Tree Service Software for Quotes, Crews & GST Invoicing

Tree-service businesses in Australia carry a paperwork load that paper dockets and spreadsheets were never built for. You're quoting at the kerbside, texting photos of dangerous limbs to homeowners, running multiple crews across the suburbs, keeping a folder of SWMS and insurance certificates in the truck, and then losing your evenings matching invoices against bank deposits. Many arborists pay for a dedicated job app, pay again for Xero, and still end up with a glovebox of tip-fee receipts and fuel dockets that never get logged. The result is the same as for any trade — you don't really know how profitable each removal was until well after the chipper's packed away.

OneBookPlus gives you one app for the whole business. Build itemised quotes on your phone with the climb, rigging, traffic control, chipping, stump grinding and green-waste disposal broken out, GST calculated automatically. When the customer accepts via the quote link, the job drops onto your crew's week view. The site-specific SWMS and risk assessment ride with the job for the crew to review and sign before they climb. Complete the work, snap before-and-after photos, log tip fees and equipment against the job, and convert the quote to a GST-compliant invoice with one tap — all before you leave the property. No more double entry, no more guessing at margin.

Quoting & Winning the Job

Tree work is quoted job-by-job, and the difference between a good month and a thin one is often how fast you turn a site visit into an accepted quote. With OneBookPlus you build the quote on-site while you're looking at the tree — line items for the climb, rigging and removal, traffic control if it's a road-side job, chipping, stump grinding and disposal — attach inspection photos, and send a branded PDF with your ABN. The customer reviews it on their phone and taps Accept, and the job is locked in before a competitor has even returned their call. For development-application work where a written tree report is involved, you keep that documentation against the property too.

Safety Documentation & Crews

Tree work is classified as high-risk work, and a Safe Work Method Statement is required for high-risk construction work under the model WHS Regulations administered by Safe Work Australia and your state regulator. OneBookPlus lets you attach a site-specific SWMS, risk assessment, traffic-management plan and aerial-rescue plan to each job, and capture crew sign-off before anyone leaves the ground — all stored against the job for your records. Your public-liability certificate of currency, workers-comp details and crew tickets sit against the business, so when a council, strata manager or homeowner asks for proof of cover before canopy works, you forward the current certificate in seconds. The week view shows every crew's jobs so you can assign climbers and grounds crew, slot in storm callouts, and keep two trucks from being sent to the same suburb. OneBookPlus stores and organises this documentation — you remain responsible for ensuring your SWMS, training and insurance meet your obligations under WHS law and your state regulator's requirements.

Invoicing, Margin & BAS

At the end of each job, convert the accepted quote to an invoice with your ABN and 10% GST — sent from the truck before you drive off. Log tip fees, fuel, chipper hire and equipment against the job with receipt photos so you can see the true margin on every removal, not just the headline price. Connect your business bank account through the secure bank-feed flow and payments are matched against outstanding invoices automatically, while expenses are categorised into the right buckets. Come BAS time, your GST summary is already prepared — GST collected on invoices, GST credits on purchases, and the net owing — exportable in one click or shareable with your accountant. The Saturday-morning receipt sort is over. This is general information and not tax advice; confirm your circumstances with your accountant or the ATO.

Getting Started

Sign up free — no credit card, no lock-in. Choose “Arborist” as your business type and OneBookPlus pre-configures your account with tree-service categories and typical job types (removal, pruning, crown reduction, stump grinding, storm callout) and invoice templates that carry your ABN. Import your customer list via CSV from a dedicated tree-service tool or a spreadsheet, connect your bank account, and you'll be quoting within twenty minutes. Switching from a separate job app plus Xero typically takes a single evening — and you'll wonder why you ran two subscriptions for so long.