How to make a landscaping maintenance contract
It takes less than 5 minutes to do using Duranta
Nov 30, 2024
The single best way to build a stable income and to make your business attractive to private equity buyers is to have recurring cashflows. In practice, this means that instead of charging your customers per job, you want them to sign a contract that allows you to provide different services over the course of a year.
The hard part about doing this is figuring out exactly how much the customer's monthly payment will be. Essentially, you have to amortize the cost of your services over a fixed period of time. Here is how you do it in Duranta.
Analyze the property
The first step is to analyze the property using high definition imagery. Duranta has the sharpest imagery in the landscaping industry: you can see details down to the types of plants on the property. This means that you can save time and be the first bid by skipping traveling to the site. Our software uses AI to automatically calculate the lot and the yard area for you. Once you have that information, you can select which services you wish to add.
Set up your services
Let us assume that you offer a maintenance package that includes mowing, pruning, edging and a clean up. You may also fertilize or treat the property a few times a year. You can create all of these services in Duranta and choose how you would like to price them. Popular options include pricing by acre or by square foot, pricing by hour, or choosing a flat price for your service.
Choose their frequency
A key difference between landscaping and other trades is that the work that you do varies by the season. For example, you might mow and prune two times a month during the spring time, but only once a month during the summer. You might aerate in spring and mulch in fall. The easy way to do this in Duranta is to pick a start and end date for each service you are providing: the software will calculate the number of services, and it will calculate the monthly payment for you.
Create a simple proposal
Building trust with your customer is all about the work you do, and how you present yourself. That’s why we invested so much time in making it easy to create a compelling proposal for your customer. Duranta will automatically price out the contract for you, and will make it clear to your customer what they are paying for. And once you send it, you can track when they open and when they approve it, directly in your account!
Making a landscaping maintenance contract is a great way to ensure that you have a stable income and an attractive business for potential acquirers. In Duranta it takes less than 5 minutes to size up a property, price several services and generate a simple to understand contract for your customers.
The single best way to build a stable income and to make your business attractive to private equity buyers is to have recurring cashflows. In practice, this means that instead of charging your customers per job, you want them to sign a contract that allows you to provide different services over the course of a year.
The hard part about doing this is figuring out exactly how much the customer's monthly payment will be. Essentially, you have to amortize the cost of your services over a fixed period of time. Here is how you do it in Duranta.
Analyze the property
The first step is to analyze the property using high definition imagery. Duranta has the sharpest imagery in the landscaping industry: you can see details down to the types of plants on the property. This means that you can save time and be the first bid by skipping traveling to the site. Our software uses AI to automatically calculate the lot and the yard area for you. Once you have that information, you can select which services you wish to add.
Set up your services
Let us assume that you offer a maintenance package that includes mowing, pruning, edging and a clean up. You may also fertilize or treat the property a few times a year. You can create all of these services in Duranta and choose how you would like to price them. Popular options include pricing by acre or by square foot, pricing by hour, or choosing a flat price for your service.
Choose their frequency
A key difference between landscaping and other trades is that the work that you do varies by the season. For example, you might mow and prune two times a month during the spring time, but only once a month during the summer. You might aerate in spring and mulch in fall. The easy way to do this in Duranta is to pick a start and end date for each service you are providing: the software will calculate the number of services, and it will calculate the monthly payment for you.
Create a simple proposal
Building trust with your customer is all about the work you do, and how you present yourself. That’s why we invested so much time in making it easy to create a compelling proposal for your customer. Duranta will automatically price out the contract for you, and will make it clear to your customer what they are paying for. And once you send it, you can track when they open and when they approve it, directly in your account!
Making a landscaping maintenance contract is a great way to ensure that you have a stable income and an attractive business for potential acquirers. In Duranta it takes less than 5 minutes to size up a property, price several services and generate a simple to understand contract for your customers.