Best lawn care software UK (2026): 5 tools compared on price

For a UK lawn care round of one to five people, TradeSender (free, then £19 a month for up to 5 people) and ServiceM8 (free, then £25 a month) are the two free-to-start options priced in pounds. Tradify (from £34 per user a month) suits you if you want Xero or QuickBooks sync, and Jobber (from $49 a month, US pricing) suits a bigger firm that wants online payments and route planning built in.

Prices are the monthly figures on each vendor's own pricing page. ServiceM8 says its prices exclude VAT; the others do not say. I have left Yardbook out this year because its paid prices are not on a page I could check.

Repeating visits decide it

Most lawn care income is the same gardens every week or fortnight from March to October. The software has to book a cut once and fill the calendar for the season, and it has to cope when you move one visit after a wet week without breaking the rest of the round.

TradeSender does weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly and monthly repeats, and you can change one visit or every visit after it. Repeats need the Pro plan; the Free plan is for one-off visits. How scheduling works shows the calendar and team views.

ServiceM8 includes recurring jobs on every plan, the free one too. Tradify only has recurring jobs from its Pro plan (£37 per user). Jobber and LawnPro both do recurring jobs, and LawnPro adds multi-step treatment programmes, which matters if you sell a four- or five-visit feed and weed plan.

Invoicing after each visit

Some customers pay per cut, some pay monthly. In TradeSender you set a job to bill per visit, and each time you invoice it picks up every completed visit not yet billed, with the dates listed. So you can invoice after every cut or once a month for the lot. Payments are recorded as they arrive (bank transfer, cash, cheque or card) and the invoice shows paid, part-paid or overdue.

What TradeSender does not do yet: customers cannot pay an invoice online by card, and there is no Xero or QuickBooks sync. Jobber, Tradify and LawnPro all take online card payments, and Tradify syncs with Xero, Sage and QuickBooks Online. If card payments from the invoice email matter more to you than price, that is a fair reason to pick one of them.

What a two-person round pays each month

The per-user tools look cheap for a solo operator and less so once you take someone on. For two people running repeating rounds, on each vendor's published prices:

TradeSender (our product)

I run a mowing company, Quilliams Mowing Ltd, and TradeSender is the software I built for it. It keeps customers, properties, repeating visits, quotes and invoices together on the web and an iPhone app. The app saves your work on the phone first, so you can open a gate code or complete a visit in a lane with no signal, and it syncs when you are back in range.

Plans: Free for one person and 30 visits a month (no repeating visits), Pro at £19 a month for up to 5 people with unlimited visits and repeating rounds, and Business at £49 a month for unlimited people. The pricing page has the detail.

It is newer than the others and does less. There is no Android app (the web app works in an Android phone browser), no text message reminders, no route optimisation, no online card payments, no accounting sync and no import yet, though we will move a spreadsheet of customers across for you if you ask.

The other four

ServiceM8

Australian, and the closest to TradeSender on price. Free covers one user and 30 jobs a month; Starter is £25 with unlimited users and 50 jobs; Growing is £59 for 150 jobs. It is built around job cards, forms and photos, and every plan includes recurring jobs and deposits. Prices exclude VAT.

Tradify

From New Zealand, popular with UK trades and used by some gardeners. Lite is £34, Pro £37 and Plus £44, each per user a month, with a 14-day trial. You need Pro for recurring jobs, timesheets and job photos. Its strongest point is accounting sync.

Jobber

Canadian, with a long feature list and prices to match. The pricing page shows Core at $49 a month month to month, less on a yearly plan; Connect is $139 and Grow $199. It has recurring jobs, route optimisation, online card payments and a client hub. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial of the Grow plan.

LawnPro

American and built for lawn treatment companies. The free Solo plan covers one user and up to 25 customers; Startup is $39 a month ($29 billed yearly) for three people. It has recurring job templates, treatment programmes and route optimisation, and an Android app. Its site does not mention UK tax or pounds, so check how invoices will look before you commit.

Which one to try first

If most of your work is repeating cuts and you are one to five people, try TradeSender's free plan and upgrade to Pro when you want the round to repeat itself. If you do general garden maintenance as well as lawns (hedges, borders, clearances), our page on software for gardening businesses covers that side. If online card payments or accounting sync are the deciding feature today, start a trial of Tradify or Jobber instead.

You can start on TradeSender's free plan with no card.