Blue Collar Trade Manager automates the recurring side of a landscaping business — weekly mowing, seasonal cleanups, maintenance contracts — while also handling one-off installs like a patio or irrigation job through the same estimate-to-invoice flow. Customers pay by card or ACH from a text link either way, while contractor and worker calendars keep assigned work and scheduled windows visible without a route-optimization claim.
Create an estimate for the job from scratch or pull line items straight from your landscaping price book, then send it for approval by text or email.
The customer reviews and approves the estimate online or by replying to a text — no printing, no in-person signature required.
Turn the approved estimate into an invoice in one step, so line items, pricing, and job details carry over without retyping anything.
The invoice goes out with a public click-to-pay link so the customer can pay by card or ACH from their phone, without creating an account.
If the invoice sits unpaid, automated payment reminders go out on a schedule you set, instead of you having to remember to chase it.
Paid, unpaid, and overdue invoices roll up into reports so you can see outstanding balances across every customer at a glance.
A weekly or biweekly mowing route generates the same invoice, for the same customer, on a predictable schedule. Recurring invoicing sets that up once — amount, frequency, customer — and lets it run automatically instead of someone manually invoicing forty properties every Friday.
Outside the recurring contract, seasonal jobs come in fast and need a quick turnaround. Building the estimate from price book items — per-yard debris removal, per-hour cleanup labor — lets you quote on the driveway instead of going back to the office to write it up.
Landscaping crews rarely work anywhere near a desk. Mobile invoicing covers building and sending invoices from a phone between properties, and the offline PWA handles drafting in areas without signal — a common issue on rural or large-acreage properties.
Even with automatic billing, some customers let invoices sit unpaid. Automated payment reminders follow up on a schedule you set, so chasing down a late mowing invoice doesn't fall on you to remember.
Set the customer up on a recurring invoice with the mowing or maintenance price and frequency, and it bills automatically without you creating a new invoice each visit.
Once configured, a recurring invoice for weekly or biweekly service generates and sends itself on schedule. This is the same feature used for maintenance contracts in other trades, applied to a lawn care route.
Send invoices with a click-to-pay link so customers can pay by card or ACH immediately, and turn on automated reminders for anything left unpaid after a few days.
Removing the friction of writing and mailing a check is the single biggest lever most landscaping businesses have over payment speed, since most residential lawn care invoices are relatively small and customers are usually willing to pay online if given an easy option.
Build the estimate from price book items — like per-yard debris hauling or per-hour labor — right at the property, then send it for approval by text.
Seasonal cleanup pricing tends to follow a formula (yard size, debris volume, labor hours), which is exactly what a price book is for. Quoting on-site rather than promising to "send something later" improves close rates because the customer sees the number while they're still standing there.
Recurring maintenance is almost always billed flat-rate per visit; one-off installs (patios, irrigation, hardscaping) are more often flat-rate per job with materials broken out, though some businesses bill labor hourly on those.
BCTM's price book supports both flat-rate and hourly items, so a single business can run flat-rate mowing routes and hourly-plus-materials billing for landscape installs side by side without switching systems.
Yes, once the customer has given consent to be texted — BCTM captures that consent at intake and then supports SMS delivery for invoices, estimates, and reminders.
Two-way SMS also means a customer can reply with a question about their invoice directly. This is general information, not legal or tax advice — check with a licensed attorney or CPA in your state before relying on it.
BCTM lets you generate an invoice and receipt for a cash job the same as any other payment method, which gives you a record — whether you're required to report that income is a tax question for your CPA.
Recording every job, regardless of payment method, keeps your books consistent and gives you a paper trail if a customer later disputes what was done. This is general information, not legal or tax advice — check with a licensed attorney or CPA in your state before relying on it.
There is no monthly subscription to carry: you pay 3.9% + $0.30 on a card payment and 1.8% on ACH — Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 or 0.8% (capped at $5.00) plus BCTM's 1% platform fee — and nothing in the months you invoice nobody.
For small, frequent invoices typical of lawn care — often under $100 — card fees are proportionally higher than on big-ticket jobs, so pointing repeat customers toward ACH or a bank-linked payment option can meaningfully reduce what you give up in fees over a season (Stripe Pricing).
$0/mo — no subscription and no per-user seats. Card payments: 3.9% + $0.30 (1% BCTM platform fee + 2.9% + $0.30 Stripe). ACH bank payments: 1.8% (1% BCTM platform fee + 0.8% Stripe, Stripe portion capped at $5.00). Cash and check: no fees. Full fee breakdown.
No subscription. You pay a per-transaction fee only when a customer pays you.
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