LMN Review & Pricing: Plans, Costs and Verdict

LMN, now sold as LMN by Granum, is landscape business software built around one idea: know your true cost per man-hour, then estimate, schedule and track crews against it. As of October 2026 the Starter plan is $297 a month with one office license and five crew licenses, and Professional is $648 a month with three office and fifteen crew licenses, plus a one-time onboarding fee LMN doesn't publish. That's a lot more than Jobber. For a design-build or maintenance company that bids by the hour and loses money on jobs it can't see, the budgeting and job costing are the point.

What LMN is

LMN started as landscape business management software and is now part of Granum. SingleOps and LMN announced a merger in November 2024, and in October 2025 the combined company launched Granum as the parent brand over LMN, SingleOps and Greenius. LMN keeps its name as "LMN by Granum," and its old website now redirects to granum.com/lmn.

What sets LMN apart from Jobber or Housecall Pro is where it starts. Those tools start with the job: book it, do it, invoice it. LMN starts with your budget. You put in your labor burden, equipment, overhead and the profit you want, and LMN uses that to set the hourly rate behind every estimate. Then it tracks crew hours against what you sold so you can see which jobs made money.

On top of that it has the usual pieces: CRM, proposals, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, payments, a customer portal, QuickBooks sync and a mobile app for crews.

Budgeting and estimating

This is the reason to buy LMN. Most landscape owners price work off a gut-feel hourly rate or what the competitor down the road charges. The trouble shows up in August when the revenue looks fine and the bank account doesn't.

LMN's budgeting has you work out what an hour of crew time really costs once you load in wages, payroll taxes, truck and trailer costs, mower and equipment costs, insurance, the office and your own salary. Estimates then build from production rates and those loaded costs, so a mulch install, a spring cleanup and a weekly maintenance contract all carry their share of overhead.

The work is real. Owners commonly report a learning curve setting up budgets and estimating properly, and that matches what you'd expect. The software can't guess your equipment costs or how many billable hours your crews actually hit. Budget a few evenings in the off-season to do it right, and do it with whoever runs your books.

Scheduling and crew time

Once jobs are sold, LMN schedules them to crews and tracks time from the field. Crew leads clock the crew in and out by job, and those hours flow back against the estimate. That's how you learn the bed install you sold at 24 man-hours took 31, and that one crew is consistently over on maintenance stops.

For a maintenance company, that per-visit tracking is where the margin leaks get caught. A weekly mow priced at 45 minutes that keeps taking an hour is costing you every single week of the season.

Snow, enhancements and the off-season

Plenty of landscape companies in the north run snow from November to March to keep crews employed, and LMN sells to landscape and snow-removal companies alike. That matters because snow costs work differently: per-push or seasonal contracts, salt by the ton, plow trucks and loaders that sit idle on dry weeks. Keeping that inside the same budget as your green-season work, instead of in a separate spreadsheet, gives you one honest view of what the year cost.

Enhancements are the other place LMN's costing helps. The spring cleanup, the aeration and overseeding push in fall, the mulch refresh and the drainage fix a maintenance client asks for in July are where a lot of landscape profit sits, and they're also where crews run over. Pricing those off loaded hourly costs, and then seeing actual hours against estimate once they're done, is exactly what the budgeting is for.

If your company is all mowing and nothing else, this section doesn't apply to you, and that's a sign LMN is more than you need.

Invoicing, payments and accounting

LMN handles invoicing and payments and syncs with QuickBooks. It's capable here, but this isn't why people pick it. If invoicing and online payments are the main thing you need, cheaper tools do that job well.

Pricing in plain terms

LMN bundles office and crew licenses by plan. As of October 2026:

Plan	Monthly price	Licenses included
LMN Starter	$297/mo	1 office/crew-lead + 5 crew members
LMN Professional	$648/mo	3 office/crew-lead + 15 crew members
LMN Enterprise	Quoted	Starts at 100 users

Every plan adds a one-time onboarding fee. LMN doesn't publish the amount. Additional licenses are available for a fee that also isn't published. The Greenius training platform is an add-on with no listed price. There's no free trial on the pricing page.

What this means for real companies:

Company	Plan	Monthly	Notes
Solo operator	Starter	$297	Paying for 5 crew licenses you don't use
1 office person + 4 crew	Starter	$297	Fits, about $59 per person
3 crews of 4 + office manager + estimator	Professional	$648	Fits, about $43 per person

The gap between plans is the thing to plan around. Starter gives you one office license. The moment a second person needs to estimate or schedule, you're buying an extra license at an unpublished price or jumping to Professional at $648. Ask for the extra-license price on the first call.

For comparison, Jobber Grow with 5 users is $229 a month billed annually, and Jobber has stronger quoting and client communication for residential work. What it doesn't have is LMN's budgeting built around landscape costing. If you'd never use that, Jobber is cheaper. If you would, $297 to $648 a month is small next to the cost of underbidding a season of installs.

Where it falls short

• Price for small crews. Owners commonly report it's priced above general field-service apps, and at $297 a month for Starter that's fair.
• Setup takes work. The budget is only as good as the numbers you feed it. Rushing it gives you confident-looking estimates built on bad costs.
• Unpublished fees. Onboarding and extra licenses both need a quote.
• No listed trial. You'll see it in a demo, not on your own schedule.
• Not route-first. A residential lawn company with 400 weekly mows cares more about route density, skip handling and recurring billing than man-hour budgeting.

Who should look elsewhere

Solo operators and small mowing routes should look at Jobber, which starts at $29 a month billed annually for one user. Lawn and landscaping companies built on recurring routes and heavy automation can compare Service Autopilot, whose Pro Plus plan is $499 a month at annual rates with five mobile users. Route-based outfits that just want cheap scheduling with unlimited users can look at GorillaDesk at $49 a month per route.

If you run several crews, sell installs and enhancements alongside maintenance, and want every bid built on what an hour of your crew actually costs, LMN is the most purpose-built option in this group. Do the budget work in winter so it's ready before spring.