Quote & book
Customers price and book while you are still out working.
The business behind the mower
Build a gardening business worth owning.
Shear Power gives local gardening businesses the system behind the work: quoting, booking, payments, scheduling, customer management, local marketing — and one licensed operator for each area.
Already have your own brand? List your gardening business free
- 648of 649 UK areas still available
- 1licensed operator per area
- 1,030local businesses in the directory
- 9founding places left
Four ways in
What brought you here?
Shear Power is one system with several ways in.
Run a garden business
Keep your own brand
Take a Shear Power area
The customer-facing site, quoting, booking, payments, the Office, scheduling, marketing and a local identity — already built, already running a real round.
Explore the licence
Keep your own brand
List your gardening business
Already established? Join the UK directory free and keep your own name, number, website and local identity.
List my business I need a gardenerFind someone local
Search your area, see the businesses serving it, and book online where the local Shear Power team takes bookings.
Find a gardener I run a football clubTechnical sponsorship
Qualifying grassroots clubs can receive club-management software and a modern club website through our GrassrootsClub technical sponsorship.
See club sponsorshipHow the system works
One system.
Seen from both sides of the gate.
The customer
- Measures the garden.
- Sees your price.
- Picks a real, available day.
- Pays.
- Gets reminders.
- Can see what happens next.
The business
- Sets the rates.
- Controls capacity.
- Sees the diary.
- Assigns crews.
- Tracks customers.
- Gets paid.
It is not a lead marketplace connecting two strangers.
It is the same operating system serving the customer and the business.
See the Office
The garden business operating system.
The mower is only one part of the business. The difficult part is everything wrapped around it.
Get paid
Card payments into your own Stripe account.
£1 per customer bill, flat. No percentage of your turnover. Stripe's own card fee applies.
Run the day
Customers, jobs, crews and availability in one place.
Your local position
One licensed operator per area.
648 of 649 UK areas are still available. Exclusivity is set out in the licence agreement.
Be found
Your area page, the directory, articles and Google reviews.
On the way
Built in the open. Labelled honestly.
- Coming next A number the business can keep A dedicated area line that routes to the operator and stays with the licensed business if ownership changes.
- In development Round builder Target the streets around existing work, record conversations and schedule follow-ups.
Everything in the Office, in full
Schedule
A fortnight at a glance, by crew and by day. Drag a job from the tray onto the time it should start — on a phone too, with press-and-hold — and the crew, the customer and the board all agree.
Customers & requests
Every customer with their history, regular visits and what is due. New bookings and enquiries arrive in one inbox, not a phone full of messages.
Crews, team & holidays
Put people into crews with their own colour on the board, approve holiday requests, and see who is working before anything is booked against them.
Area & rates
Choose the services you offer and set your own prices. The public price calculator quotes from them immediately — untick a service and it disappears from Get My Price.
Payments
Connect your own Stripe account. Customers pay by card; the money goes to you, less a flat £1 a bill to Shear Power and Stripe's card fee.
Ideas
Write about the work you actually do. HQ edits it and publishes it in the Ideas section, where it brings people to the site who have never heard of you.
The difference
A job depends on you.
A business has infrastructure.
Person-dependent
- Personal mobile number
- Quotes in text messages
- The diary in one person's head
- Customers scattered everywhere
- Chasing payments by hand
- Hard to hand over
System-dependent
- Customer booking and payment flow
- Shared customer history
- Crew scheduling
- Documented processes
- A local digital identity
- An area licence
The goal is not to turn gardeners into software people. It is to make the software disappear into the background, so the business runs the same way every day.
Continuity
Build something that can keep going when you stop.
A customer list and a personal phone number are difficult to hand over. A systemised operation is different.
A licensed Shear Power business has a continuing area page, customer records, a booking workflow, a team structure and the way it all runs. If the owner later sells, the next approved licensee steps into a business whose public identity does not start again from zero.
Any transfer is subject to the licence agreement, buyer approval and the legal structure of the sale. Shear Power does not guarantee that a licence or business will achieve any particular resale value.
How the area licence works- Give notice3 months, any time — there is no minimum time you must hold the area first.
- HQ runs the saleThe area is listed with its real figures, frozen so every buyer sees the same numbers.
- An offer is acceptedYou receive a settlement statement and an agreed hand-over date.
- Hand-overThe buyer takes over the area. Customers keep their visits.
How a sale is settled
Under the licence agreement, the sale price is shared in this order:
- Costs of sale come off first — the actual costs, and never less than £500.
- Your Licence Price comes back to you — what you paid for the area.
- Any profit above that is split 80/20 — 80% to you, 20% to Shear Power.
If a sale does not cover your Licence Price, you receive everything after the costs and Shear Power takes only its costs. The licence agreement is the contract; this is a summary of it.
Pricing
A system, not a franchise fee.
No percentage of your turnover. The rate you join on is the rate you keep.
Founding licence
£197 to join
No monthly licence fee
9 founding places remaining
Check my areaStandard area licence
£997 to join
£67 a month
The platform and the operating infrastructure described on the licence page.
See everything included£1 per completed customer bill through the platform. No percentage commission.
The directory
Already have a gardening business? Start free.
You do not have to become a licensee to join. Create a free local business profile, show customers who you are, and link them to your existing business.
- A free business profile you write yourself
- Your number and a link to your website
- Listed on your local area page
- Featured places for £25 a year — 3 per area
- Referral and overflow work In development
The network gets stronger as more local businesses join.
- Garden businesses join
- More useful local pages
- More customer searches
- More bookings and referrals
- More reviews and local content
- A stronger Shear Power brand
Local business. Local clubs.
Technology sponsorship for grassroots football.
Small and mid-sized clubs are run by volunteers on WhatsApp, spreadsheets and websites nobody has time to update.
Through our GrassrootsClub technical sponsorship programme, qualifying clubs can receive club-management software and a modern public club website without the usual software and build costs.
GrassrootsClub is the software. Shear Power is the technical sponsor.
Mow Town FC is GrassrootsClub's fictional demo club.
Proof
Built. Live. Being used.
Real gardening
The system grew out of a working Swansea gardening round.
Real software
The Office, the booking flow, the pricing tools and customer accounts are live products — the screens on this page, not concepts.
UK directory
1,030
local gardening businesses listed and checked.
Browse itGrassrootsClub
Working club-management software, and a complete public club site to explore.
Try the demo
Built from the van, not a boardroom.
Shear Power began with real gardening work in Swansea. The software exists because the awkward parts of the job were real first: quoting after work, organising rounds, chasing payments, dealing with rain, keeping customers informed, and trying to grow without creating more admin.
So the product is built around the way a local gardening business actually works.
Why Shear Power existsQuestions
The detail, when you want it.
What exactly is a Shear Power area licence?
The right to run Shear Power in one area, with everything around the work already built: your own area page, the customer price calculator and booking, card payments to your own Stripe account, the Office for scheduling, crews and customers, and the Shear Power brand. There is one licensed operator per area.
The licence provides the local position and the system. Commercial results still depend on the operator, the area and the market.
Is it a franchise?
It is a licence to run the Shear Power system and brand in one area. There is no percentage of your turnover: a joining fee, a monthly fee where your tier has one, and a flat £1 on each customer card bill. Your takings are yours.
What does it cost?
Today: £197 to join — no monthly licence fee. The usual price is £997 to join, then £67 a month. The rate you join on is the rate you keep.
On top of that, £1 per completed customer bill through the platform, and Stripe's own card fee. No commission on your turnover.
Do I need to be a gardener already?
No. Some people who enquire already run a round; others are starting one. After you enquire you are asked how you would run your area, and the answers decide whether it is a good fit — for you as much as for us.
How do customers book and pay?
On your area page they press Get my price and answer a few short steps: where the garden is, what needs doing, how big it is — measured on the map — when, and who they are. They see your price from your own rates, pick a day you actually have free, and pay by card. The visit lands on your schedule; their account shows what is coming next.
Can I sell my area later?
Yes. Give 3 months' notice at any time and HQ runs the sale. The price is shared under the licence agreement: costs of sale first (at least £500), then your Licence Price back to you, then any profit split 80/20 in your favour. Any transfer is subject to the licence agreement and buyer approval, and no resale value is guaranteed.
What is the free directory listing?
A free profile for an independent gardening business on its local area page: your name, your number and a link to your website, checked before it goes live. A Featured place (£25 a year, 3 per area) puts you at the top of that page, and every tap on your number and website is counted for you. A referral and overflow network for directory members is in development.
What is the football technical sponsorship?
Qualifying grassroots clubs can receive GrassrootsClub — club-management software for teams, fixtures, players, parents and payments — and a modern public club website, with Shear Power as the club's technical sponsor. How it works and how to apply.
I just need my lawn cut.
Then find your local team: pick your area, see a price and book the visit online — or browse the gardener directory for every business serving your town.
Want to run Shear Power in your area?
See whether the local licence is still available. Pick your area and we will take you straight to it.
- Already have a business? List it free
- Need a gardener? Find someone local
- Run a football club? See technical sponsorship