Tree jobs quoted at the trunk and billed from the truck

The estimate happens under the tree

Nobody quotes tree work from a desk. You walk the property with the owner, look at each tree, check what it would land on, and figure the rigging, the access for the chipper and how far the wood has to go. Workeey gives that walk a place to live: make the client and the job on the spot, take a photo of every tree you're pricing, and write notes on the hazards — the service drop through the canopy, the septic field you can't drive over, the fence that has to stay standing.

Then price it before you leave. A quick estimate builds from your own rates, and you write the lines the way you quote: removal per tree, a trim by the hour, stump grinding per stump or by diameter, haul-away or the wood left cut to length. The free plan covers 23 quick estimates a month, and our free tree removal estimate template shows a full quote on paper.

• A photo of every tree you're pricing
• Notes on wires, septic, fences and access
• Removal, trim, stump and haul-away lines
• Priced from your own rates on the spot

Removal, trimming, stump grinding and haul-away

Breaking the job into lines keeps the conversation simple. The owner may want the oak down but not the stump ground this year; they may want the wood left for the fireplace instead of hauled; they may add a trim on the front maple once they see the price for the big one. With each piece on its own line, they can say yes to part of it, and you just delete what they passed on.

Send the estimate as a quote PDF from your phone while you're still in the driveway. There's no online signature; the owner tells you yes, and the estimate stays on the job until the work's done. If you take a deposit on a large removal, the deposit percent can print on the quote, but Workeey doesn't collect deposits — take it the way you always have.

• Each piece of work on its own line
• Customers can say yes to part of the quote
• A quote PDF sent from your phone
• The deposit percent can print on the quote

Built for owner-operators, not crews

To be clear about what this is: Workeey is software for one person running the business from a phone. It has no crew accounts, no crew scheduling, no equipment tracking and no timesheets. If you're the one who climbs, cuts, grinds and does the paperwork in the evening, it fits. If you're dispatching three trucks and a bucket crew, it isn't the right tool, and we'd rather say so here.

For that one person, the schedule is simple and it matters. Each job goes in a time slot on the schedule; a removal that needs a calm day gets slid when the wind picks up, and a storm call drops into tomorrow morning. Small jobs — a stump here, a deadwood trim there — fit into the gaps, and on a day with several stops Workeey puts them in the best order and opens the drive to each with one tap.

• One person running the business, no crew accounts
• Windy day? Slide the removal
• Storm calls dropped into the next open slot
• Short jobs put in a sensible order

Photos of every tree, before and after

Tree work leaves marks: ruts in the lawn, a dent in a gutter, a fence section you had to take down and put back. Photos taken before you start protect you as much as the customer. Take them in Workeey and they're saved to the job and the client, backed up rather than buried in a camera roll. The after photos show the clean stump grind and the swept driveway when someone asks what they paid for.

Photos and notes stay under the client, so the next call — the second maple next spring, the stump they finally want ground — starts with what you already know about the property. And out on a wooded lot with no bars, what you add is saved and syncs when you're back online.

• Before photos of lawns, fences and gutters
• After photos of the cleaned-up site
• Everything kept under the client
• No signal? Saved and synced later

Invoice when the chips are swept

One tap turns the estimate or the finished job into an invoice, with the client, the lines, the tax and the photos carried over. Adjust what changed on the day: the stump that turned out to have a second one under it, the extra load of brush. The invoice is numbered for you and emailed from the app with a pay link. Connect your own Stripe and the owner pays by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or US bank; a small processing fee applies to online payments.

Paid through the link, the invoice marks itself paid and the receipt goes out on its own. Paid by check on the spot, mark it paid and tap Send receipt, or connect your bank so a matching payment marks it paid for you. For the customer who goes quiet once the tree is down, switch on reminder texts for that invoice; Workeey texts the pay link on a schedule until it's paid. Texts need a saved account, and the free plan includes 10 a month.

Less paperwork between jobs

The assistant is there for the typing you'd rather skip with sap on your hands. Talk to it — start a quote for two pine removals with haul-away, move Thursday's stump job to Monday — and it prepares the job or the quote for you to look over and apply. Nothing changes until you say so.

Workeey runs in any phone's browser, iPhone included, and as an app on Android. The free plan has no end date and no card. Pro at $5 a month adds Google Calendar sync and QuickBooks sync plus 30 reminder texts; Premium at $19 takes the cap off texts. If your work leans toward yards and beds, see landscaping software and lawn care software.

• An assistant you can type or talk to
• Nothing changes until you apply it
• Runs in any phone's browser and on Android
• Free plan, or Pro at $5 a month

More for tree services: pages and free templates

• Tree service invoice template — free, with a filled-in sample
• Tree removal estimate template — a free quote sample
• Free invoice template — every field a trade invoice needs
• Free estimate template — copy it, price it, send it
• Free receipt template — a paid-in-full receipt to copy
• Work order template — the job written down before you bill it
• Late payment reminder templates — texts, emails and a letter to copy and send
• All free templates and tools