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Locally 360 for service businesses in Montana

Locally 360 gives tree, pest control, pressure washing, lawn care and landscaping businesses in Montana a website and business tools for $50 a month. That covers quote forms with a lead inbox, booking requests and jobs, and invoicing. It's month to month, with no minimum term. Locally 360 is provided by Eveneer Solutions LLC.

With the $50 alone, you build your site yourself in the editor, with no page limit. If you'd rather have it built, builds are from $1,500, one time, for up to 20 pages and one revision round, and nothing is needed from you to start. Signup is open to service businesses in every US state.

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Questions first? Email support@locally360.app. We reply within three business days.

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Clinical Clear, a pest control design, on a desktop and a phone, filled with a made-up sample business, on a phone

Montana at a glance

  • Contractor license: required since January 1, 2026. Registrations active on December 31, 2025 became licenses automatically.
  • License fee: $70 to apply and $70 to renew.
  • Aimed at: contractors with employees, plus corporations and manager-managed LLCs of any size.
  • Tree removal and pruning, pressure washing and landscape installs: DLI doesn't say whether the contractor license applies. Ask DLI.
  • Pesticide license: any business that applies pesticides, lawn weed control included.
  • State sales tax: no general sales tax.
  • Resort areas: a 3% tax on lodging, food and drink, destination recreation and luxury items. The law doesn't list trade services. Ask the local office that collects the tax.
  • Business license: no general state license. Cities and counties issue their own.
  • Checked against agency pages: November 7, 2026.

What the $50 covers

What it costs

  • Monthly: $50 a month per site, the same for every owner.
  • Build, if you want one: from $1,500, one time, up to 20 pages and one revision round.
  • Build payment: in full when you sign up online. For a $200 deposit and a $1,300 balance on a $1,500 build, email us: online signup doesn't offer that plan. The deposit is kept if you don't go ahead.
  • Build timing: you'll see your new site in about 48 hours.
  • Late preview: if it isn't ready within 7 days, tell us, and we have 10 more days to finish it. If we still miss it, your whole build fee comes back. The $50 a month isn't refunded.

What's covered

  • Covered: your website and its hosting, security certificates and updates, the editor, quote forms and a lead inbox, booking requests and the Jobs board, crews, invoicing with card payments into your own Stripe account, and a monthly report.
  • Web address: your own address on locally360.app, or your own domain. We never charge for domains or ask for your registrar password.
  • Team size: the $50 is the same whatever the size of your team or crews. There's no charge per user.

What's yours

  • Yours: the account and the site, from day one.
  • Licensed while you subscribe: the design. It can't move to another host.
  • Photos: your own photos are always yours. Stock photos stay while you subscribe and go if you cancel.
  • If you cancel: within 7 days after your site goes offline, email us for a copy of your pages, business profile, the photos you uploaded, your inquiries, and your invoice, payment and booking records. It's a copy of your data, not a working website.

How to cancel

  • Minimum term: none. It's month to month.
  • To cancel: online from your billing page, or by email, any time. The site stays up to the end of the month you paid for, with no refund for the rest of it.

Not included

  • Review management, Google Business Profile posting, social media, ads, email hosting, texting, backups, content edits done for you and domain registration.

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Montana's contractor license since January 1, 2026

Under House Bill 239, Montana's Construction Contractor License, from the Department of Labor and Industry (DLI), replaced contractor registration on January 1, 2026. Many guides still call it a registration.

If your registration was active on December 31, 2025, it became a license automatically, with the same expiry date and the same cost, according to DLI's notice to contractors. The license is $70 to apply and $70 to renew. HB 239 also counts misleading advertising, and misleading written communication with a client, as unprofessional conduct for a licensed contractor.

Under state law, a construction contractor is anyone who, as an independent business, builds, alters, repairs, improves or demolishes something attached to real estate for someone else. DLI's program page says all construction contractors need the license. Its license FAQ adds that the license is aimed at contractors with employees, and at corporations and manager-managed LLCs regardless of employee count.

State law exempts these from the license:

  • An independent contractor with no employees, who can still opt in.
  • Casual or minor jobs under $2,500 in total, unless a larger job is split up to stay under that amount.
  • Clearing land in rural districts for fire prevention.

If you work alone through a corporation or a manager-managed LLC, ask DLI before you skip the license. Its FAQ aims the license at those businesses whatever their size.

Working alone doesn't end the paperwork. A self-employed worker needs either an Independent Contractor Exemption Certificate (ICEC), which costs a non-refundable $125, or self-elected Montana workers' comp coverage. Some call it the "independent contractor license". DLI's rule covers anyone who regularly works away from their own place of business, and it names no trades.

DLI's license pages and the contractor license law never name landscaping. Neither says whether a landscape install, such as a retaining wall or an irrigation system, needs the license. The same goes for ordinary tree removal and pruning, and for pressure washing. Ask DLI.

If you hold the license, tell DLI within 30 days of a change to your business name or ownership. DLI also advises registering any business name that isn't your personal name with the Secretary of State. An assumed business name is $20 online and is renewed every 5 years.

On your site: customers have their own reason to ask whether you're licensed. Under DLI's FAQ, someone who hires a contractor who is licensed on the date of the contract isn't liable as an employer for that contractor's workers' comp, unemployment insurance or wages. Every design has a licenses and certifications section, where you write each credential in your own words, with its number if you want it shown. What the website includes

Crews and workers' comp

These are DLI's rules, from its ICEC FAQ and its license FAQ.

  • A 1099 or a labor agreement doesn't make someone an independent contractor.
  • Without an ICEC or self-elected coverage, the state may treat that worker as your employee.
  • Liability, health or industrial accident insurance doesn't take the place of workers' comp.
  • If you hire employees, DLI's license FAQ says to cover them under a Montana workers' compensation insurance policy.

Crew members who spray pesticides need an operator license under your applicator license, from the Department of Agriculture. Operator licenses are renewed each calendar year before the operator sprays, and an operator can't apply pesticides more than 100 miles from your physical location.

On your site: booking requests from your website become jobs on your Jobs board. You confirm or decline each one, put a crew on it and send the crew the job's details by email. A crew is a name and the people on it, and nobody on a crew gets a login. How booking and jobs work

Pesticide and trade licenses in Montana

Tree services

Spraying or treating trees with pesticides for hire needs the commercial pesticide applicator license from the Montana Department of Agriculture. The categories that fit include Ornamental and Turf Pest Control and Forest Pest Control.

We found no official Montana page about an arborist license. Whether ordinary removal or pruning needs the contractor license isn't settled, as above. Clearing land in rural districts for fire prevention is exempt from it.

On your site: every design has an emergency notices section, and your business profile lists up to 50 cities you serve. Tree service designs and tools

Lot and Land, a tree service design, on a desktop and a phone, filled with a made-up sample business
Lot and Land, a tree service design, on a desktop and a phone, filled with a made-up sample business, on a phone

Sales tax on Montana invoices

Montana has no general statewide sales tax, so an invoice for work in Montana carries no state sales tax. The Department of Revenue says Montana has no sales tax permit and no exemption certificate.

Red Lodge, Virginia City, West Yellowstone, Whitefish, Big Sky, Cooke City, Craig, Gardiner, St Regis and Wolf Creek each levy a 3% resort tax, run locally rather than by the Department of Revenue. A resort community may add up to 1% more to pay for infrastructure. Under the statute, the tax applies to lodging, restaurants, bars, destination recreation and luxury items, and it doesn't list trade services such as landscaping or pest control. Its definition of luxuries leaves out hardware supplies and tools. If you work in one of these places, ask the local office that collects the tax.

Contractors on public construction contracts over $80,000 pay a 1% Contractor's Gross Receipts Tax.

On your site:

  • Tax is off by default, so your invoice carries no tax line.
  • If a local office tells you a rate applies, add your own rate with a name, a percent and a jurisdiction. How to add a tax rate
  • Each line has a Taxable switch and can use its own rate.
  • You number invoices in your own format. Once issued, an invoice can't be changed, only cancelled.
  • Customers pay by card into your own Stripe account, at Stripe's standard pricing. How invoicing works

Busy summers, small crews

Montana's landscaping workforce changes more with the seasons than the US landscaping workforce does. Private landscaping businesses in Montana employed 2,989 people in January 2025 and 4,961 in July 2025, about 66% more. Across the US, the rise over the same months was about 35%.

Most of these businesses are small. In March 2023, 621 of Montana's 694 landscaping business locations with employees had fewer than 10 employees. In 2024, 1,410 Montana landscaping businesses had no employees at all.

On your site:

  • Holiday and seasonal hours sit in your business profile, beside your service area.
  • Quote requests from your site land in your lead inbox, and each one is also emailed to you. How quote forms work
  • You mark each inquiry new, handled or archived.
  • Every form has built-in spam protection.
  • Booking requests stay requests until you confirm or decline them.

Questions

Who is Montana's contractor license for?

DLI's program page says all construction contractors need the license. Its license FAQ adds that the license is aimed at contractors with employees, and at corporations and manager-managed LLCs regardless of employee count. State law exempts an independent contractor with no employees.

Is my Montana contractor registration still valid?

If it was active on December 31, 2025, it became a Construction Contractor License automatically on January 1, 2026. The expiry date and the cost stayed the same.

Do I need a contractor license if I work alone?

It depends on how your business is set up. State law exempts an independent contractor with no employees, who can still opt in. DLI's FAQ says the license is aimed at corporations and manager-managed LLCs whatever their size, so if you work alone through one, ask DLI before you skip the license. If you work alone, you also need an Independent Contractor Exemption Certificate, which costs $125, or self-elected Montana workers' comp coverage. Some call the certificate the independent contractor license.

Do I need a business license for landscaping in Montana?

Montana has no statewide general business license. Cities and counties issue their own, and Billings requires one from any business working in the city. Spraying weeds for hire needs the commercial applicator license. If you buy plants, turf or sod and install them for customers, check the $150 Landscape Service license with the Department of Agriculture. If you only mow, ask the department too: the Department of Revenue's eStop page lists lawn maintenance services under the nursery license.

Do I need a pesticide license to spray weeds on lawns in Montana?

Yes. Any business that applies pesticides, weed control on lawns included, needs a commercial pesticide applicator license from the Department of Agriculture. Lawn and landscape spraying falls under Ornamental and Turf Pest Control, now category 3.

When do Montana pesticide licenses need renewing?

Commercial applicator licenses expire December 31 and must be renewed before you apply pesticides. A renewal postmarked after March 1 costs $25 more. Operator licenses are renewed each calendar year before the operator sprays.

Is there sales tax on tree, pest control, pressure washing or landscaping work in Montana?

Montana has no general statewide sales tax. Resort taxes in 10 communities and areas cover lodging, restaurants, bars, destination recreation and luxury items, and the statute doesn't list trade services. If you work in one of these places, ask the local office that collects the tax.

Can my crew work on a 1099?

DLI says a 1099 or a labor agreement doesn't make someone an independent contractor. Without an Independent Contractor Exemption Certificate or self-elected coverage, the state may treat them as your employees.

Can my website show my licenses?

Yes. Every design has a licenses and certifications section. You write each license there in your own words, with its number if you want it shown.

Can I sign up if my business isn't in Montana?

Yes. Signup is open to service businesses in every US state.

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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.

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Questions first? Email support@locally360.app. We reply within three business days.

More on each tool: the website, quote forms, the Jobs board and invoicing. For other states, see Locally 360 across the US.

Sources

Every agency page below was checked on November 7, 2026.

Not tax or legal advice. For your own situation, ask the agency or an accountant.

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