Preferred Routes
July 2010. A ‘Route’ in PestaRoo is the name we give to a cluster of locations in a given area. Routes allow us to group Work Orders by proximity. And, since each page in the Schedule Book can be designated as a specific Route, it is a very effective way [...]
Customizing Your Copy of PestaRoo
July 2010. Many people ask, “Can we put our own products, pests or service types in PestaRoo?” The answer is Yes! PestaRoo has an amazing number of areas ready for you to customize. Here is a partial list: Accounting Categories (for doing financial break-outs), Agencies, Agreement Types, Contact Types, Customer Status, [...]
New Monthly Stat Activities
July 2010. PestaRoo’s Monthly Stat system is unmatched in the industry. [Monthly Stats are accessed from 'Mangers Access'.] For any month you can view your sales by City, Technician, or Service. Since each of these are ranked, you can review your progress in a glance. And because of the way PestaRoo [...]
Transferring Agreements
June 2010. Getting and keeping Agreements is a very important part of your business. PestaRoo’s Agreement and Renewal system has been designed to maximize your Agreement count. But what do you do when a house sells that has one of your agreements attached to it? PestaRoo makes it easy to Transfer the [...]
Supplier Information
June 2010. Your key supplier information can easily be kept within PestaRoo. At Supplier Data Entry you can keep the Supplier address, contact numbers, and description. Also you can have a unlimited list of Names associated with that company, PLUS the contact numbers for each. From each contact number, you [...]
Form Letters as Emails to Customers
May 2010. How many times have you wanted to send a note to your customers, but the cost of postage was too high? Or, it was a pain to put on all the stamps and labels? With a newly completed feature in PestaRoo, you can now send an email note to [...]
Custom Emails to Customers
May 2010. We’ve just completed a custom email button in the the Contact Number portal for Customers. In the numbers portal you can now see a new ‘@’ button. The button only appears on those records that have a valid email address. (It does not appear on those records that [...]
Using Emails with PestaRoo
May 2010. PestaRoo is designed to make it easy to use emails whenever possible, saving valuable time and postage. From Customer Data Entry, you can enter any number of emails in the Numbers portal. This is the same place you would enter phone numbers. As you put in emails, be sure [...]
SalesPerson Reporting
April 2010. Many pest control companies have one to several sales persons who are paid on a commission basis. PestaRoo now supports date range reporting for these workers. Mark a customer as belonging to a SalesPerson, and all it downstream WOs, Invoices, and Payments are linked. Individual lines can be edited. [...]
Faster Launching and Closing
April 2010. We’ve been working on this project quite awhile. We are excited to announce that we have succeeded beyond our wildest hopes. PestaRoo now launches and closes nearly 5 times faster than before. The typical launch and close times range between 2 and 5 seconds! This is incredibly speedy. Occasionally, other [...]