AtlasThe paperwork of the trade, on your letterhead and under your country's rules
A document library is where a pest control business gets the paperwork it has to hand over, have signed, or leave behind. Atlas builds eleven of them, at a click, as print-ready PDFs. Each one comes out on your letterhead, with your logo, your contact details and your colour, and each carries the regulatory frame of the country set in your settings. A bed bug preparation sheet does not say the same thing in Quebec and in France, and it is not your job to know that by heart. Atlas does not fill in the client's name or the unit address, signs nothing online and does not email these documents, you print them or save them.
- How many documents
- Eleven, two service agreements and nine client handouts
- Which countries
- Quebec, English Canada, France and the United States, with different wording each time
- In your name
- Logo, name, contact details and colour of the account, on every page
- Your licence
- Your number prints itself on the post-treatment notice
- Pests covered
- Bed bugs, cockroaches and ants, treatment and prevention alike
- Format
- PDF, built in your browser the moment you click
- Pinning
- The documents you pull most stay at the top of the list
- What it costs
- Included in the plan, no charge per document
Is a post-treatment notice mandatory in Quebec?
Yes. Section 48.4 of the pesticide management code requires a written notice after an application in a residential building. Atlas builds it with your licence number on it.
It is the most regulated document of the trade, and the one most often retyped by hand. It carries the heading «PESTICIDE TREATMENT», the product used with its registration number, the delay before the unit can be re-entered, and what to do if someone has been affected.
Three re-entry delays are offered separately, because they are not the same for everyone. A healthy adult, a vulnerable person, an animal. Writing all three heads off the question asked on the doorstep, and above all keeps a tenant from going back in too early.
The Quebec Poison Control Centre number, 1-800-463-5060, is printed on it, and your application licence number fills itself in from your settings. Two details almost always missing from a Word template carried over year after year.
What does the country change on a document?
The regulatory frame, the emergency number, the name of the registration number, the certification required of the technician and the governing law. In other words, almost everything that carries legal weight.
- Quebec
- Products registered with Health Canada and the pesticide management code, PMRA registration number, certificate issued under the Pesticides Act, and the reminder that the landlord owes twenty four hours' notice before work, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., articles 1931 and 1933 of the Civil Code.
- English Canada
- The same federal products, but a technician licensed in their own province, and the notice period before a visit pointing to provincial law rather than a named article.
- France
- TP18 biocides authorised by ANSES, technician holding the Certibiocide certificate, ANSES authorisation number, emergencies on 15 or 112 and the poison control centres, and French law as the governing law.
- United States
- The frame and vocabulary of the country, with the notice period before a visit pointing to state law.
The country is chosen once, in the invoicing settings, and the whole library follows. American software will give you very handsome sheets, written for a frame that is not yours, and that is exactly the kind of detail an inspector looks at.
What are the preparation sheets for?
For the unit to be ready on the day of the visit. A poorly prepared unit gets treated twice, and the second visit comes out of your pocket.
This is the sheet you slide under the door or hand to the property manager a few days ahead. It says what the occupant has to do, in what order, and what they must absolutely not do, such as moving their things from one room to another and carrying the bed bugs along with them.
- Bed bugs, three sheets
- Full treatment, prevention, and barrier treatment for when the unit is not emptied. Three different preparations, three different sheets.
- Cockroaches, three sheets
- Treatment, prevention, and dust application, which needs instructions of its own.
- Ants
- The preparation sheet for the treatment.
- Inspection notice
- The one you leave before you know what you are dealing with, to announce the visit and ask for access.
These sheets go to the client as they are, with no legal review. A service agreement, on the other hand, binds your business before a court, and Atlas says so at the top of the screen rather than letting you find out later.
Do the documents really come out in my name?
Yes. Your logo, your business name, your contact details and your colour, on every page, with nothing for you to retype.
That is what separates a downloaded template from a company document. A property manager who receives three generic sheets and a fourth on your letterhead does not treat them the same way, and a tenant who keeps the notice on their fridge for two weeks has your number in front of them.
The PDF is built in your browser the moment you click, from your account settings. Change your logo or your address and the next document comes out up to date, with no template to edit somewhere.
What does it actually save?
The time to redo a document you have been redoing for years, and the risk of leaving behind a piece of paper that does not say what the law asks for.
The real cost of a Word template is not the time to fill it in, it is that it ages without warning. A poison control number changes, a legal article is renumbered, a re-entry delay is revised, and the document keeps coming out unchanged for three years, because nobody has a reason to open it again.
Then there is what nobody counts, the visit redone because a unit was not prepared, the tenant who went back in too early, the property manager asking for the certificate again six months later. A clear piece of paper handed over at the right moment costs a few seconds, and the absence of that paper is paid for in drive time.
What the library does not do
- The client's name, the address and the unit are not filled in for you. The document comes out on your letterhead, not in the recipient's name.
- No emailing from Atlas. You print the PDF or save it, then do what you like with it.
- No online signature. An agreement is signed on paper, as before.
- The text of the documents cannot be edited. They are verified templates, not a word processor.
- You cannot upload your own documents into the library.
- This is not legal advice. A service agreement binds your business, have a lawyer read it once before you rely on it.
Frequently asked questions
How many documents does the library hold
Eleven, versioned for four countries. Two service agreements, annual and monthly, and nine client handouts, the inspection notice, the post-treatment notice, three bed bug sheets, three cockroach sheets and one ant sheet.
Does the post-treatment notice carry my licence number
Yes, it fills itself in from your settings. It is the detail people forget on a hand-filled template, and it is the first one an inspector looks for.
Are the documents different between Quebec and France
Yes, and not only in language. The regulatory frame, the emergency number, the name of the registration number, the certification required of the technician and the governing law all change. In Quebec it is products registered with Health Canada and the pesticide management code, in France it is TP18 biocides authorised by ANSES and the Certibiocide certificate.
Can I edit the text of a document
No. They are verified templates, written for a given regulatory frame, and letting them be retouched would lose the only thing that makes them useful. You pick the document and the country, Atlas builds the rest.
Can I email a document to the client from Atlas
Not from the library. You save the PDF or print it. The invoice and the quote, on the other hand, do go out by email from Atlas with their PDF attached.
Is it included in the plan
Yes, at no extra cost and with no limit on how many. The library is part of the plan, at 39.99 USD per month with one technician included.
What to look at next
See the library
The demo opens with no account. Pick a country, open a document, watch what changes.