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Landscape Management Network (LMN)

Score8.6 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Landscape Management Network (LMN)?

LMN is a North American provider of business management software and learning opportunities for landscape professionals. The vendor states their proprietary cloud-based platform is used by over 85,000 employees every day across Canada and the US. From budgeting and estimating through to scheduling, time tracking and invoicing, LMN aims to help build better landscape businesses with software that grows profit, confidence and freedom as well as training opportunities through the LMN Academy.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Timesheet Tracking

    Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Quotes/estimates

    Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers

    Category average: 7.8

  • Budget and Expense Management

    Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Change request and Case Management

    Change request and change management enables tracking of all customer requests including priority and timeframe.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Invoicing

    Ability to create, manage and send invoices to clients during or after completion of a project

    Category average: 7.7

  • Workflow Automation

    Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.

    Category average: 8.2

A vast data collection system that can save you time and increase profits.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LMN to gather, store, and coordinate client data. We use LMN to build estimates and analyze estimated costs & profits vs actual results at the end of our projects. We also use LMN to track our team, via timesheets and specific times spent on each particular job. We also use it to track pricing on our materials, both for retail and for company costs.

Pros

  • time tracking
  • client data retention
  • project estimating
  • material data retention

Cons

  • multi user admin option
  • security clearances within user organization

Return on Investment

  • time savings
  • costs and profit analysis

Alternatives Considered

Service Autopilot

Other Software Used

Service Autopilot, Calendly, Microsoft 365

LMN Keeps the backend work easy so you can focus on what you do

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LMN for it's estimating and time management capabilites. We are a landscape design and build company and rely on LMN for pricing all of our projects. It's also our field software for crews to track their time to jobs. It's really an essential tool that does what we need it to.

Pros

  • Estimating
  • Timesheet Tracking
  • Job Costing

Cons

  • Customer facing experience can be improved and modernized
  • Estimating component has been stagnant can needs updates
  • Better budgeting system would be good

Return on Investment

  • Helps with project organization, knowing what a job needs and how much, etc.
  • Allows us to track every labour hours to know where time is spent. Informs where we need to see improvement
  • Makes estimating very quick for anyone. Save time in pricing jobs out so we can shorten sales pipeline.

Alternatives Considered

Aspire

Other Software Used

Vectorworks Landmark, Microsoft 365, Clockify