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What is a Site Plan?

Learn how Site Plans turn a job's property address into an aerial workspace for measuring landscape areas and planning the project.

A Site Plan is an aerial measurement and planning workspace connected to a job. SimplyScapes uses the job's property address to load the background, then lets you draw and measure areas on the property.

Every Homeowner and Professional workspace can create a Site Plan from a job's Design phase after Labs has been enabled. Professional workspaces also have a standalone Site Plans list in the sidebar.

What Site Plans are used for

  • Measure lawns, planting beds, hardscape, driveways, and other landscape areas.
  • Compare the size of different parts of a property.
  • Gather quantities that help scope materials and labor.
  • Review the irrigation water budget against local water allowances.
  • Export a plan to save or share.

How a Site Plan works

Create or open a job, add its property address, and choose Design > Site Plan. The aerial view opens with drawing and measurement tools. A job holds one Site Plan at a time.

Site Plans currently use the property's aerial background. Starting from an uploaded image or PDF, or from a blank background, is unavailable.

Current capabilities

  • Draw and measure areas with square-foot totals.
  • Label and organize the areas on a property.
  • Work with imperial or metric measurements.
  • Review an irrigation water budget.
  • Save the plan with its job.
  • Export the plan to save or share.

Continue with How do I create a new Site Plan?.