Raleigh, NC
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Winning landscape bids in Raleigh takes more than a good eye The Triangle is growing fast. New subdivisions are pushing into Wake County every quarter, and the competition for residential and commercial lawn care contracts has grown with them. You are bidding against solo operators with spreadsheets and regional LCOs with dedicated estimating staff. The middle ground is where most landscapers lose margin — underbidding installs to win work, then eating the overrun. Estimate.Pro closes that gap. You walk the property, capture measurements with the AR tool on your phone, and the app builds a priced scope-of-work draft in around 8 minutes. You review, adjust for local conditions, and send it before you leave the driveway. ## What makes Raleigh landscaping bids different **Clay soil is everywhere.** The Piedmont red clay that defines Wake County soil profiles adds labor time to any bed prep, sod installation, or drainage work. A flat per-square-foot rate copied from a national price book will consistently underbid the amendment and till hours. Estimate.Pro lets you build a saved material cost workspace with line items for soil amendment, conditioner, and the extra labor passes clay requires. Those numbers travel with every bid. **Irrigation permits move through Wake County Development Services, not a municipal office.** Contractors pulling irrigation permits in Raleigh need to account for Wake County backflow prevention requirements and the Raleigh Public Utilities cross-connection control program. Permit fees and inspection scheduling add real days to commercial project timelines. Build that buffer into your estimate — the app's scope builder has a dedicated permit and inspection line category. **Seasonal demand compresses bidding windows.** Raleigh's warm-season grass calendar — bermuda and zoysia sod installation peaking late April through June, overseeding with fescue running September through mid-October — means your bid queue stacks up at the same time every year. Eight minutes per bid is not a marketing number. It is the difference between sending 12 quotes in a morning or sending 4. **Stormwater and grading work is regulated.** Projects disturbing more than one acre in Raleigh fall under the NC Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources NPDES permit requirements. Even sub-acre residential grading may trigger Wake County's erosion and sediment control review. Flag these in your scope early. Estimate.Pro's scope-of-work builder lets you add permit and compliance notes directly to the client-facing estimate so there are no surprises at contract signing. ## Tools in Estimate.Pro built for landscapers **AR measurement on-site.** Walk the beds, turf areas, and hardscape zones and capture linear and area measurements in the field. On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement gives you real dimensions. On any device, photo measurements are marked as estimates so your client knows the basis. **Material cost workspace.** Save your Raleigh-specific plant, mulch, sod, and aggregate pricing. Triangle-area distributor costs for bulk hardwood mulch, pinestraw, and bermuda sod differ from national averages. Your saved workspace reflects what you actually pay, not what a price book assumes. **Scope-of-work generation.** The app turns your walkthrough data into a line-item scope — planting, bed prep, sod, irrigation, drainage, cleanup, hauling. You edit, not build from scratch. That is where the 8-minute median comes from. **Stripe Connect invoicing (Pro+ plans).** Send the estimate, get approval, convert it to an invoice without re-entering anything. The 0% platform fee on Pro and Elite plans means your payment processing cost is Stripe's standard rate, not Stripe plus a software skim. ## Pricing that fits a crew of any size - **Free forever** — no credit card, no time limit. Enough to test it on your next 5 bids. - **Pro — $39/seat/month.** Full estimating, saved cost workspaces, AR measurement. - **Elite — $79/seat/month.** Adds Stripe Connect, invoice exports, advanced workflows. - **Crew — $399/month flat.** Unlimited seats. Right for a multi-crew LCO managing multiple estimators. ## Start before your next site visit Create a free account, build your first Raleigh landscaping estimate, and see whether 8 minutes is real. No card required. No pitch call. Just the tool.