Lawn care dispatch software that handles rain days
Bloombilt Dispatch puts the week on one board. Recurring mowing turns into stops on its own, a rained-out day drags onto the next one, the crews find out on their phones, and finished work goes out as an invoice through the QuickBooks you already run.
Why recurring mowing work is hard to schedule
A plumber's calendar clears out every night, but a mowing calendar repeats every week until the weather breaks it. Then one fix leads to another: Tuesday's yards land on a Thursday that was already full, the new hire needs a route, and one skipped visit turns into a call from a customer whose lawn is a week and a half tall.
Most crews run this from a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, or one person's memory. That works until the person with the schedule in their head takes a day off. With a dispatch board, the plan doesn't depend on one person.
What Dispatch does
- The week on one board: every crew, every stop, a column per day
- Recurring jobs that turn into stops on their own, weekly, biweekly, or on your schedule
- Season bounds, so mowing stops in October and starts again in April without anyone remembering
- Drag a stop to another day or onto someone else; whoever's stops moved hears about it on their phone
- A crew app that works with no signal and syncs when it comes back
- Timestamped proof photos on every finished stop
- Finished work built into an invoice and sent through your QuickBooks
Dispatch doesn't quote, take payments or run payroll. It covers the work between winning a job and getting paid for it, and your books stay in QuickBooks.
Snow removal on the same board
Most lawn crews around here plow in winter, with the same clients and the same trucks. Season bounds switch the board over: mowing stops in fall, plowing routes take its place, and in spring it switches back without anyone rebuilding the schedule from scratch.
That said, if you run a large commercial snow portfolio with per-event billing and zero-tolerance contracts, a dedicated snow platform does that properly and we do not. We wrote up where the line sits.
Common questions
How is this different from Jobber or Housecall Pro?
Mostly by what it leaves out, and how it charges. It is a schedule board, a crew app, and QuickBooks invoicing, priced flat per company rather than per user, so putting your whole crew on it does not raise the bill. It does not quote, estimate, process payments, or run payroll. If you want one system for all of that, an all-in-one platform is the better buy, and we say so in our comparison posts.
Can it handle recurring mowing schedules?
That is the core of it. Recurring jobs turn into stops on their own, four weeks ahead: weekly, every other week, monthly, or a custom set of weekdays. Season bounds mean the schedule stops itself in fall and restarts in spring without anyone rebuilding it.
What happens when rain pushes a day?
You drag the day's stops onto another day, or onto someone else, and the people affected get the change on their phones. The week view shows the load per day, so you can see which day can absorb the work before you move it.
We plow in winter. Does that work on the same board?
If you are a lawn crew that plows driveways and light commercial lots in winter, yes: same clients, same trucks, same board, and season bounds flip the work over. If you run a large commercial snow portfolio with per-event billing and zero-tolerance contracts, a dedicated snow platform does that properly and we do not.
Can I move over from Jobber, Yardbook, or a spreadsheet?
We move it for you. You tell us what you are on today, we take your clients, properties, and recurring schedules across and set them up, and you check the result before you rely on it. Rebuilding recurring schedules by hand is the reason most crews never leave the software they have outgrown, so we treat migration as our job rather than yours.
How much does it cost?
A flat monthly price quoted for your company, not a per-user seat. Crew size changes with the season in this trade, and a bill that grows every time you hire for the summer is exactly the pricing problem people leave other platforms over.
How long until I'm using it?
Most customers are live in two to three weeks from signed agreement.
Will this work with the tools we already use?
Yes. Our products connect to the systems your team already uses: Google Workspace, CRMs, calendars, Slack, email, and other common business tools.
What if I want to cancel?
Cancel anytime with reasonable notice. We'll export your data and hand back anything we run for you, like a website or phone number. The rest stays yours.
Where does our data live?
Your data stays yours. It's encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated from every other customer, and never used to train AI models, ours or the third-party services we use to deliver the product. Subprocessor list available on request. Full details in our privacy policy.
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