Best landscaping business software UK (2026): compared on price and quoting

If you quote big projects and want deposits and stage payments taken online, Jobber (from $49 a month, US pricing) and ServiceM8 (from £25 a month for more than one user) do that today. If you want a crew calendar, quotes that turn into jobs and job photos for as little as possible, TradeSender is free for one person and £19 a month for up to five. Commusoft suits firms of six or more with an office team, on a 12-month contract at a price you get from their sales team.

Prices are from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. ServiceM8 says its prices exclude VAT; the others do not say.

Quoting a multi-day project

A patio, a new lawn or a full garden rebuild runs to several days, several people and a long list of materials. The quote needs line items for labour and materials, VAT that is right line by line, and a way for the customer to say yes without you chasing a signature.

In TradeSender you book a site visit to measure up, build the quote from your own price list with VAT per line and a discount if you give one, and email it. The customer can accept it online, and an accepted quote becomes a job with one tap, carrying its lines across. The job can then hold as many visits as the work needs, across as many days.

ServiceM8 adds proposals from its Growing plan at £59. Jobber and Tradify both quote and convert to jobs; Tradify's Pro plan adds enquiry forms. Commusoft covers quoting as part of a wider sales and job management system aimed at bigger firms.

Deposits and stage payments

This is where TradeSender is weakest today, so it goes first. There is no deposit or payment schedule on a quote. You can raise a separate invoice for the deposit, and on any invoice you can record part payments as they come in, but it is manual. Customers cannot pay online by card, so deposits arrive by bank transfer and you record them.

The others do more here. Jobber lets you require a deposit when the customer approves the quote and split the rest into a payment schedule by percentage or fixed amount, paid online through its client hub. ServiceM8 includes deposits on every plan and progress invoices from Starter at £25. Tradify has progress invoicing on its Pro plan and takes card payments online.

Crews on more than one site

Once you have two crews, the calendar is the product. You need to see who is where, move a job when it rains, and not book the same person twice.

TradeSender shows day, week, month and team views, lets you put one or more people on a visit, puts holidays on the same calendar and warns you when someone is double-booked. Dragging a visit to a new slot is on the web; the iPhone shows the same views. Pro covers up to 5 people for £19 a month and Business is unlimited at £49, so adding a labourer does not change the bill until you pass five.

Per-user pricing adds up. Tradify for a crew of four on Pro is £148 a month. ServiceM8 gives unlimited users from Starter but counts new jobs a month (50 on Starter, 150 on Growing). Jobber's Core plan includes one user and its Connect plan has a five-user option at $199 a month. Commusoft sells contracted, monthly rolling and daily licences, the last aimed at subcontractors.

Tracking the job while it runs

On a two-week build you want to know how long it is really taking and what state it was left in each evening. In TradeSender each job keeps its visits, clock-in times, before and after photos and notes together, and the time recorded tells you whether the quote was right. Job tracking shows how that looks. On the iPhone, clocking in and out keeps the phone's own time even without signal, and photos upload when you are back in range.

TradeSender (our product)

I run Quilliams Mowing Ltd and TradeSender is the software I built for it. It covers the path from site visit to quote, job, visits and invoice, on the web and an iPhone app that keeps working offline. Plans are Free (1 person, 30 visits a month, no repeating visits), Pro at £19 a month for up to 5 people and Business at £49 for unlimited people; the pricing page lists what each includes.

What it does not do yet: online card payments, deposits or payment schedules on a quote, accounting sync, an Android app (the web app runs in an Android phone browser) or importing your customers, though we will move a spreadsheet across for you.

The other four in brief

Jobber

Canadian, and good at getting you paid: deposits on quotes, payment schedules, online card payments and route optimisation. Core is $49 a month month to month, less on a yearly plan, and Grow is $199. No free plan, a 14-day trial.

ServiceM8

Australian. Free for one user and 30 jobs a month, then £25, £59, £119 and £269 by jobs per month, all with unlimited users. Deposits and recurring jobs on every plan, progress invoices from Starter, proposals from Growing.

Tradify

From New Zealand. Lite £34, Pro £37 and Plus £44 per user a month. Syncs with Xero, Sage and QuickBooks Online; recurring jobs, progress invoicing and timesheets need Pro.

Commusoft

British, built for field service firms with office staff, and pitched at businesses of six or more. Plans are sold on 12-month contracts and priced by the number of licences; the price is on request.

If you also do garden maintenance

Plenty of landscapers keep a book of maintenance customers to fill the gaps between builds. Weekly and fortnightly repeat visits are on TradeSender Pro, and our page on software for gardening businesses covers that side of the work.

If deposits taken online are the deciding feature for you today, trial Jobber or ServiceM8. If you want to see whether TradeSender fits the way you quote and book, start on the free plan, no card needed.