Costs are up. It's time to raise your prices. But with hundreds of customers and thousands of scheduled visits, updating everything manually would take days. LawnPro's bulk price update lets you apply percentage or flat-rate increases across the board—with a full preview of who's affected before you commit.
Every year, costs go up. Fuel, fertilizer, equipment, insurance, wages—everything gets more expensive. To stay profitable, you need to raise your prices. But the thought of updating hundreds of customers manually is enough to make you postpone it indefinitely.
Some companies try to handle it one customer at a time: open the property, find the service, update the price, save, repeat. For 200 customers, that's 200 tedious edits. Miss one, and that customer stays at the old price all season. Forget to update their scheduled visits, and you're billing at the old rate even after you "raised" prices.
Other companies give up on precision and just raise prices for new customers, leaving existing customers at legacy rates that erode margins over time. That's not sustainable.
LawnPro's bulk price update fixes all of this. Select a service, choose your increase (percentage or flat dollar amount), and see exactly which properties and visits will be affected. Review the list, uncheck anyone you want to exclude, and apply. What used to take hours now takes minutes—and you have complete visibility and control.
Three steps from old prices to new prices—with full control at every stage.
Select a service item and choose your increase: a percentage (like 5%) or a flat amount (like $5). Set whether to apply to catalog prices, property prices, and/or scheduled visits.
LawnPro shows you every property and scheduled visit that will change. Review the list, see old vs. new prices, and uncheck anyone you want to exclude.
Click apply and LawnPro updates everything—the catalog price, all selected property prices, and all selected scheduled visits. Done in seconds.
To use bulk price updates effectively, it helps to understand how pricing works in LawnPro. There are three levels:
Catalog Price: This is your master price for a service—your default rate. When you add a service to a new property, it starts at the catalog price.
Property Price: This is the price for a specific service at a specific property. It can match the catalog price, or it can be customized. Maybe Mrs. Smith has a larger yard and pays $55 instead of the standard $45.
Visit Price: This is the price on an already-scheduled visit. Once a visit is scheduled, it has its own price that doesn't automatically change if you update the property or catalog prices later.
When you do a bulk price update, you can choose to update any combination of these three levels. Typically, you'll update all three to ensure consistency across the board.
You have two options for how to calculate your price increase:
Percentage Increase: Raise all prices by a percentage, like 5% or 10%. A $40 service becomes $42 at 5%. A $60 service becomes $63. This keeps your pricing proportional—bigger jobs get bigger increases.
Flat-Rate Increase: Add a fixed dollar amount to all prices, like $5 or $10. A $40 service becomes $45. A $60 service becomes $65. Everyone gets the same dollar increase regardless of the original price.
You can also do a decrease if needed—maybe you're running a promotion or adjusting for market conditions. Just enter a negative percentage or amount.
Most lawn care companies do an annual percentage increase of 3-5% to keep up with inflation. Some do a flat $5 increase for simplicity. Choose whatever makes sense for your business.
Before any prices actually change, LawnPro shows you a complete preview of what will be updated. This is crucial—you don't want any surprises.
The preview screen shows two lists: affected properties and affected visits. For each item, you see the customer name, current price, and new price after the increase. The total dollar impact is calculated at the bottom so you can see the overall revenue effect.
Each item has a checkbox. By default, everything is selected. But if there's a property you want to exclude—maybe they're on a special contract rate, or you promised them no increase this year—just uncheck it. That property stays at the old price while everyone else updates.
This preview-and-select approach gives you the efficiency of bulk updates with the control of individual edits. You're not blindly applying changes; you're reviewing and approving each affected customer.
LawnPro keeps a history of price changes so you always know when prices were last updated and what they were before.
On each service item, you can see the previous price and the date it was changed. On property service records, you can see whether the current price came from the catalog or was set manually. This helps you understand your pricing landscape before making changes.
After a bulk update, all affected records show the new "price last changed" date. This makes it easy to identify which customers have been updated and which might have been skipped. If a customer calls asking about their price increase, you can see exactly when it happened and what the old price was.
This audit trail is invaluable for managing customer relationships. You can say with confidence: "Yes, your price went from $45 to $47.25 on January 15th, a 5% increase in line with our annual adjustment."
What happens when a property has a custom price that differs from the catalog? You have options.
By default, bulk updates apply the same percentage or flat increase to custom prices. If Mrs. Smith pays $55 for a $45 service, and you do a 5% increase, her price goes to $57.75 while the catalog goes to $47.25. The custom premium is preserved.
But sometimes you want custom-priced customers to stay where they are. Maybe they negotiated a fixed rate, or they're on a legacy plan you don't want to touch. In that case, simply uncheck them in the preview. They stay at $55 while everyone else gets the increase.
LawnPro marks each property as "Catalog" or "Custom" so you can quickly identify which pricing situation applies. The preview screen shows this badge next to each property, making it easy to make the right decision for each customer.
Every January, raise all mowing prices by 5% to keep up with inflation and rising costs. Apply to catalog, properties, and all future scheduled visits.
Gas prices spike mid-season. Add a flat $3 fuel surcharge to all services temporarily. Remove it later when prices stabilize.
Your fertilizer supplier raised prices 8%. Pass that along by increasing all fertilization services by the same percentage.
Labor costs went up. Raise all service prices by a flat $5 per visit to cover the increased wages.
Update just the catalog price for new customers without affecting existing customers. They stay at their current rates.
Realized you priced a service too low? Update it across all properties and visits to match what it should have been.
What used to take a day of tedious clicking now takes 10 minutes. Update hundreds of customers in a single batch.
The bulk update catches everyone with that service. No more accidentally leaving customers at old rates.
See exactly who will be affected and what their new prices will be. No surprises, no regrets.
Exclude specific customers with a checkbox. Handle VIPs, contracts, and special cases without leaving the bulk workflow.
Know exactly when prices changed and what they were before. Answer customer questions with confidence.
Easier price updates mean you actually do them. No more postponing increases until your margins erode.
Your updated prices flow through to invoices automatically. No manual invoice editing needed.
Scheduled visits get the new prices. All future work reflects your updated rates.
Track revenue before and after price increases. See the impact on your bottom line.