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Real Estate · Software for garden design firms

Carry each garden design from site survey to planting plan and approved variation.

A garden design firm sells drawings, plant choices and supervision visits, and each of them changes between the first sketch and planting day. The software keeps every scheme with its survey, drawing revisions and plant schedule, so nothing gets rebuilt from memory when a client changes the brief. Billing follows approval.

At a glance

A design firm earns its fee in stages: survey, concept, developed design, construction drawings and visits while the garden is built, each with its own drawings, approval and invoice. Clients ask for changes at every one. Nobody keeps count.

Garden design software holds the scheme as one record. The survey, the drawing issue register, the plant schedule and the fee stages sit together, so a revised planting plan never reaches site beside an old bill of quantities. Start with one live garden scheme.

How the work runs today

Enquiries come from homeowners, developers and architects. The designer goes out and measures levels, sun path, drainage, existing trees and soil pH, then photographs the boundary from several sides. A fee proposal follows, split into stages, with a note on what each stage delivers and how many revisions it covers.

Concept boards go to the client, then a developed design with a planting plan and a hard-surface layout for paving, steps and retaining walls. The plant schedule names species, container sizes and quantities, and the buyer checks every line against what the nurseries hold. During construction the designer visits to check setting out, topsoil preparation and root ball quality, and writes a site visit note with instructions for the contractor.

Where it breaks

What goes wrong for garden design firms without a proper system.

Drawings circulate in several revisions

A planting plan is revised twice after the client’s comments, yet the contractor still works from the first PDF received. The issue register is a spreadsheet nobody updates. It was last touched in spring.

The plant schedule drifts from the nursery

A box hedge is out of stock. A yew substitute is agreed by phone while the schedule still shows the original, so quantities on the final plan and on the nursery order no longer agree.

Extra revisions are given away

The fee covers two rounds of changes. The client asks for a fifth, the designer obliges, and those hours are never counted against the stage that was sold.

Site instructions are lost

A designer tells the foreman on site to move a tree pit by a metre and nothing is written down. The contractor later disputes the cost of the change. The designer has nothing but a recollection to offer.

Stage invoices go out late

The concept is approved on a call. The invoice waits for someone to remember. The next stage begins unpaid.

What the software does

What we would build for garden design firms.

Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.

Site survey and brief

Record spot levels, existing trees, soil notes, buried utilities and the client’s wish list for each plot, with boundary photographs kept on the scheme.

Drawing issue register

List every drawing by sheet number and revision letter, with the recipient and the date of each issue, and mark a superseded planting plan so nobody builds from it.

Plant schedule

Hold species, container size, spacing and quantity per planting zone, and note every substitution with its reason and the client’s approval, so the nursery order and the plan agree.

Stage billing and variations

Set the fee by stage and count the revisions each one includes. Any request beyond them becomes a variation, signed before the extra drawing work begins and never after it is finished.

Site visit notes

Log every visit with the instructions given, photographs and the person who received them, so a moved tree pit has a written trail.

Nursery and supplier orders

Track plant, stone and paving quotes against the schedule, with delivery dates that fit the planting window for bare root and container stock.

Before you talk to a supplier

A requirements checklist for garden design firms.

What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.

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Ready product

A product already built for garden design firms.

It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.

Garden Design Firm Management Software

Site surveys, fee stages, drawing issue register, plant schedules, nursery orders, site visit notes and aftercare for garden design firms.

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How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Common questions

Questions garden design firms ask before they call.

Does it replace our drawing software?

No. Your designers keep drawing where they do now. The system holds the issue register, the revision numbers and the approvals around those files, so the right sheet reaches the contractor on site.

Can a scheme carry several phases for one garden?

Yes. A large plot can be split into front garden, courtyard and roof terrace, each with its own plant schedule and fee stage, while the client sees one account.

How do we hand over files to a contractor?

Drawings are shared from the scheme with the current revision shown, and the contractor’s copy is logged, so you can say later which sheet the contractor held on a given day.

Who sets it up and what happens to old schemes?

Our team enters your plant list, stage fees and sheet numbering first. Live schemes come across with their current stage and an unpaid stage invoice keeps its balance against the client, all checked against your own files. Your senior designers review the layout before it is final.

How is a garden design practice quoted?

Designers, site visitors and office staff form the base. The survey and brief, drawing issue register, plant schedule, stage billing and nursery orders are modules priced apart. An accounts link adds more. Moving old scheme folders does as well.

What should a design studio gather before starting?

Gather a survey sheet, a fee proposal split into stages, a drawing issue list, a plant schedule and a nursery order. Choose a lead designer and a studio manager to review screens as they appear.

If the studio changes tools, who holds the schemes?

The studio holds the schemes. Code and records are all yours, and briefs, drawings issued, schedules and stage invoices can be taken in plain files. Support continues with the build team. GullySystem hosts it, unless another host suits you better.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

Category

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Talk to us

Tell us how your business runs today.

A few lines on your spreadsheets, software and WhatsApp groups is enough. We reply the same working day.

What happens after you share your requirements

  1. A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
  2. Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
  3. If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
  4. No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.

Start with your requirements

Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.

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