Yard card and yard sign rental software. Your yard cards book themselves. You just stake them.
Customers pick a date, type the name and pay by card, and every letter is checked before the booking goes through. Tonight's setups land on your phone in route order.
From $49 a month, flat, with your website and hosting included and no cut of your bookings. Yard card rental software for businesses of every size, from one person with a truck to a full crew.
Your website and hosting are included
A professionally designed website
Your displays, prices and booking page, with your name, logo, colors and a photo of each display. You add the details and the site is built from them.
Hosting with no separate bill
We host the site and keep it up to date, on https. There is no hosting fee on top of your monthly price.
An address that is yours
A free yourname.yardcardos.app address that works from the first day. On plans that include it, your own domain too, which we connect for you.
Sound familiar?
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"Is the 18th open?" at 10:47 at night. Then again at 6 in the morning.
With YardCardOS
Customers see what's open and book it themselves, any hour.
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Saturday's EMMA needs two Ms. One is already out on Friday's MOM.
With YardCardOS
It checks every letter against every booking before it says yes.
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Venmo, CashApp, a check, and one "I'll pay you at pickup."
With YardCardOS
Paid in full by card at booking, straight to your Stripe.
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Thirteen setups Saturday night, and the route is in your head.
With YardCardOS
Tonight's stops in route order, with what to pull from the bins.
Yard sign rental software, not a spreadsheet
Spreadsheets and general scheduling apps were never built for yard cards. None of them can tell you whether you have enough Es for Saturday.
A spreadsheet or scheduling app
YardCardOS
Tracks jobs
Tracks every letter, number and piece of flair
Lets you double-book
Won't sell a name you can't spell that night
Setup and pickup are two separate entries
Setup and takedown are one booking, on the crew list
Customers book through Messenger or a page you built
Your own booking website, designed and hosted for you
You chase the payment
The card is charged when they book
How it works
We set up your booking site
Your name, your displays, your prices and your delivery zones, on a booking site of your own.
Customers book and pay
They pick a date, type the message, see that it is available, and pay by card.
You stake it
Tonight's setups and tomorrow's takedowns, in route order, on your phone.
What your customers see
Your name, your displays, your prices. They pick a display, type the message and see that every letter is available before they pay.
Tonight, on one screen
Where to set up, where to take down, and what to pull from the bins, with one big button per stop and a tap to open the route in Maps. Your helpers get the same screen on their own phone, with only what you choose to show them.
Know what you made
What customers paid, what you spent, and what was left, for the dates you choose.
Profit and loss for any dates
Pick any stretch of days and see your sales, your expenses and what was left, by month or by year.
Sales tax kept apart
The tax on every booking and every extra charge is recorded as it is paid, and shown on its own line, never mixed into your income.
Expenses and card fees
Add what you spend, in the categories your accountant uses. Stripe's card fees come in on their own.
For your accountant
A PDF and a spreadsheet for the same dates, with no customer names in them.
A placeholder business, with invented figures.
Money reporting is part of the plans that include it. It does not file or pay your tax and is not tax advice; it gives you and your accountant the numbers.
App screens, with a placeholder business name.
Make it fully yours
Every business starts with a free web address and our shared email sender, and both work from the first day. These go further.
Your own web address
Your booking site on your own domain, like www.yourname.com. We connect it for you, you keep the domain, and your free address keeps working beside it.
Email from your own address
Booking emails come from [email protected] instead of ours. You set it up once, and a short guide in your admin walks you through it.
Your customers as a spreadsheet
Download everyone who has rented from you, to build an email list in your own email tool. Anyone you marked Do not email is left out.
These are part of the plans that include them, not the starting price for everyone. Tell us what you need and we will say which plan fits.
Everything a yard card business runs on
- A professionally designed booking website, hosted for you
- Online booking on a free yourname.yardcardos.app address, or your own domain on plans that include it
- Inventory by letter, number, set and flair
- Card payments at booking, straight to your Stripe
- Delivery zones by ZIP code, with an out-of-area fee
- Extra-day and additional-name pricing, set your way
- A crew list for every setup and takedown
- An owner dashboard that works on your phone
- Start with a few sets and add the rest later
- Money reporting, on plans that include it: sales tax collected, expenses and profit for any dates, with a PDF and a spreadsheet for your accountant
- Booking emails from your own address, on plans that include it
- Every customer you have had, in a list you can search, and download on plans that include it
Common questions
How much does YardCardOS cost?
From $49 a month, flat, with your website and hosting included and no cut of your bookings. Tell us what you run and we will send the exact price for your business.
Are the website and hosting included, or extra?
Included. The booking website made for your business and the hosting for it are part of the monthly price, so there is no separate hosting bill. Every business gets a free yourname.yardcardos.app address, and on plans that include it can use its own domain too, which we connect for you. Buying a domain, if you want your own, is separate.
Does YardCardOS work for yard signs, yard greetings and lawn signs?
Yes. Yard cards, yard signs, yard greetings and lawn signs all work: if it is letters and flair on stakes, YardCardOS is built for it.
Who is YardCardOS for?
Yard card and yard sign rental businesses of every size, from one person with a truck to a full crew. It is built for letters, sets and setups, not for general equipment rental.
How is it different from a spreadsheet or a scheduling app?
It tracks every letter, number and piece of flair, so it will not sell a name you cannot spell that night, and a setup and its takedown are one booking on the crew list.
Do I have to count every letter before I start?
No. Start with the sets you rent most and count the rest as you go.
Where does the money go?
Straight to your own Stripe account, on Stripe's normal payout schedule.
Does YardCardOS keep track of the sales tax I collect?
Yes. The tax on every booking is recorded as it is paid. On plans that include money reporting, the reports show it for any dates you pick, next to your expenses and your profit. YardCardOS does not file or pay the tax for you; it gives you and your accountant the numbers.
Can I send my accountant a spreadsheet?
On plans that include money reporting, yes. Download one for any dates: a row for every sale and every expense, with the totals, and no customer names in it.
Can I email my past customers?
YardCardOS keeps every customer you have had in a list you can search and, on plans that include it, download as a spreadsheet for your own email tool. You can mark anyone Do not email, and they are left out of the download. It does not send marketing email for you, so use a tool that adds an unsubscribe link.
Can I use my own web address and my own email address?
On plans that include them, yes. Your site can run on your own domain, like www.yourname.com, which we connect for you, and your booking emails can come from your own address, like [email protected], which you set up with a short guide in your admin. Every business starts with a free yourname.yardcardos.app address and our shared email sender, and both work on every plan.
Guides for yard card businesses
- How to start a yard card businessWhat it costs to start a yard card or yard sign rental business, how many letters you need, franchise or independent, and the setup steps.
- How much to charge for a yard card rentalWhat yard card businesses charge for a birthday display, an extra day, another name and a rush order, from 14 published price lists in 11 states.
- How to choose yard card rental softwareWhat yard card and yard sign rental software should do, the questions to ask any vendor, and what it costs a month, fees included.
- Sales tax on yard card rentals: what to collect and what to keep track ofWhether a yard card rental is taxed, whether setup and delivery are, how often you file, and the records and expenses to keep. Rules differ by state.
How YardCardOS compares
- Yard card software compared: YardCardOS, Rentopian, Reservety and Sign Rental SystemsYardCardOS, Rentopian, Reservety and Sign Rental Systems side by side: what each charges, how each handles letters and setups, and which business each fits.
- YardCardOS vs Rentopian: price, features and fitYardCardOS and Rentopian compared from the pages each company publishes: how each handles letters and setups, what each lists, and which business each fits.
- YardCardOS vs Reservety: price, features and fitYardCardOS and Reservety compared from the pages each company publishes: price, trial, how each handles letters and setups, and which business each fits.
Get YardCardOS for your yard card business
Prices start at $49 a month, with your website and hosting included. Tell us what you run. A real person gets back to you within a working day. No obligation, no card.