What goes on a landscaping quote
Hard landscaping is quoted: a patio, a drive, a run of fencing. The materials are known, the area is measured, and the customer is holding three prices for what looks like the same work. What separates them is almost always the base — and the base is the part nobody can see once it is finished.
- The measured area, and the finished levels
- The build-up: excavation depth, sub-base, bedding, and the surface by name
- Edging, drainage and falls, which is where a cheap quote is cheap
- Spoil removal, by volume
- Access, and what it means if a machine cannot get in
- Timescale, and what weather does to it
- The fixed price, the payment stages, and both signatures
The sample line items and example prices this sheet opens with are on the landscaping invoice template — the same table, which is about the trade rather than about this paper, so it lives in one place rather than on all six. Working out the price itself? The markup calculator turns your cost and markup into the figure to put on the quote, and shows the margin it leaves.
What you get
A PDF, and a link your customer can open in any browser. Word and Excel versions are not available yet — if a spreadsheet is what you need, this is not yet the tool for it, and saying so is cheaper for both of us than you finding out after typing everything in.
Pick how it looks
Six looks, from a plain classic sheet through a bold top band to a shop ticket, and your initials go on automatically until you upload a logo. See all six.
How to send it
Most customers want the paper on their phone, so the quote goes out by WhatsApp, text or email, or as a link that needs no app and no account on their side. Or download the PDF to print it or keep it for your own records.
Questions
Why is my quote higher than the other two?
Usually the base. A patio is sold by the slab and fails by the sub-base, and the quote that left out four inches of it is the cheap one. Write the build-up on the quote in depths and materials, and the customer can see exactly what they are comparing.
Should drainage be its own line?
Yes, and it is worth being blunt about. Falls and drainage are what stop a new patio sitting under water every winter, they add real cost, and they are invisible in a photograph. A line naming them is the difference between a premium and an inexplicably bigger number.