The mowing route
A weekly rhythm bounded by drive time, not by a sales pipeline — the route is the business’ own floor.
Zaras for Lawn Care
Weekly mowing routes, application rounds, and renewals that don’t leak.
Mowing is a weekly rhythm from late April to early November — a route, not a season. The program runs its own calendar underneath it, and the fall applications, not the summer ones, are where the year is won: the extension services time the single most important cool-season round to early-to-mid September, after the visible mowing season looks like it’s winding down. January isn’t a dead month either — it’s renewal season. Staffing data shows the floor; a northern single-market operator’s real swing runs deeper than the national blend shows.
What carries season to season: the round history product and rate the renewal date.
A route day, the fall round going out, and a renewal offered at the door — the crew gets the stop, the office gets the product record, the customer gets the year ahead.
Route day, thirty-one lawns
Each stop’s gate, dog, and last-cut height are already on it. A rained-out Monday reshuffles the route without anyone rebuilding the list.
The fall round goes out
Product, rate, and spreader setting recorded per property — the round that matters most is the one that has to be provable.
Lawn care money comes from two engines on two different clocks — the mowing route that repeats every week, and the program book that sells and renews as a year. Zaras runs both from the same record.
A weekly rhythm bounded by drive time, not by a sales pipeline — the route is the business’ own floor.
Five rounds on the agronomic calendar, sold as a year and renewed as a year.
The record, not the whiteboard — every property from first call to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Weekly route scheduling — skip and rain-day handling that reshuffles the route without losing a stop.
Per-property notes and cut history — gates, dogs, cut heights, and last visit's flags on every stop.
Application-round scheduling — timed to the turf calendar, not to whoever calls first.
Product, rate, and spreader records — what went down, where, and at what rate, per round.
Prepay and renewal tracking — the renewal date fires before the season turns, not after.
Commercial and HOA grounds accounts — per-property round records on the same terms account.
NET-terms billing — commercial and HOA accounts invoiced off the documented round.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — the program closes the loop without leaving the operating record.
Route → round → record → renew — every property, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, property histories, and program renewals come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — HOA and commercial grounds accounts with per-property round records and NET-terms billing live beside your residential route.
Lawn-care companies running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for Lawn Care — route scheduling, program rounds, renewals, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the routes you run today.
$49/ month
One crew, one route. Run the mowing week, log the round, offer the renewal at the door — the record keeps the program straight.
from$149/ month
Dispatch at the desk, crews on the routes. Rounds and renewals triaged from one board, every crew walking in with the property’s history.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.