IndustriesPest control
Pest control software for technicians on a route
Business Genie is pest control software built around route optimization: each technician’s stops in the shortest-drive order, inspections booked online, and invoices paid at the property — on the web and in the iOS and Android app.
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Beside this, one stop: the walk a technician takes around a house. Below, eleven of them as a day, on the route Business Genie puts them in.
One stop, from above · Sample house
Quarterly exterior service · 20–35 min on site
- 1Webs swept from the entry and the eaves
- 2Granules in the front beds
- 3Along the garage door’s bottom seal and corners
- 4The band along the foundation: up the wall and out onto the ground
- 5Patio door and the covered patio
- 6Around the AC pad
Outside only. Nobody needs to be home. Six of the sample day’s eleven stops are this.
Tap a stop to see its walk at the house.
Six quarterly services, three booked for a time
Every stop in a pest control day is a walk round a house like the one above, and most of them are short: six of these ten are quarterly exterior services of 25 minutes or so, with nobody home. The three with a time are a rodent follow-up, a termite inspection and an initial service.
A pest control tech’s list is mostly quarterly services that came due this week, set down in the order they were entered, with the jobs booked for a time wedged between them: a rat follow-up first thing, a termite inspection the buyer’s agent set for the morning, a new customer’s first visit before noon. In that order the truck crosses the service area again and again between stops that take 25 minutes.
- 1Roof rats, attic traps to checkRodent follow-upRodent follow-up · Cedar Ave25 min8 am–11 am
- 2Dog in the back yard, call aheadQuarterly serviceQuarterly exterior service · Agave St25 min
- 3Termite inspection for a home saleTermite inspectionTermite inspection · Ironwood Ln50 min9 am–11 am
- 4Crickets in the garageQuarterly serviceQuarterly exterior service · Mesquite St25 min
- 5New customer, ants in the kitchenInitial serviceInitial service · Palo Verde Dr60 min10 am–12 pm
- 6Webs along the eavesQuarterly serviceQuarterly exterior service · Ocotillo Rd25 min
- 7Mosquitoes around the poolMosquito treatmentMosquito treatment · Desert Willow Ct25 min
- 8Ants along the patioQuarterly serviceQuarterly exterior service · Saguaro Blvd25 min
- 9Two storeys, the eaves from a ladderQuarterly serviceQuarterly exterior service · Juniper Way30 min
- 10Roaches in the irrigation boxesQuarterly serviceQuarterly exterior service · Mariposa Ln25 min
As booked: 5 h 15 min at the houses and 1 h 19 min on the road, 39.5 miles, the last stop done at 2:24 pm. Point at any stop on the town to see its walk.
Ordered by the drive, the windows kept
Business Genie orders the day’s stops by the drive, and keeps the time windows customers were promised and the time each job takes.
In this sample the same ten stops take 33 min of driving instead of 1 h 19 min — 16.5 miles instead of 39.5 — with every window kept, and the last one is done at 1:18 pm instead of 2:24 pm.
With walks this short the drive is where a pest control day goes: between one house and the next the tech drives 8 min on average as booked, and 3 min routed. The 5 h 15 min at the houses is the same either way.
As booked1 h 19 min · 39.5 mi
As routed33 min · 16.5 mi
A scorpion call at 11:20 am
A customer calls: her son found a bark scorpion on his bedroom floor this morning. She wants someone out today.
Add the job to the tech’s day and Business Genie re-routes the rest of it, keeping the windows already promised. The tech gets turn-by-turn directions to the next stop.
In this sample the tech fits the call in at 1:25 pm, inside its 12 pm–4 pm window, and the day is done at 2:15 pm. Taken straight after the job in hand, with the rest driven as booked, it runs to 3:29 pm.
At Sonoran Dr · the walk
Scorpion treatment · 40–60 min
Bark scorpions come in under doors and through gaps as thin as a card, and live in block walls and rock beds. The tech treats the foundation and the block wall, dusts the weep screed along the base of the stucco, and marks the gaps to seal: door sweeps and the garage door’s bottom seal.
From one scorpion call to a quarterly customer
Scorpions are rarely a one-visit job. The tech treats and marks the gaps, and the customer usually goes onto a recurring service, which is how most of a pest control book is built.
Sample · One customer’s year at the house
Today
Scorpion treatment
3 months
Quarterly service
6 months
Quarterly service
9 months
Quarterly service
Each of those visits comes due on a day like this one, and Business Genie orders that day by the drive. After each one it can send the customer an automated follow-up and a review request.
The first month is free, with no credit card. The team sets up your account and moves your customer list over at no charge, and route optimization is on every plan, from $50 a month.
From the inspection to the invoice
The route is the day; around it is the rest of a pest control job — the inspection someone books, the treatment it leads to, the invoice at the door. All of it in one app, on the web and on the phone your technicians carry.
After the 11:20 am call, the tech’s phone shows the re-ordered day with the new stop in it, and turn-by-turn directions to the next one.
Route optimization in Business Genie
Sample screen
Also in Business Genie: customer records, a customer portal, GPS time tracking, job costing, and automated follow-ups and review requests after the visit.
Sample screens, with this page’s sample day
Questions about pest control software
- Does pest control software route my technicians?
- Business Genie does, on every plan. It orders each technician’s day automatically by the drive, keeps time windows and job durations, splits stops across technicians, re-routes when a job is added, and gives turn-by-turn directions.
- Can customers book a pest inspection online?
- Yes. Business Genie includes online booking, so customers can book an inspection or a service without calling the office.
- How do pest control customers pay?
- From the invoice, by card, Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo or Cash App. Invoices and payments sync to QuickBooks Online.
- How much does it cost, and is there a free trial?
- Plans start at $50 a month. The first month is free with no credit card, and the Business Genie team sets up your account and moves your data over for free.