Handiwork for Tree Care
Handiwork helps tree care businesses turn a walkthrough into an itemized bid for removals, trims and storm cleanup, then schedule the crew and invoice the job. Photos stay on the job from the bid to the finished cleanup, and each property keeps a record of what came down and what got pruned. It all runs from a phone, so bids stop living in text threads and paper stacks.
Where Tree Work Gets Away From You
Most of it comes back to a bid, a storm or a missing record.
A removal bid that drifts once the crew's on site and the crane can't reach where you assumed it could
One storm turning a quiet week into three weeks of cleanup calls, with crew and equipment rebooked every time the forecast shifts
Invoices sitting unsent for weeks because the crew's already on the next storm
A property's tree history, what came down and what got pruned, living in one arborist's memory
Bid photos and after-cleanup shots scattered across whichever phones were out that day
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What Tree Crews Don't Have Yet
Planned, with no ship date.
What Sets a Removal Price
Two arborists can walk the same tree and come back with two different numbers, and usually neither one is careless. The price depends on details that are easy to judge differently: whether the crane can set up close enough or the crew has to rig and lower every section by hand, how tight the lean sits to the roofline or the power line, how many loads the chipper and the truck will run. Build the estimate on the spot with the crew, equipment and hazard notes as part of it. When the customer approves the bid, the same estimate becomes the job, so the crew arrives working from the number you quoted.
A Crew Calendar That Survives a Forecast Change
A wind advisory grounds the climbers. A hailstorm turns three routine trims into urgent cleanups overnight. The week you planned on Monday rarely looks the same by Wednesday. Drag a job to a new slot, and you can see what else is booked that day on the same screen. The customer gets an email with the new time, so a reshuffled week doesn’t turn into a string of no-shows.
One Property Record
Which trees came down on a property two seasons ago? Did the leaning oak already get a partial removal? Usually the answer is “whoever was on that job would remember.” Handiwork keeps each job’s notes and history on the customer record, from the estimate to what the crew wrote up afterward, so the next bid or storm call doesn’t depend on one crew lead answering the phone.
Photos That Stay With the Job
A hazard shot from the walkthrough, a mid-job photo of a hung-up section, the after picture once the stump’s ground and the site’s clean. Handiwork attaches them to the job record, so the bid photo, the shot for the property owner and the before-and-after proof all live with that job.
Invoiced Before the Next Storm Call
The days after a big removal or a storm cleanup are when paperwork falls behind, because the crew’s already staged for the next call. A cleanup often ends up costing more than the bid once the real debris volume or an added stump grind is counted. Handiwork builds the invoice from the job, line by line, so it matches what happened on site. The payment link for card or ACH through Stripe goes out with it, and the job gets billed while it’s still fresh.
What’s on the Roadmap
Plant health care and fertilization programs are recurring work, and Handiwork doesn’t automate them yet. Recurring service agreements are on our roadmap, along with an installed app for crews and job types for removals, trims and cleanups. None of that is available today. What works now is the full bid-to-paid flow: estimating, scheduling, invoicing and online payments, one property and one job at a time.
Mostly Removals, or Plant Health Care?
Removal and storm work fits Handiwork well today. Recurring programs don't yet. Get in touch and we'll go through your mix with you.
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