Print Monthly and Yearly Stats

March 2011. PestaRoo’s Monthly and Yearly Stats (from Manager’s Access) have been critical for the management of growing companies for years. They allow you to view your monthly and yearly data broke out by Technician, Service Type, and City. These screens are fully ranked. Now, you can also print these [...]

Precluding Duplicate Products on Work Orders

March 2011. We have always supported dynamically calculated product lists for the Work Orders. So, the Service Type determines what products should print. But since we are all frequently asked to do more than the planned service, we ‘fill-in’ the available slots from a general list of products. In the [...]

New Credit Feature and Support Doc

January 2011. We have completed the new Credit system for advance payments. This has been an area wanting refinement for several years. Now its complete and easy to use.  This new system allows you to maintain multiple credits for any customer, without creating ‘fake’ invoices to apply an ‘overpay’ to. [...]

New Support Doc- QuickBooks Integration

January 2011. To help people working with QuickBooks alongside PestaRoo, we have published a new support article. Click here to view this new Support Document.

New Quick Help- Alerts

December 2010. PestaRoo has a very compelling and easy to use system of reminders called, Alerts. We have just completed a new “Quick Help” screen giving context-specific help on this ability.
Alerts and Repeating Alerts are available from Agencies, Customers, Equipment, Staff, and Vehicles.  We have noticed that the most successful [...]

Importing a Customer from a Backup- (New Support Doc)

December 2010. Several people have recently asked about importing data from their backups. In each case they had accidentally deleted a key customer or invoice. So, this new support doc provides step by step directions for importing a record from a backup. Initial feedback suggests that this support article will [...]

PreScheds Make Your Work Easier

December 2010. Every successful pest control business needs and uses PreScheds. PreScheds are used by PestaRoo to automatically create Work Orders on a regular schedule. And with PestaRoo, they are amazingly powerful but with a graceful ease of set-up. From the Location portal on Customer Data Entry, you can literally create a PreSched with [...]

Equipment Tracking

December 2010. Pest Control companies usually have multiple pieces of Equipment to keep track of. For example, drills, sprayers, pumps and others represent a substantial investment. PestaRoo makes it easy to keep all the pertinent info in one place. And this includes all repairs and maintenance for each equipment.
This Equipment system [...]

Viewing Images and Documents Inside PestaRoo!

December 2010. PestaRoo has supported Documents or Images for multiple years. What are these? PestaRoo allows you to store (and in many cases View) various documents right inside you own copy of PestaRoo. This is an amazingly powerful function unmatched in the industry. These Images are stored and accessed by eight different [...]

Work Order Warnings

November 2010. Several states are now requiring a specific warning that is to print on every work order. For example: “Pets and children should not be exposed to products that have not yet dried….” So, we have added a new Work Order Warning field that is set once from Home [...]