All-In-One Software For New Zealand Arborists and Tree Contractors
Take your operation to the next level: a detailed tree inventory and map for every site, professional proposals and reports, scheduling and crew tracking, the tools the big operators use, on one-licence pricing. Priced in NZD, Xero connected, supported from our Sydney office.
Trusted by 10,000+ arborists · Sydney office, NZ business hours · Setup and training included
Trusted by tree companies in New Zealand and across Australia
Plans from NZ$249/mo
The one tool you need to run your entire tree business, from one employee to hundreds. Pricing shown is for new customers.
Owner-Operator
For a one-truck operation: the owner plus one crew member.
1 full office licence + 1 crew login
Everything included
- CRM, quotes with e-signature, scheduling, offline crew app, tree inventory, invoicing, payments, Xero and QuickBooks sync
We set you up
- Free data migration and full setup: services, price list, quote and invoice templates, forms, safety orientations
- Live training, and unlimited SMS free for the first 3 months
- Business intelligence: profit per job, crew utilisation and cash flow at a glance
Small Business
For the standard tree company: two office users and three crew members.
2 full licences + 3 crew logins
- Everything in Owner-Operator, set up and done for you
Plus
- Free marketing and lead-gen audit: Google Business Profile, review automation, and your website lead form wired into the CRM
- Growth pricing as you add office and crew licences
Growing / Multi-Crew
For multi-crew, multi-branch companies.
Custom licence count
- Everything in Small Business, with a special discount that grows with your employee count
Built for scale
- Franchise and multi-branch operations with full visibility of every branch’s performance
- Municipal and utility work: bulk removals, inspections and compliance through the tree inventory
- Fleet and equipment management across job sites
- Dedicated onboarding manager, customer success manager, and quarterly business reviews
30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
Grow seat by seat beyond your package: an extra office licence is NZ$140 a month and an extra crew login is NZ$40 a month. All pricing on this page applies to new ArboStar subscriptions only. Existing clients renew on the terms of their current agreement.
What tree care business owners are saying
ArboStar has managed to create one of the best CRM there is. Very responsive team with fast access to all the essential information is resulting in brilliant performance.
I'm very pleased with this software and have no plans to go back. Everything is divided into modules, and each module is a gem in its one right.
I'm very happy our company made the switch to ArboStar. It's custom-tailored to the tree-care industry and has excellent report generation and data analysis tools. Highly recommended for its financial and accounting features alone.
Switching is free, and we do it for you
Our team takes care of your entire migration, swiftly and at no cost. You are guided every step of the way, with a smooth switch that needs no tech skills.
We move your data
Client details, job history, quotes, invoices and schedules, migrated by our team so nothing critical is lost.
You keep working
No downtime risk: your crews stay productive, with no disruption to daily operations while we make the switch.
We train your team
A dedicated onboarding specialist during the switch, live training, and real humans in support any time after.
You run on ArboStar
From spreadsheets, old software or a generic CRM: if you have data, we bring it over. If not, we help you start fresh, the right way.
ServiceM8 runs every trade. We only run tree work.
ServiceM8 calls itself smart software for contractors and services, and it is: electricians, plumbers, HVAC, cleaners, locksmiths, pest control, lawn care. Tree work is one more job type on that list. ArboStar is built by arborists, for tree care, and nothing else.
Any trade with a job and an invoice
The same generic job card carries a plumber, an electrician, a cleaner and a tree crew. Nothing in it knows what a tree is, so nothing about the tree you worked on today carries to the next visit, the next crew or the next quote.
Arborists, by arborists
Every property carries a living tree inventory: species, size, condition, photos and history, on a map, on desktop or mobile, online or off. The safety forms your crew is expected to produce are already written, on every plan.
Tree inventory
ServiceM8No tree inventory. Asset Management is a generic QR-tagged equipment register with free-text fields, and it only unlocks on the NZ$79 plan.
ArboStarEvery tree is a record against the property: species, size, condition, photos and history, on a map, on desktop or mobile, online or off.
Your client's own record
ServiceM8A job history against an address. Nothing that belongs to the client, and nothing about the tree itself.
ArboStarGPS tree inventory with photos and condition history, shared in your client portal. Your customer keeps their own tree record, so seasons later you are both looking at the same history.
Safety paperwork, prebuilt
ServiceM8Electronic Forms start on the NZ$79 Growing plan, and they arrive as blank templates for you to build.
ArboStarOur Forms module ships the arborist set already written: SWMS, pre-starts, plant and vehicle checks, toolbox talks, SOPs and incident reports, in the crew app, on every plan.
Quoting for tree work
ServiceM8Generic job quoting. Nothing tree-specific to price against.
ArboStarSpecies and size, access and risk, drop zones, traffic control and stump grinding priced as line items.
What sets your price
ServiceM8The number of jobs you complete each month. A busy storm month walks you straight up the plan ladder.
ArboStarArboStar charges by licence, not by job. Do 40 jobs or 400 in a month and your bill is the same NZ$249 NZD.
Council and utility work
ServiceM8You build every safety form yourself before you are in a position to bid.
ArboStarBulk removals, inspections and compliance run through the tree inventory, with the paperwork already written for tree work.
ServiceM8 positioning and trade list from servicem8.com; plan prices and feature gates from servicem8.com/nz/pricing, 20 August 2026. ArboStar features are the ones documented on this page.
Give real arborist software 30 minutes.
If a general trades app is doing everything a tree business needs, this will be a quick half hour. If it is not, you will see exactly what has been missing.
Our clients around the globe
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70%+
of the world
ArboStar serves tree companies across 5 continents.
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10,000+
arborists
More than 10,000 arborists, estimators, crew members and office staff use ArboStar to keep their businesses moving.
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$2.5 billion
per year
More than $2.5 billion worth of tree care jobs is created and managed through ArboStar every year.
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3+ million
trees
More than 3 million trees are stored and managed within ArboStar tree inventories.
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24/7
around the world
At any given moment, somewhere in the world, an arborist is using ArboStar.
A live map of tree care businesses on ArboStar, following the real sun.
Built by arborists for arborists, and supported wherever you work.
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Canada
Toronto HQ
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United States
Dover
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United Kingdom
London
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Australia
Sydney
What this means for your business
Stop Losing Jobs
Follow Up Without Chasing
Everything in One Place
Less Office Chaos
Integrations that power your workflow
QuickBooks
Sync invoices and accounting data automatically to keep bookkeeping up to date.
Xero
Connect ArboStar with Xero to reduce double entry and keep financials in sync.
Digital Calendars
Sync appointments with Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar to keep your team's schedule in sync on any device.
Google Maps
Use Google mapping to plan and view job locations more efficiently (routing + location context).
VoIP (telephony)
Connect calling workflows so inbound calls can be handled faster and tied to client communication.
FAQ
The package price is per month and includes the licences listed on the card. Beyond your package you grow seat by seat: an extra office licence is NZ$140 a month and an extra crew login is NZ$40 a month.
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