For landscapers

How to price a landscaping job before you get back to the truck.

The customer follows you down the driveway and asks what it will run. Say a number too fast and you own it for the rest of the job. Say you will email something tonight and, often enough, somebody quicker has already quoted it by dinner.

Priscale gets the estimate to a sendable state while you are still standing in the yard.

Front yard renovation · quoted from the driveway

The number you said out loud: $1,100.00
What the yard costs you: $1,189.00
Where that leaves you: −$89.00

Priced in the yard, or priced from memory after dinner.

Presets & mobile

Price the job from the truck, before you drive off.

Landscaping quotes are won by whoever answers first. Save the tasks, materials, fees, and agreements you use every week as presets — spring cleanup, bed prep, edging, planting, haul-away — already priced at your rates. On the next walkthrough you tap them off a list instead of typing them again.

Priscale is built to be used standing in the yard on a phone, not back at a desk. Pick the presets, adjust the hours for how big this yard really is, and the pricing spectrum comes up right there: about 30 candidate prices spanning your floor, your customer’s budget, and what the job goes for locally, each one flagged loss, break-even, or profit.

What an hour of crew time actually costs you.

A crew hour is not a wage. It is the wage plus the truck payment, the trailer, the mower you rebuild every other season, the fuel, the insurance, and the Tuesdays it rained. Add your expenses, your crew, and the hours the team genuinely has to sell, and Priscale divides one by the other to hand you the rate the business has to earn just to stand still.

Every task on every estimate is priced off that rate, so an 18-hour yard never quietly costs less than 18 hours of crew time. Track billable hours across the crew and the picture sharpens further: how many of the crew’s sellable hours are already committed, and what a rained-out week does to the number everything else depends on.

How burn rate is calculated

Per year · one crew, one truck

Expenses, payroll & equipment: $41,344.00
Billable hours the crew can sell: 1,088
Crew burn rate: $38.00/h

Close the gap

Name the price you want, then press distribute.

Sometimes the number you want is not the number the line items add up to. Say the neighbor got quoted $1,395.00 and you want to land just above it, or the customer asks you to work to a round figure. Name your target and Priscale shows you the gap between it and what the yard costs today.

One button per group spreads that difference evenly across the tasks, the plants, or the fees, so every line still looks like the work it describes instead of carrying a mystery surcharge. Prefer to do it by hand? Move any line yourself and watch the gap close as you go. The target never moves on you, and the profit or loss against your floor stays on screen the whole time.

Not just landscapers.

Contractors, artists, software developers, and anyone else who names a price before the work starts run into the same arithmetic from a different direction.

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How to price a landscaping job before you get back to the truck.

Price the job from the truck, before you drive off.

What an hour of crew time actually costs you.

Name the price you want, then press distribute.

Not just landscapers.

Charge what the work actually costs.