Onboarding for customer success

Landscaping customer onboarding template

If you're a landscaping contractor, use this shareable, customizable checklist to manage the onboarding process for new clients. It covers everything, from the vision and inspiration, right through to signing the contract and organizing access.

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New landscaping customer onboarding

Welcome to our landscaping family! This checklist will guide you through our initial setup, help us understand your vision, and get your property ready for our first visit.

No due date

Link tasks to actions, such as completing forms or booking meetings

Initial consultation and vision

Let us get to know you and your outdoor space.

Complete the landscape design questionnaire

Fill out our quick questionnaire to let us know your preferred style, favorite plants, and primary goals for your outdoor space.

No due date Complete form

Schedule the on-site consultation

Pick a convenient time for our team to visit your property, take measurements, and discuss your ideas in person.

Conduct the initial property walkthrough

Meet with the client on-site to assess the soil, sunlight, existing flora, and discuss the overall project scope.

No due date Any team member

Upload inspiration photos

Share any Pinterest boards, magazine clippings, or photos of landscapes you love so we can align with your vision.

No due date Take photos

Tasks can be for the customers being onboarded, or for the team

Proposals and agreements

Reviewing the plans and finalizing the paperwork to get your project on the schedule.

Create and send the project proposal

Draft the official landscaping design, itemized cost estimate, and proposed timeline, then send it to the client for review.

No due date Any team member

Review and approve the proposal

Look over the proposed design and estimate. Let us know if you need any adjustments or approve it to move forward.

No due date

Sign the service agreement

Sign our standard landscaping service contract to lock in your project.

Pay the initial deposit

Submit the upfront deposit so we can begin ordering plants, materials, and securing your start date.

No due date Open URL

Project preparation

The final steps we take before our crew arrives on day one.

Set up the client profile in our system

Add the client's contact info, property details, and billing information into our CRM.

No due date Any team member

Order necessary materials and plants

Contact local nurseries and suppliers to order the hardscaping materials, soil, mulch, and plants required for the design.

No due date Any team member

Provide property access instructions

Let us know about gate codes, parking instructions, or any pets we should be aware of before our crew arrives.

No due date Complete form

Confirm the project start date

Reach out to the client to confirm the exact date and time the crew will arrive to begin the landscaping transformation.

No due date Any team member

Click the button below to edit or add tasks, add due dates, and much more...

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How to use this template

Three simple steps to onboard landscaping customers

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Step 2

Send to customers

Only needs an email address. Or add an open invite link to your existing welcome emails.


Step 3

Customers complete tasks

  • Email reminders keep things moving
  • Ask questions or clarify with comments
  • Summary page shows everything you need to know

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The perfect way to onboard customers

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Instantly know what's been done
Shows customers what to do
Chases up while you sleep
Everything lives in one place

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Comment & collaborate

Customers can ask questions right from within a task. They can also invite others in to help them, without bothering you.

HubSpot ready

  • Start new onboarding plans inside HubSpot
  • Adds events to the timeline
  • Updates custom fields
  • Attaches photos and documents

If you don't use HubSpot, no problem. It works great without it too.

White label (including emails)

Every interaction, from invite through to the task page, showcases your brand.

Does the chasing up

Never send a "checking in" email again.
We'll make sure tasks always get done, on time.

Helps you improve

We'll ask customers to rate their onboarding experience.

  • Helps you to constantly improve your processes
  • Make sure your team are delivering exceptional service

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Handles complex onboarding too

Calculated due dates

Set due dates calculated on the fly from the start date, a target date, or based off when other tasks are completed.

Sequential tasks

Choose to make tasks sequential, so that tasks need to be completed in order.

Frequently asked questions

How can I use this template?

Just click Customize this template above and we'll take you through a couple of simple steps to create an Onthen account and copy the landscaping customer onboarding template into it.

Once that's done we'll take you straight into the template editor where you can customize it to your exact needs (there's bound to be a few things you'll do differently).

Finally, once it's ready you can use it to create individual checklists (we call them 'plans') for each of your customers. Just type their email address and we'll do the rest. As they move through the tasks, you'll see their progress in the dashboard.


Who is this landscaping customer onboarding onboarding template for?

If you run a team that needs to onboard customers then the landscaping customer onboarding template is a perfect starting point.

You'll first be able to tailor the template to your team's needs, by editing, removing or adding tasks to suit your onboarding process. When it's perfect, onthen has all the tools you need to easily invite customers to it and make sure all the tasks get done, on time.


How do customers use it?

First you'll invite customers to the checklist. You can either send an invite manually, through our HubSpot integration, or by using an invite link that lets anyone with the link create a new checklist.

Your customers won't need to create an account or a password, they'll simply access it with a 6-digit code we'll send to their email.

It's really easy to use and there's nothing to navigate, it's a simple single page onboarding plan that looks pretty much like you see above.

If any task gets forgotten about, we'll send email reminders to nudge your customers to complete everything.

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