See how landscaping businesses are using Bolster to win 20% more jobs annually, 15% more often. Create detailed estimates, presentations, upsell with selections, and then automate project management.
Landscaping contractors using Bolster are, on average, winning 15% bigger jobs, 20% more often.
"I’ve gone from not getting any jobs with another system to now closing $50k, $80k, and $250k jobs using Bolster."
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Get startedLandscaping software should do one job before anything else: get an accurate price in front of the homeowner while they still want the work. Bolster is landscaping estimating software first. You measure the yard, pick the assemblies for sod, pavers, retaining walls, planting beds or irrigation, and Bolster prices the materials and labor, builds a professional quote and carries the job through scheduling and payment once it is signed.
This page covers what landscape contractors should expect from landscaping software, how to build a landscape estimate that holds its margin, and how Bolster handles each step.
Most landscape businesses outgrow spreadsheets and generic invoicing apps at the same point: when the owner is the bottleneck on every quote. The tools that fix that share a short list of features.
If a tool covers the back half (scheduling, crews, invoicing) but leaves you estimating in a spreadsheet, it is field service software, not landscaping estimating software. That distinction matters because the estimate is where you win or lose the job.
Whatever software you use, a landscape estimate that protects your margin follows the same order.
Illustrative example: a 400 sq ft paver patio. Excavation and 6 inches of compacted base (about 7.4 cubic yards), 1 inch of bedding sand, 420 sq ft of pavers including 5% waste, edge restraint for 80 linear feet, polymeric sand, and roughly 0.25 crew hours per square foot. Each of those lines is a separate cost you can see, adjust and defend if the client questions the price. The figures here are only an example; your production rates and supplier prices will differ.
Bolster's estimating works like a spreadsheet with formulas already attached. Enter the dimensions once and every linked item recalculates. Takeoff lets you measure directly on satellite imagery or uploaded plans, and the measurements flow straight into your items. AutoCost fills in live, region-specific material and labor pricing from a catalog of more than 100 million construction items, so your numbers move with the market instead of lagging it.
Because the estimate is built from assemblies, your crew leaders, office staff or a new estimator produce the same price for the same scope. That consistency is what lets an owner step back from quoting every job personally.
Every estimate turns into an interactive presentation with no extra work. Homeowners see photos, descriptions and clear prices, and can switch between options such as natural stone versus concrete pavers or add landscape lighting. With upgrades and optional items the price updates as they choose, and they sign digitally when they are ready. Bolster contractors win 15% bigger jobs on average when they offer upgrades and options.
When a job is booked, Bolster builds the schedule from the estimate items, generates the material list and budget, and lets you request deposits and progress payments online through Bolster Payments. Clients follow progress in their portal, and the budget tracks actual costs against the estimate so you can see job profitability. If hardscape is the bigger share of your work, see our page for hardscape contractors.
Winning the job is half of it. In Bolster, the signed estimate becomes the job budget automatically, so material invoices and labor hours are tracked against what you priced. When a patio runs over, you can see whether it was material, labor or a scope change, and adjust the assembly so the next quote is right. Landscaping job costing software matters most for contractors who mix design-build, hardscape and planting, because each has different margins.
Spring is short, and quotes that sit unanswered for a week often go to someone else. The Bolster CRM pipeline shows every lead from first call to booked job and alerts you when a homeowner opens or changes their quote, so you can follow up while they are still deciding.
If the answer to most of these is no, you will still be estimating at the kitchen table at night. Book a demo and we will build one of your typical landscape jobs in Bolster with you.
The best landscaping software for a small business is the one that shortens the estimate, because that is where the owner's time goes. Look for measured takeoffs, assemblies, live material pricing and quotes clients can approve online. Bolster covers those plus scheduling, budgets and payments in one system.
Yes. Design software produces drawings and renderings. Landscaping estimating software turns a scope into quantities, costs and a priced quote. Many contractors use a design tool for complex plans and an estimating tool like Bolster to price and sell the job.
Measure every area, break the work into assemblies, price materials at current cost with a waste factor, price labor by production rate, add equipment and disposal, then apply overhead and markup. Software with assemblies and live pricing does most of this math for you.
Yes. Bolster Takeoff lets you measure areas, lengths and counts on satellite imagery, uploaded plans or photos, and link those measurements directly to items in your estimate.
Yes. Assemblies can cover pavers, walls, steps, sod, planting, irrigation, lighting and any other scope you price, with your own production rates and markups.
Yes. Bolster Payments lets clients pay deposits and progress payments online by card or bank transfer from the quote or their client portal, in both the US and Canada.
