diff --git a/manager/dist/etc/systemd/system/_name_.service.tmpl b/manager/dist/etc/systemd/system/_name_.service.tmpl
index 2c4f765..a53e67a 100644
--- a/manager/dist/etc/systemd/system/_name_.service.tmpl
+++ b/manager/dist/etc/systemd/system/_name_.service.tmpl
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Wants=network-online.target systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
 
 {{ end -}}
 [Service]
+{{ if .Path -}}
+PATH={{ .Path }}
+{{ end -}}
 # Restart on crash (bad signal), but not on 'clean' failure (error exit code)
 # Allow up to 3 restarts within 10 seconds
 # (it's unlikely that a user or properly-running script will do this)
diff --git a/serviceman.go b/serviceman.go
index f435886..10d9cdd 100644
--- a/serviceman.go
+++ b/serviceman.go
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ func add() {
 	flag.BoolVar(&forSystem, "system", false, "attempt to add system service as an unprivileged/unelevated user")
 	flag.BoolVar(&forUser, "user", false, "add user space / user mode service even when admin/root/sudo/elevated")
 	flag.BoolVar(&force, "force", false, "if the interpreter or executable doesn't exist, or things don't make sense, try anyway")
+	flag.StringVar(&conf.Path, "path", "", "set the path for the resulting systemd service")
 	flag.StringVar(&conf.User, "username", "", "run the service as this user")
 	flag.StringVar(&conf.Group, "groupname", "", "run the service as this group")
 	flag.BoolVar(&conf.PrivilegedPorts, "cap-net-bind", false, "this service should have access to privileged ports")