Websites for tree services

A tree service website that turns “how much to take it down?” into a price.

Show the tree work you handle, the access you need and the credentials you hold. We write your pages with your services and a clear way for customers to send the details.

Ten to thirty minutes to answer. A preview in 48 hours once we have your answers and payment.

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$40 a monthFive edit requests a month included.

More about your website

A homeowner staring at a leaning oak has two questions: are you actually insured for this, and what is it going to cost. Put the insurance up front and price most jobs from their photos, and when the storm call comes, make sure it reaches you.

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The Console comes with it. The Redtail Tree Co. sample Console, on the Board

Redtail’s is a written example. Yours starts with your business.

This is how we build your site

Your questionnaire gives us the services, photos and business details to write and build your site, on your own domain.

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A sample business. Redtail Tree Co. is fictional. Its prices, reviews and job stories are examples. We build your site with your business details, photos and genuine customer reviews.

What we build into your website

You answer questions about the work. We write the pages and build a site like the demo here, on your own domain, with your name on it. Yours would be the same thing: a working site rather than a picture of one. Inside it: the credentials a homeowner can check themselves, a what-goes-wrong table with the saw-day arguments (what happens to the wood, how the yard is left) settled in advance, and an estimator running example rates. The questionnaire replaces them with your own.

Tell us which qualifications you’d like customers to see. We can include certifications, licenses and insurance details you provide.

Tell us how you price tree work and whether you haul away the wood. We’ll put your chosen rates in the estimator and make it clear when you need to visit before giving the customer a quote. Send me the questions ›

The back office you did not have to buy

Your Console keeps customer messages and job details together. Try Redtail’s sample below. The workflow tools draft texts for you to review, then send from your own phone.

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We build your website with the Console and workflow tools included. We’ll help you set up the tools that fit your work.

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$40/mo

Your website, Console and workflow tools. Writing, hosting and upkeep included.

48 hrs

Your first preview after your questionnaire and payment. Complete the launch checklist, then ask us to launch.

Cancel anytime

No exit fee. Your site stays up through the period you’ve paid for.

Or $400/year. Save $80 on twelve monthly payments.

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Your domain is registered in your name and billed at cost, about $11 a year.

Your mobile plan and optional voice line

The tools draft the message; you review it and tap to send on your phone. Texts use your carrier plan, with no per-message fee from Plainsmith.

The optional front desk answers calls you forward when you can’t pick up and prepares a text reply. We check forwarding on your number during setup. Its Twilio voice line costs about $1.15 a month plus about a cent a minute, billed to your own account. See provider costs.

Cancellation and refunds

Cancel from your account. Your website comes down and workflows stop at the end of the month or year you paid for.

You have 14 days to request a refund, starting when we send the finished website for review. We return your full website payment, including $400 if you paid annually. Domain registration is nonrefundable; you keep the domain.

Your Console stays open in read-only mode, free, so you can download your contacts, messages and appointments.

Buying the website to host elsewhere

Your domain, words, photos and logo belong to you from the start. The website’s design and code cost $499 less your plan credit to buy.

Monthly: this month’s $40 comes off. Annual: we credit $400 divided by 12 for each unfinished month, including the month you’re in. Your account shows the exact price.

Your files and hosting setup arrive within seven days. You take over hosting, updates and renewals. After a buyout, hosting and workflow service finish with your current billing month. Read the ownership terms.

What your site will know about tree work

The arguments that win when a homeowner is holding three bids, written into your pages. Read them the way a homeowner will. The questionnaire is where they become yours.

Why the cheap bid is cheap

“Licensed and insured” on a tree site usually means a business license and general liability, not a city tree-contractor license where one exists, and not workers’ comp, the expensive one. Comp rates in this trade reflect what the work is. An outfit running uncovered climbers can bid 30% under an insured outfit on labor alone, and if a man gets hurt in your tree, the exposure can land on your homeowner’s policy.

So the checkable version goes on your site instead: the coverage named, the license numbers printed, the arborist certification a homeowner can verify themselves, and the COI arriving from the agent’s office unprompted. The person holding three bids reads that and sees what the spread between the numbers was buying.

The most valuable sentence is “that tree can stay”

Half an arborist’s value walks the property in the first ten minutes: the tree they were sure was dying is chlorotic and wants iron and water; the lean has been there since Eisenhower; the split maple wants two steel cables set high in the crown and an inspection interval, not a stump.

Your site leads with the $200 written assessment against a $3,000 removal nobody needed — and the customer you talk out of a removal tells people.

Targets and access, not height

A dead sixty-footer in an open field is a morning. The same tree over a roof, a gas meter and the neighbor’s fence is two days of piece-by-piece rigging — and if every pound leaves by hand through a gate the mini-loader will not fit, that alone can double the job. Same species, same height, and three or four times the price because of what is around them.

It goes on your page before the bids arrive, asks for four photos that show it, and names the winter secret out loud: from December through February the calendar is soft, a bare tree is lighter to rig and shows every defect, and big-removal pricing runs under the spring rush.

What we can build into a tree service site

These are the conventions your customers already expect. The questionnaire asks which of these belong on yours.

Proof of insurance, above the fold

You’re asking to swing a chainsaw over someone’s roof. General liability and workers’ comp, stated with the coverage amounts and current dates — and the certificate offered before they ask. The uninsured guy with a truck cannot have an agent’s office send a certificate.

Photo estimates that actually work

Four things (the whole tree, its base, what it hangs over, and the equipment access) plus the address. Most removals can be estimated from that: you send a same-day estimate and the walk-around settles it, because rot, wire clearance and what the ground will take are not things a photo shows. The form collects the details, the address and the photos, and all of it lands in the same inbox before you call back. Photos sent through your website's form land on that customer's job in the console, ready for the photo-quote tool; a photo texted to your phone stays on your phone until you add it.

Storm work and routine work, separated

A storm week and a June week are not the same job. Two clear doors — hazard and emergency on one, trimming and planned removals on the other — so the oak-on-the-garage call never queues behind a hedge question.

Say what happens to the wood

Hauled away, chipped and left as mulch, logs bucked to firewood length, stump ground or left — priced as options, in writing. The invoice argument in this trade is almost always about what was left behind.

Credentials in plain words

ISA-certified arborist if you hold it, bucket truck or climbing crew, crane days if you do them, stump grinding if you own the machine. These are the details that separate a tree service from a man with a saw.

Send us the change.

After your site goes live

Send the hours, photo or wording you want changed. We make the edit.

5Edit requests included each month

Most go up the same day.

Put your changes in one message. Everything in that message counts as one request.

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Your direct line

Edit request
Your request

Can you change Saturdays to appointment only? I’m keeping weekdays the same.

Plainsmith makes the edit
Plainsmith✓ Done

Saturday now shows “By appointment” in your contact section. The weekday hours are unchanged.

Your request and our reply stay together in your account.

Sample conversation. These examples don’t send a request or change a website.

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Edit allowances and how to reach us

From your account, from your phone, in a sentence, and it lands on our phones the second you hit send. The two of us read every message that comes through your account; you meet us at the bottom of this page. We work through edit requests in the order they arrive. Most go up the same day. Five edit requests a month are included, and how much goes into each one is up to you — everything in a single message counts as one, so send them together. A sixth queues for next month, or $10 puts it up now.

What happens while you are up the tree

Most of what a tree service loses is lost between the call and the crew. These four cost the most. Workflow tools come with your website plan, with no setup charge. Customers keep dialing the number on your truck; what it misses forwards to the front desk, a separate voice line, charged by Twilio. See the phone costs. You own the number and every contact in it.

The morning after the wind

Every phone in the county is ringing, and yours rings through to voicemail while you’re roped in at forty feet. When nobody can pick up, the line answers the caller for the minutes it takes to reach the ground: plainly your booking line and not a person, it asks whether the limb is on a structure right now, takes the address, and a reply with a slot is drafted for your tap, and all of it is in your inbox before your boots touch grass, on your own number, so the caller is dealing with your business.

The removal they’re sleeping on

A $2,800 oak gets three bids and a week of thinking. The chaser drafts the follow-up for you, so you’re not the one remembering to ask.

Two crews, one morning text each

Each crew gets its own day — addresses, the job, the one thing to bring — and unassigned work nudges you the night before, not at 6am with the chipper already hooked up.

Paid at the stump

The pay link is drafted the moment you mark the job done, for your tap, while the yard looks its best. Nothing to chase at the kitchen table.

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Try the estimator

Try Redtail Tree Co.’s example prices below. Your website uses the rates and minimum you choose.

The estimator uses your rates. Your pages also explain common problems and how you handle them, using details you confirm. Keep agreed visits in your Console calendar.

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Fair questions

Will it show my prices?
Yes, using your ranges and the conditions that affect them. Tree size, nearby structures and equipment access can sit beside the price, with the final quote confirmed after you assess the job.
What does the website cost?
The plan is $40 monthly or $400 annually. Hosting, SSL and monitoring are included; your domain is extra at registry cost. Cancel to stop renewal at the end of your paid month or year. The site comes down then unless you buy it out. You can ask for a full website refund within 14 days of us sending your finished site.
When will the website be ready?
We send your site for review within 48 hours of receiving your completed questionnaire and payment. Allow 10 to 30 minutes for the questions, then time to review the site. It goes live after you approve and the domain setup is ready.
What does a site add to word-of-mouth referrals?
It gives someone your neighbor recommended a place to check the work and find your number. We can show your crew, equipment and services, with clear information for urgent storm inquiries.
Is Plainsmith right for a tree service with one or two crews?
Yes, if you still work on the jobs and take the calls yourself. We handle the website; included workflow tools help with missed calls and follow-ups. Tell us if you need dispatch, payroll or accounting integration so we can check the fit.
Do I have to learn software?
You use the Console to review messages and keep track of work. The front desk can take a missed call while you’re busy and prepare a reply. You check the words before sending them from your phone.
Can search engines and AI tools find my business?
We describe your services and location on the page and in the information search engines read. This helps them understand your business. We can’t promise a ranking, recommendation or number of inquiries.

Ten to thirty minutes of questions. Then we build.

You answer plain questions: what you climb, the towns you work, what your insurance covers. We read every answer ourselves. Then we write the pages and build the site, and it publishes only when you have seen it and say publish.

The “we” is Jason Walls and Tadar Puakpaibool. Jason came to software from four trades — drilling, roofing, cabinets, machining — and started Plainsmith from Golden. He is responsible for your website build and custom tools, and handles technical problems when you contact us. Tadar is the marketer: fifteen years of campaigns and launches for brands including Red Robin and Procter & Gamble, and what each page says, top to bottom, is his call. Here’s our story.

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