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How to set up a yearly treatment plan

Doing chemical rounds? Build a multi-round yearly plan and route customers by round number.

If you run chemical applications — pre-emergent, fertilization, weed and grub control — this is your setup path, and it's different from the mowing path. You don't use Recurring Visits at all. Instead you build a yearly plan made of rounds, then load each round into the Route Planner and schedule it. Follow these steps in order to get a whole season of treatments planned and routed.

Published May 30, 2026 · Last reviewed September 8, 2026

Steps

  1. Add the customer and their property — Start on the Customers page and add the customer with their contact details, then enter and verify the property address so it drops a map pin. Confirm the matching service — Lawn treatment, Tree & Shrub, or Mosquito — is enabled in Property Services. This makes that property eligible for the matching service; it does not enroll it in a yearly program.
  2. Open the Yearly Plan page and create a plan — Go to the Yearly Plan page. This is the chemical/treatment setup — do NOT use Recurring Visits for treatment rounds. Pick the year and the program type (Lawn, Tree & Shrub, or Landscaping), then click Create Plan to start a fresh multi-round program.
  3. Lay out the rounds for the season — Add each round of the program with Add Round and give it a timing (Early Spring, Late Spring, Summer, and so on). Sequence the rounds across the year so they line up with the seasons and your local pest and growth windows — this is the backbone of the whole plan.
  4. Add products to each round — Inside each round, use Add Product (or the Search products field) to add what you're applying. TurfTechAdvisor recommends products and calculates the cost per 1,000 sq ft and application rates for you, so you get research-based guidance instead of guessing at the bag rate.
  5. Load a round into the Route Planner — When a round is due, open the Route Planner and click Load Plan. Pick your plan, then choose the round you're running — the planner pulls in every eligible customer grouped under that Round number (e.g. "Round 1 — Early Spring"). This grouped-by-round view is the treatment equivalent of the mowing day tabs.
  6. Optimize and schedule the round — With the round loaded, Optimize the driving order on the map, then Schedule the stops onto the calendar for your crew. As each round is completed it feeds your application records and invoicing — closing the loop from plan to paid. Repeat Load Plan for the next round when it comes due.

Related guides

  • Add customers & properties

    Build your book — import or add customers, verify addresses, and tag the services each property gets.

  • Build a treatment plan

    Map the whole season once — build multi-round plans with automatic product, rate, and supply calculations.

  • Plan & optimize routes

    Build the day your way — keep the dispatcher’s order or optimize it, then review and hand the same saved route to the crew.

Build seasonal rounds with lawn treatment software and connect the program to pesticide application records for each visit.