Estimating Software for Landscapers in Australia
Landscape quotes mix areas, volumes and lineal work: paving, turf, soil, mulch, retaining and edging. Rignite reads the plan, calibrates it to scale, and measures the assets it has been configured to measure.
Why do landscape quotes take so long to get right?
Three different units in one job. Paving and turf are areas, soil and mulch are volumes, retaining and edging are lineal, and each has to be measured separately.
A landscape job is rarely one type of quantity. You are pricing square metres of paving, cubic metres of base and topsoil, lineal metres of retaining wall and edging, plus plants by count and size.
Converting an area into a volume is where the errors creep in, because depth matters and it varies by area. Getting mulch depth or road base depth wrong across a large site is a real cost, and it is a mistake that only shows up when the trucks arrive. Our model puts a typical landscape job at around six hours of desk quoting time.
Can Rignite measure off a landscape plan?
Yes, where there is a plan. It reads the drawing, calibrates it to scale, and measures the assets it has been configured to measure, in areas or lineal metres.
The measurement engine is not tied to one trade. It reads the plan, identifies the asset being measured, calibrates against the drawing scale, and measures it. The same mechanism that measures a cable run measures a paving area or a retaining wall.
For landscaping that means the asset types are set up during onboarding to match what you actually quote: paved areas, turf areas, garden beds, retaining, edging and so on. We would rather say that plainly than imply it arrives pre-configured for landscape work.
Design-build work with a landscape plan gets the most out of this. If you quote off a site visit and a sketch, the take-off step has nothing to read and the model caps your saving accordingly.
How does it handle volumes as well as areas?
Areas are measured from the plan, and the depths you use turn them into the cubic metres you order. Those rules are configured to your own practice.
Soil, base, sand, mulch and aggregate are ordered by volume, but they are measured on a plan as an area. The bridge between the two is depth, and depth is a decision you make rather than something a drawing states.
So the depths and build-ups you use get configured to your own standards during onboarding, and the measured areas convert through them. Change the spec on a job and the volumes follow rather than needing to be recalculated by hand.
Which suppliers can it price against?
Rignite prices against your own accounts and negotiated rates. Benedict, Australian Native Landscapes, Boral, Adbri Masonry or whichever yard you actually buy from.
Bulk material pricing is local and account specific. Delivery is a real part of the cost, and the rate you get on soil or aggregate is not a national list price.
The system runs on your suppliers and your pricing. Where something is missing, the RFQ is drafted, sent and chased, and the reply lands back against the line it belongs to. Subcontractor rates for excavation, paving crews or irrigation sit alongside materials in the same estimate.
How does it handle site unknowns?
Access, existing ground conditions, rock and spoil removal are stated as allowances, exclusions or provisional sums rather than absorbed into a rate.
Landscaping carries more site risk than most trades. Access for a bobcat, what is actually under the turf, rock, drainage and where the spoil goes are all things a plan will not tell you.
Because the scope is written from what was measured, those items appear as stated exclusions or provisional sums on the quote. That is the difference between a variation you agreed in advance and an argument in week three.
What if you quote from a site visit rather than a plan?
Then the automated take-off does not apply and the model caps your saving at 65%. The scope, supplier pricing and quote compiling still do.
Plenty of landscape work has no drawing at all, and we are not going to pretend otherwise to sell a higher tier.
If you quote off a site visit, the value sits in everything after the measuring: a scope written properly, bulk material pricing chased without you doing it, and the finished quote sent rather than sitting in drafts. The calculator caps you at the Automate share and tells you so on screen. If you do design-build work with plans, the take-off applies and Complete earns its place.
Also for other trades
Sources and last checked
Estimating Software for Landscapers in Australia
Landscape quotes mix areas, volumes and lineal work: paving, turf, soil, mulch, retaining and edging. Rignite reads the plan, calibrates it to scale, and measures the assets it has been configured to measure.
Why do landscape quotes take so long to get right?
Three different units in one job. Paving and turf are areas, soil and mulch are volumes, retaining and edging are lineal, and each has to be measured separately.
A landscape job is rarely one type of quantity. You are pricing square metres of paving, cubic metres of base and topsoil, lineal metres of retaining wall and edging, plus plants by count and size.
Converting an area into a volume is where the errors creep in, because depth matters and it varies by area. Getting mulch depth or road base depth wrong across a large site is a real cost, and it is a mistake that only shows up when the trucks arrive. Our model puts a typical landscape job at around six hours of desk quoting time.
Can Rignite measure off a landscape plan?
Yes, where there is a plan. It reads the drawing, calibrates it to scale, and measures the assets it has been configured to measure, in areas or lineal metres.
The measurement engine is not tied to one trade. It reads the plan, identifies the asset being measured, calibrates against the drawing scale, and measures it. The same mechanism that measures a cable run measures a paving area or a retaining wall.
For landscaping that means the asset types are set up during onboarding to match what you actually quote: paved areas, turf areas, garden beds, retaining, edging and so on. We would rather say that plainly than imply it arrives pre-configured for landscape work.
Design-build work with a landscape plan gets the most out of this. If you quote off a site visit and a sketch, the take-off step has nothing to read and the model caps your saving accordingly.
How does it handle volumes as well as areas?
Areas are measured from the plan, and the depths you use turn them into the cubic metres you order. Those rules are configured to your own practice.
Soil, base, sand, mulch and aggregate are ordered by volume, but they are measured on a plan as an area. The bridge between the two is depth, and depth is a decision you make rather than something a drawing states.
So the depths and build-ups you use get configured to your own standards during onboarding, and the measured areas convert through them. Change the spec on a job and the volumes follow rather than needing to be recalculated by hand.
Which suppliers can it price against?
Rignite prices against your own accounts and negotiated rates. Benedict, Australian Native Landscapes, Boral, Adbri Masonry or whichever yard you actually buy from.
Bulk material pricing is local and account specific. Delivery is a real part of the cost, and the rate you get on soil or aggregate is not a national list price.
The system runs on your suppliers and your pricing. Where something is missing, the RFQ is drafted, sent and chased, and the reply lands back against the line it belongs to. Subcontractor rates for excavation, paving crews or irrigation sit alongside materials in the same estimate.
How does it handle site unknowns?
Access, existing ground conditions, rock and spoil removal are stated as allowances, exclusions or provisional sums rather than absorbed into a rate.
Landscaping carries more site risk than most trades. Access for a bobcat, what is actually under the turf, rock, drainage and where the spoil goes are all things a plan will not tell you.
Because the scope is written from what was measured, those items appear as stated exclusions or provisional sums on the quote. That is the difference between a variation you agreed in advance and an argument in week three.
What if you quote from a site visit rather than a plan?
Then the automated take-off does not apply and the model caps your saving at 65%. The scope, supplier pricing and quote compiling still do.
Plenty of landscape work has no drawing at all, and we are not going to pretend otherwise to sell a higher tier.
If you quote off a site visit, the value sits in everything after the measuring: a scope written properly, bulk material pricing chased without you doing it, and the finished quote sent rather than sitting in drafts. The calculator caps you at the Automate share and tells you so on screen. If you do design-build work with plans, the take-off applies and Complete earns its place.
Also for other trades
Sources and last checked
Estimating Software for Landscapers in Australia
Landscape quotes mix areas, volumes and lineal work: paving, turf, soil, mulch, retaining and edging. Rignite reads the plan, calibrates it to scale, and measures the assets it has been configured to measure.
Why do landscape quotes take so long to get right?
Three different units in one job. Paving and turf are areas, soil and mulch are volumes, retaining and edging are lineal, and each has to be measured separately.
A landscape job is rarely one type of quantity. You are pricing square metres of paving, cubic metres of base and topsoil, lineal metres of retaining wall and edging, plus plants by count and size.
Converting an area into a volume is where the errors creep in, because depth matters and it varies by area. Getting mulch depth or road base depth wrong across a large site is a real cost, and it is a mistake that only shows up when the trucks arrive. Our model puts a typical landscape job at around six hours of desk quoting time.
Can Rignite measure off a landscape plan?
Yes, where there is a plan. It reads the drawing, calibrates it to scale, and measures the assets it has been configured to measure, in areas or lineal metres.
The measurement engine is not tied to one trade. It reads the plan, identifies the asset being measured, calibrates against the drawing scale, and measures it. The same mechanism that measures a cable run measures a paving area or a retaining wall.
For landscaping that means the asset types are set up during onboarding to match what you actually quote: paved areas, turf areas, garden beds, retaining, edging and so on. We would rather say that plainly than imply it arrives pre-configured for landscape work.
Design-build work with a landscape plan gets the most out of this. If you quote off a site visit and a sketch, the take-off step has nothing to read and the model caps your saving accordingly.
How does it handle volumes as well as areas?
Areas are measured from the plan, and the depths you use turn them into the cubic metres you order. Those rules are configured to your own practice.
Soil, base, sand, mulch and aggregate are ordered by volume, but they are measured on a plan as an area. The bridge between the two is depth, and depth is a decision you make rather than something a drawing states.
So the depths and build-ups you use get configured to your own standards during onboarding, and the measured areas convert through them. Change the spec on a job and the volumes follow rather than needing to be recalculated by hand.
Which suppliers can it price against?
Rignite prices against your own accounts and negotiated rates. Benedict, Australian Native Landscapes, Boral, Adbri Masonry or whichever yard you actually buy from.
Bulk material pricing is local and account specific. Delivery is a real part of the cost, and the rate you get on soil or aggregate is not a national list price.
The system runs on your suppliers and your pricing. Where something is missing, the RFQ is drafted, sent and chased, and the reply lands back against the line it belongs to. Subcontractor rates for excavation, paving crews or irrigation sit alongside materials in the same estimate.
How does it handle site unknowns?
Access, existing ground conditions, rock and spoil removal are stated as allowances, exclusions or provisional sums rather than absorbed into a rate.
Landscaping carries more site risk than most trades. Access for a bobcat, what is actually under the turf, rock, drainage and where the spoil goes are all things a plan will not tell you.
Because the scope is written from what was measured, those items appear as stated exclusions or provisional sums on the quote. That is the difference between a variation you agreed in advance and an argument in week three.
What if you quote from a site visit rather than a plan?
Then the automated take-off does not apply and the model caps your saving at 65%. The scope, supplier pricing and quote compiling still do.
Plenty of landscape work has no drawing at all, and we are not going to pretend otherwise to sell a higher tier.
If you quote off a site visit, the value sits in everything after the measuring: a scope written properly, bulk material pricing chased without you doing it, and the finished quote sent rather than sitting in drafts. The calculator caps you at the Automate share and tells you so on screen. If you do design-build work with plans, the take-off applies and Complete earns its place.