Field-service software for tree care
Run your tree service from the truck.
Quote the job in the customer’s yard, send the right crew, check off the hazards and take the card before you pull away. Arbor Desk puts the whole job in one app, built for tree work and nothing else.
- Crews never see your prices
- Works with no signal
- English and Spanish
Built for every kind of tree work
- Tree removal
- Pruning and trimming
- Stump grinding
- Plant health care
- Storm cleanup
- Crane and bucket work
- Land clearing
The cost of doing it by hand
The paperwork doesn’t stop when the saw does.
Estimates on the truck dashboard, schedules on a whiteboard, invoices typed up at night. Here’s what that costs trade businesses, according to the people who measure it.
7+ hours
a week lost to manual data entry, job write-ups and other low-value tasks, by technicians’ own estimate. That’s nearly a full workday.
59%
of small businesses have invoices overdue by 30 days or more, up from 47% the year before.
$17.7K
owed on average to small businesses that have unpaid invoices.
One app, the whole job
From the first call to the paid invoice
Everything your office and your crews need, in the same place, on the phone in their pocket.
Quote it in the yard. Sign it on the spot.
Walk the property, add photos and notes for each tree, and build the estimate from your own price book. Offer Good, Better and Best options so customers choose the bigger job themselves, then get their signature right there or by email.
- Good / Better / Best options on every estimate
- Your services and prices, ready to tap
- Approval and signature on the phone or online
Your crews see the job. Not your prices.
Each crew member gets their own login and sees only their jobs: the address, the work to be done, the gate code, the hazards and the checklist. Big buttons for On my way, Start and Finish keep the office up to date without a single phone call.
- Prices, invoices and revenue stay with the office
- Before and after photos on every job
- Built for gloves, one hand and bright sun
Get paid before the chipper cools down.
Turn the finished job into an invoice in a tap. Take the card on site with Tap to Pay or a card reader, or email a payment link that customers can pay from their phone. The money goes straight to your company’s own Stripe account.
- Card payments on site and online
- Customer portal for estimates, invoices and receipts
- Syncs with QuickBooks Online
Made for tree care
Built for tree work. Not adapted to it.
General field-service apps were made for plumbers and cleaners. Arbor Desk knows about drop zones, DBH, bucket trucks and storm season.
Tree inventory on every property
Species, size, condition and location for each tree, with photos, so the next estimate starts where the last one ended.
Hazard and PPE checklists
Crews confirm power lines, drop zones and protective gear before the first cut, and you keep a record of it.
Storm response, sorted
Log emergency calls fast, put the dangerous ones first and send the nearest crew that can handle it.
Weather holds
Wind or lightning? Put a job on hold with a reason, and the customer and the schedule stay in the loop.
Equipment checks
Bucket trucks, chippers and grinders get their inspections logged, so nothing goes out that shouldn’t.
Crew qualifications
Know who is certified for what, see when it expires, and get warned before you schedule the wrong person.
Savings calculator
Less paperwork. More tree work.
See what the hours spent on paperwork cost your company now, and what getting some of them back is worth.
How it works
Up and running without slowing down your season
- 1
Book a demo
A short video call. We walk through a tree job like yours, from first call to paid invoice, and give you a clear price for your company.
- 2
Set up together
Bring in your customers, add your services and prices (tree-care examples are ready to edit), and invite your office and crews.
- 3
Send the crews out
Crews install the app on their phones and see their jobs. You see every job move from scheduled to paid.
For the people up the tree
Made for the people who climb, cut and haul.
Your climbers and ground crews don’t want another app to fight with. Arbor Desk shows them what they need for today’s job, in large type with big buttons, and keeps working when the signal drops in the back lot.
- Jobs, checklists and photos work offline
- The whole crew app in English or Spanish
- iPhone and Android
Your crews are already working hard. Your software should too.
See a tree job go from first call to paid invoice in about 30 minutes. We’ll show you the plan that fits your company and give you a clear price on the call.