A free online landscaping quote template for landscape construction crews. Price each stage line by line, with waste and margin on every item, and it totals the lot with GST. Print a branded PDF, export to CSV or send it into NextMinute. Nothing's stored online.
Free. Just pop in your details to get started.
Enter the job once and the totals look after themselves. Same list every time, so that extra load of base doesn't get forgotten.
Your logo and business name, the client, the site, quote date, valid-until date and payment terms.
Start from the landscaping template and rename the stages to suit: site prep, paving, retaining, planting. Add a line for every crew hour, material, plant and machine.
Units, rate and charge type on each line, with its own waste % and margin %. Turf and pavers carry wastage. Plants can carry a different margin.
Subtotal, GST and total, ready to print as a PDF with your logo, export to CSV or send to NextMinute.
Paving, retaining walls, decks, fencing, turf, planting and full backyard builds. Built for landscape construction businesses with a crew to keep busy.
Nothing left off the quote
Deliveries, cartage, green waste and machine hire each get their own line. No more burying them in a round number.
Margin on every line
A bobcat day and a pallet of pavers don't need the same markup. Set waste % and margin % per item.
A quote that looks the part
A clean PDF with your logo and terms, sent the same day as the site visit.
How To Quote It
Most landscaping jobs don't lose money on the rates. They lose it on what got left off. Work through the same buckets every time.
Labour + Materials and plants + Machine hire + Subcontractors + Margin and wastage + GST = Quote total
Measure up and price the labour. Square or lineal metres, access for machines and deliveries, then crew hours per task at your charge-out rate.
List materials, plants and machines. Turf, pavers, base, aggregate, timber, drainage, soil and plants, plus excavator, bobcat or compactor hire, deliveries and cartage.
Add waste, allowances and margin. A waste % on anything you cut, a line for site unknowns, then margin on the full cost.
Check these are in. They're the lines most often left off a backyard job.
These are the costs that bite on a backyard build.
Extra digging means extra tip runs and disposal fees.
One more load of base or aggregate, plus another delivery.
Turf, pavers and timber priced at net area, then you're short on the day.
No machine access turns a one-day job into two.
Once the client says yes, send the quote into NextMinute and it becomes a live job. Schedule the crew, capture timesheets and site photos against the job, and see actual vs quoted while you're still on site.
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Quote a landscaping job by measuring it on site, pricing crew hours per task, then listing materials, plants, machine hire, deliveries and disposal. Add wastage on anything you cut, a line for site unknowns, and margin over the full cost. Working from plans instead of a site measure? Import takeoff quantities into NextMinute rather than keying them in.
Your landscaping hourly rate needs to cover wages, super, leave, insurance, vehicles, downtime and profit, not just what you pay the crew. Rates vary a lot by region and job type, so work yours out from your own costs. The free labour charge-out calculator builds it up for you, then you can use that rate in the quote builder.
Price turf, paving and retaining walls per square or lineal metre by building the rate up from its parts: labour, base, materials, machine time and disposal for one unit. Enter the total area as units in the quote builder and your built-up figure as the $/unit. Keep those rates in NextMinute's landscaping software so every quote uses the same numbers.
Allow wastage on anything you cut or trim to shape, like turf, pavers, edging and timber. The right figure depends on the layout: curves, angles and small areas waste more than square runs. The quote builder defaults to 10% waste per line and you can change it on each one. Track actual material use in NextMinute back-costing to tune your wastage over time.
There's no single right margin for landscapers. It depends on your overheads, job size and how much risk sits in the site. The quote builder defaults to 15% margin per line and lets you change it line by line, so plant stock and machine hire can carry different margins. Check whether your margins hold by comparing actuals to the quote with job back-costing.
Yes, the quote builder adds GST. It's set to 10% by default and you can edit the rate in the quote details. The summary shows subtotal, GST and total, so the client sees the full price before they say yes. Once the job's finished, NextMinute invoicing carries the same figures through to the invoice.
Yes, upload your logo in the quote details and it prints on the PDF quote with your business name, client details, quote date, valid-until date and payment terms. A tidy branded quote sent the same day as the site visit helps you win the job. In NextMinute, every quote carries your branding automatically.
No, the free quote builder doesn't store your quotes online. Export each one as a CSV before you close the page, and import it later to edit or reuse. If you'd rather keep every quote saved against the client and job, start a free NextMinute trial and export your quote straight in.
Yes. Export a finished landscaping quote as a CSV, then import it for the next similar job and update the areas, rates and client details. It's a fast way to quote repeat work like turf and paving jobs consistently. In NextMinute quoting software, you can reuse past quotes without the CSV step.
Exporting a quote to NextMinute turns it into a live job with the same stages and line items. You can then schedule the crew, capture timesheets and site photos against the job, and compare actual costs to what you quoted while the job is still running, not weeks after it's finished.
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