Lawn Care Service Agreement Template

You just landed a recurring residential client and need a contract you can put your name and price on today — without paying a lawyer or signing up for a field-service platform. This generator builds one in your browser: no signup, no email wall, nothing saved to a server. Fill the fields and an editable Word file (plus print and PDF) is one click away.

A lawn care service agreement is the document that governs the relationship — the scope, the term, the price, and what happens on cancellation. It is complementary to the tools around it, not a duplicate: a quote proposes a price, an invoice bills completed work, and this agreement sits between them as the governing contract.

The clauses the strong templates include — and amateurs forget

The document carries the canonical seventeen-clause sequence, from Parties and Property through Indemnity, Governing Law, and a clean Signature page — the clauses that actually protect you, covered in general at service agreement clauses. Two quality markers are pre-written for you:

• No automatic renewal. The Term clause states plainly that the agreement does not automatically renew — so a season ends when it ends, not by silent rollover. State your service window (a spring-to-fall season, say) and the off-season suspends cleanly rather than billing through the winter. If the last visit of the season is a sprinkler shutdown, price that seasonal visit on its own with the irrigation winterization blowout calculator rather than folding it into the mowing rate.
• A late-fee line. The Price & Payment clause carries a stated late fee (defaulting to 1.5% per month) for overdue balances.

The scope menu lets you check the lawn tasks you provide — mowing, edging, weed control, fertilization, aeration, seeding, leaf cleanup, pest/disease — plus a free-text exclusions line for the work you charge extra for. Mowing and edging are checked by default. If fertilization is checked, the annual fertilization schedule template is the month-by-month program the agreement’s scope line is actually committing you to. The Price & Payment clause holds your billing basis as plain text, so a per-visit rate or a level monthly figure reads the same way to the client — write whichever you bill, plus any skip-week or weather policy, in your own words. Each visit under the agreement is its own field record — one lawn and landscaping work order per visit keeps the season’s history intact even though this contract itself doesn’t track individual stops.

What it is — and isn’t

The rate, late-fee percent, and insurance amount are descriptive contract text, not a billing engine — they are echoed into the clauses exactly as you enter them, never computed against a balance. What to state about your coverage in the agreement is a policy decision, not a template one — the lawn care business insurance guide covers what a lawn crew typically carries. To actually price a job, use lawn care pricing; for the late-fee math, see invoice late fee. The facts you paste into the parties and property blocks are usually gathered before any of this, on the new client intake sheet, and the price the agreement names comes from the mowing estimate the customer already accepted.

Nothing is stored: there is no saved-contract list, no customer database, and no e-signature of record — parties sign the printed copy offline. The independent-contractor clause block (status, licenses, taxes) is off by default; turn it on only if you are a 1099 subcontractor rather than a direct provider.

This template is a starting point and is not legal advice; have it reviewed for your jurisdiction.