Stop typing the same fertilizer, mulch, or paver line over and over. The Materials catalog is a reusable price list you build once and reach for every time you create a job or invoice — like the Services catalog, but for the stuff you mark up.
Heads up: Materials catalog ships with LawnBook v1.2.1, the next release after the v1.2.0 crew + sign-in launch. The walkthrough below is what you can expect when the update lands on your device. Until then, you can still log job materials directly on a job — the catalog just makes it faster.
What You Get
- Global catalog — one tap from More → Materials, name + unit + unit price + category + notes per item
- Picker on jobs — tap + in a job's Materials section, search the catalog, pick a row, quantity defaults to 1, save
- Picker on invoices — new From Catalog button on the line-items step, lands as an invoice line with description and unit price prefilled
- Manual fallback — the picker also has an Add Manually button for one-off items you don't want to save to the catalog
- Categories — fertilizer, seed, mulch, soil, sand, gravel, sod, edging, paver, pesticide, other
- Units — each, bag, gallon, lb, oz, sq ft, yard, ton, hour
Where It Lives
Two places once it ships:
- More tab → Materials — full catalog list with add / edit / delete
- Settings → Materials — the same screen, reachable alongside Services
Owner, Manager, and Worker Roles
Pricing is sensitive, so the catalog is gated by team role:
- Owner & Manager — full access. Create, edit, delete catalog items. Picker appears in jobs and invoices.
- Worker — no catalog access. Materials menus are hidden. The job-detail materials section still lets workers add manual entries for items they actually used in the field, but they never see your unit pricing.
Multi-Device & Backup
Catalog rows sync across your own devices (phone + tablet on the same account) and to managers. Reinstall on a fresh device and the catalog restores from cloud just like clients, jobs, and invoices. iCloud / Google Drive backup also includes the catalog.
What Happens to Existing Job Materials
Nothing — existing job materials keep working exactly as today. The catalog is additive: the picker is a faster path for new entries, but the manual quantity + unit-price form you've been using stays available. Existing rows aren't moved into the catalog automatically; you decide which ones are worth saving as reusable.
Inspired By
The flow mirrors what apps like Joist do for general contractors — build a master list once, pick from it forever. LawnBook adapts it to lawn care: categories, units, and visibility rules tuned for crew-shared businesses where pricing should stay owner-side.