Scheduling and dispatch

Pest Control Scheduling Software

A pest control schedule changes ten times before noon. An urgent nest jumps the queue, a building refuses access, a treatment runs an hour long, and a technician calls in sick at 6.40 a.m.

Atlas is built to follow that, not to fight it. The day exists in one place, the office moves a job in one gesture, and the technician sees the new version without anyone picking up the phone.

ScheduleWednesday, July 1 22°
JJean-François
Treatment08h30Bed bug treatment4520 rue Saint-Denis · Unit 102 Completed
Inspection11h00Rodent inspection1180 avenue Papineau · Unit 305 In progress
FFreddy
Treatment09h00Fly treatmentSushi Sakura · Kitchen Completed
Follow-upAll dayCockroach treatment77 rue Ontario Est In progress
SSofia
Preventive14h30Preventive mouse visit305 rue Beaubien · Basement Treatment failed
1 gesture
to move a job to another day
4 frequencies
for recurring visits
0 install
for a technician on their phone
Every evening
tomorrow's route, by email
The day

One screen, every technician, every job

The planning screen holds the days one under the other, each job carrying the technician it belongs to. Filter on one name and only that person's work stays on screen.

The scheduling feature in detailWhat the technician sees on their phone

Drag a job onto another day

Grab it and drop it, with the mouse or with a finger. The time and the duration are kept, only the date changes, and an undo button appears in case the drop was wrong.

Assign in one action

Pick the technician on the job, or drop the job into the day you are already looking at. Nothing to send, nothing to confirm by text message.

One technician at a time

The filter puts a single technician's jobs on screen, so their real load is visible before an emergency is added on top of it.

Day, week, month, or agenda

The same jobs are readable as a calendar when you need the shape of the month, and as a list when you need the detail of tomorrow.

The trade

Built for how pest control days actually work

Generic scheduling software assumes a job starts at 9.15 and lasts forty minutes. A pest control day is not that, and these four details are why.

Public holidays are already in there

Atlas knows the holidays of your country and your province. A recurring round can be told to step over them instead of landing on a closed building.

The weather is on the job

Each day shows the forecast for the address. An exterior treatment under heavy rain is worth catching on Monday, not from the van on Thursday morning.

Recurring visits generate themselves

Set the frequency, weekly, every two weeks, monthly or quarterly, and the visits are created ahead. Nobody re-enters twelve rounds a year for the same restaurant kitchen.

Jobs with no fixed time

Some visits are a full day, not a time slot. They can be created without an hour and sit at the top of the day, where a whole-day job belongs.

Reality

When a job cannot be completed

Half the visits that fail, fail at the door. A closed unit, a tenant who refuses, a caretaker who never came. What matters is that the visit does not quietly disappear.

A failed visit asks for its reason

Marking a job as failed requires the reason to be written down, closed door, tenant refusal, no access. Nobody can close a day by ticking failures without saying why.

It stays visible and can be moved again

A failed visit is not archived. It stays in the list with its red state and its reason, ready to be dragged onto another day.

The technician gets their day the evening before

Every evening, each confirmed technician receives an email listing the jobs they have the next day, with the addresses. They start the morning already knowing their route.

Honestly

What Atlas scheduling does not do

It is worth knowing before a trial rather than after. Two things this market usually promises are absent from Atlas, on purpose.

No route optimization, no GPS tracking

Atlas does not compute the shortest driving order and does not follow vehicles on a map. It groups the visits of a same building or address together, and the dispatcher decides the order. What comes back in real time is the progress of the work, the timestamped tick a technician leaves when a visit is done, not the position of the van.

No invoicing, no accounting

The scope is field operations. Atlas does write quotes, but it does not issue invoices and does not connect to an accounting tool. It keeps the timestamped record of every visit, by client and by unit, and exports it to a spreadsheet, which is what the person doing your billing needs.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

There is no ceiling built into the product, and the pricing follows the team rather than blocking it, 39.99 USD per month with one technician included and 9.99 USD per additional technician. In practice Atlas is designed and tested for teams of 1 to 15 technicians, which is where the day-by-day list stays readable without a dispatch room.

No. Atlas is not pest control routing software in the GPS sense, it does not compute the shortest driving order and it does not follow vehicles. What it does is keep the visits of a same building or address grouped together, so the dispatcher builds a sensible route without hunting through the list. If route optimization is your main requirement, another tool will serve you better.

Yes. Set a frequency, weekly, every two weeks, monthly or quarterly, choose how many visits to create and on which weekday, and Atlas generates them ahead. Public holidays can be avoided automatically, so a monthly round does not land on a day when the building is closed.

They mark the visit as failed and Atlas asks for the reason, closed door, tenant refusal, no access. The visit keeps its place in the history with that reason attached, stays visible in the list and can be dragged onto another day. Nothing is lost, and the client can be told exactly why the door was not opened.

See the schedule in action

The live demo opens with a full month of sample jobs, three technicians and a real week to drag around. No account, no credit card.