LMN’s Crew app already logs time against each job site a crew visits, and its Timesheets tool has a real approve step. But that approval works on the whole day’s timesheet at once, through bulk checkboxes, not on each job inside it — and editing an approved timesheet just reverts it to “in progress” with no reason or dispute trail. Keito is the layer that reviews the hours behind each job individually: AI-drafted entries a crew member confirms, a reviewer approves per job before it reaches costing or the invoice.
Illustrative review queue
Illustrative billing period
Hours reviewed
Entries confirmed
58
Jobs billed
12
Clients invoiced
9
Hours tied to each job stop
Client, property, and crew member on every entry
Reviewed job by job
A reviewer confirms each job before the day closes
Evidence behind each client invoice
Approved per-job hours back the bill LMN sends
LMN’s Crew app logs time against the specific job a crew member clocks into, and its Timesheets tool lets an office manager approve, un-approve, or bulk-approve submitted timesheets before they reach payroll or a QuickBooks export. What that approval step reviews is the whole submitted timesheet as one unit — editing an approved timesheet reverts its status to “in progress” for resubmission rather than logging a reason or a dispute. Keito answers the question that leaves open on a multi-property day: did a reviewer actually confirm each job’s hours, not just the day’s total, before those hours became a job cost and a client invoice.
Set up clients, jobs, and reviewers in Keito in days — LMN keeps running crew clock-in, estimating, job costing, scheduling, and invoicing exactly as it does today.
Keito drafts a time entry from the work that happened on a specific job, so a crew member confirms hours job by job instead of one bulk day total covering several properties.
A reviewer approves billable status per job before the period closes, then hands the approved hours to LMN’s invoice — or whichever system bills that client.
A per-job review gap inside a real approval step
LMN is published as landscaping, lawn care, tree care, and snow and ice removal business software: crew members clock into a specific job through the LMN Crew app, GPS timestamps back up where a punch happened, and the office reviews and approves the resulting timesheets before they reach payroll or an LMN invoice. That is a genuine approval step, not marketing text — an office manager can audit and review a timesheet, then approve or un-approve it, individually or in bulk through checkboxes on the Timesheets screen, and LMN’s own QuickBooks guidance states an unapproved timesheet is excluded from export. Editing a submitted or approved timesheet, though, reverts its status straight back to “in progress” for resubmission, without a reject reason, a dispute record, or an audit trail explaining why. And the approval itself operates on the whole timesheet as one object: a crew that visited five properties in a day submits one timesheet, and the office approves, or bulk-approves, that timesheet in one action, not each job stop inside it individually. On a day like that, an office manager can approve eight hours of crew time without confirming which portion belongs to the mow at one property versus the install at another — the same tracked hours LMN then uses for that job’s budget-versus-actual costing and for each client’s invoice. Keito’s argument is not that landscaping businesses need a new crew-tracking, estimating, or invoicing platform — LMN already publishes all three. It is that the review step between a job’s logged hours and that job becoming a cost line or an invoice deserves job-level confirmation, not a bulk day-level approval. Keito drafts a time entry for the specific job a crew member worked, the crew member confirms it, and a reviewer approves billable status for that job, with the reason for any change recorded, before the hours become evidence for a job cost or a client’s bill. The boundary is deliberate: Keito has no crew scheduling, estimating, GPS live tracking, or invoicing, and it claims no native LMN integration, automatic import, or synchronisation. LMN keeps running the operation; Keito is where each job’s hours get confirmed one property at a time.
Choose LMN when the business needs crew clock-in, estimating, job costing, scheduling, and invoicing running from one landscaping-specific platform
Choose Keito when the problem is that LMN’s timesheet approval reviews a whole day at once, not each job inside a multi-property route
Prove it in one billing cycle: Keito runs alongside LMN, reviewing hours job by job without touching estimating or invoicing
Workflow fit
Keito keeps LMN alternative connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Choose LMN when the business needs crew clock-in, estimating, job costing, scheduling, and invoicing running from one landscaping-specific platform
Choose Keito when the problem is that LMN’s timesheet approval reviews a whole day at once, not each job inside a multi-property route
Prove it in one billing cycle: Keito runs alongside LMN, reviewing hours job by job without touching estimating or invoicing
Keito drafts a time entry for the specific job a crew member clocked into; the crew member confirms and corrects it instead of one bulk day total covering several properties.
LMN’s Timesheets approval confirms a whole submitted timesheet at once, with edits reverting status rather than logging a reason; Keito’s reviewer settles billable status for each job before the day closes.
Reviewers approve job hours and hand the evidence to whichever system turns the route into a bill — LMN’s invoicing or otherwise — through exports the team designs and tests itself.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Product shape
A standalone workspace for job-level reviewed billable hours and invoice evidence.
LMN publishes a landscaping-specific platform — crew time tracking, estimating, scheduling, job costing, and invoicing — for landscaping, lawn care, tree care, and snow and ice removal contractors.
How hours are captured
AI drafts a job-specific entry from the work that happened; the crew member confirms it, and a reviewer approves before anything backs an invoice.
LMN’s Crew app logs clock-in and clock-out per job, with GPS timestamps used to verify punches against a jobsite.
Review before billing
A reviewer settles billable status job by job, with any change reasoned and recorded, before the period closes.
LMN’s Timesheets tool approves, un-approves, or bulk-approves a whole submitted timesheet at once; editing an approved timesheet reverts its status to in progress for resubmission, without a reason or dispute record.
Billing model fit
Built for confirming the specific hours behind each job on a multi-property route before they become a cost or an invoice line.
Built around a full landscaping operation — estimating, scheduling, crew tracking, and invoicing — with timesheet approval as a supporting step, not a per-job gate.
Pricing and adoption
Published flat team pricing and a setup measured in days, run alongside LMN.
LMN publishes bundled-license tiers — Starter at $297 a month for six licenses, Professional at $648 a month for eighteen, and custom Enterprise pricing from 100 users — with additional licenses billed separately.
Data movement
Team-designed, tested exports and API handoffs moved in deliberate stages.
No native Keito-LMN import or automatic synchronisation is assumed in either direction; LMN’s own QuickBooks Online and Desktop sync belongs to its platform.
It is software a landscaping, lawn care, tree care, or snow and ice removal business adopts instead of, or alongside, LMN, which runs crew time tracking, estimating, job costing, scheduling, and invoicing. Because LMN covers that much of the operation, an alternative rarely replaces all of it at once. Keito is the alternative for the review gap LMN leaves on a multi-property day: AI-drafted entries confirmed by the crew member who did the job, reviewed one job at a time before the hours become a cost or an invoice line, independent of whichever system sends the actual bill.
LMN does both. Its Crew mobile app logs clock-in and clock-out against the specific job a crew member is working, with GPS timestamps used to verify punches against a jobsite, and its Timesheets tool has a real approval step — an office manager can audit, approve, un-approve, or bulk-approve submitted timesheets before they reach payroll or a QuickBooks export. What that approval reviews is the whole submitted timesheet at once, through bulk checkboxes, rather than each job inside it, and editing an approved timesheet reverts its status to “in progress” for resubmission without logging a reason.
The gap is review granularity. LMN’s crew app already ties hours to the specific job a crew member clocked into, but the office approves that day’s whole timesheet in one action — a five-property day is approved, or bulk-approved, as a single unit. Keito adds the missing layer: AI drafts a time entry for each individual job, the crew member confirms it, and a reviewer approves billable status for that job specifically, with a reason recorded for any change, before the hours become evidence for that job’s cost or that client’s invoice. LMN still owns crew tracking, estimating, scheduling, and invoicing; Keito owns the job-by-job review record.
Choose LMN when the business needs crew clock-in, estimating, scheduling, job costing, and invoicing running from one landscaping-specific platform — it already publishes all of that, plus a genuine timesheet-approval step. Keito does not reproduce any of it: no estimating, no scheduling, no GPS live tracking, no invoicing. It is the wrong choice if the immediate need is a landscaping operations platform rather than a job-by-job reviewed record of billable hours.
Each reviewed record keeps the client, job or property, crew member, duration, description, billable status, rate context, reviewer, approval state, and billing period, tied to one job at a time rather than a bulk day total. That package backs the cost line or invoice LMN, or any other system, turns into a bill, and gives an office manager a job-specific answer when a client questions the hours behind one property on a multi-stop route.
No. Keito claims no native LMN integration, automatic import, or two-way synchronisation — LMN’s own QuickBooks Online and Desktop sync, GPS live tracking, and estimating tools belong to its platform, not Keito’s. Capture in Keito is its own workflow: AI-drafted, typed, timed, and manually entered records that pass job-by-job review before becoming invoice evidence. A business can keep LMN for crew tracking, estimating, and invoicing and run Keito alongside it as the per-job review layer, with any transfer between them designed and tested by the team.
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