Copy-and-paste blocks
Maintenance line
Garden maintenance visit — mowing, edging, border weeding and general tidy, charged per visit as agreed.
Clearance line
Garden clearance labour (per hour) — overgrowth removal, hedge reduction and border clearance as agreed on site.
Waste line
Green waste removal and licensed tip fees — all arisings removed from site and disposed of under our waste carrier licence.
Payment terms
Payment due within 7 days by bank transfer. Regular customers are welcome to set up a standing order to cover monthly visits.
Next visit wording
Your next scheduled visit is due in a fortnight. If you would like to change the frequency or pause over winter, just reply to this invoice.
Getting the terms to stick
Regular customers pay best on a standing order set to the invoice date. For one-off clearances, ask for payment on the day — chasing a £160 tidy-up costs more than it recovers.
If you don't state a payment period, the statutory default of 30 days applies — and you can charge statutory interest plus a fixed recovery cost on a commercial debt once it is late. Putting your terms on every invoice is what makes them enforceable without argument.
Common questions
- Should a gardener charge per hour or per visit?
- Per visit for a regular round, because it is predictable for both sides, and per hour for one-off clearances where you cannot know the scope until you start.
- Can I charge for taking green waste away?
- Yes, and you should show it separately. You need a waste carrier licence to remove waste from a customer's property, and tip fees are a real cost you are entitled to recover.
- How do I invoice a monthly gardening round?
- One invoice at the end of the month listing the number of visits and the rate per visit, with any extras such as hedge cutting added as their own lines.
Make it in the browser instead
Fill in the job, download the PDF. Free, unlimited, no account and no watermark on Pro. Already set up for garden work.
Open the free gardener invoice generator