COMMERCIAL & DOMESTIC LANDSCAPING

Landscape Flow case study: quoting, scheduling and margin in one system

Landscape Flow takes a landscaping business off whiteboards and spreadsheets: measured quotes built from a live price book, crews scheduled against real capacity, and job costing that shows margin while the job is still running.

Measured results

−70%
QUOTE TURNAROUND

Lothian Landscapes, West Lothian

QUOTES SENT PER WEEK

Lothian Landscapes, West Lothian

+9pts
GROSS MARGIN

Lothian Landscapes, West Lothian

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WHITEBOARDS LEFT

Lothian Landscapes, West Lothian

How a job runs, end to end

Every stage below is a real handover in the business. Landscape Flow removes the phone calls and the re-keying between them.

  1. 01

    Enquiry lands

    Web enquiry, phone note or site visit captured against a customer record with photos and measurements.

    WEB FORMS · MOBILE CAPTURE

  2. 02

    Quote from the price book

    Materials, labour rates and margin targets pull from one maintained price book, so quotes go out same day.

    PRICE BOOK · TEMPLATES

  3. 03

    Schedule the crew

    Won work drops onto a live board against real crew capacity, plant and weather windows.

    SCHEDULING BOARD

  4. 04

    Run the job

    Crews log hours, materials and variations on site; supervisors see actual against quoted as it happens.

    MOBILE JOB CARDS

  5. 05

    Cost and invoice

    Job costing closes the loop into the accounts package with variations already priced.

    XERO · SAGE

Landscape Flow process: Enquiry lands → Quote from the price book → Schedule the crew → Run the job → Cost and invoice.

What changes

BEFORE

  • Quotes queued behind whichever evening the owner had free.
  • Crew allocation living on a whiteboard nobody could see from site.
  • Variations agreed verbally and forgotten at invoice stage.
  • Margin only known once the job was finished and paid.

AFTER

  • Same-day quotes built from a maintained price book.
  • One live schedule visible to the office and every crew.
  • Variations priced and signed on site before the work happens.
  • Live margin per job, per crew, per week.

Where it runs

The same platform, shown in the places our clients actually operate.

West Lothian

COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPING, 28 STAFF

A Newbridge contractor cut quote turnaround by 70%, tripled the number of quotes going out each week and lifted gross margin by nine points after moving off whiteboards and spreadsheets.

Read the Lothian Landscapes story →

Edinburgh

GROUNDS MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS

Recurring maintenance rounds are scheduled as repeating visits with per-site service levels, so contract profitability is tracked site by site rather than as one lump.

Glasgow

HARD LANDSCAPING AND CIVILS CROSSOVERS

Hard landscaping jobs that need muckaway or plant are posted straight through to GoMuc, keeping the quote, the disposal cost and the docket on the same job record.

Questions operators ask

Does the team need to change how they quote?

The price book is built from the rates the business already uses. Quoting gets faster because those rates stop being retyped, not because the pricing approach changes.

What happens to variations agreed on site?

Crews raise the variation on the job card, it is priced from the same price book and signed on site, so it reaches the invoice instead of being remembered at the end of the month.

Can we see margin before the job finishes?

Yes — logged hours and materials run against the quoted figure while the job is live, which is where the nine-point margin improvement on the West Lothian rollout came from.

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