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Garden maintenance
From the yearly plan to the invoice, without paper slips
Gardens with their notes, a yearly plan for each garden, a weekly plan that survives rain days, the report on the phone and the QR-bill made from it: a web app for garden upkeep in Switzerland.
For now, it is an idea.
The problem
Anyone who looks after gardens all year has many small visits that repeat: mowing every two weeks, the hedge in June, the leaves in autumn. Which garden is due when lives in notes, calendars and in your head. When a rain day comes, the whole week shifts. And Monday’s hours have to become an invoice again at the end of the month.
Our approach
We are building a web app for garden upkeep and nothing more: gardens and clients, yearly plans, weekly and daily plan, report, invoice and hours export. It will calculate in CHF, create Swiss QR-bills and work in German, French, Italian and English. The data will be stored on infrastructure in Switzerland. Simple on purpose, so that your time stays in the garden and not at the desk.
Who it is for
For gardeners in Switzerland whose income comes from recurring upkeep, from the one-person business with a van to the firm with two crews. Not a tool for the garden construction site with a bill of quantities.
What is planned
Every garden with its notes
For each garden you will keep the address, the client and your notes: where the key is, which hedge belongs to the neighbour, what was left to do in the last report. Access notes will be visible only to the people who look after that garden.
A yearly plan for each garden
For each garden you will set what is done in which months and how often, and see the year as a bar of twelve months. The plan will create the visits that are due each week. You bill by hours and material, by task, or with a yearly price in instalments.
A weekly plan that survives rain days
The app will show which visits are still missing this week and let you put them on days and people. When it rains you will move a whole day to another one in a single step, in the same order.
The report on the phone
After a visit you will note in a few minutes what was done: hours per person, photos before and after, material and green waste. It is meant to work with gloves on and in bright sunlight.
An invoice with QR-bill made from the reports
The app will collect what has not been billed yet in one list. From it it will create an invoice with a Swiss QR-bill, showing VAT if your business is subject to it. You record payments by TWINT, bank transfer or cash in the same place.
Record and export hours
Each person will confirm their day with start, end and break. Months can be exported as CSV or PDF, for your fiduciary or payroll. The app does not calculate wages or supplements.
Your data in Garden maintenance
The same commitments apply to every app that grows out of our ideas.
Data in Switzerland
Our apps store your data on infrastructure in Switzerland. Where exactly is stated on one page – not spread across several documents.
Your data is not for sale
We do not sell, rent or pass on your data. We earn from the app, not from what you entrust to it.
No AI training on your data
Your data is not used to train AI models. Not ours, and not anyone else’s.
Swiss data-protection law as the standard
We design to the Swiss Data Protection Act and build privacy in from the start – not as an adjustment at the end.
Frequently asked questions
Is your question not answered here? Write to us – we read every message.
ContactWhere will my business’s data be stored?
The app will store gardens, clients, reports, photos and invoices on infrastructure in Switzerland.
Will my clients’ data be sold or used to train AI?
No. We do not sell, rent or pass on data, and we do not use it to train AI models. The client page will have no advertising and no tracking.
Can my clients see the reports?
That is planned: garden owners, property managers and companies should be able to open their reports and invoices in the browser, without an account, through a link. You decide when a report is shared.
Does the app calculate wages, supplements or overtime?
No. It records hours and exports them. Which rules apply to your business, for example a collective agreement, stays with you and your fiduciary.
Does it suit me if I work alone with a van?
Yes. If you work alone you see one column per day and write the report yourself. More people and crews should be easy to add as the business grows.
When will the app be available?
There is no date yet. We are working on this idea; at launch we will tell you once, if you wish. How many people are waiting for an idea helps us decide the order in which we build.
What will it cost?
The price is not set yet. It will be shown in CHF and be clear enough for a small business to decide without long deliberation. We will name a number only when it is right.
Does signing up commit me to anything?
No, signing up is non-binding. You receive a single message once this idea becomes an app, and nothing else. We use your e-mail address only for that; what we store is in the privacy policy.
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