- When rain moves a day, shift the whole route and text everyone at once; one message beats twenty calls.
- The core of landscaping scheduling is on Koira's Front Office plan, $499 flat, with no per-person fee.
- Customers book online and stops sorted by the drive decide most of it for landscapers.
How a landscaping company's calendar works
Landscaping runs on two calendars: the weekly maintenance route and the project schedule. Rain shifts both, and the route has to absorb it without a day of phone calls.
A small company needs the route in driving order, projects held with deposits, and customers told when a rain day moves their visit.
What lands on a landscaping calendar
- Weekly mowing routes
- Biweekly properties
- Spring and fall cleanups
- Mulch and planting projects
- Hardscape projects over several days
- Irrigation start-ups and blowouts
- Rain-day reschedules
- Estimate visits
What scheduling software should do for landscapers
- Bookings only into times that fit the day
- Every stop in driving order
- Day-before reminders the customer can answer
- Each person's stops on their own phone
- Recurring service plans, which matters for landscapers
How Koira does it
In Koira, every booking for a landscaping company, from a call, a text or your site, lands on Today in driving order on its own, whether it is weekly mowing routes or biweekly properties. Koira only offers customers times that fit the route, and the day before it texts them to confirm or move. That is on Office, the free plan.
On Grow, calls are answered on a Koira number and booked into your real day. On Front Office, $499 flat, each person gets a lane with their stops on their own phone and clocks in and out of jobs.
For landscapers in particular
- Customers book online. Customers book from your Koira site on every plan.
- Stops sorted by the drive. Today sorts every stop by the drive on every plan, and new bookings are only offered where the route makes sense.
- Crew scheduling. On Front Office, each crew sees its own stops and clocks in on the job, with no per-person fee.
Side by side
The features that matter for landscaping scheduling, where each first appears on each company's public pricing page, then the people, usage, card and add-on rows every company gets.
| What you need | Koira | Jobber | GorillaDesk | Kickserv |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customers book online | Office (free) | Core | Pro (online booking) | Contact form on Start; online booking not listed |
| Stops sorted by the drive | Office (stops sorted by the drive) | Connect | Basic (up to 25 stops), Pro (Drive Matrix) | Run (dispatch mapping) |
| Day-before reminders | Office, the day before | Connect (automated client notifications) | Basic (automated confirmations and reminders) | Start (email and text reminders) |
| Crew scheduling | Front Office | Plus (crew scheduling) | Pro (GPS and time clocking) | Not listed |
| Calls answered by AI | Grow | Receptionist add-on, $29 a month, included on Plus | AI agents in its menu, not on a plan card | Not listed |
| Recurring service plans | Front Office | Connect (automatic payments for recurring work) | Pro (subscription billing) | Not listed |
| People, usage and card fees | ||||
| Extra people | No per-person fee; one or fifteen people, the same price | $29 a month each | Admin users free; each added route raises the price | Move up a plan |
| Usage or credits | None on Office, at cost on Grow, included on Front Office | None on the pricing page | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 | None on the pricing page |
| Card payments | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2%, 1% or 0.5% by plan (Koira) | 2.9% + 30¢ online, 2.7% + 30¢ Tap to Pay, 1% bank (ACH) | Not published; your own Stripe or Square account's rate | 2.9% with Tap to Pay, 3.9% when the card is not present (Stripe) |
| Add-ons | None; postcards are a flat price per card | Receptionist $29, Pipeline $49, Marketing Suite $99 a month (all three in Plus) | Texting $5 a month plus message credits | QuickBooks Desktop $50 a month; 5% off the plan when you process enough payments |
From Jobber pricing and GorillaDesk pricing, checked October 8, 2026; Kickserv pricing, checked October 9, 2026. Jobber's pricing page blocks a plain fetch and changes its prices with a team size picker, so we read it in a real browser. The $29 a month per added user is in the note behind each plan's user count. GorillaDesk prices by route with a slider that fills in by script, so we read each route count in a real browser. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
What each one costs
Every plan in the same columns: price, people, usage, card rates and add-ons.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | People included | Usage or credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | ||||
| Office | $0, free | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | None charged on Office |
| Grow | $249 a month | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Texts, call minutes and emails at cost, nothing added |
| Front Office | $499 a month, flat | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Included in the $499 |
| Jobber | ||||
| Core | $49 a month | $29 a month billed yearly | 1 user | None on the pricing page |
| Connect | $139 a month for 1 user, $199 for 5 | $99 a month for 1 user, $149 for 5, billed yearly | 1, 5, 10 or 15 users | None on the pricing page |
| Grow | $199 a month for 1 user, $299 for 5 | $149 a month for 1 user, $229 for 5, billed yearly | 1, 5, 10 or 15 users | None on the pricing page |
| Plus | $499 a month for 5 users | $399 a month for 5 users, billed yearly | 5, 10 or 15 users | None on the pricing page |
| GorillaDesk | ||||
| Basic | $49 a month for 1 route, $99 for 2, $149 for 3 | $539 a year for 1 route | Unlimited admin users and devices | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 |
| Pro | $99 a month for 1 route, $149 for 2, $199 for 3 | $1,089 a year for 1 route | Unlimited admin users and devices | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 |
| Growth | $149 a month for 1 route, $249 for 2, $299 for 3 | $1,639 a year for 1 route | Unlimited admin users and devices | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 |
| Kickserv | ||||
| Start | $60 a month | 20% off with a yearly subscription | 5 users | None on the pricing page |
| Run | $119 a month | 20% off with a yearly subscription | 10 users | None on the pricing page |
| Scale | $199 a month | 20% off with a yearly subscription | 20 users | None on the pricing page |
What comes on top: people, card payments and add-ons
| Company | Each extra person | Card payments | Add-ons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | No per-person fee on any plan | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2% on Office, 1% on Grow, 0.5% on Front Office (Koira); on Office that share replaces a monthly fee | None; postcards are a flat price per card |
| Jobber | $29 a month each | 2.9% + 30¢ online, 2.7% + 30¢ Tap to Pay, 1% bank (ACH) | Receptionist $29, Pipeline $49, Marketing Suite $99 a month (all three in Plus) |
| GorillaDesk | Admin users free; each added route raises the price | Not published; your own Stripe or Square account's rate | Texting $5 a month plus message credits |
| Kickserv | Move up a plan | 2.9% with Tap to Pay, 3.9% when the card is not present (Stripe) | QuickBooks Desktop $50 a month; 5% off the plan when you process enough payments |
From Jobber pricing and GorillaDesk pricing, checked October 8, 2026; Kickserv pricing, checked October 9, 2026. Jobber's pricing page blocks a plain fetch and changes its prices with a team size picker, so we read it in a real browser. The $29 a month per added user is in the note behind each plan's user count. GorillaDesk prices by route with a slider that fills in by script, so we read each route count in a real browser. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
Card rates as each company publishes them (also Kickserv payments), checked October 9, 2026. Koira's is Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ for a US card plus Koira's share, which pays for Office in place of a monthly fee.
Sources, each checked October 8, 2026: Jobber pricing, Jobber industries, GorillaDesk pricing, Kickserv pricing (checked October 9, 2026), Kickserv payments (checked October 9, 2026), Stripe pricing (checked October 9, 2026), and Koira pricing. We read each page's own text; we did not use summaries or third-party price lists.