Pest control GPS time tracking software
Twenty stops a day. Nobody is logging twenty stops a day.
Punchless is GPS time tracking software for pest control companies. Routes with fifteen to twenty-five short stops are the hardest thing in field service to record by hand, so Punchless does not ask anyone to. Every arrival and departure is captured automatically, which gives you real technician hours and a proof-of-service record for stops where nobody was home.
Route density is the whole problem
A pest control route is not a few long jobs. It is a lot of short ones, and that changes what a timecard has to survive.
Stops are short and numerous
Fifteen to twenty-five stops of twenty minutes each. Asking a technician to tap in and out forty to fifty times a day is a system that will be abandoned by Wednesday.
Most customers are not home
Exterior treatments and recurring perimeter service usually happen with nobody there. Without a location record, proof of service is a door hanger and a promise.
Skipped stops are invisible
If a stop gets missed on a dense route, you find out when the customer calls. A GPS record shows which stops actually happened, and when.
Windshield time dominates
On a tight route, drive time between stops can rival treatment time. If you cannot see it, you cannot tell a routing problem from a productivity problem.
Recurring contracts set the expectation
Monthly and quarterly agreements promise a visit on a cadence. The evidence that the cadence was met has to come from somewhere.
Service documentation needs a time and place
Your service records are stronger when the time and location on them came from GPS rather than from someone filling in the sheet at the end of the route.
How it works on a pest control route
01
Load the route as job sites
Every serviced address becomes a geofenced site. On dense residential routes the radius is tightened so neighbouring properties do not overlap and register a false arrival.
02
The technician just drives the route
No tapping in, no tapping out, no selecting the customer. The app records the arrival when they pull up and the departure when they leave, twenty-five times a day if that is the route.
03
The route builds itself as it runs
Your office sees the route progress live: which stops are done, which is in progress, and how long each one actually took, without calling the technician to ask.
04
Approve the week and export
Hours are already attributed to stops. Review, correct anything odd, and export payroll-ready records to QuickBooks, ADP, Gusto or CSV.
What this actually settles
Did we service that address?
An arrival and departure timestamp answers the most common pest control customer dispute without anyone having to take a side.
How long does this route really take?
Real stop durations and real drive time, which is the only honest basis for adding a stop to a route or splitting one.
Are hours right without a daily form?
Technicians stop filling in route sheets from memory at 5pm, and the hours you pay are the hours that happened.
Where is the crew right now?
When a same-day call comes in, the live crew map shows who is closest to it instead of who answers the phone first.
Common questions
Can Punchless handle a route with twenty-five stops in a day?+
That is the case it is built for. Because nothing is manual, stop count does not increase the burden on the technician at all. A twenty-five stop day produces twenty-five arrival and departure pairs with exactly as much technician effort as a five stop day, which is none.
How do I prove we serviced a property when the customer was not home?+
The GPS arrival and departure record is the proof. It does not depend on a signature or on anyone being there, which is why it works for exterior treatments and recurring perimeter service where the customer is usually out.
Will neighbouring houses on a dense street trigger the wrong stop?+
Geofence radius is set per site, so on tight residential routes you narrow it enough that adjacent properties do not overlap. Every entry is a draft that a manager approves, so anything ambiguous is caught before it reaches payroll.
Does Punchless keep pesticide application records?+
No. Punchless records where your technicians were and for how long, and does not replace the application records your state requires you to keep. What it does give you is a GPS-verified time and location for each stop, which corroborates the service documentation you already maintain.
How much does Punchless cost for a pest control company?+
Pricing starts at $29 per user per month, all-in, with a 30-day free trial and no credit card required. Route optimization and auto-scheduling are on the Elite tier at $79 per user per month.
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