Booking app for gardeners that runs your regulars on autopilot
Gardening is a seasonal business with regular customers, and the admin can eat your evenings. Bookso is the booking app that keeps your regulars on a schedule and fills the gaps with one-off tidies.
Free for your first 5 customers. No card required.
Your customer list
Every customer in one place.
Auto-scheduled reminders
Service due? We send the nudge.
They tap, you book
Customers book themselves in 30 seconds.
Add each customer to Bookso once, pick an interval (every 2 weeks for a lawn cut, every 6 weeks for a hedge trim, twice a year for a deep tidy) and Bookso schedules the next visit automatically. When the date comes round, your customer gets an email with a booking link they can tap to confirm or move the slot.
Because the booking page is a link you can share on text, WhatsApp, Instagram bio or anywhere else, new customers can book a first visit without you fielding messages all evening. You decide which days and hours you work, and the page only ever offers slots that fit your week.
Bookso adapts to the seasons. Set a spring tidy job type for March, a hedge cut for June, gutter and leaf clearance for October. Each customer can have a mix of jobs running on different intervals, and the dashboard shows you what is due this week and what is coming up.
Start free on your first 5 customers. When you are running a full round, Pro is £14.99/month for unlimited customers, branded reminders, the CSV importer and removal of the Bookso footer from your booking page.
The problem
Winter kills the diary. Customers who loved you in June forget you by March. You spent the summer looking after their garden every fortnight, they were delighted, they paid on time - and then October comes, the leaves fall, the phone goes quiet, and by the time spring rolls back around they've either forgotten you or grabbed the first leafletter who came through the door in February.
This is the seasonal gardener's curse. Your best marketing was the work you already did last year, and it evaporates every winter. Most gardeners spend February and March scrambling - leafleting, running Facebook ads, ringing round old numbers - trying to rebuild a round that had built itself the summer before. It's exhausting, and it costs money.
The fix isn't more leaflets. It's speaking to last year's customers at exactly the right moment in early spring, before they've thought about the garden themselves, and letting them book their spring tidy with one tap.
How Bookso works for gardeners
You add each customer once and pick the intervals for the jobs they want. Spring tidy in March. Lawn treatment programme every 6 weeks through the season. Hedge cut twice a year, June and September. Autumn clear-up in October. Gutter clearing add-on in November after the leaves are down. Each job type has its own schedule, and every customer can have their own mix.
Bookso schedules the next visit automatically. When it's due, the customer gets an email from your business name with a one-tap booking link. They pick a slot from your availability and the visit lands in your diary as a confirmed booking. No phone tag, no messages sitting unread on WhatsApp all day, no 'I'll get back to you' evenings.
For your true regulars - the fortnightly lawn cuts, weekly mow-and-blow customers - Bookso keeps the whole round on rails through the season. You mark visits as done from your phone, the next one is scheduled automatically based on their interval, and if a customer wants to skip a week or move to a different day they can do it from the booking link without ringing you.
If a customer doesn't respond to the initial reminder, an automatic chaser email goes out, and on the paid plans one SMS follow-up. After that Bookso stops - the customer stays visible in your pipeline so you can phone them yourself or leave them for now.
Beat the spring scramble
March is the difference between a full round and a hungry summer. The gardeners who fill March win the year - and the gardeners who spend March leafleting are already behind.
Bookso lets you set every customer's spring tidy or first-visit-of-the-year on a schedule that fires automatically in late February and early March, while your competitors are still printing flyers. Your last year's customers get a friendly email from your business name with a one-tap booking link, before they've even thought about the garden. The diary fills before the season starts, not after.
This works because you're not cold-marketing to strangers. You're speaking to customers who already know you, at the exact moment they'd have said yes anyway if they'd remembered. Software just makes sure they remember.
Why gardeners pick Bookso over round-management apps
Round-management apps like Cleaner Planner, RoundPartner and George were built for window cleaners and stretch awkwardly to fit a gardener's mix of regulars, seasonal one-offs and long-cycle work. They tend to charge per user and lock you into a specific way of running your day.
Bookso doesn't try to be a full round-management suite. It does one thing: schedule the next visit and get the customer to confirm it, with a booking link and their name on the email. Setup is about 5 minutes. Pro is £14.99/month for unlimited customers, Business is £44.99/month if you take on a lad or run a two-van setup.
Plenty of gardeners use Bookso alongside a paper round book, a spreadsheet or their existing invoicing tool. You don't have to move anything.
Works alongside your existing tools. Already using a paper round book, a spreadsheet, QuickBooks, FreeAgent or a round-management app? Keep them. Bookso is designed to sit alongside your existing setup rather than replace it - it handles the customer-side rebooking and reminder loop so your invoicing and day-planning can stay exactly as they are.
Frequently asked questions
Can Bookso handle different visit frequencies per customer?
Yes. Each customer has their own interval - weekly mow-and-blow, fortnightly lawn cuts, 4-weekly mixed maintenance, 6-weekly hedge and shape, twice-a-year deep tidy - and they can all live in the same account. The dashboard shows you what's due this week and what's coming up, so you can plan the round without a paper diary.
How do seasonal reminders work?
You set each seasonal job type to fire when you want it to. Spring tidy in March, hedge cut in June and September, autumn clear-up in October, gutter clearing in November. Bookso emails the customer from your business name with a one-tap booking link about a month before the visit is due, and the job lands in your diary as a confirmed booking. Winter regulars can be paused automatically and restarted in spring.
Can customers book a regular slot themselves?
Yes. Your Bookso booking page is a link you can share on WhatsApp, Instagram bio, Facebook, van signage or wherever. New customers pick a slot from the times you've said you're available and land in your pipeline as a booked first visit. From there you set them up on whatever interval they want, and Bookso handles every visit after that.
What happens if a customer ignores the reminder?
Bookso sends one automatic email chaser after a few days, and on the Pro or Business plan one SMS follow-up if they still haven't booked. After that Bookso stops - the customer stays visible in your pipeline so you can phone them yourself, offer them a different slot, or leave them for now. Bookso will never keep spamming a customer who isn't responding.
How much does it cost for a gardener?
Your first 5 customers are free forever, no card required. Pro is £14.99/month (or £149/year, which is 2 months free) for unlimited customers, email and SMS reminders, chasers and CSV import. Business is £44.99/month (£449/year) and adds team members plus more SMS credits. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any time.
Is customer data safe and GDPR compliant?
Yes. Customer data is stored in the UK/EU region, encrypted at rest and in transit, and Bookso operates under UK GDPR. Customers can unsubscribe from reminders with one tap, and you can export or delete any customer's data on request from your dashboard. Bookso only uses your customer list to send the reminders you set up - we never market to your customers ourselves.