Automate Your Tree Service Business
Autopilot books the estimates, lines up the removals, and collects the money while your crew is in the tree. You run the saw, the software runs the office.
Autopilot, working your route
Unlock Your Business Potential
Tree work is big-ticket and estimate-driven. Autopilot keeps the estimate calendar full, the crane days straight, and the invoices paid before the chips are out of the driveway.
- Get More Reviews: Ask every customer for a review right after the haul-off, automatically.
- Book More Estimates: Homeowners grab a site-visit slot from your website, day or night.
- Stop Losing Leads: Missed calls get a text back before the homeowner calls the next tree company.
- Keep Crane Days Straight: Removals, trims, and stump grinding all on one schedule, no double-booked equipment.
- Get Paid Same Day: Invoices fire when the job is done and customers pay from their phone.
How a Tree Service Week Runs on Autopilot
The same system, told the way tree work actually happens: from the first call to the site visit to the removal to the money in your account.
1Book the estimate
Every call and click becomes a site visit on the calendar
Homeowners request an estimate online 24/7 for a removal, a trim, or stump grinding. When the phone rings, you see who's calling with their property history, and every call is recorded. Miss one from the bucket? Autopilot texts them back before they call the next company.
2Plan the week
Removals, trims, and crane days in one view
The weekly overview shows every estimate visit, removal, and stump grind in one place. Line up the crane jobs on the same day, keep the right crew on the right work, and everyone knows the plan before the trucks roll.
3Work the jobs
Stops ordered so the estimator isn't driving in circles
Estimate visits and small trims get ordered by location so nobody crosses town between stops. Crews get SMS alerts the moment a job moves, and homeowners get automatic on-my-way texts before the trucks show up.
4Get paid at the curb
Invoice, payment, and tip before the chip truck leaves
The invoice fires the moment the job is marked done, stump grinding and haul-off included. Homeowners pay from a link on their phone, and the built-in tip screen means your climbers make more on the same tree.
5Book the next one
Reviews and the next storm season, on autopilot
Auto texts ask happy customers for a Google review while the yard is still raked. SMS, email, voicemail, and postcard blasts follow up on open estimates and fill the calendar when a storm rolls through.
See Autopilot in Action
Browse real screens from the platform. From scheduling views and marketing dashboards to client communication and real-time alerts, this is the system your crew will actually use.
- businesses run on Autopilot
- 400+
- Google Play rating
- 4.9
- App Store rating
- 4.8
- starting price per month
- $49
Set It Up Once. Let It Run Your Business
Autopilot makes it simple to onboard your tree service with steps that fit how you already work. Add your services, set up the automatic texts, and let the estimate-to-invoice pipeline run itself.
Set Up Your Business
Add removals, trimming, stump grinding, and your crews.
Start Taking Jobs Online
Homeowners book estimate visits while your crew is in the tree.
Let Automation Do the Work
Scheduling, reminders, estimates, and payments run on autopilot.
Miss the Call. Keep the Client.
A missed call used to mean the homeowner dialed the next tree company on the list. Now Autopilot answers by text in seconds and books the estimate visit before your climber is out of the tree.
Nobody touched a phone.
Missed call · Monday 9:47 AM
Hey, it's Ridgeline Tree Service. Sorry we missed you! What's going on with your trees?
Sent automatically, 8 seconds later
Big oak dropped a limb on my fence. Want a quote to trim it back or take it down
We should look at that in person before we price it. Our estimator can be there Wednesday at 2:00 for a free quote. Does that work?
Wednesday at 2 works
Estimate booked · Wednesday 2:00 PM · Estimator notified
The Big Platforms Hide Their Pricing. Here Is Ours.
Top plans reach $599 at Jobber and $743 in Workiz's published example. Autopilot runs from $49 to $299.
| Top-plan comparisonPriced for a 7-person team |  Scale, 7 team members$299/mo |  WorkizUltimate + Phone + AI$743/mo* |  Housecall ProMAX + Voice + Campaigns$443+/mo* |  JobberPlus, 7 users$557/mo* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full business phone system | Included | Phone add-on | Voice add-on | Receptionist line only |
| AI Receptionist | Included | Genius Answering | CSR AI, quote | Included |
| Google Ads integration | Included | Call tracking add-on | Manual spend + Voice | Local Services booking |
| Bing Ads integration | Included | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Book Online button on Google | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Review automation | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Live employee GPS | Included | Included | Included | GPS waypoints |
| QuickBooks Online | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Zapier integration | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Public API | Included | Included | Included | Included |
* Research checked July 27, 2026. All columns are priced for the same 7-person team. Autopilot Scale is $299 monthly with 7 team members included; additional users are $29/month each. Jobber is the regular flexible-monthly Plus price for five users plus two additional users at $29 each. Housecall Pro is MAX (which includes eight users) with entry Voice and Campaigns, before CSR AI. Workiz is its documented Ultimate + Phone + Genius Answering example. Promotions, usage, contracts, taxes, and quotes can change the final bill.
Crew-days and crane-days: the tree service equation
High tickets, real danger, expensive iron. The unit of production is the crew-day, and it has to stay full.
The math of heavy work
Tree work is priced like the serious trade it is: by the job, factoring height, hazard, access, and haul-away, with removals routinely running from several hundred dollars into the thousands. The production unit underneath every quote is the crew-day: a climber, grounds crew, chipper, and truck cost roughly the same every day they roll, so an unfilled Thursday costs real money whether or not anyone worked.
The sales motion is the site visit. Tree work is quoted at the property, which makes every estimate appointment a sales call with drive time attached. The companies that win convert those visits at the truck: a written quote texted before the estimator leaves the driveway, and a follow-up that runs on its own. Storm weeks flip the whole equation into triage, and the phone decides who gets the emergency premium.
The numbers on tree work
- A removal$800 to $3,000+
Wide range by height, hazard, and access. The big oaks go well past it.
- The crew-dayThe unit of production
Climber, crew, chipper, truck. It costs the same full or half-booked.
- The estimate visitA sales call with drive time
Quote at the truck and follow up automatically, or the visit was a donation.
Prices vary enormously by region and tree. The structure holds: fill the crew-days, convert the site visits, and be reachable when the storm hits.
What tree services usually replace
Tree companies usually arrive from Jobber, from an ArborStar or Arborgold setup that outgrew its welcome, or from a quoting pad in the estimator's truck and a calendar only one person understands.
The comparison worth running is quote-to-close: what it costs to turn expensive site visits into signed work, and to keep the crew-days full.
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