Online booking, on your page and in the marketplace. Your own booking link plus a profile customers can find by service and suburb. You choose whether bookings confirm instantly or wait for your approval.
Booking software for gardeners, where the job is priced from the block, not the postcode
Two houses on the same street can be an hour apart in work, and no price list knows which is which. Bookka takes the enquiry with photos attached, lets the straightforward jobs book themselves, and gets you paid at the gate instead of a fortnight later.
- No commissionon any booking, on any plan
- From $39 a monthflat, however many staff
- 0% in persononly Stripe’s own rate applies
What gardeners and lawn care businesses put up with
If none of these are your week, you probably do not need us.
- A mow quoted over the phone and found on arrival to be knee-high with a slope behind it.
- Green waste never charged for because it was not discussed when the job was agreed.
- Rain pushing three days of work into one, rearranged by a morning of phone calls.
- Hedge, mow and clean-up work all priced by the hour in a way customers never quite accept.
- Invoices posted, forgotten and chased, long after the trailer has been emptied.
- No record of which blocks you have done, so quoting the same one twice starts from scratch.
What changes
Each one is a thing the product does today, not a thing on a roadmap.
Photos come with the enquiry
A quote request carries the pictures, the block size and the access, so you price what is actually there instead of what it sounded like on the phone.
Routine work books itself
A standard mow or a set number of hours goes on your page with size as an option, each setting its own price and duration, so the simple jobs stop needing a conversation.
Green waste is on the quote
Removal becomes its own line or an add-on chosen at booking, with its own time and money, instead of a trailer load absorbed because nobody raised it.
Site notes stay with the customer
Gate codes, where the tap is, the neighbour’s fence, the dog, what the owner wants left alone. On the record, private to the business, and readable before you pull up.
Paid at the gate
Card or cash on your phone when the job is done, with no Bookka fee at all — so the money is in before the trailer is emptied.
You can see who is overdue
Reporting that names the customers who have not booked and how long it has been, which for seasonal work is the difference between a full spring and a quiet one.
What you get
Everything a gardening business runs on, in one place
Instead of a phone full of missed calls, a quote pad in the ute, an invoicing app and a diary that lives on the dashboard.
Fill the book
Enquiries arrive while the mower is running, and at eleven at night.
A calendar per person. Every team member has their own services, hours and schedule, with roles deciding who sees what. Chair renters and multi-location shops are handled as first-class cases, not workarounds.
Services with options, add-ons and quotes. Length variants that change the price, add-ons that extend the appointment, and a quote request for the jobs that have to be seen before they can be priced.
Get paid
Paid at the gate, not a fortnight after the trailer went to the tip.
Deposits and cancellation policies. Take a per-service deposit at the time of booking, with the balance due on the day. The customer sees the amount and the cancellation window before they pay, and a cancellation inside the window refunds itself.
A point of sale for walk-ins. Ring up services and retail at the counter, take cash or card, or use a WisePOS E terminal. Bookka charges no fee on an in-person payment — only Stripe’s own terminal rate applies, and cash costs nothing.
Gift cards and an online shop. Sell gift cards and products from your booking page, with pickup or post, and refunds and fulfilment tracked in the same place as your appointments.
Bring people back
The block you cut every month is worth more than ten one-off quotes.
Reminders by SMS and email. A confirmation immediately and a reminder before the day, sent automatically. No-shows are mostly a memory problem, and this is the fix for it.
Bookka Rewards. Points for what people spend or stamps for turning up, redeemed against a catalogue you set. Rewards come off the bill at the till and in the shop.
Campaigns, social and ads. Email and SMS campaigns with single-use promo codes, a scheduler that publishes to Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, and a manager for Google and Meta ads.
Run the place
The admin that happens whether or not you have software for it.
Numbers you can act on. Revenue, bookings, your best services and the regulars who have quietly stopped coming — with exports and custom reports when you need to look properly.
An assistant that does the admin. Ask it about your own figures in plain English. Turn on changes and it will complete bookings, record cash, adjust stock and draft campaigns — confirming before each one and logging every change. It cannot cancel bookings, refund anyone or touch billing.
Xero, and the rest of your stack. Native accounting sync with accounts provisioned on connect, calendar sync so your own diary stays right, and Stripe underneath all of it.
Everything gardeners and lawn care businesses need, in one tool
All of it on every paid plan unless the card says otherwise. Where something is limited by plan, the pricing below says so rather than this list hedging each line.
Quote requests with photos of the block
The pictures, the size and the access arrive with the enquiry so the number you give holds up when you get there.
Block size as a priced option
Small, medium and large behind one service, each with its own price and its own time in the diary.
Green waste and tip runs as add-ons
Chosen when the job is booked, so removal is paid work rather than a favour that fills your trailer.
Site notes per customer
Gates, taps, pets, the bits to leave alone — on the record and in front of you before you arrive.
A schedule per person
Each worker with their own hours and jobs, so the week is visible to whoever is organising it.
Moving a day when it rains
Jobs are rescheduled from the calendar and the customer gets an updated confirmation, instead of a morning spent on the phone.
Automatic reminders
By SMS and email before the day, so somebody is expecting you and the gate is unlocked.
Paid on site, 0% from Bookka
Card or cash from a phone, or a WisePOS E terminal, with no Bookka fee at all — only Stripe’s own rate, and nothing on cash.
Built for working from a ute
The dashboard runs on a phone, so the day, the notes and the payment are all to hand outside.
Deposits on the big clean-ups
Set per service, so a full-day overhaul carries one and a routine cut does not.
Customers who have gone quiet
Named by your reporting, with campaigns and single-use codes to fill a slow fortnight.
No commission, on any plan
Your own page plus a marketplace profile people search by service and suburb, with no cut taken from the job.
Pricing
One flat price, not one per chair
No commission on any plan, including clients who find you through the marketplace. Paid plans start with a 14-day trial.
Free$0/monthTesting & side hustlers5 bookings per monthUp to 2 team members
Business$39/monthSolo barbers & growing businessesUnlimited bookings & instant auto-confirmUp to 5 team members & 1 location
ExecutiveBest value$69/monthMulti-chair shops & serious businessesEverything in BusinessUp to 20 team members & 2 locations
Booking software for gardeners and lawn care businesses, answered
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Not as a schedule that generates itself — Bookka has no recurring bookings. You can book a run of dates ahead with the customer, and they can rebook from your page in a few taps, but nothing repeats automatically. For a business whose whole model is standing maintenance rounds, that is the honest limitation to weigh before anything else here.
Take it as a quote request so the photos, the block size and the access come with the enquiry. You price it from what is actually there and reply with a figure and the hours you need. For the jobs you can price reliably — a standard mow by block size — put them straight on your booking page with size as an option so they book without a call.
Yes, as an add-on the customer picks when booking or as its own service. It carries its own price and its own time, so the trailer load is quoted before the day rather than discovered at the end of it. If it only comes up on site, it can be added to the sale when you take payment.
Jobs are moved in the calendar and the customer gets an updated confirmation automatically, which beats a morning of phone calls. What Bookka will not do is re-plan the week for you or offer the freed slots to anyone — there is no waitlist, so refilling the gaps is still your judgement.
No. Bookka schedules people against booked jobs at known times; it has no route optimisation, no vehicle tracking and no field app with a start-and-finish timer. If you need dispatch and routing, this is not the tool. For a gardening business working to a booked diary, it covers the booking, the quoting and getting paid.
Yes, from your phone by card or cash, or with a WisePOS E terminal. Bookka takes nothing on an in-person payment and cash costs nothing either, so the job closes at the gate rather than through an invoice you chase later.
Yes. The free plan covers five bookings a month to start on and Business is $39, with everything running from a phone. There is nothing here that assumes an office or a second person.
No commission on bookings, on any plan, including customers who find you through the marketplace. Free for five bookings a month, then $39 a month for up to five people and $69 for up to twenty. Online card payments cost 2.2% + 30c, all in and GST inclusive on Australian cards. In person Bookka takes nothing at all — you pay only Stripe’s own rate — and cash, your own EFTPOS machine and a gift card being redeemed cost nothing. Everything settles into your own Stripe account rather than ours.
Not quite your trade?
Bookka runs the same way for anything booked against a person’s time. See every trade we have written up.