LMN True Cost for a Solo Lawn Care Business

For a solo lawn care owner, LMN’s lowest listed plan costs $297 a month, which is $3,564 over 12 months, plus a one-time onboarding fee whose amount the vendor does not publish. The same price covers 1 lead license and up to 5 crew licenses, so hiring does not raise it until the sixth crew member. This page works through those numbers and marks what is missing.

Key points

• The entry plan is listed at $297 per month, billed monthly, which equals $3,564 over 12 months before tax and onboarding (LMN pricing).
• The $297 plan includes 1 office/crew lead license and 5 crew member licenses, 6 users in total, and extra licenses are sold for a fee that is not stated.
• The price carries a one-time onboarding fee, and the page does not give the amount, so the true first-year cost is higher than $3,564 by an unknown figure.
• A promotion on the page offers 4 months free, worth up to $1,188 on the entry plan if it applies, but its terms are not published.
• The next plan up is listed at $648 per month, which is $351 more each month, or $4,212 more each year.

What does LMN cost a solo operator each month and each year?

The pricing page lists the entry plan, labelled LMN Starter, at “$297/mo USD, billed monthly*” (LMN pricing). The asterisk leads to a note: “*After a one-time onboarding fee”. So the monthly figure is a recurring price that begins after a separate setup charge.

The arithmetic below uses only the published monthly price. It excludes the onboarding fee, any extra licenses, sales tax where it applies, and payment processing, none of which the page prices.

Period	Calculation	Published-price total
1 month	$297	$297
3 months	$297 x 3	$891
6 months	$297 x 6	$1,782
12 months	$297 x 12	$3,564
Per week (12 months / 52)	$3,564 / 52	about $68.54

These are derived figures, not vendor quotes. They are the monthly price multiplied out, and they leave out the onboarding fee. The weekly figure is useful when you quote weekly mowing, because it shows how much of a week’s income the software uses before any job is invoiced.

Is the $297 price enough, or does a solo owner need a bigger plan?

A solo owner fits inside the entry plan with room to spare. The page says the plan “Includes 1 office/crew lead license & 5 crew member licenses. Additional licenses are available for a fee.” In plain terms, the owner takes the one lead license, and five seasonal helpers or crew members can be added without a price change.

The next plan is LMN Professional, listed at “$648/mo USD, billed monthly*”. It includes 3 office/crew lead licenses and 15 crew member licenses. A solo operator with no office staff gains nothing from the extra lead licenses, so Professional only makes sense once the crew passes the entry plan’s limit.

Plan	Listed monthly price	Lead licenses	Crew licenses	12-month total
LMN Starter	$297	1	5	$3,564
LMN Professional	$648	3	15	$7,776
LMN Enterprise	Contact sales	Starts at 100 users	Not stated	Not published

The Professional 12-month total is $648 x 12, which equals $7,776. The gap to Starter is $4,212 a year. All figures come from the monthly prices on the LMN pricing page. Enterprise has no published price, so it is left out of every calculation here.

How does the cost change at 1, 3, 5 and 8 users?

The cost does not change at 1, 3 or 5 users, and it becomes unknown at 8. The entry plan covers 6 users in total, made up of one lead and five crew members. The table counts the owner as the lead license and everyone else as a crew license.

Total users	Breakdown	Fits in Starter?	Published monthly cost
1	Owner only	Yes	$297
3	Owner + 2 crew	Yes	$297
5	Owner + 4 crew	Yes	$297
6	Owner + 5 crew	Yes, at the limit	$297
8	Owner + 7 crew	No, 2 crew licenses over	$297 plus an unpublished fee for 2 extra licenses

At 8 users there are two honest options. The first is to stay on Starter and pay for 2 additional licenses, but the page does not state that fee, so no total can be calculated. The second is to move to Professional at $648, which covers 18 users in total (3 + 15) and costs $351 more per month than Starter. If the two extra licenses cost more than $351 a month together, Professional is the cheaper route, but that comparison cannot be run without the extra-license price. Ask for it before you hire the seventh person.

Per-user cost is also lopsided at the bottom of the range. For one user the plan costs $297 per user per month. For six users it costs $49.50 per user per month ($297 / 6). The software is far cheaper per head for a crew than for a solo owner, which matters if you expect to hire.

What share of revenue does $297 a month take?

For a solo operator, the cost is a fixed share of revenue that shrinks as monthly sales rise. The revenue levels below are assumptions chosen to show the pattern, not vendor data and not typical results for any real business.

Assumed monthly revenue	Software cost ($297)	Share of revenue
$3,000	$297	9.9%
$5,000	$297	5.9%
$8,000	$297	3.7%
$12,000	$297	2.5%

Each share is $297 divided by the revenue figure. At $3,000 a month, nearly a tenth of sales goes to the software before fuel, insurance or equipment. At $12,000 it is about one fortieth. A solo owner near the bottom of that range should treat the plan as a real overhead decision rather than a small tool subscription.

A second way to see it is cost per visit. If a solo owner completes 100 paid visits in a month, $297 is $2.97 per visit. At 40 visits it is $7.43 per visit ($297 / 40). If your average visit pays $45, the second case uses roughly 16.5% of a visit’s income on software ($7.43 / $45). These are illustrations. Replace the visit counts and the $45 with your own figures.

What features does the $297 plan list for a solo business?

The page lists the same feature groups under the plans, and the entry plan includes them. They are grouped as “Budgeting & Estimating” with items such as Overhead Recovery, 1 active budget, customizable price lists, material and labor calculators, and automated proposals and job plans. They also include “Invoicing & Payments” with automated invoicing, described as “Send hundreds of invoices in minutes.”

For a solo lawn care owner, the practical reading is limited to what the page states. The listed estimating tools help build a price from material and labor inputs, and the invoicing line covers sending bills in bulk. The page does not state how many estimates or invoices a plan allows each month, so no per-document cost can be derived. It also does not say whether payment processing carries a fee, so card fees are not included in any total here.

The “1 active budget” line is worth reading carefully. It is listed under the budgeting group on the pricing page, and the page does not explain it further. A solo operator running a single mowing and maintenance business probably needs one budget, but whether a second budget (for example, for a separate snow service) would need a higher plan is not stated. Ask before assuming.

What does the 4 months free offer change?

The page carries a seasonal promotion, stated as “Black Friday pricing is live. Get 4 months free of LMN and Greenius + 4 free event tickets on any plan.” (LMN pricing). A separate banner at the top mentions a sale of “$4,000 + 4 free event tickets”, with no explanation of what the $4,000 refers to, so this page does not use it in any calculation.

If the 4 free months apply in full to the entry plan, the first-year arithmetic is:

Scenario	Paid months	Calculation	First-year total (excluding onboarding and tax)
No promotion	12	$297 x 12	$3,564
4 months free applied	8	$297 x 8	$2,376
Difference	4	$297 x 4	$1,188

This is a best-case reading. The page does not say whether the free months come as a credit, whether they require a longer commitment than monthly billing, whether they are waived or paid back if you cancel, or whether the onboarding fee is waived. The promotion is also described as a Black Friday offer, so it may not be available on the day you read this. Treat $2,376 as the lowest possible first-year software charge, not the expected one.

What could not be verified?

Several costs that decide the true price are missing from the source, and they are listed here rather than estimated.

• Onboarding fee amount. The page says the monthly price comes “After a one-time onboarding fee” but gives no number. Every first-year total on this page is therefore understated by that amount.
• Additional license fee. The page says extra licenses “are available for a fee” and does not price them. The cost of an eighth user, or even a seventh, cannot be calculated.
• Promotion terms. Eligibility, contract length and whether onboarding is covered are not stated.
• Annual billing. The page shows monthly billing only. Whether an annual commitment lowers the monthly rate is not published, so no annual-plan comparison is made.
• Payment processing and taxes. Card fees and sales tax on software are not covered in the source. Any tax rule that applies to your state needs a state or federal tax authority source, and none was supplied for this page.
• Usage limits. The page does not state caps on estimates, invoices or clients.
• First-hand use. This site does not use LMN. The page is a record of what the vendor publishes on its pricing page, checked on 2026-11-08, and it makes no claim about how the software performs in daily work.

No other vendor was verified for this article, so it makes no comparison with other products.

Who does the $297 plan not fit?

Four kinds of lawn care business should look past the headline price.

1. Owners who plan to hire fast. The plan stops covering users at the sixth crew member. A business planning a crew of seven or more should price extra licenses or Professional before signing.
2. Owners with very low monthly revenue. At $3,000 a month, the software takes 9.9% of sales on the published price alone. A lighter or cheaper tool may suit that stage better, though this page does not compare any.
3. Owners who need several office users. The entry plan has one lead license. A spouse or office manager who also needs a lead login would require an extra license at an unpublished price or a move to Professional.
4. Owners who want a fixed first-year budget. With the onboarding fee and extra license fees unpublished, a firm first-year number needs a written quote.

What should you check before buying?

Use this list to turn the published $297 into a real number before committing.

1. Ask for the onboarding fee in dollars, and ask what it includes (training, setup, data import).
2. Ask whether the 4 months free applies to the entry plan, whether it requires a term, and whether the onboarding fee is waived.
3. Confirm the price of each additional license, so you can price your seventh and eighth user.
4. Confirm that billing is monthly with no minimum term, and what happens to your data if you cancel.
5. Ask whether any estimate, invoice or client limits apply to the entry plan.
6. Ask what payment processing costs, if you plan to take cards through the software.
7. Add it up: onboarding fee + (monthly price x paid months) + any extra licenses + tax. Compare that first-year total with your own revenue using the share-of-revenue table above.
8. Re-read the LMN pricing page on the day you buy. Prices and promotions on vendor pages change, and this page reflects a check made on 2026-11-08.

The published facts are narrow: $297 a month, 6 licenses, a one-time onboarding fee, and a promotion with no stated terms. Everything beyond that is a question for the vendor, and the answers decide whether the true cost is close to $3,564 a year or well above it.

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