Tree care software
Six estimates, one job, and the insurance question first
Tree work is estimate-heavy and risk-heavy. Quote from under the tree with the photographs on it, put the answer to the insurance question in writing, and bill the day the chips are cleared.
Most of the work in tree care is quoting work you will not get
An arborist gives several estimates for every job that lands. That is not a failing of the business, it is the shape of it, and it means the estimates themselves are the main product of the week.
Tree care software is what stops that effort evaporating. Every quote is on a list, the ones going quiet are flagged, and the ones that convert become jobs and then invoices without being retyped.
StrikeHoney does that from a phone standing in somebody's garden, which is where the number is decided.
- 01Quotes built on site with photos attached
- 02Removal, stump and cleanup as separate lines
- 03Estimates tracked, with the quiet ones flagged
- 04An invoice raised the day the site is clear
- 05Every past tree kept on the address
You are pricing something the customer cannot see
They are looking at a tree. You are looking at a lean, a target and a drop zone. The quote has to carry that difference.
Photographs do the explaining
The deadwood that set the price sits on the quote, so the number has a visible reason.
Split the job, win the job
Removal now and the stump later is a yes today, where one combined figure is a maybe.
Estimates that go quiet
A lead sitting too long is flagged, which matters most in a trade where most quotes do not convert.
Built for an estimate-heavy trade
- 01
Quote from under the tree, with the photos on it
The reason for the price is above your head, and the customer standing next to you cannot see it the way you can. Photographs of the deadwood and the lean go on the quote, so the number is explained by the thing that caused it.
- 02
Answer the insurance question before it is asked
Every homeowner with a large tree near a roof asks it, and most of them ask it first. A quote they can read at their own pace, with your terms on it, does more for that conversation than a number said at a gate ever will.
- 03
Price the removal and the cleanup separately
Take down, stump, chip, haul. Splitting them lets a customer take the removal now and the stump next month, which is a job you win rather than a quote that goes quiet. One combined figure is a number people go away and think about.
- 04
Bill the day the chips are cleared
The crew, the climb and the machine all cost you today. The invoice should not wait for a free evening, because a tree job is a large enough number that thirty days of it sitting somewhere else is felt.
One removal, before and after
What happens to a quote you left behind
You gave a number, they said they would think about it, and that is where most tree work goes to die.
- Six quotes given, and no idea where four of them went
- A price relayed to a spouse who was not there
- One number that felt large and got thought about
- A follow-up you meant to make in March
- Every estimate on one list with a date on it
- A written quote the whole household can read
- Removal and stump priced so one can be taken now
- The quiet ones flagged before they are gone
Sound like your week?
A climber, a groundie and a chipper. No estimator, and nobody in an office following up the quotes you left behind.
- You give far more estimates than you do jobs.
- Customers ask about insurance before they ask about price.
- Your quotes are worth enough that losing track of one hurts.
- The work is decided by what you can see and they cannot.
A removal is a big enough invoice to get the tax right
Tree removal invoices are large and infrequent, which is the combination where an unfamiliar rate gets applied from memory once a month and nobody checks it.
The rate comes from your province and goes on for you, and the totals stay in the tax report rather than being rebuilt from a shoebox in spring.
Not signing up today? Put a real removal through the free calculator and see what the customer owes with tax in.
| Province | Tax | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario | HST | 13% |
| British Columbia | GST + PST | 5% + 7% |
| Quebec | GST + QST | 5% + 9.975% |
| Nova Scotia | HST | 14% |
A separate provincial tax is opt in, because whether it lands on labour or only on materials depends on the trade. Rates checked against the Canada Revenue Agency in August 2026.
One plan. Choose how often you pay.
Less than one estimate's worth of your time a year.
- Leads, quotes, jobs and invoicing
- Your own business phone number
- GST/HST worked out by province
- Cancel any time, export any time
Before you ask
Tree care software is how an arborist quotes removals and pruning, keeps track of the estimates that have not been answered, and bills for the work. It stands in for a pad of carbon copies and a pile of quotes in the truck.
Yes. Photographs attach to the job and the quote comes off it, so the deadwood or the lean that justifies your price is on the document rather than in a description the customer has to imagine.
Every enquiry sits on one list, and a lead that has been sitting too long gets flagged automatically. In a trade where most estimates do not convert, the ones going cold are the ones worth a second call.
Yes. Put them on as separate lines and the customer can accept one and decline the other. It usually turns a large number somebody thinks about into a smaller one they say yes to today.
Indirectly, and usefully. A written quote the customer keeps carries your terms and gets read by whoever else in the household is worried, rather than being relayed second hand from a conversation at the gate.
Both. It is built for one person first. Bring someone on and they get a stripped-down view of the jobs they are on, with the money hidden.
$24/mo CAD, everything included. Pay six months ahead and it works out to $21/mo CAD; pay for the year up front and it is $19/mo CAD. Same product, less money. One plan, no tiers, no add-ons.
Quote the next removal from under the tree
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