A loaded labor rate.
Set each person's wage, then what rides on top: taxes, workers' comp, overhead, and the drive time between stops. That's what an hour of crew time costs in every margin.
Landscaping job costing software, for 3 to 30 crewsKnow which jobs make money, from the hours crews really worked.
Most job costing is a guess dressed up as a report: an assumed hour, an assumed crew, an assumed margin. Shortcut prices labor from the time your crews actually spent, at what an hour really costs you, and labels every number that's estimated. Every margin says what it's based on.
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The problem at five crews
Revenue is easy. Profit needs the hours.
Every lawn care system can tell you what you billed. At five crews the question is what you made: which customers cost you money, which services carry the company, and which crew's day always runs long. That takes labor at its real cost, materials at what you paid, and overhead spread across the stops, job by job.
How Shortcut does it
Real hours, real costs, labeled honestly.
Measured, estimated, or unavailable.
Labor comes from Time Clock punches, the visit's recorded arrival and completion, or billed hours on an hourly service. With no recorded time, the estimate stands in and says so. With no rate, you see a dash, never $0.
Clock data when the whole crew punches.
On a day when everyone on a crew has a complete shift, that day's jobs are priced from the hours they punched. One missing punch keeps the day on the estimate, so no margin looks better than it is.
Materials at what you paid.
Products on a visit replace the service's default material cost with quantity times unit cost. A product with no cost marks the margin incomplete instead of inflating it.
Job Costing, four ways.
Every completed visit by job, or rolled up by customer, service, or crew: revenue, labor, materials, overhead, net profit, and measured margin side by side. Export any list to CSV.
Margins where you decide.
Margin on each line while you quote, a margin dot on every job while you schedule, a Profitability tab on every customer, and a weekly profit digest by email.
- Wages, costs, and margins are never shown to crews or customers
Labor
Every visit's labor is one of three kinds.
| Labor | What it means |
|---|---|
| Measured | Real time: Time Clock punches, the visit's recorded arrival and completion, or billed hours on an hourly service |
| Estimated | No recorded time, so the visit's estimated duration or the service's time per stop stands in |
| Unavailable | No time to go on, or no labor rate to price it with. Shown as a dash, never $0 |
Net profit uses measured labor where it exists and estimated labor where it doesn't. Measured net and measured margin use measured visits only.
Compared
Job costing is included, not a higher tier.
Pricing
Job costing included. So is everything else.
One price per crew, with unlimited users and every feature. No add-ons, no tiers to climb, no onboarding fee.
$180per crew
per month
Save 20%Pay yearly: $144 per crew per month. That's $432 back per crew, every year.
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Landscaping job costing questions, answered.
Pricing, switching, and what Shortcut does today, in plain words.
What is job costing software for landscapers?
Software that works out what each job cost you to deliver, in labor, materials, and overhead, and sets it against what the job earned. Shortcut does it for every completed visit and rolls it up by customer, service, and crew.
Where do the labor hours come from?
Time Clock punches, the visit's recorded arrival and completion, or billed hours on an hourly service. When a visit has no recorded time, its estimated duration stands in, and Shortcut labels it as estimated.
Do I need the time clock?
No. Without it, Shortcut works out labor from how long visits ran, divided across the day. With it, days where the whole crew has complete shifts use the hours they punched.
How are materials counted?
Each service can carry a default material cost. When a visit has products on it, their real cost replaces the default: quantity times unit cost.
Can I see profit by crew?
Yes. Job Costing rolls up by crew, and the Crew Scoreboard shows what each crew produced, day by day. Both are internal-only.
Can crews see wages or margins?
No. Wages, costs, and margins are internal-only and never shown to workers or customers.
What about installs?
Installs run as Projects, with their own costing: hours against budget at every phase review, and realized margin against sold at closeout.
How much does it cost?
$180 per crew per month, or $144 billed yearly, with job costing, every other feature, and unlimited users included.
See it on a business like yours.
Book 20 minutes with the team that built Shortcut. Bring the job you think loses money, and we'll show you how Shortcut costs it.
- 1Tell us about your business. Name, crews, what you run today. Thirty seconds.
- 2Pick a time. Chance's calendar opens right here, with your details already filled in.
- 3See it work. Twenty minutes, live, with the team that built it. We'll show you the board and tell you straight if it fits.
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