Delaware's Department of Labor counts landscaping and tree cutting as construction, and home improvement jobs need a written contract. Locally 360 is your website, quote forms, Jobs board and invoices, for $50 a month. It's month to month, with no minimum term.
- Quote and contact forms: every inquiry goes to your lead inbox and your email.
- Booking requests: you confirm or decline each one, then send it to a crew.
- Invoices: sent under your business name. Customers can pay by card.
- Card payments: straight into your own Stripe account, at Stripe's standard pricing.
- Customer portal: customers see invoices and bookings, signing in from an emailed link.
- Also in the $50: a monthly report and a site built so Google can find you.
A build, if you want one, is from $1,500, one time, for up to 20 pages and one revision round. You don't need it to start.
Delaware, in short:
- Business license: $75 a year from the Division of Revenue, for one location.
- Contractor registration: $200 a year from the Department of Labor, for private work.
- Pesticide work for customers: a Department of Agriculture license, $50 a year.
- Sales tax: none, state or local.
- Gross receipts tax: 0.3983% on General Service receipts above $100,000 a month.
See every cost on the pricing page
Questions first? Email support@locally360.app. We reply within three business days.
Business license and contractor registration
Two state offices handle two separate steps. The business license comes from the Division of Revenue:
- Who needs it: every business selling services to the public in Delaware.
- General Service list: examples include lawn care, landscaping, tree services and pest control.
- Cost: $75 for the first location, $25 for each additional one.
- Renewal: every year by December 31. Most are prorated in the first year.
- Qualifications: the license isn't a check of your skills, the Division says.
- Town or county: yours may require its own license too.
- Trade name: if it isn't your legal name, file a trade name certificate.
- Contractor license: also $75 a year, for construction, alteration or repair of real property.
- Revenue's contractor list: it names landscape architects, not lawn care or landscaping.
Contractor registration is a separate step, with the Department of Labor's Office of Contractor Registration:
- Who: landscaping and tree cutting businesses, since July 1, 2021.
- When: before you start the work.
- Cost: $200 a year for private work, which covers jobs for homeowners and for businesses.
- Needed: your business license, workers' comp coverage and an unemployment insurance number.
- Safety plan: one that meets OSHA rules, or proof you're writing one.
- Public lookup: customers can check your registration at contractorregistry.delaware.gov.
- Apply and see fees: on Delaware One Stop.
Every design you can choose has a licenses and certifications section. You write each credential in your own words, such as your Delaware contractor registration and its number. The section shows only what you type. It's on every landscaping design and tree service design.
Home jobs in writing
Delaware's Home Improvement Regulations have applied since November 1, 2023. They cover any alteration, repair, addition or improvement to a home or the property it sits on. The Consumer Protection Unit at the Department of Justice sets out what your customer must get:
- Contract: in writing, with all the material terms.
- Rights summary: the state's own sheet, in the contract or beside it.
- Finish date: an approximate one, unless the contract says none is given.
- Contractor details: your name, address, phone, website if you have one, and email.
- Commercial-only work: the regulations don't apply.
Locally 360 doesn't write the contract the regulations require. Here's what it has, and what it doesn't:
- Contract and rights summary: not in Locally 360. You supply them.
- Invoices: can't be used as estimates or quotes.
- Quote form: collects the customer's request. You send your own estimate.
- Business profile: holds your phone, email and address.
- Address on your site: not every design shows it, so check yours.
- Website: its own address on locally360.app, or your own domain.
- Invoice numbers: your own format.
- Invoice lines: up to 200 on each invoice.
- Issued invoices: can't be changed, only cancelled.
- Invoice emails: a link to the invoice, sent under your business name. Replies come to you.
- Invoice page: your business name and address.
Rapid Grounds Lead inboxMarch 2026: 4 inquiries
Earlier monthNora Pell
Quote form
- nora.pell@example.com
- Phone
- (555) 014-3388
- Message
- Front and back yard. Beds need edging and fresh mulch.
Theo Marsh
Contact form
Rapid Grounds
2210 Bayview Dr
Invoice INV-1042 from Rapid Grounds. Due March 24, 2026.
Billed to
Nora Pell
Selling at the door has its own law, Delaware Code title 6, chapter 44. It covers sales of $25 or more that you ask for in person, where the buyer agrees away from your place of business. That holds even when the homeowner invited you. The buyer can cancel until midnight of the third business day. You must give them that notice in writing, in the law's own words. Salespeople must display an ID card from the Department of Finance.
Pick a design
Every design below is a design sample, with a made-up business. Any owner can use any design, and each one is a complete website. Without a build, you choose a design and set up your pages yourself in the editor.
Questions first? Email support@locally360.app. We reply within three business days.
No sales tax, a tax on receipts
- Sales tax: none in Delaware, state or local.
- Gross receipts tax: on the business, not the customer.
- General Services rate: 0.3983% of receipts above $100,000 a month.
- Quarterly filers: the first $300,000 a quarter is excluded.
- Listed at that rate: lawn care, landscaping, tree services and pest control.
- Contractor license rate: 0.6472% above $100,000 a month.
- Card payments: they count as receipts, like cash and checks.
- Deductions: none for materials, labor or other costs.
- New businesses: the Division sets them up as quarterly filers. Returns are filed online.
- Late returns: a 5% penalty a month, plus 0.5% interest a month.
- Selling goods too: up to $8,500 a year under a service license. Above that, you need a retailer's license.
- Wilmington: a wage tax on residents and people doing business in the city, and a net profits tax.
The Division of Revenue publishes the rate table, a gross receipts tax FAQ and its General Service tax tip.
On Locally 360 invoices, tax is off until you switch on a rate. Your invoices can go out with no tax line, and Locally 360 never adds the gross receipts tax. For maintenance accounts, set up invoices that repeat weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly. Each time, a draft waits for you to send.
Pesticide license, fertilizer certification and plant permits
Applying pesticides for customers takes a Pesticide Business License from the Department of Agriculture.
- Who: any business applying any pesticide, restricted or general use, on another's property.
- Lawn and landscape crews: weed or insect control for customers needs it.
- Tree services: spraying or injecting customers' trees needs it.
- Cost: $50 for one year or $100 for two. Licenses expire December 31.
- Late renewal: after January 1, a 20% penalty.
- Before the license is granted: a surety bond or a liability insurance policy.
- Certified applicator: at least one, with 2 years' supervised experience in the past 3 years.
- Certification: a core exam plus a category exam, renewed every year.
- Lawn, landscape and tree work: category 03, Ornamental & Turf.
- Pest control: 7A General Pest Control and 7B Wood Destroying Pest Control.
- Soil termiticide: must be applied on site by an applicator certified in 7B.
- Service vehicles: your company name and license number on each, written "DDA Bus. Lic. ####".
- Vehicle rule: covers categories 03 and 7A to 7F, among others, per the department's rules summary.
- Crew working under your certified applicator: the applicator trains each one and registers them within 45 days of hiring.
- Application records: the department says keep them for 2 years.
Fertilizing for a fee is a separate certification, from the Nutrient Management Program.
- Commercial Nutrient Handler: four sessions, a written exam and $150 for three years.
- Also needs certification: anyone fertilizing 10 acres or more in total, lawns included.
Moving plants and mowers: the spotted lanternfly quarantine covers all of Delaware. A business that moves plants, mulch, landscaping materials or outdoor equipment like mowers needs a permit. It lasts one year. To get it, one person from the business takes training and passes an online test.
Trapping nuisance wildlife: a separate Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator permit, from DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife. The Department of Agriculture's FAQ says a licensed pesticide business that also traps or excludes wildlife needs it.
Wash water: state law requires a DNREC permit before any activity that may discharge a pollutant into surface or ground water. DNREC's stormwater pages don't mention pressure washing.
Each credential above can go in your site's licenses and certifications section, category included. The section is on every pest control design and pressure washing design, as on every other design you can choose.
What to ask the agencies
Some answers depend on your own work, and the agency pages under Sources don't settle others. Each line names the office to ask.
- Mowing, pest control or washing alone: whether they need contractor registration. Ask the Office of Contractor Registration.
- Mowing, pest control or washing: whether the home improvement rules cover them. Ask the Consumer Protection Unit.
- Door-to-door sales: how the law applies to yours. Ask the Consumer Protection Unit.
- Installs and other building work: which Revenue license fits. Ask the Division of Revenue.
- Pressure washing: not among the General Service examples. Ask the Division of Revenue which license applies.
- Gross receipts tax as its own invoice line: neither the Division's FAQ nor the gross receipts law says. Ask the Division of Revenue.
- Soft washing: whether it needs a pesticide license. Ask the Department of Agriculture.
- Wash water from your jobs: ask your town or county's stormwater office.
- Wilmington's wage and net profits tax rates: ask the City of Wilmington.
Crews in Delaware
Here are the state's rules as written. For your own crew, ask the Department of Labor.
- Landscaping crews: under the Workplace Fraud Act, a worker is presumed an employee.
- Independent contractors: a written notice in English and Spanish, signed by both of you.
- Paid Leave: in full effect since January 1, 2026. Employers with nine or fewer employees are exempt from its leave requirements.
- Minimum wage: $15 an hour since January 1, 2025.
In Locally 360, booking requests from your site become jobs on your Jobs board. You confirm or decline each one and put a crew on it. A crew is a name and the people on it, and nobody on a crew gets a login. Each crew member with an email gets the job's details when you dispatch it. The $50 is the same whatever the size of your team or crews.
Delaware landscaping, by the numbers
Landscaping businesses in Delaware employed 3,176 people in January 2024 and 4,621 in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics counted. In 2023, the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns counted 456 landscaping locations with employees, and 361 had fewer than 10.
Those numbers describe small crews and a summer peak. From Wilmington to Sussex County, while your crew is out on a job, a quote form takes the request. It waits in your lead inbox and your email until you're back to price it.
What you pay and what stays yours
- Monthly: $50 a month, the same for every owner.
- Term: month to month, with no minimum term.
- Without a build: you set up the site yourself in the editor.
- Build, if you want one: from $1,500, one time, up to 20 pages and one revision round.
- Build timeline: live in about two weeks, after your review week and your approval.
- Yours: the account and the site, from day one.
- Licensed while you subscribe: the design. You can't take it to another web company.
- Domains: Locally 360 never charges for them.
- Your domain login: Locally 360 never asks for it.
- Not in the $50: email hosting, ads, social media, review management, Google Business Profile posting and texting.
- Content edits: you make them yourself in the editor.
- Cancelling: online from your billing page, or by email.
- After you cancel: the site stays up until the paid period ends.
- Export: ask by email within 7 days after that.
- In the export: your pages, business profile, uploaded media, inquiries, and invoice, payment and booking records.
Locally 360 is provided by Eveneer Solutions LLC. Every cost is on the pricing page.
Questions
Who needs a Delaware business license?
Every business that sells services to the public in Delaware, the Division of Revenue says. Lawn care, landscaping, tree services and pest control take the General Service license, at $75 a year for the first location.
Do I need a Delaware contractor license for landscaping or tree work?
You need contractor registration with the Department of Labor. It registers landscaping and tree cutting businesses before they start work, at $200 a year for private work. The law doesn't name mowing alone, so ask that office about it. The Division of Revenue lists lawn care and landscaping as General Service activities. Its separate contractor license covers construction, alteration or repair of real property, so ask the Division which one fits your installs.
Is there sales tax on lawn care in Delaware?
No. Delaware has no state or local sales tax, and your customer pays none. Your business owes gross receipts tax on receipts above $100,000 a month instead. Locally 360 invoices start with tax switched off.
What is the gross receipts tax rate for landscaping or pest control?
The General Services rate is 0.3983% of receipts above $100,000 a month, or $300,000 a quarter. Receipts up to those amounts owe nothing at this rate. Card payments count as receipts.
Do I need a license to spray weeds or fertilize lawns?
To spray for customers, yes: a Pesticide Business License from the Department of Agriculture, even for general-use products. It costs $50 for one year. To fertilize for a fee, you need a Commercial Nutrient Handler certification, at $150 for three years.
What license does pressure washing need?
Every service business needs the Division of Revenue business license. The Division's General Service list gives examples only, and pressure washing isn't one of them. Ask the Division which license applies when you register.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Every site has its own address on locally360.app and can use your own domain as well. Locally 360 never charges for domains.
Before you sign up
Here's what you can count on: a site built so Google can find you, every inquiry in your own inbox, and a short report each month with inquiries against last month, page views and your most viewed pages. No website is perfect, and nobody can honestly tell you what one will bring in. It's month to month with no minimum term, so look at all of it and decide what's right for your business.
Owners in every US state can sign up, Delaware included.
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Sources
Every agency page below was checked on November 7, 2026. This page gives each agency's rule. It isn't tax or legal advice, so for your own case, ask the agency.
- Division of Revenue: business license FAQ, General Service tax tip, contractor tax tip, gross receipts tax FAQ and rate table
- Department of Labor: contractor registration fact sheet, contractor registry and Delaware Paid Leave
- Delaware One Stop: construction contractors
- Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Unit: home improvement rights summary and home improvement FAQ
- Delaware Code: Contractor Registration Act, Workplace Fraud Act, home solicitation sales, trade names, water pollution permits and minimum wage
- Department of Agriculture: pesticide FAQ, pesticide business licenses, pesticide rules summary, recertification, nutrient certification and spotted lanternfly quarantine
- DNREC: stormwater permits
- City of Wilmington: wage and net profits taxes
- Federal data: Bureau of Labor Statistics landscaping counts for January and August, and Census County Business Patterns
Not tax or legal advice. For your own situation, ask the agency or an accountant.
Anything else, email support@locally360.app. We reply within three business days.
