DArnTech / Bookings / for lawn care
Booking for the residential lawn crew, not the commercial-fleet dispatcher.
Yardbook is $30–99 and Jobber is $49–249 — both are good products built for crews bigger than 1-2 people. DArnTech Bookings is the focused recurring + seasonal-service + weather-rescheduling piece, on your subdomain, $49/month.
Who this is for
- Solo lawn-care operators with 30–80 active recurring customers
- 2-crew operations (owner + 1 helper) doing residential service plans
- No-tool crews running off paper + text + yard-sign referrals · ready for a tool but not for $99-$249 agency tiers
Not for you if: you have 5+ crews and need real dispatch + route optimization (LMN or Service Autopilot fit better) · you focus on commercial / HOA-contract work (different product shape) · your business is mainly landscape installation rather than recurring service (different cycle).
Features built for the residential lawn shape
Recurring schedules with seasonality
Every-7-days mowing March-November, bi-weekly during slow season, monthly leaf cleanup, seasonal cleanup spring/fall. Auto-rebooks within each service's season window.
Tier menus
$40 standard mow · $60 deluxe with edging · $150 spring cleanup · $200 fall leaf cleanup · $250 snow plowing (winter contract). Your menu, your prices.
Weather-rescheduling
Rain → auto-reschedule to next available day in the route. Customer notified. No more 6am text loops trying to call off the day's work.
Per-property notes
Front-gate code, sprinkler-head locations, don't-cut zones, pet-area, special tools needed. Notes attached to the customer record so you and your helper both know without asking.
Service-area cap
Stay within Carmel/Fishers/Zionsville (or your radius). Out-of-area requests refused at intake. Keeps your route tight.
Yard photos pre/post (optional)
Quick before/after photo from your phone, accessible to customer. Useful for the rare quality conversation and for marketing testimonials.
Honest comparison
| Tool | Monthly | Honest take |
|---|---|---|
| DArnTech Bookings | $49 (solo) · $79 (2-crew) | Focused on recurring + seasonal + weather. Self-hosted. |
| Yardbook | $30–99 | Lawn-vertical-specific. Closest competitor at price. |
| LMN | $79–279 | Landscape-management network. Feature-heavy. |
| Service Autopilot | $79–279 | Landscape-vertical CRM. Built for larger crews. |
| Jobber | $49–249 | Generic residential FSM. Dominant at the agency end. |
| Paper + text + yard signs | $0 | Works at 20-40 customers. Falls over above 60. |
This vertical is queued · best to seed pre-season (Feb-Mar)
Lawn care is Vertical 8 in the DArnTech Bookings roadmap. Seasonality matters — best to onboard new crews in Feb-Mar before mowing season starts. Estimated launch window: late winter 2027 (Jan-Feb) timing the season-start. Reach out anyway — early conversations shape pricing and feature priorities. Email d.arney@darrenarney.com.