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Business management, kept simple.
Business management, kept simple.
Quotes, jobs, scheduling, invoicing and tax — all in one app. Built for lawn care, cleaning, pressure washing and handyman work — and the trades that keep this country running, with AU-native GST and BAS tools, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Catalog and pricing calculators load already set up — nothing to configure first.
Live pricing as you tap. Done before you'd normally finish typing the client's name.
Email or SMS from the job. It tracks itself from there.
Every quote, follow-up and invoice you used to do at the kitchen table after dinner now happens on-site, between jobs — while you're still in the truck, not after the kids are in bed.
Four things you won't find bundled together anywhere else in this category.
Most software in this category gives you one option: a shared cloud database the vendor can read any time. Kept lets you turn on full encryption for your business data instead — genuinely unreadable by us, even if we wanted to — or keep the simpler default if you'd rather not manage a recovery key. Download a full backup whenever you like, either way, so you're never stuck relying on us to keep it.
The Marketplace matches real job requests from real customers to your trade and service area — you quote, they choose. It's not a directory you pay extra to be listed in, and it's not a lead you're bidding against ten other apps for — it's part of the plan you're already on.
Quote, schedule and photograph a job with zero bars, and it catches up the moment you're back in range — across every device you use. Most competitors need a live connection just to open.
Log the materials a job used — turf and soil, cleaning chemicals, whatever your trade runs on — against quantity, not just labour hours. Most job-management tools stop at time tracking and leave the rest to a spreadsheet.
Real prices, your own numbers — pick your trade, set your own price, drag the slider to a realistic week.
Solo-to-small-crew range — not a "fleet of 40 trucks" number.
It was built for plumbers and electricians, then stretched to cover everyone else. Here's what solo-to-small lawn care, cleaning and pressure washing operators are actually choosing between right now.
| Software | Starting price | Pricing model | Trade-specific tools? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yardbook | $0–60/moFree tier | Free tier + paid add-ons | Lawn care only, limited beyond solo/basic use |
| ZenMaid | $19–109+/mo | Flat + per-seat on Pro tier | Cleaning only |
| ServiceM8 | $0–349/moFree tier | Flat, bundles jobs+SMS | No — general trades |
| Fergus | $48–53+/mo | Flat, per business | No — general trades (AU/NZ) |
| Jobber | US$39–599+/mo | Per-user on team plans | No — general field service |
| Tradify | $47–61/user/mo | Per user | No — general trades |
| simPRO | Custom quoteEnterprise | Per-user, contract-locked | No — multi-site/enterprise trades, not solo-small |
| Kept | Free–$229+/mo + GSTFree tier | Flat, per business | Yes — soil calc, bond-clean & house-wash calculators, weather blockout, route optimisation (Team plan and above) |
Competitor pricing researched July 2026, re-verified August 2026, from public pricing pages — figures change, worth re-checking before quoting anyone directly. Jobber's Australian pricing page is billed in US dollars, not AUD. simPRO is listed for completeness but isn't really a peer for this list — it's enterprise/multi-site software, with reviewers commonly reporting five-figure setup costs and 12-month contracts.
Expensive third-party payment processing fees eat into the "free" pitch — the most-cited gripe.
Per-cleaner pricing balloons past the sticker price the moment a team grows past 2–3 staff.
Support is the most-cited complaint — slow, generic replies, and some users say cancelling is difficult.
Price increases roughly every 6–12 months, plus recurring Xero sync bugs.
Accounting sync drops line items on an estimated ~2% of syncs — manual reconciliation becomes routine.
Per-user pricing gets expensive fast once a crew passes about 10 people.
Rigid, expensive contracts — reviewers report five-figure setup costs and a 12-month minimum.
Complaint themes drawn from public reviews on Capterra, G2 and Trustpilot (Aug 2026) — individual experiences vary, and every product above has plenty of positive reviews too. We're new enough not to have a public review history of our own yet — genuinely the only way to know how we hold up is to try it.
Because most "free" isn't really free — it's a funnel. Those tiers cap out on clients, jobs or trades right when your business is actually growing, and the ones that stay free long-term make it back some other way: ads, upsells, or your data being the product.
Kept has a real free plan — no time limit, no card, no catch. It's capped at 15 clients and 15 jobs/quotes a month, which is plenty to run a genuinely small operation on for as long as you want. When you outgrow that, upgrading is one click from Settings — not a forced decision on someone else's clock.
Priced by how many people are using it, not per seat on top of a base fee. Pick the tier that matches your team size and upgrade whenever you actually need to — nothing locks you in.
Every business starts on Free — no card, no trial clock. Upgrade any time from Settings once you need more, and move up or down between paid tiers whenever your team size changes. Cancel any time, no lock-in.
Real customer job requests matched to your trade and service area — quote and win work without spending a cent on ads.
One record flows into the next — no retyping the same job three times.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, repeating forever until you cancel the series.
Break a big job into dated task cards spread across days, then bill it all as one invoice — or bill it in stages as it progresses.
A day's stops reordered automatically for the shortest run, not just entry order. Team plan and above.
Flags likely-rain days and suggests the next clear one, one tap to move a day's jobs.
Live m³ soil volume as you build a renovation quote — no separate spreadsheet.
Room and surface-based pricing for residential and commercial cleaning jobs, built into the quote.
Square-metre and linear-metre pricing for pressure washing and gutter jobs, no separate spreadsheet.
Tax-free threshold and BAS position estimates worked out for you — not bolted on for a US-first tool.
GPS-tracked trips or manual entry, turned straight into a cents-per-km tax deduction.
Import a bank statement CSV and match transactions against paid invoices in a couple of clicks.
A clean P&L, GST position and mileage summary, ready to print or email off at tax time.
Service-interval tracking for mowers and gear, with overdue alerts.
Log what a job actually used — turf, soil, fertiliser and beyond — against quantity, so job costing means more than just hours.
Snap photos on site and they're kept against the job for good — proof of a finished job, backup if a client queries a quote, or before/after shots you can reuse for marketing.
Referral tracking, site requirements, full job history per client.
Log hours, run pay runs with tax and super estimates, and get a payroll summary ready for tax time — including what super still needs to be paid.
Decide exactly what each login can see — crew gets their jobs, not your financials or client list.
Work orders, site plans or SWMS attached straight to the job — no separate folder to go hunting through.
A no-login PDF work order you can text or email a sub, without handing them access to your books.
Email or SMS straight from the job, with status tracked automatically as sent, viewed or paid.
A proper installable app, not just a bookmark — keeps working with no signal and catches up the moment you're back online, across every device.
Tax, GST/BAS and payroll tools are a convenience to help with reporting, not professional advice — check anything that matters with your own accountant or registered BAS agent before lodging.
Kept already covers 25+ service trades under the hood, from lawn care to cleaning to pressure washing. If yours isn't one of them yet, let us know what you need and we'll build it out.
Request your trade →Lawn care, garden maintenance and turf renovation, residential and commercial cleaning, pressure washing and exterior cleaning, plus over 20 other service trades already built in. Don't see yours — use the "request your trade" section above and we'll build it out.
You can import your customer list from a CSV export — QuickBooks, Xero, Jobber, a spreadsheet, most formats work — in a couple of clicks, or just add clients as new jobs come in.
Yes — every business's data is fully isolated. Nobody else using the software can see your jobs, clients or numbers.
Nothing to start — every business begins on a free plan, no card required. From there it's $35/mo + GST for 1 person, priced by team size, up to $229/mo + GST at 11 people — bigger teams are priced individually. See the full pricing.
No pressure — I'll follow up with pricing, a walkthrough, or just answer questions. Straight from the person who built it.
Set up your business in a couple of minutes, or try the live demo first with real sample data already loaded.