Which of your stops are you paying to mow?
Your crew is paid from the moment it leaves the yard, and a third to a half of that day is spent driving. None of it is on an invoice. Yardstick puts those minutes back onto the stops that caused them and sorts your whole book worst first — so you know which lawns to reprice before renewals go out. 14 days free, no card.
What it looks like
One ordinary Tuesday: two men, eight and a half hours yard to yard, twelve stops.
| Stop | Price | Costs | Keeps | Should be |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sides | $55 | $69.65 | $-14.65 | $87.06 |
| Nally | $50 | $62.32 | $-12.32 | $77.90 |
| Dodd | $50 | $62.32 | $-12.32 | $77.90 |
| Vaughn | $50 | $62.32 | $-12.32 | $77.90 |
| Mrs Beasley | $45 | $54.99 | $-9.99 | $68.73 |
| Kilgore | $45 | $54.99 | $-9.99 | $68.73 |
Repricing that book to 20% would be worth about $8,184 over 26 visits.
Those figures are worked out by the same code you would be running, from one ordinary day. Yours will look nothing like them -- that is rather the point. The trade figures are from GreenPal, Angi and Aspire's man-hour pricing guide, 2026.
Start
What it does
It puts the driving back where it belongs.
Your crew is paid from the moment it leaves the yard. A third to a half of that day is spent driving, hooking up and fuelling, and none of it is on an invoice. Put in one day's round and every one of those minutes lands on the stops that caused it -- so a $50 lawn twenty minutes out stops looking like a $50 lawn.
It sorts your whole book worst first.
Every stop, with what it really costs to service, what it keeps, what it pays for an hour of crew time, and what it would have to go to. That last figure is the one that makes two different lawns comparable: a $40 yard ten minutes away can be worth more than a $70 one across town, and nothing else on your screen will tell you that.
It prices the next one before you quote it.
Minutes on site, minutes getting there, how many men. It gives you a number and a floor it must not go below. Thirty seconds, standing in somebody's driveway.
It catches the six things a spreadsheet gets wrong.
Drive time not costed. Crew size forgotten -- three men on a twenty-minute lawn is an hour of wages. The wage mistaken for what a man costs, when $20 an hour is about $26 once tax and comp are on. Overhead left out, which roughly halves the true cost of an hour. Your own pay left out. And margin confused with mark-up, which quietly costs you three points on every job.
What it is not
- It is not scheduling software and it is not invoicing. It does not replace LawnPro or Jobber, it does not route your crews and it never sends a bill.
- It does not talk to your customers. Nothing here goes to anybody else, ever.
- It does not tell you what to charge. It tells you what a stop costs you and what it would take to make money on it. Whether you put the price up is your business -- and some of them will walk.
- It is not a one-off calculator. Those ask you to guess at your costs once and then forget them. This works from the days you actually ran.