New Hampshire licenses, sales tax and the paperwork homeowners ask for

Locally 360 gives service businesses in New Hampshire, and in every other US state, a website and business tools for $50 a month, month to month with no minimum term. A build by us is optional, from $1,500 one time, for up to 20 pages and one revision round.

You get a site built so Google can find you, quote and contact forms with a lead inbox, and booking requests that become jobs. You also get itemized invoices your customers can pay by card, a customer portal and a monthly report.

New Hampshire's Attorney General's office says home contractors don't need a state license. Instead, it tells homeowners to get estimates and a contract in writing, to pay no deposit over half the price, and to have more ways to pay than an app transfer. Your quote form takes each request in writing, and your invoices are itemized and can't be changed once you issue them.

If your crew applies pesticides on customers' property, even store-bought weed killer, New Hampshire does ask for a license: a Commercial Applicator license from the Division of Pesticide Control. Every rule below names its agency. We checked each one on November 7, 2026.

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What New Hampshire homeowners are told to ask for

In a March 2022 consumer alert, the Attorney General's office wrote: "In New Hampshire, contractors do not need to be licensed." The same March 2022 consumer alert tells homeowners what to look for instead.

This is the Attorney General's advice to homeowners, not a rule on your business. Under each point is what Locally 360 does.

• Written, itemized estimates and a written contract. Your quote form takes each job request in writing. Each one lands in your lead inbox and is emailed to you. Locally 360 doesn't write estimates or contracts, so you write those yourself.
• No deposit over 50%, and no full payment before the job is done. An invoice holds any lines and amounts you enter, so you can send one invoice for an agreed deposit and a second for the rest. A single invoice has no deposit or part-payment option. You decide when to issue each invoice.
• More than Zelle or Venmo as a way to pay. Customers can pay your invoices by card, into your own Stripe account, at Stripe's standard pricing. You set up a new Stripe account through Stripe's own pages. The guide to setting up card payments shows each step. For cash or check, you mark the invoice paid.

Invoices on Locally 360 are itemized, and you number them your own way. Once you issue an invoice, nothing on it can be changed. You can only cancel it. The invoice email goes out under your business name, and your customer's reply comes to you. The invoice they open shows your business name and address. In the customer portal, they see their invoices and bookings in one place, with no password.

The Attorney General has acted on false license claims before. In 2015, a contractor's business card claimed he was a licensed home contractor and insured, and he was neither. The office treated that as a violation of the Consumer Protection Act. That case is in its 2015 settlement notice.

Every Locally 360 design has a licenses and certifications section, for the credentials you actually hold. You write each one in your own words, with its issuer. Add its number if you want it shown. One example is your pesticide applicator license and its category.

More on invoicing, quote forms and how to create and send an invoice.

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The pesticide license New Hampshire does ask for

Applying pesticides on anyone else's property in New Hampshire needs a Commercial Applicator license from the Division of Pesticide Control. That includes store-bought weed and insect killers, and work you aren't paid for. UNH Extension adds that natural and organic products count too.

• Each business or branch office that applies pesticides: at least one Supervisory license holder.
• Each crew applying pesticides: at least one person with an Operational or Supervisory license.
• The business itself: registered with the Division too.
• Supervisory license: an approved experience resume, a written exam and an oral exam. A panel of three gives the oral exam.
• Fees: $60 for the license and $15 for the exam.
• Renewal: every year. If it isn't renewed by June 1, you take the exam again.
• Continuing education: credits earned over a 5-year period.
• Insurance: required. Ask the Division for the amounts.
• Categories: a license in one category doesn't cover another.

The Division's categories by trade, from its applicator categories sheet and commercial for-hire guide:

• Lawn and turf: G2 Turf Pest Control.
• Shrubs and trees: G1 Shade and Ornamental Pest Control. Tree spraying or injection usually falls here.
• Right-of-way and commercial weed and brush: category B.
• Pest control: F1 General Pest Control, F2 Mosquito and Black Fly, and F3 Termites and Wood Destroying Insects.

Three more Pesticide Control Board rules apply to firms that apply pesticides. They're in the Board's Pes 300 and Pes 500 rules.

• Vehicles used for pesticide work: the business name and firm registration number, in letters at least 2 inches high.
• More than one business name: each name you work under is registered with the Division separately.
• Lawn clients who get pesticides: a written notice from you at least once a year, with a schedule of services. It tells them they can ask for the date of each application. When they ask, you give them that date ahead of time.

UNH Extension runs commercial applicator courses in January and February, and again in October. Its training page lists them.

On Locally 360, each crew is a name and the people on it. A crew member with an email gets the job's details when you dispatch it. See the designs and tools for landscaping, tree services and pest control.

Sales tax on services in New Hampshire

• State sales tax: none on landscaping, tree, pressure washing or pest control invoices. Source: the Department of Revenue Administration.
• Registering with the Department: not needed for a trade business. Only meals, rooms, vehicle rental, communications and tobacco businesses register, per the Department's general questions page. The business tax returns below are separate.
• Meals and Rooms Tax: 8.5%, on meals, room rentals and vehicle rentals, not on trade services. Source: the Department's meals and rooms tax page.
• Resale or tax-exempt numbers: the Department issues none.
• Local sales tax: we found no official answer either way. Ask the Department's Taxpayer Services, listed on its general questions page.

On Locally 360, invoice tax is off by default, so your invoices go out with no tax line. If you ever need tax on an invoice, you can add your own rates, each with a name, a percent and a jurisdiction. For jobs across the state line, ask that state's revenue agency about tax. Here's how to add a sales tax rate.

Invoices for maintenance accounts can repeat weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly. Each time, Locally 360 makes a draft for you to send. Here's how to send a repeating invoice.

New Hampshire's two business taxes are filed by the business and never go on an invoice line. Source: the Department's business taxes page.

• Business Profits Tax: 7.5% of taxable business profits. You file a return when gross business income, before expenses, is over $109,000.
• Business Enterprise Tax: 0.55% of the pay, interest and dividends your business pays out, not of invoice totals. You file a return when gross receipts, or that total of pay, interest and dividends, are over $298,000.
• The two together: enterprise tax you pay can be used as a credit against the profits tax.
• Thresholds: these apply to tax periods from January 1, 2025. The Department adjusts them every two years.

For your own return, ask the Department of Revenue Administration.

Rules that shape the season

By federal counts, the number of people employed by New Hampshire landscaping businesses rose from 4,620 in March 2025 to 7,143 in July 2025. When you're on a job, your website takes customers' requests. Booking requests from your website become jobs on your Jobs board. You confirm or decline each request, put a crew on it and send the crew the job's details by email. More on jobs.

We didn't check town rules, so ask your town about local permits.

Built for businesses your size

Most New Hampshire landscaping firms are small. In 2023, the state had 1,027 landscaping locations with employees, and 915 of them had fewer than 10 employees. A separate Census count found 1,970 landscaping businesses with no employees in 2023. Pest control is smaller: 56 locations with employees in 2023, and 36 of them had fewer than 5 employees.

Locally 360's designs are built for specific trades, and each one is a complete site. You open a design sample and choose, and you can use any design, whatever your trade.

Browse the landscaping designs, tree service designs, pressure washing designs and pest control designs, or see how the website works.

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Sources

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