Why we don't charge a payment take-rate

Most landscaping CRMs add a small percentage to every payment processed through their platform. They call it a "platform fee." We don't charge one. Here's what the difference looks like in dollars.

A 3-truck operation, doing the math

Three trucks, weekly mows from April through October at $65 per stop, plus seasonal cleanups in spring and fall. Run it through and a typical 3-truck operation is processing somewhere around $380,000 a year through their CRM.

A 0.75% platform fee on $380,000 is $2,850 per year. That's a mid-tier mower replacement. Or two months of insurance. Or the margin on every single estimate you wrote in October.

Why it's a fee at all

The honest answer is that processors take a cut on every dollar (Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢, which is industry standard) — and some CRMs add their own slice on top. PoweredQuip just doesn't. You pay standard Stripe rates and we make our money on subscription, the way SaaS is supposed to.

The trade we're making

We could probably squeeze more revenue out of a take-rate. We decided not to because the people we built this for — solo landscapers and small crews — already operate on margins that get eaten by every "small fee." Adding ours wouldn't sit right.

What you charge a customer is what hits your bank account, minus standard Stripe fees. That's the deal. No skim, no asterisk.