Software for commercial landscape installers
For commercial landscape and site contractors with about 30 to 150 people in season who install parks, campuses, hospitals, streetscapes, green roofs and hardscape, as a subcontractor to general contractors or directly for public owners, and who run their plant schedules, nursery holds and warranty walks from a workbook per job. We build a web system around your own jobs and nurseries: every plant still short, the availability lists read for you, substitution requests with their evidence, planting windows and the one-year warranty. A typical build costs $8,000 to $25,000 at a fixed price, and hosting and support start at $350 a month, with no per-user fee.
Last reviewed: November 11, 2026
What installers need that a workbook per job handles badly
- "What's still short, on every job?" One list across all jobs, not a plant schedule per workbook.
- Availability lists from a dozen nurseries, each in its own layout, read line by line against every open plant line.
- "Tagged at the nursery" that stays true, with holds about to expire flagged before they lapse, and money paid for plants still standing at the nursery.
- Substitution requests with proof of non-availability, since the spec allows no change of size, grade, variety or species without the landscape architect's written approval.
- Planting windows against a late site: what has to go in before the window closes, and what moves to spring dig.
- Warranty walks and replacements, with one replacement per plant and the establishment period tracked, not remembered by the superintendent.
What we build for a landscape installer
The demo shows each piece working for a fictional contractor, Tallis Grove Site & Landscape. Your jobs, nurseries, plant schedules and spec rules are your own.
- The sourcing board: every plant still short on every job, holds about to expire, money paid for plants still at nurseries, and warranty replacements to buy.
- Availability lists read by AI: your buyer drops in a nursery's list, and the AI reads it against every open plant line on every job, saying which rows fill a line exactly and which would only be a substitution. The system's rules check every match, and nothing is held until your buyer ticks it.
- Substitution requests that carry their own evidence: every list on file that offered the plant, sent to the landscape architect as a one-page PDF. Buying the substitute is blocked until the written answer is recorded. The landscape architect decides; the system only keeps the request and the answer.
- Planting windows: each job's spec windows by kind of plant, against the general contractor's site milestones, on one calendar. It shows what must go in before a window closes, what a late site puts at risk, and which trees appear on nurseries' fall digging hazard lists, as advice for you to weigh. One click moves plants to spring and carries their nursery holds.
- The warranty: walks on a phone. A dead plant becomes a replacement due in the next planting season, with its own warranty; a declining plant is watched until the final walk; a replacement that dies again is marked as not owed. You see replacements owed against each job's reserve.
- Excel everywhere: every list exports to Excel.
The AI reads; the rules check; your buyer and the landscape architect decide. You own all of it: the code, the data and the address.
What it costs, and how long it takes
A landscape installation system is a fixed-price build, typically $8,000 to $25,000, then hosting and support from $350 a month, with no per-user fee. The price depends on how many jobs and nurseries you run, how your plant schedules are kept today, and whether lists arrive as PDFs, and you see it in writing before anything starts.
| Blueprint | From $1,500: the written plan and the fixed price for the build, credited in full to it |
|---|---|
| Build | Fixed price per phase; most projects $8,000 to $25,000 |
| Included | The first 3 months of Standard support |
| After that | Support plans from $350 a month, hosting included, month to month |
Your workbooks keep running beside the new system until the day you switch.
How it compares with the alternatives
| Option | Cost | Fits best when |
|---|---|---|
| A workbook per job, a nursery sheet and a wall calendar | Staff time | A few jobs a season, and one buyer who remembers every hold |
| Landscape business software | Usually a monthly subscription | You mainly need estimating, crew scheduling and maintenance billing |
| Rowhouse Systems | $8,000 to $25,000 once, then from $350 a month | You want plant sourcing, substitutions and warranty replacements run your way, in one system you own |
Landscape business software is mostly built around estimating, crew scheduling and maintenance billing. If you use one, the system can sit beside it; connecting the two is a question for planning the build. Prices change, so check each vendor's own quote.
See it working
The demo is Tallis Grove Site & Landscape, a fictional commercial landscape contractor. Sign in with one click as the plant buyer, a project manager, the field superintendent or the president. Let the AI read this morning's nursery availability list, send a substitution request with its evidence, move a late job's trees to spring, and walk a warranty job. The data resets every night, so you can't break anything.
A guide for this trade
Plant substitution requests: proof of non-availability, and what's still short on every job: A plant substitution request needs the specified line, the substitute, a reason, dated nursery lists as proof of non-availability, and the credit or extra.
Questions
Can it read our nurseries' lists as they come?
The demo reads Excel and CSV lists in whatever layout the nursery sends. Reading PDF lists is part of a build.
Does it connect to our estimating software?
That's a question for planning the build. The demo starts from each job's plant schedule.
Can our landscape architect approve substitutions in the system?
It can be built that way. The demo sends the request as a PDF and records the written answer.
Can planting windows differ by job?
Yes. They come from each job's own spec.
Does it track warranty replacements on jobs we finished before?
Yes. Enter the acceptance date and the walks so far, and it carries on from there.
Will it work on a superintendent's phone?
The warranty walk is built for a phone first.
Does it bill for plants at the nursery?
No. It shows what you've paid for plants still at the nursery; whether that's billable as stored materials depends on your contract.
What does the AI cost?
Each list it reads is one call, under a monthly limit you set. Use above the support plan's allowance is billed at cost and itemized.
What does it cost, and who owns it?
A fixed-price build, typically $8,000 to $25,000, then from $350 a month for hosting and support, with no per-user fee. The system, the code and the data are yours, with an export to Excel at any time.