| Brand | SETUP COST | LOWEST MONTHLY SUPPORT FEE |
| Lawnscience | £19,846.84 + VAT | 6.5% |
| Competitor GT | £50,000.00 + VAT | 10% |
| Competitor TG | £49,950.00 + VAT | 10% + £50 per Month |
| Competitor LK | £26,500 + VAT | 10% |
| Competitor GS | £25,000 + VAT | 12% |
Lawn care franchises are not all the same, it’s worth checking out what you are paying for and what you are getting for your money. I’ve detailed below some of the differences.
The investment cost of a lawn care franchise varies substantially and Lawnscience is proud to be the most cost effective at £19,846.84 + VAT.
You might wonder why we’ve broken it down to the exact penny. Well, that’s because that is exactly how much it costs to start your business. Lawnscience doesn’t make a penny until you make money.
If Lawnscience can do it for under £20,000, why are some franchisors charging double that? Why do many refuse to give an itemised list of where your investment is being spent? These are all questions you should ask before signing on the dotted line.
Lawnscience is an honest, independent business, but many UK lawn care franchisors are part of larger US-based conglomerates who want their slice of the pie. That means one thing: higher costs for you. Don’t let your hard work be wasted lining the pockets of corporate fat cats.
Overpaying for your initial investment will sting in the short term, but getting fleeced by sky-high ongoing franchise fees will cost you a fortune in the long run.
All franchisors charge a royalty fee which allows them to keep developing the business and servicing your needs as a franchisee. At Lawnscience, we believe those costs should be fair and reasonable.
Lawnscience charges a starting rate of 9% of your turnover.
But this reduces to 6.5% of turnover as your business grows. The more of an expert you become, the less support you need, so why should you keep paying more
Other franchisors will charge you 10% and higher and those fees won’t come down! At Lawnscience we believe in fair pricing because we’re in it for you.
You want to be proud of the business you’re running and a lot of that comes down to how you treat your customers. We believe in the Lawnscience Way.
That’s why Lawnscience treatments come with a 100% guarantee. It’s not only the right thing to do, but it makes your business stand out from the rest.
Lawnscience is the only lawn care company that’s confident enough in its quality of service to offer a guarantee.
Our guarantee means we have to train you exceptionally well – another way Lawnscience is a cut above the rest.
At Lawnscience, I won’t delegate your training to anyone. I will personally train you in every aspect of your new business so you can benefit from my more than twenty years of experience.
I’ve been in your shoes and started a successful lawn care business in the UK. I’ve confronted the challenges and made the mistakes so you don’t have to. My expertise is yours.
I will also share with you my extensive knowledge of the US market meticulously researched thanks to frequent visits with America’s leading operators.
You can’t provide the best service at the cheapest price! The majority of customers want to receive good value for money, but many other lawn care operators provide a poor service.
If you want to provide good quality service, you need good people operating the best systems. None of those things come cheap.
That’s why Lawnscience will train you on how to recruit profitable customers at a price where you can afford to provide a consistent, high-quality service. It’s a nice way to do business.
At Lawnscience, we regularly gain clients from our competitors despite our prices being higher because they know we provide the best value for money.
Having the UK’s most extensive range of lawn and household treatments for our customers enables Lawnscience to provide its customers with the widest choice of services in UK lawn care. This key differentiator not only allows us to meet more of our customer’s needs but also provides our franchisees with additional opportunities to offer related services that will increase sales and profitability.
It’s a win-win for our franchisees and their customers and a key differentiator in the lawn care business.
In order to generate additional revenue during quieter periods, Lawnscience has developed additional services for customers. It’s the franchisee’s choice to provide these additional services or not.
They include:
Communication before and after treatments is essential to provide a high-quality service to your customers. During your training, we will teach you about the communication that is necessary and train you to use our systems to make it happen.
An essential part of starting and growing a successful lawn care business is having high-quality operating systems.
That’s why Lawnscience partnered with the world’s leading lawn care software provider to run our operational, accounting, communications, and marketing systems.
It’s a major advantage for your new business and likely more reliable than the “in-house” systems many other franchisors use. They’ve gone for the cheaper option, but we don’t do that at Lawnscience because we’re in it for you.
If you want to discover how working with Lawnscience can give you back control of your life and provide you with the most cost-effective route into lawn care franchising, please enter your details into the box at the top of this page. We will send you a copy of our prospectus with more details about investing in a Lawnscience franchise.
If you have any questions at all, please email me terence.nicholson@lawnscience.co.uk.
