Denver, CO
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Landscaping Estimating Software Built for Denver Denver sits at 5,280 feet with 300 days of sun, a semi-arid climate, and a City Water Conservation Office that actively pushes property owners toward xeriscape conversions. That combination shapes every estimate you write. Your material costs aren't the same as a contractor in Kansas City. Your labor calendar runs differently. Your scope-of-work needs to reflect Colorado-specific conditions — and your bid software should too. Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades, including landscaping and lawn care. You can go from a jobsite walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. --- ### What Makes Denver Landscaping Estimates Different **Water-wise plant selection adds spec complexity.** Denver Water's rebate programs create real financial incentives for homeowners to convert bluegrass lawns to xeriscape. When a client wants that conversion, your estimate needs to itemize buffalo grass or blue grama sod, gravel mulch, drip irrigation zones, and plant species that satisfy Denver Water's Xeriscape Rebate Program requirements. A generic estimating template won't cut it — you need a saved material workspace where you can store your preferred low-water plant lists and pull them into any bid. Estimate.Pro's material cost workspace lets you save and reuse your own priced line items. Build a Denver xeriscape package once and clone it per job. **High-altitude soil conditions affect labor hours.** Denver's clay-heavy soils and caliche layers add excavation time on irrigation trenching, boulder placements, and retaining wall footings. If you're pricing a dry-stack retaining wall or a flagstone patio, your labor rate per square foot has to account for that soil prep. Underbidding excavation is one of the fastest ways to lose margin on a Front Range hardscape job. The app's scope-of-work builder lets you add labor notes at the line-item level, so your crew and your client both see exactly what's priced in and what's not. **Permit requirements add real cost.** Denver Community Planning and Development requires permits for retaining walls over 30 inches in height and for irrigation systems on commercial properties. Budget those fees into your bid from the start, not as an afterthought when the homeowner pushes back. **Seasonal demand peaks are sharp.** The Denver landscaping season runs roughly April through October, with spring cleanup and sod installation demand spiking in April–May and irrigation blow-out / fall cleanup spiking in September–October. During those windows, your turnaround time on bids is a competitive variable. A bid sent in two hours beats a bid sent in two days, regardless of price. The 8-minute walkthrough-to-bid workflow exists for exactly this situation. --- ### AR Measurement on the Job For hardscape areas — patios, pathways, driveways — Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement on supported devices to give you real-time surface area readings during the walkthrough. On unsupported devices, camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates. Either way, you're capturing dimensions in the field and feeding them directly into your scope, not redrawing shapes on a laptop back at the shop. --- ### Pricing That Fits a One-Crew Operation or a Multi-Crew Company Denver has a large number of owner-operated landscaping businesses alongside mid-sized companies running three to five crews. Estimate.Pro has a tier for both. - **Free forever** — no credit card, no time limit. Build and send bids, learn the system. - **Pro at $39/seat/month** — full estimating workflow, 3% Stripe Connect fee on collected invoices. - **Elite at $79/seat/month** — Stripe Connect with 0% platform fee, invoice exports, and advanced workflow features. - **Crew at $399/month flat** — one price for the whole company, any number of seats. If you're collecting payment through the app on a $15,000 xeriscape installation, the difference between 3% and 0% is $450 on a single job. At Pro volume, Elite pays for itself fast. --- ### Get Your First Denver Landscaping Bid Out Today Sign up free — no credit card. Run a walkthrough on your next job, build the scope, and send the bid. The median time from walkthrough start to sendable estimate is 8 minutes. Denver property owners are actively requesting bids on xeriscape conversions, spring cleanups, and hardscape projects right now. Every day you're quoting off a spreadsheet is a day a faster bidder beats you on response time.