service, and warns you when a quote falls below it. After the job, your real net margin gets scored against the same range.
- Lawn mowing / maintenance10-20% net
- Fertilization & weed control15-25% net
- Commercial grounds maintenance10-15% net
- Irrigation maintenance15-25% net
- Hardscape installation20-35% net
- Landscape design-build25-40% net
How it works
Four steps. About a minute per job.
- 1
Quote it
Log hours, materials, travel, dump fees and the price you quoted.
- 2
Track it
Mark the job complete and enter what it actually took.
- 3
Learn from it
See what you kept and read why in plain English.
- 4
Fix it
Get told which customer and crew to change, with the number.
This is what Insights adds.
Simple pricing, cancel anytime
Both plans start with 14 days free.
Core
Everything you need to stop guessing at margins.
- Estimate vs. actual on every job
- Automatic flags for labor, material and dump fee overruns
- Unbilled extra work and below-benchmark warnings
- A plain-English read on why each job landed where it did
- Weekly summary of where the money went
Insights
RecommendedEverything in Core, plus:
- Per-customer profitability patterns
- Per-crew efficiency patterns
- Recommendations that name the exact customer, crew and figure
Questions
Your next quote can be the first one you actually learn from.
Start with one job this week. By the end of the month you'll know which work pays and which work only looks like it does.
Cancel anytime before day 14 and you won't be charged.