Know your break-even before you bid the property.
SodSum turns turf square feet, edge lengths, bed areas and seasonal work into crew hours, a break-even price and a recommended monthly price. Then it prints a proposal you can send the same day.
No account. No upload. Bids are saved in your browser.
Crew hours decide whether a contract pays
Ten extra minutes a visit, thirty visits a season, two people on the crew: that is ten hours a year you did not price. SodSum shows the hours first, so you can see the problem before you sign.
Every visit, line by line
Mowing by mower size, edging, string trimming, blowing, bed detail and trash pickup, each at its own production rate.
Seasonal work included
Mulch, hedges, shrub and tree pruning, fertilizer and irrigation checks, each with times per year, spread into the monthly price.
Break-even and quote check
Enter the monthly price you plan to quote. SodSum tells you if it is below break-even or under your target profit.
"What if we're slower?"
A sensitivity table shows your profit if the crew runs 10% or 20% slower or faster than planned.
Rates you can see and change
Every starting production rate shows its source, the National Association of Landscape Professionals' sample rates. Change any rate on any bid.
Revisions and won/lost
Save a revision before you change a bid, restore any earlier version, and mark each bid open, won or lost with a reason, so you can see your win rate.
Proposal and real margin
Print a clean proposal with scope and monthly price. Pro adds your logo and tracks actual crew hours per visit against the bid.
Private by design
There is no SodSum server holding your numbers. The calculator runs in your browser and saves bids there. Your client list, wages and margins are not uploaded anywhere.
It also works offline after the first visit, so you can finish a bid in the truck.
Free to use, $39/month for Pro
The calculator, break-even check, sensitivity table and proposals are free, with up to 3 saved bids. Pro adds unlimited bids, branded proposals, your own rate library, actual-hours tracking, backups and CSV export.
Questions
Where do the production rates come from?
From the sample production rates the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) publishes for estimating maintenance, listed with each rate in the production rates guide. NALP says to verify them for your own company before bidding with them, and so do we. You can change any of them.
Does it measure lawns from satellite images?
No. SodSum prices the work from measurements you already have: from a walk, a site plan or a measuring tool. It focuses on the labor math and the margin.
Is the recommended price what I should charge?
It is the price that covers your labor, materials and overhead and leaves your target profit, based on what you entered. Your market, the client and the scope decide the final number.
Do I need an account?
No. Open the calculator and start. Pro is unlocked with a license key you paste into Settings.