Booking software for New Zealand garden designers.
Charge for the first walk around the section, quote the design in tiers, and get paid for the drawings before a digger books in.
Start with Google- Paid consultations booked online
- Tiered quotes from concept to full build
- Online acceptance with signature
- Deposit secured on the yes
Online booking
The site visit carries a fee
The first hour on a section is the job, not the sales call. Put a price and a length on it and let clients book it straight off your page.
Learn moreSmart scheduling
Board time is booked time
The days you spend drawing sit on the calendar beside the site visits, so a planting plan deadline is not something you keep in your head.
Learn moreCharge for the first hour, not the last one.
A designer is paid for thinking, and the thinking starts the moment you walk through the gate. So the consultation goes on the page as an ordinary service with a fee and a length on it.
Priced before they book it
The fee sits on the page next to how long you will be there, so nobody is startled to find that an hour of your advice has an invoice behind it.
Into a slot you actually have
They pick from the visits you have left this season, rather than filling in a form that promises a call you then have to make.
Everything after it hangs off that job
The survey photos, the concept, the fee proposal and the planting schedule all land on the same record, so a garden has one story rather than four.
Full until after the planting season.
Design books out months ahead. When there is nothing left this season the page says so and still takes the enquiry.
It arrives as a thread
The address, what they want and a few photos of the section in one place, so you can weigh up the drive before you ring anyone.
Answer once, from the job
Reply on the record instead of by text. What you told them in autumn is still there when they come back in spring.
Slot them when one frees
A cancelled consult is a gap you fill from the same screen, and the confirmation email writes itself.
We have just taken the fences down and have no idea what to do with any of it. Is there anything left before the planting season?
Built for your trade
Built for the gardens you are actually asked to draw
Wind-blasted coastal section
Shelter planting worked out on the first paid visit, then drawn, because the species list is the part the client cannot work out alone.
Resource consent landscape plan
The drawing the council wants, quoted as its own line with the lodgement date on the job so it is not buried under the design work.
Steep back section
Levels, steps and retaining set out on paper first. The measure-up takes a morning, so the morning is booked and charged as one.
Native planting plan
Flax, cabbage trees and kowhai in numbers that actually suit the site. Sold as a planting plan and a species schedule, nothing else.
Lifestyle block shelter belts
A long drive out and a long day pacing boundaries, so the consult is priced for a full day rather than for the usual hour.
Subtropical courtyard
A small sheltered space with a big plant list. Quoted as a flat design fee so a tiny footprint does not mean a tiny invoice.
New build with bare clay
Drainage, topsoil and the first structure planting drawn before the fences go up, priced as a set the builder can work from.
Deck and outdoor room layout
Where it sits, how big and what screens it, drawn to scale so the builder quotes off your paper rather than off a conversation.
Visits while it is built
Each check on site is its own booking against the same garden, so the hours are billed instead of quietly swallowed.
A job that lives in stages, not in a morning.
Visited in March, concept in April, the full set in June, planting in the autumn. The stage a design is in tells you far more than the hour it started.
- Hemi WalkerBooked just now$215Accepted
- Sarah ColemanOpened 2h ago$480Viewed
- The Oak CaféSent yesterday$120Sent
Which fee proposals were opened, and which went quiet.
A design fee sits on a phone next to two others for a fortnight. Seeing what has been read and what has been accepted makes the one worth a call obvious.
- 4 JunPlanting scheduleHanded over
- 19 AprFull drawing setPaid
- 2 MarConcept planAccepted
- 11 FebSite consultationPaid
The garden remembers, four years later.
They ring back when the hedge has closed and they want the far end done. Your visit, your concept, the set you handed over and what they paid for it are all still on the record.
Drawing weeks are booked work, not spare time.
Studio days are the first thing a full diary eats. Block them like a site visit and the fortnight held for a planting plan stops being negotiable.
One section, three depths of drawing.
A concept, the full set with a planting plan, or the set plus visits while a landscaper builds it. Three tiers on one document.
A fee, not an hourly guess
Concept, documentation and planting plan are separate lines, so a queried number can be traced to the piece of work it came from.
Three answers on one page
The concept, the full set and the set with site visits sit together, so the client chooses instead of asking you to quote again.
Out before you drive off
The proposal goes from the phone at the gate, usually before the client has put the kettle on.
Extras priced as options · Pro
Pro puts the tiers side by side with one marked as recommended, and prices the extras a design picks up: a lighting layout, an irrigation plan, a second round of revisions. Ticking one moves the total.
- Concept plan · rear gardenDesign$1,600
- Planting & hardscape documentationDocumentation$2,400
- Design & build supervision6 weeks$1,800
Paid for the thinking, then the drawings.
The money comes in pieces months apart. Record cash and internet banking by hand for nothing, or take cards on Pro.
Cash and transfer cost nothing
Mark the consult paid when the transfer shows up. That is free on any plan and it stays free.
Cards come with Pro
A card link for the site visit, and another when the set and the plant schedule are handed over.
Stage the design fee
Part at concept, the rest at the final set. Staged requests come with Pro and go out after the job is on the board.
- Hemi WalkerP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer$380
- Sarah ColemanP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash$240
- Mere SolomonP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card$380
- James FifitaP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card$190
Starts free. Grows
only when you do.
Add your whole team and get booking for nothing.
As you grow with us you can go Pro.
One app for the whole job
Everything you need to run your garden design business.
Common questions.
Yes. It is an ordinary paid service with a fee and a duration on it. Clients book and pay by card on Pro, or you record the internet banking transfer by hand for nothing on any plan.
No, there is none. Tuia Pito Ora NZILA registers landscape architects, which is a separate qualification, and Registered Master Landscapers is the build side of the industry. Neither one registers a garden designer, and Bookables does not pretend otherwise.
Yes. They go on one estimate as named options, one of them marked as recommended, and the client chooses how far they want the drawings taken. Tiered options come with Pro.
On the link you sent, by typing their full name. The time is recorded against the job, and the accepted estimate converts into a booking with the lines already on it.
Quote it as its own line, so the client sees they are paying for a document with a council deadline on it rather than for a garden. The date it is due sits on the job with everything else.
Usually. It includes 200 bookings a month and no card is needed to start, which covers a designer running consults, board days and site visits without much thought.
