A lawn care route planner for weekly mowing crews.
Keep your lawns in the spreadsheet you already use, sort them by service day, and hand each crew an optimized route. It's routing only, so there's no scheduling or invoicing system to learn.
- Free for up to 50 addresses
- No credit card
- No app to install
The short answer
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Lite Route Planner is a lawn care route planner for mowing and landscaping crews: import your customer list from Excel or Google Sheets, filter it by service day, lasso the lawns into a route and optimize it in one click. It's free for up to 50 addresses with unlimited routes, and Business adds unlimited crew logins from $59.99 a month with no per-crew fees. Color the map by last visit and any lawn that's gone more than a week without a mow stands out.
A mowing list, the way most lawn businesses keep it
One row per property, with the details your crews and your billing need. This is a typical sheet before it goes into Lite.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | |
| 1 | Customer | Address | City | Service day | Frequency | Crew | Lot (sq ft) | Gate | Last mowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Dana Whitfield | 4418 W 129th Terrace | Overland Park, KS | Mon | Weekly | Crew A | 9,200 | Code 4471 | 10/12/2026 |
| 3 | Marco Ruiz | 15720 S Brougham Dr | Olathe, KS | Mon | Weekly | Crew B | 12,800 | Side gate, dog | 10/12/2026 |
| 4 | Greenway HOA common areas | 8800 Renner Blvd | Lenexa, KS | Tue | Weekly | Crew A | 65,000 | None | 10/13/2026 |
| 5 | Priya Shah | 12105 W 135th St | Overland Park, KS | Wed | Biweekly | Crew B | 7,400 | Code 0912 | 10/07/2026 |
| 6 | Tom and Lisa Brandt | 21340 W 98th St | Lenexa, KS | Thu | Weekly | Crew A | 15,500 | Back gate | 10/08/2026 |
When you import it, pick which extra columns to keep: Service day, Frequency and Crew come in as text you can color the map by, Lot as a number and Last mowed as a date. Crews see a stop's note in the driver app, not your custom fields, so copy gate codes and dog warnings into the note.
From that sheet to Monday's routes
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Import the list once
Upload the file or paste the cells. Every address goes on the map, and anything Lite couldn't place is flagged so you can fix it. The lawns stay saved, so you only do this once.
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Color the map by service day
Each day gets its own color, so you can see at a glance whether Thursday's lawns sit together or are scattered across three towns.
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Filter to Monday and lasso each crew's lawns
Filter to Monday, and to one crew if you keep a Crew column. Draw a loop around the lawns on the map and save them as a route.
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Optimize from the shop
Save your shop or yard as a base, start the route there and bring it back at the end. One click puts the lawns in the shortest order.
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Send it to the crew
Assign the route to a crew lead's login. They open each lawn in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze and mark it Visited, or Attempted with a note like "gate locked."
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Complete it at the end of the day
Completed routes keep every visit in each lawn's history. Next Monday, filter and lasso again: the lawns are already there. More on planning weekly service routes.
Rain days, skipped lawns and biweekly yards
A weekly mowing schedule holds until it rains. When Tuesday washes out and everything moves back a day, some lawns get mowed twice in a week and others get missed. Color the map by last visit and you see it right away: lawns mowed within the last week are one color, and anything that slipped to 1 to 2 weeks ago is another.
Filter to just those lawns, lasso them into a make-up route and optimize it. Biweekly customers work the same way: filter Frequency to Biweekly and last visit to 1 to 2 weeks ago, and that's this week's biweekly list. The lawns mowed within the last week can wait. See how to find customers you haven't visited.
Seasonal jobs fit too. Add a yes/no column for aeration or fall cleanup and import the sheet again: Lite fills in the new column on the lawns you already have instead of adding duplicates. Filter to Yes, and that's your aeration route.
The driver app
Each crew lead gets the day's lawns on their phone
Crew leads sign in with a code from their email, with no app to install and no password. They see the day's lawns in order with the drive time between each, tap a lawn to open it in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze, and mark it Visited or Attempted. You see progress in the planner within seconds. Business includes unlimited crew logins, so a third truck doesn't raise the bill.
Lite or a lawn care business suite?
Choose Lite if
- You already schedule and invoice from a spreadsheet, a calendar or your accounting software, and the problem is the driving.
- You want crews on a phone link today, with no per-user fees and nothing to install.
- You want a map that shows which lawns haven't been mowed lately.
- You have up to 50 lawns and want it free, with no trial clock.
Choose a suite like Jobber or Yardbook if
- You want scheduling, quotes and invoices in the same app as your routes.
- You want recurring jobs created for you every week without lifting a finger.
- You'd rather pay for one system that runs the whole business than use a separate route planner.
What it costs a lawn business
Every plan has unlimited routes and unlimited optimizations. You pay for the number of addresses, not the number of crews.
Part-time, up to 50 lawns
Free, with no credit card. Plan as many routes as you like and drive them from your own phone.
Solo, with a full book
Personal is $19.99 a month billed every six months, or $29.99 month to month, for up to 200 addresses and one base for your yard.
Two or more crews
Business starts at $59.99 a month for 1,000 new stops a month, with unlimited crew logins and up to 100 bases. See pricing.