Published May 2026 · Updated October 2026
QuoteIQ puts satellite property measurement, Good/Better/Best estimating, recurring mow billing, route planning, inventory, job costing and an AI phone team in one platform — built for the way landscape crews actually run a day.
QuoteIQ is the best all-in-one CRM for landscaping businesses in 2026 because a single subscription covers the five jobs a landscape company normally pays five vendors for: satellite property measurement, tiered estimating, recurring service billing, photo documentation, and route planning. Plans run from $29.99/month for a solo operator to $699/month for unlimited users, with the multi-crew sweet spot at Elite, $299/month for 10 users — the tier where Route Optimization, Inventory Management and EmployeeHub unlock.
TL;DR: Landscaping is a measure-quote-route-document business, and QuoteIQ is the only platform in this price band that ships all four natively. MapMeasure Pro measures lawn, bed and hardscape square footage from aerial imagery before the truck rolls. Options Estimates put Good/Better/Best maintenance tiers on one proposal. Invoice Subscriptions auto-bill the recurring mow roster. QuoteIQ Cam archives unlimited 4K before/after photos against the job. Route Density and Route Optimization cut drive time 15–30%, and Job Costing shows margin per job as labor posts. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 1,299,200 grounds maintenance workers, and the U.S. Small Business Administration ties durable growth to exactly these systems. Price a job first with the free lawn care cost calculator.
An all-in-one CRM for landscaping businesses is the difference between an operation that survives the chaos of a spring rush and one that runs cleanly out of a single app. QuoteIQ is built specifically for landscape contractors who are tired of stitching together a generic CRM, a satellite measurement subscription, a photo documentation app, a review-request service and a route planner just to get through a normal week. Landscaping carries demands that general field service software was never shaped around: recurring mow routes that must be re-sequenced every time it rains, seasonal package upsells that live or die on how the estimate is presented, hardscape materials counted by the pallet and the cubic yard, design-build pipelines that run 30 to 90 days from first call to install, and crews who need full mobile parity because nobody on a landscape crew sits at a desk.
QuoteIQ handles those natively rather than through a marketplace of third-party connectors. Co-Founders Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers ran home service operations before building the platform, and the feature set reflects that: every tool exists because it solved a problem on a real job. That is why Options Estimates ship on every plan with Good/Better/Best tiers for seasonal packages, and why MapMeasure Pro reads lawn area, garden beds, hardscape surfaces and driveways off aerial imagery — a contractor who measures from a phone before dispatching a truck quotes from numbers instead of guesses.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts employment for grounds maintenance workers at 1,299,200, projects 5% growth from 2025 to 2035, and estimates about 162,500 openings each year over the decade, with median pay of $19.27 per hour. That labor math is why routing efficiency and accurate job costing decide margin in this trade — crew hours are both your largest cost and your scarcest input.
Inside QuoteIQ a landscape contractor gets four estimate types — Standard, Options, Package and Quick — each with photos, notes, terms, deposit requirements, markup and discount controls, sub-item hierarchies and a Materials section that links line items to stock. Estimates convert to invoices in one tap, or to a recurring subscription for a maintenance customer. E-signatures ship from the entry-level plan up, so a homeowner signs a spring cleanup agreement on her phone in the driveway, and contract attachments bind plant schedules, hardscape spec sheets, drainage diagrams and HOA approval documents to the estimate itself.
Further up the ladder, Inventory Management tracks mulch, pavers, plants, sod and soil amendments across warehouses, trailers and trucks through five modules — Products, Locations, Suppliers, Orders and Transactions — with stock deducting when the invoice is paid. Job Costing runs Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses to a profit figure with a margin bar, pulling labor automatically from Time Tracker Pro hours, so you know whether the Henderson hardscape actually made money after dump fees and crew overtime instead of finding out at tax time. For the hardscape side of the business, the concrete cost calculator, deck cost calculator and fence cost calculator are free pre-quote sanity checks.
There are Pipelines and Deals lanes for residential design-build, commercial maintenance contracts, HOA renovation work and builder or architect referral channels, with weighted forecasting that multiplies deal value by close probability instead of counting every open quote as revenue. There is a 24/7 AI Virtual Call Team that answers inbound calls when the owner is mid-mow, qualifies the lead, filters spam, records and transcribes the call, and sends a summary notification — and because it is metered through IQ Credits at 125 credits per minute, it is minute-limited rather than unlimited. There is AI Autopilot, a conversational layer over the whole CRM with 55 integrated tools across 13 categories, so a foreman can say “move all of today’s jobs to Friday and text every customer” without tapping through six screens. And there is Before & After AI, which renders a realistic finished-landscape preview from the actual property photo in roughly 15 to 20 seconds and attaches it to any estimate type.
Every feature below ships inside the platform — no third-party integration to license, no separate login, no per-feature marketplace fee. The tier badge on each card is the plan where that capability unlocks, taken from the published plan pages. Where a feature’s tier is still being reconciled between the app and the pricing pages, no badge is shown rather than a guess.
Put Basic Mow, Full-Service and Premium Maintenance side by side on one estimate so the customer compares your offer against itself rather than against a competitor’s.
Learn more →Measure lawn area, garden beds, hardscape, driveways and property boundaries from aerial imagery inside estimate creation, with drawing tools for irregular shapes and a historical imagery timeline.
Learn more →Products, Locations, Suppliers, Orders and Transactions — mulch by the yard, pavers by the pallet, plants by SKU, sod by the roll, across warehouses, trailers and trucks.
Learn more →Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses equals Profit, with a margin bar. Labor pulls automatically from clocked hours at each employee’s rate; expenses link to the job.
Learn more →Bundle mow, mulch refresh, bed weeding and seasonal cleanup into one priced package that sells faster than a column of line items a homeowner can pick apart.
Learn more →Generate a realistic finished-landscape preview from the customer’s actual property photo in roughly 15 to 20 seconds and attach it to any estimate or invoice.
Learn more →Drag-and-drop day, week, month and employee-timeline views, multi-day jobs as continuous events, Schedule Later for undated work, and a GEO-Schedule map view of the day.
Learn more →Unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage organised by job and date, before/after comparisons, annotations, custom inspection forms and shareable customer galleries.
Learn more →Sequences the day’s stops for minimum drive time, respects appointment windows and durations, recalculates on late additions and hands off to GPS navigation. Cuts drive time 15–30%.
Learn more →Conversational control of the CRM by voice or text across 55 integrated tools in 13 categories. “Invoice all of today’s completed jobs and send them.” Done.
Learn more →24/7 AI inbound answering with lead qualification, spam filtering, a knowledge base you configure, call recording and transcription, summaries and outbound campaigns. Metered per minute in IQ Credits.
Learn more →Separate kanban funnels for residential maintenance, design-build, commercial contracts, HOA and referral channels, with weighted value forecasting. Elite runs up to five pipelines.
Learn more →Every plan includes a monthly IQ Credit allowance — 500 on Essentials, 1,500 on Beginner, 3,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Elite, 8,000 on Max — and the AI tools draw against it. A Virtual Call Team minute costs 125 credits, an AI AutoMeasure run costs 100, and a property lookup costs 50. Every AI action shows its credit cost and asks for confirmation before it runs, so there are no surprise draws. Credits reset each billing cycle and carry no cash value.
The value of a consolidated landscape management platform only becomes obvious when you watch an ordinary Tuesday play out — not as a feature list, but as the sequence of decisions a real foreman makes on a real route. Here is that day.
The owner opens QuoteIQ on the phone. Scheduling shows fourteen mow stops across three zones plus an afternoon design consultation, colour-coded by status. Route Optimization has already sequenced the stops for minimum drive time, and GPS location tracking shows both trucks leaving the yard once crews clock in. Two leads came in overnight: the Virtual Call Team answered, qualified and transcribed both calls and dropped a summary notification, and the owner moves each into the residential maintenance lane in Deals.
Crew A is mid-mow at the Henderson property. The foreman captures pre-mow and post-mow 4K photos in QuoteIQ Cam, filed against the job and the customer’s documentation archive. Time Tracker Pro records GPS clock-in with location verification and tracks break duration for the payroll export. Materials used on site — two bags of mulch top-dress, a quart of weed treatment — post to the job through the estimate’s Materials section, linked to Inventory products so pricing stays current. A second crew finishes a paver patio and files finished-stage photos the same way, ready for an inspection form write-up.
The owner arrives at a backyard redesign consult already knowing the scope, because he pre-scoped the property that morning in MapMeasure Pro — lawn square footage, proposed patio area and linear feet of bed edging, with Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access filling in the rest. He builds three Options Estimate tiers on the spot and renders the premium tier in Before & After AI. The customer picks the middle tier, the contract goes out with the plant schedule and HOA form attached via contract attachments, she signs with e-signatures, and the deposit posts through online payments before he leaves the driveway.
Crew A calls in: the Henderson homeowner wants a mulch refresh across twelve beds while the crew is already on site. The owner opens the original estimate, sizes the yardage against the built-in business calculators and the National Average Guide, checks the labor margin in Job Costing before quoting rather than after, and texts the addendum from his phone. The customer approves from the link in two minutes. The added material posts to the visit, and stock moves out of inventory when that invoice is paid — not when the job is marked done, and not on a deposit.
Back at the office, Business Analytics lays out revenue by service, customer and employee, quote-to-close conversion, average ticket and open pipeline value on a customisable widget dashboard. Sorting job costing by margin usually tells the same story in every landscape company: design-build and hardscape carry the margin, while basic weekly mow carries the cash flow. Expense tracking catalogues fuel, dump fees and equipment against jobs with receipts attached, and everything exports to QuickBooks Online or straight to CSV through Export Data.
Friday, every paid invoice triggers a review request through Review Multiplier, which runs both an instant post-payment redirect to your review profile and an email/SMS review-request automation on four event triggers. Email and text automations fire a winter-prep sequence at last fall’s cleanup customers, and a mass campaign drops a spring refresh offer to tagged maintenance customers — with an InstaQuote link so they can price themselves and an InstaSchedule link so they can book against real calendar availability. The owner closes the laptop.
Route sequencing is not a convenience feature in a route-density trade. Route Optimization cuts drive time 15–30%, and the IRS standard mileage rate rose to 76 cents per mile effective July 1, 2026. On a two-truck operation covering 1,200 route miles a month, trimming a quarter of those miles is real money before you count the labor hours you stop paying for windshield time.
This is the honest version of the plan ladder, not a marketing abstraction. The capabilities below are the ones that decide whether the software fits a solo mowing operation, a two-crew maintenance shop or a design-build company with an estimator and a yard.
| Capability | Essentials $29.99 | Beginner $74.99 | Pro $149.99 | Elite $299 | Max $699 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Users included | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | Unlimited |
| IQ Credits per month | 500 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 8,000 |
| Estimates — Standard, Quick, Options, Package | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Invoicing, recurring subscriptions, online payments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-signatures and consumer financing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI Autopilot, AI Estimator, Before & After AI, Virtual Call Team | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| QuoteIQ Cam, inspection forms, contract attachments | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expense tracking and advanced analytics | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ClientHub business number, automations, client portal | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Job Costing and QuickBooks Online | — | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Route Optimization and Route Density | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory Management | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Pipelines & Deals | — | — | — | Up to 5 | Unlimited |
| InstaQuote and InstaSchedule | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| EmployeeHub, GPS tracking, Time Tracker Pro | — | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Crew creation, crew scheduling, Sales Team Tracker | — | — | — | — | Yes |
Two reads come out of that table for a landscape business. First, the measurement and documentation layer that most landscapers buy separately — satellite measurement and 4K job photos — lands at $74.99/month, which is below what a standalone measurement subscription typically costs on its own. Second, if you run routes, carry material stock or manage crews with GPS, Elite at $299/month for 10 users is the tier that matters, not Pro. Saying otherwise would sell a landscape company a plan that cannot do the job. If your operation is primarily design-build with an estimator and no mow route, Pro at $149.99 genuinely is enough.
Consumer financing ships on every plan, including the trial, and is independent of which payment processor your account runs on. Affirm covers up to $30,000 per job over 3 to 36 months; Klarna offers Pay-in-4 and Pay-in-30; Afterpay runs Pay-in-4 to roughly $4,000. The customer applies at checkout in about 30 seconds and gets an instant decision, you are paid in full upfront, and the provider carries collections and default risk. That is the mechanism that turns a $18,000 outdoor-living quote from a maybe into a signed contract.
Software comparison articles age badly because vendors reprice and the articles do not. Every figure in the table below was read off the vendor’s own published pricing page on October 6, 2026, and where a vendor does not publish a rate card, that is what the table says rather than an estimate. Nothing here is a feature-absence claim about a competitor — for what each product includes at a given price, read their pages.
| Platform | Published plans | Users at that price | Source checked 10/6/2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuoteIQ | Essentials $29.99 · Beginner $74.99 · Pro $149.99 · Elite $299 · Max $699 per month | 1 / 2 / 4 / 10 / unlimited | myquoteiq.com/pricing |
| Jobber | Core $49 · Connect $139 · Grow $199 · Plus $499 per month at no commitment; lower on 1-year and prepaid-annual terms | 1 user on Core, Connect and Grow; 5 on Plus; larger seat counts priced separately | getjobber.com/pricing |
| Housecall Pro | Basic $79 · Essentials $189 · Max $329 per month; $59 / $149 / $299 on annual billing | 1 / 5 / 8, with additional Max seats at $35 each | housecallpro.com/pricing |
| CompanyCam | Core $63 · Crew $129 · Scale $199 per month on annual billing; Enterprise quoted | 1 / 3 / 3, additional users $29 each | companycam.com/pricing |
| ResponsiBid | Startup $0 · Scaling $179 · Pro $229 per month, each paid tier with a separate setup fee for coached onboarding | Not published per tier | responsibid.com/pricing |
| ServiceTitan | No public rate card — pricing is quoted after a sales conversation | Not published | servicetitan.com |
| Go iLawn | Subscription pricing published on their own site; figures not retrievable at time of writing, so none are quoted here | Not quoted | goilawn.com |
The useful comparison for a landscape company is not a single headline percentage — it is what one subscription has to cover. A ten-person landscape operation on QuoteIQ Elite pays $299/month for all ten seats, and that figure already includes satellite measurement, 4K photo documentation, routing, inventory, job costing and the AI suite. Build the same capability set elsewhere and you are adding a photo documentation subscription and a property measurement subscription on top of the core field service platform, each with its own seat math. Run your own numbers against your real seat count and route size before signing anything — the enterprise software pricing calculator and the home service business calculators are free and require no account.
All four estimate types, invoicing and recurring subscriptions, scheduling, online payments, e-signatures, financing, the AI suite and 500 IQ Credits.
View PlanAdds MapMeasure Pro, Property Street View, Zillow Quick Access, QuoteIQ Cam, expense tracking, contract attachments and advanced analytics.
View PlanAdds ClientHub, email and text automations, on-the-way texts, client portal, Job Costing, hourly rate calculator and QuickBooks Online.
View PlanAdds Route Optimization, Route Density, Inventory, Pipelines & Deals, mass campaigns, InstaQuote, InstaSchedule and EmployeeHub with GPS.
View PlanAdds unlimited seats, crew creation and crew scheduling, Sales Team Tracker, the AI website builder, four additional businesses and priority support.
View PlanEvery plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose.
A landscape company at scale runs two distinct crew profiles plus a dedicated sales role, and how you organise those people in EmployeeHub shapes margin more than most owners expect. The design-build crew works slower, higher-skill, longer project cycles on hardscape and outdoor-living installs. The maintenance crew works volume — weekly mow routes, seasonal cleanups, recurring plans — where route density wins the day. The estimator is the third leg, walking properties and building tiered proposals.
Two to three skilled landscapers with masonry, irrigation and outdoor-living installation experience, on multi-day project cycles with skid steers, mini-excavators, paver tools and plate compactors. QuoteIQ Cam documents every install phase, which does double duty as dispute protection and as portfolio marketing you can push through a customer-facing gallery. Job Costing tracks pavers per pallet, base material by the yard, plant material and labor hours against the quoted price, so the owner sees the real margin on day four of a seven-day install rather than two weeks after the final invoice. For adjacent hardscape scopes, the land clearing calculator and French drain calculator sanity-check the scope before it reaches the estimate.
Two to four landscapers running a dense day of mow stops across several route-density zones, where the margin on basic maintenance is thin and the upside comes from add-on services. Route Density shows where the work clusters so you can assign a zone to a day; Route Optimization then sequences the stops inside that zone. The distinction matters: density tells you where, optimization tells you what order. GPS location tracking puts clocked-in crews on a live map with a traffic overlay and verifies clock-in location — and clocked-out employees are never shown on any map, which is the right answer both ethically and legally. The maintenance crew is also your best upsell channel, because every visit is a chance to text the homeowner an Options Estimate for a mulch refresh, aeration or seasonal cleanup.
One dedicated estimator who walks properties, builds tiered proposals and closes design-build work needs edit access to estimates and visibility on margin, but no access to company financials or payroll. Roles and permissions got a full overhaul in the August 2026 release with clearer gates and calendar permissions properly separated, so that split is now straightforward to configure. Deals tracks every consult from site walk through estimate sent, follow-up, close and handoff, and weekly close-rate reporting in Business Analytics shows which lead source converts and where the funnel leaks. On the payroll side, be clear-eyed: Time Tracker Pro gives you GPS clock in and out, per-job hours, break counts and durations, admin-only manual adjustments and a full edit history, with CSV export — but there is no automatic overtime calculation and no native payroll engine. Hours export to whatever payroll system you already run.
Landscape and horticultural services carry a hazard profile that OSHA maintains dedicated guidance for — mowers and trimmers, chippers, trenching, heat, pesticide exposure and highway work zones among them. A single lost-time injury on a four-person crew erases the margin on weeks of mowing. Inspection forms with custom templates are the cheapest way to put a repeatable pre-start check in front of a crew that actually gets filled in, because it lives on the phone they already have open.
Most landscape operations past the owner-operator stage run three distinct revenue channels, and the ones that keep growing are the ones that track those channels separately in Pipelines and Deals, market to each differently, and let Business Analytics decide where the next marketing dollar goes. Lumping all three into one lead list is the single most common reporting mistake in this trade, because it hides the fact that the channels have completely different cycle lengths and margins.
Weekly or bi-weekly mow accounts, monthly maintenance plans and seasonal cleanup contracts. The strength is predictability: recurring revenue smooths cash flow, makes labor planning possible, and converts the business from a feast-or-famine quote chase into a routed operation. Invoice Subscriptions auto-bill the roster on the same date each month with full discount, tax, fee and deposit handling, so nobody is chasing payments by text on a Sunday night. Reminders and tasks keep renewals and seasonal touchpoints from slipping, and when a customer wants to price an add-on themselves, the lawn care cost calculator and a free landscaping invoice template are useful front-door content for the same audience. Related trades — lawn care, irrigation and tree care — run the same recurring model and are natural adjacencies when you want to raise revenue per property instead of adding properties.
Hardscape patios, retaining walls, fire features, outdoor kitchens, landscape lighting, bed installations, irrigation and drainage. Higher ticket, longer sales cycle — consult to estimate to contract to install scheduling commonly spans 30 to 90 days — and considerably better margin than volume maintenance. This is where Options Estimates earn their place, because presenting a Basic, Mid-Range and Premium outdoor-living tier on one proposal anchors the customer’s expectation inside your range rather than against a competitor’s single number, and Before & After AI renders the premium tier as a finished space so the homeowner is choosing between pictures rather than between paragraphs. Pair it with consumer financing at checkout and the premium tier stops being a stretch. Adjacent scopes often sold on the same job include concrete, fencing and masonry.
Office park grounds, retail centre mow and trim, HOA common-area maintenance, multi-family property contracts and the renovation upsells those accounts generate. Annual contract values are far higher, but so is the procurement friction: RFPs, certificates of insurance, contract negotiation and multi-month decision cycles. Most landscape companies never break into this channel for one unglamorous reason — they cannot hold a multi-month sales cycle in their head, and nothing in their software holds it for them. One dedicated Deals lane with stages from prospecting through site walk, RFP submission, award and onboarding fixes that, and weighted forecasting keeps you honest about which of those opportunities is actually real. Commercial accounts also pull you toward seasonal adjacencies worth having: snow removal and holiday lighting keep the same crews earning through the off-season, and multi-business support lets you run those as separate books if you prefer.
Outdoor water use is where the regulatory pressure in this trade is concentrated, and it is quietly creating demand for redesign work. The EPA WaterSense programme publishes guidance on efficient landscape irrigation and runs a professional certification for irrigation specialists. Contractors who can quote a drought-tolerant redesign or a controller retrofit with real measured areas from MapMeasure Pro are selling into a tailwind, not fighting one. The artificial turf cost calculator is a useful front end for exactly that conversation.
The Census Bureau’s Statistics of U.S. Businesses is the authoritative count of American firms by industry and employment size, and it tells the same story across every home service trade: the overwhelming majority of businesses in the sector employ fewer than 25 people. Enterprise field service platforms are built for the small minority above that line, with implementation projects and annual contracts to match. That is the structural reason a 1-to-25-employee landscape company usually overbuys and under-uses. The National Association of Landscape Professionals is the trade body serving that same group.
An all-in-one CRM earns that label by replacing the stack, and the native tool list runs deep: Standard Estimates, Options Estimates, Package Estimates, Quick Estimates, MapMeasure Pro, Property Street View, Zillow Quick Access, QuoteIQ Cam, the before and after photo editor, Inspection Forms, Scheduling, Google Calendar sync, Google Reserve booking, Route Optimization, Route Density, Invoicing, Invoice Subscriptions, Online Payments, Tips, Consumer Financing, E-Signatures, Contract Attachments, Job Costing, Expense Tracking, Inventory Management, EmployeeHub, Time Tracker Pro, GPS Location Tracking, Team Communication, Roles & Permissions, Crews, Sales Tracker, ClientHub, Client Portal, Client Database, Contact Request Forms, Reminders & Tasks, Review Multiplier, AI Autopilot, AI Estimator, AI CoPilot, AI Text Generator, AI Auto-Reply, AI Smart Import, Before & After AI, Virtual Call Team, Pipelines & Deals, Business Analytics, Email & Text Automations, Mass Campaigns, InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, Gallery, Business Calculators, Multi-Business, Unlimited Users, Mobile & Web Access, Export Data and the QuickBooks Online integration. The full catalogue sits on the features hub, and QuoteIQ serves the same stack across more than fifty trades.
QuoteIQ is the best all-in-one CRM for landscaping businesses in 2026 because one subscription covers the four jobs a landscape company usually pays separate vendors for. MapMeasure Pro measures lawn, bed and hardscape areas from aerial imagery, Options Estimates present Good/Better/Best maintenance tiers on one proposal, QuoteIQ Cam archives unlimited 4K before-and-after photos against the job, and Route Optimization sequences the day’s stops to cut drive time 15–30%. Pricing runs from $29.99 a month for one user to $699 for unlimited seats, with 40,000-plus contractors on the platform and a 4.7 rating across 4,103 reviews. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 1,299,200 grounds maintenance workers nationally, and in a trade where labor is the dominant cost, the platform that keeps crews off the road and margins visible is the one that pays for itself. See the full landscaping management software overview for the complete picture.
QuoteIQ pricing for landscaping companies starts at $29.99 a month for Essentials with one user and 500 IQ Credits, and rises through Beginner at $74.99 for two users, Pro at $149.99 for four, Elite at $299 for ten and Max at $699 for unlimited seats. Annual billing is the monthly rate times ten, so Elite works out to $2,990 a year. Most multi-crew landscape operations land on Elite, because routing, inventory and crew GPS unlock at that tier rather than at Pro. Across the wider market, published rates vary widely and several platforms do not publish a rate card at all, so compare on your real seat count rather than on a headline number. The U.S. Small Business Administration has free guidance on evaluating recurring business costs, and the free business calculators will run the comparison for you.
Yes. MapMeasure Pro is built into estimate creation from the $74.99 Beginner plan upward and measures lawn square footage, garden bed area, hardscape surfaces, driveways and property boundaries from aerial imagery, with drawing tools for irregular shapes. Measurements save to the customer profile and export into the quote, screenshots attach to the estimate as visual proof of scope, and a historical imagery timeline added in August 2026 lets you scroll back through years of aerial photos of the same property — useful when a customer disputes what was there before you started. Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access fill in the ground-level and parcel detail from the same screen, so an estimator can pre-scope a dozen properties before leaving the yard and arrive already knowing the numbers. Pair it with the lawn care cost calculator for maintenance pricing, the irrigation software page for sprinkler retrofit work, or the EPA WaterSense outdoor guidance when quoting water-efficiency upgrades.
Yes, and on every plan including the $29.99 entry tier. Scheduling handles weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and custom-interval recurring service for mowing, fertilisation, treatments and maintenance plans, with drag-and-drop day, week, month and employee-timeline views, and the ability to move a single occurrence of a recurring series without disturbing the rest of it — which is exactly what you need the Monday after a rained-out Friday. Invoice Subscriptions then auto-bill the roster on the configured cycle with full discount, tax, fee and deposit handling, and an accepted estimate converts straight into a recurring subscription in one step. Automated appointment reminders go out by SMS and email, on-the-way texts fire from the Pro tier up, and reminders and tasks catch renewals. Grab a free landscaping invoice template if you are still billing by hand, and see the lawn care software page for the mow-route specifics. SBA guidance covers the cash-flow case for recurring billing.
For a landscape company running mow routes, the capability you need sits at QuoteIQ’s Elite tier, $299 a month for ten users. Route Density shows where your work clusters so you can assign a geographic zone to a weekday, and Route Optimization then sequences the stops inside that zone for minimum drive time, respecting appointment windows and job durations, recalculating when a job is added mid-day, and handing off to GPS navigation. Published figures put the drive-time saving at 15–30%. On the crew side, EmployeeHub brings GPS location tracking for clocked-in staff only, Time Tracker Pro for GPS clock in and out with break tracking, and team communication. Named crew creation and crew scheduling are Max-tier features. With the IRS mileage rate at 76 cents from July 2026, routing is a line item, not a nicety.
The honest comparison is about what one subscription has to cover rather than a single headline discount. Checked on their own pricing pages on October 6, 2026, Jobber publishes Core at $49, Connect at $139, Grow at $199 and Plus at $499 a month at no commitment, with lower rates on annual terms and seat counts priced separately; Housecall Pro publishes Basic at $79, Essentials at $189 and Max at $329 a month, or $59, $149 and $299 on annual billing, with extra Max seats at $35; ServiceTitan publishes no rate card at all. QuoteIQ Elite covers ten seats at $299 with satellite measurement, 4K photo documentation, routing and inventory already inside it, where comparable stacks typically add a measurement subscription and a photo app on top. Read every vendor’s page yourself, and use Census business-size data to judge which tier of product your company is actually sized for. The comparison hub has the detail.
Yes, from the Elite plan at $299 a month upward. Inventory Management runs five modules: Products carries SKU, category, unit, cost, customer price, margin and reorder point with in-stock, low and out indicators; Locations covers warehouses, trailers, trucks and job sites; Suppliers holds your vendors; Orders move from draft to confirmed to received, with receiving auto-creating receipt transactions; and Transactions log every movement including receipts, returns, issues, damage, loss and adjustments. That maps cleanly onto how landscape material actually behaves — mulch by the yard, pavers by the pallet, plants by SKU, sod by the roll, amendments by the bag. One mechanic is worth knowing precisely: stock deducts when the invoice is paid, not when the job is marked complete, and a deposit does not count as paid. Pair it with Job Costing and expense tracking, and keep an eye on OSHA material-handling guidance for yard storage.
Yes. QuoteIQ offers a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose, one trial per person, business and payment method, and a credit or debit card is required to start. The trial converts to the selected plan’s rate at expiry unless you cancel first, and you can cancel at any point during it. For a landscape company, the sensible way to use those two weeks is to run one real week of your normal route through the platform rather than clicking around a demo account: pre-scope three properties in MapMeasure Pro, send one tiered Options Estimate, document a job in QuoteIQ Cam, bill it through Invoicing and check the margin in Job Costing. If you are migrating, bring your customer list across with AI Smart Import, which reads CSV exports from other CRMs. The SBA publishes free counselling for owners evaluating a systems change.
One subscription replaces the landscape stack. Measurement, estimating, photo documentation, routing and billing live in one landscaping management platform instead of four vendors with four logins.
Satellite measurement starts at $74.99. MapMeasure Pro reads lawn, bed, hardscape and driveway areas from aerial imagery inside estimate creation from the Beginner tier up.
Tiered estimates ship on every plan. Options Estimates put Good, Better and Best maintenance or outdoor-living tiers on a single proposal from the $29.99 plan onward.
Routing and inventory unlock at Elite. Elite is $299 a month for 10 users and is the honest recommendation for any landscape company running mow routes or carrying material stock.
Drive time falls 15–30%. Route Density picks the zone and Route Optimization picks the order — real money at 76 cents a mile.
The AI suite is on every tier, metered by credits. AI Autopilot spans 55 tools in 13 categories; the Virtual Call Team answers and qualifies inbound calls at 125 credits a minute.
Margin becomes visible mid-job. Job Costing runs price minus labor minus expenses with labor pulled from clocked hours, so a seven-day install reports margin on day four.
Trust is earned at scale. 40,000-plus contractors, a 4.7 rating and 4,103 reviews across the app stores, with a 14-day trial on every plan.
A full walkthrough of estimating, scheduling, invoicing and the AI tools inside the platform.
Watch Video →Open a 14-day free trial on the plan that matches your crew count, then import your existing customers. AI Smart Import reads CSV exports from other CRMs and maps the columns for you, or you can pull straight from phone contacts. Set your price book up first — it is the single step that makes everything downstream fast.
Use MapMeasure Pro to measure lawn area, bed area and any hardscape on three properties you already know well, and compare the numbers against what you actually billed. That calibration tells you within an afternoon whether remote scoping will work on your route, and the measurements save to the customer profile for reuse.
Build a Basic, Full-Service and Premium tier in Options Estimates for a maintenance prospect, and a bundled seasonal offer in Package Estimates. Attach a Before & After AI render to the premium tier and let the customer sign with e-signatures on the spot.
Document jobs in QuoteIQ Cam, bill through Invoicing, and at the end of the week open Job Costing and Business Analytics. Sort by margin. The decision about whether to keep the platform usually makes itself the moment you see which jobs were actually profitable.
“Same day. Not tomorrow morning — same day. Whoever sends a clear, specific estimate first is the one the customer starts comparing everyone else to. That’s a psychological anchor, and it’s real.”
Read Mike’s insights →“The most expensive thing in manual management isn’t the time spent on the tasks — it’s the revenue lost to the things that don’t get done.”
Read Justin’s insights →“Amazing UI and easy to use! I use this for my landscaping company and it makes it very easy to track projects and payments for projects. The built in picture protection is also fantastic. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is thinking about it!”
— Camden Nagg · Google Play · 5★“I have a lawncare business, was unorganized, but QuoteIQ changed everything. Estimates, scheduling, billing and invoicing are seamless. Tax prep easier. Best CRM by functionality and price.”
— Elke Staton · App Store · 5★“This product is so excellent. It shows the square footage and percentage of what you need to quote a customer. I enjoyed it. I loved it and it will be always with me.”
— Monte Thompson · App Store · 5★Satellite measurement, tiered estimating, route planning, inventory, job costing and the full AI suite — starting at $29.99 a month, with 40,000-plus contractors already on the platform.
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Estimates
Create and send professional estimates.
Invoicing
Send, track and collect invoices.
QuoteIQ Cam
Capture and document every job with ease.
Scheduling
Schedule jobs to your calendar in seconds.
Inspection Forms
Create and complete inspection reports.
MapMeasure Pro
Measure and price properties instantly.
Business Analytics
Real-time insight into your performance.
EmployeeHub
Assign, schedule & pay employees.
Virtual Call Team
Never miss a call with 24/7 AJ, assistant.
ClientHub
Send and keep messages inside QuoteIQ.
InstaQuote
Allow customers to create estimates themselves.
InstaSchedule
Let clients schedule appointments themselves.
Facebook User Group
Connect with and get advice from other QuoteIQ users.
Competitor Comparisons
See how QuoteIQ compares to it’s top competitors.
QuoteIQ Partners
Work with trusted partners that support your growth.
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Press & Media
Brand assets and coverage about QuoteIQ’s journey.
