Lawn care companies need scheduling software that handles weekly and every-other-week properties, crews of two or three, seasonal start and end dates, and weather days. Crewtide builds each week from your property list with route optimization, keeps commercial properties inside their windows, and when a day is rained out, moves its visits into the rest of the week instead of dropping them. It doesn’t do estimates, invoicing or chemical application records.
Why lawn care routes are hard to schedule
- Weekly and biweekly on the same streets. Every-other-week properties have to land on the right week, and they drift when a visit is skipped.
- Weather. One rained-out Tuesday pushes thirty properties into a week that was already full.
- Crews, not individuals. A three-person crew mows a commercial site in a fraction of the time a solo tech would; time on site depends on who’s on the truck.
- Seasons. Mowing starts and stops on different dates for different clients, and fall cleanups and aeration add one-off visits.
- Commercial windows. Office parks, HOAs and retail centers want crews before business hours or on set days.
How to plan a week of lawn care routes in Crewtide
- Import your properties.Address, cycle (weekly, every 2 weeks), usual day, window, season start and end, and time on site per crew size.
- Set your crews.Add technicians, trucks and equipment, plus shifts and time off.
- Build the week.Crewtide places every property that’s due on a crew’s route and orders the stops by real drive time.
- Close a day when it rains.Close the day and its visits spread across the rest of the week; checks show anything that no longer fits.
- Publish.Print or export route sheets for each crew, and use the To notify list for the properties whose visit moved.
Typical customer rules
| Property | Cycle | Usual day | Window | Time on site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge Office Park | Weekly, Apr–Oct | Mon | 6:00–9:00 AM | 3-person crew 75 min, 2-person 110 min |
| Willow Creek HOA common areas | Weekly | Tue | 8:00 AM–5:00 PM, no-go during events | 3-person crew 3 h |
| Cedar Lane Clinic | Every 2 weeks | Wed or Thu | Before 8:00 AM | 2-person crew 40 min |
| Hillside Retail Center | Weekly | Fri | 5:30–8:00 AM | 3-person crew 60 min |
More on keeping alternate-week properties straight: biweekly and monthly service schedules.
What Crewtide doesn’t do for lawn care
Keep your lawn care business software for estimates, invoicing, payments, fertilizer and chemical application records, and customer portals. Crewtide plans and routes the week.
Coming with Pro: texting properties when a visit moves, a crew phone app, and what-if weeks to try a four-day schedule before you commit.
Comparing tools? See Crewtide vs Jobber and Crewtide vs Service Autopilot.
What it costs for a lawn care company
Crewtide charges for each technician on a route that month: $49 a month billed annually or $59 month to month. Month to month bills only for the people who were on routes that month and cancels any time, which suits seasonal crews. Office users are free, and there’s no setup fee.
Questions
What is the best lawn care scheduling software?
All-in-one lawn care software handles estimates, invoices and payments. If your hardest job is building weekly and biweekly routes for several crews and recovering from rain days, Crewtide does that part in depth and works next to your billing software.
Can Crewtide handle biweekly mowing?
Yes. Each property has a cycle and usual day, and Crewtide puts every-other-week properties into the right weeks automatically.
What happens when it rains?
Close the day. Its visits spread across the rest of the week instead of dropping off, and the checks show anything that no longer fits.
Do I pay for crew members in the off season?
On month to month, you pay only for technicians on routes that month, and you can cancel any time.