The lawn and garden maintenance business is highly seasonal. Having the same visit frequency throughout the entire year doesn't always work because you typically visit customers more frequently in the warmer months and less frequently in the cooler months. To allow for different repeating frequencies throughout the year, SortScape has the concept of "seasonal schedules".

Within a seasonal schedule, you can specify the repeat frequency for each season within the year. For example, you might visit seasonal customers once every 3 weeks during the spring and once every two weeks in the summer as shown below. That can be specified in a seasonal schedule.

When adding or editing a repeating visit, you can specify a seasonal schedule in the "repeats" dropdown. When you save the visit, SortScape will then apply the correct repeat frequency to the visit based on:

When you change the season for your SortScape site, it will then change the repeat frequency for that SortScape visit to be the frequency specified for that season.

You can specify a seasonal schedule in the “repeats” dropdown as shown below:

To add or edit a seasonal schedule, go to the visit settings screen and scroll down to the Seasonal schedule settings section.

Your SortScape site comes with a default seasonal schedule which you can edit. If all of your seasonal customers follow the same seasonal schedule (e.g. you might visit all of them once every 2 weeks in the summer and once every 4 weeks in the winter) then you should only need one seasonal schedule. If your customers have different seasonal schedules (e.g. some are every 2 weeks in the summer / 4 weeks in the winter and others are every 3 weeks in the summer / 5 weeks in the winter) then you will need 2 seasonal schedules.

You can specify the repeat frequency for each season as shown below:

In SortScape, seasons don't change automatically; you have the control to switch seasons as needed. This flexibility allows you to adapt to early or late starts of the growing season. When you update the season on your SortScape site, it automatically adjusts the repeat frequency for all scheduled visits based on the new season's settings. For example, if visits are set to occur "every 2 weeks" in Summer but "every 3 weeks" in Autumn, switching from Summer to Autumn will change all applicable visits to the 3-week interval.

Important: Ensure all previous visits are marked complete or skipped before changing seasons. The update will not change the date for the next scheduled visit but rather the date for any visits after that.

To Change the Season:

You can change the season at any point to suit your scheduling needs.