Guides for your trade
MonkeyLio for landscaping: setup and tips
How landscapers get the most out of MonkeyLio.
Set up for your trade
- Pick Landscaping as your trade in Settings to get the starter price list, checklist and equipment types.
- Review your starter prices, like Weekly mowing, Bi-weekly mowing, Spring cleanup, and change them to your real prices.
- Edit the job checklist in Settings so it matches how your crew actually works.
- Connect Stripe so customers can pay from their link.
Your starter job checklist
- Gates closed and pets secured
- Lawn mowed and edged
- Beds weeded
- Clippings blown off hard surfaces
- Debris hauled away
- Irrigation checked for leaks
- Photos taken of finished work
Equipment worth logging
Track Irrigation system, Irrigation controller, Backflow device, Outdoor lighting, Pond pump, Drainage system at each customer's property, with a next service date so MonkeyLio reminds you and the customer.
A day with MonkeyLio
- Monday 7:00 — Crews open the app: today’s lawns, in order.
- 7:40 — First stop. Tap Start, customer gets a text.
- 8:15 — Done. Tap End, ‘finished for today’ text sent.
- Noon — New website request for a spring cleanup. Quoted from the truck.
- Friday — Next week’s mowing visits already waiting. Invoices out, nobody chased.
