PestPac

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Field service software for pest control businesses

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Andrew
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Very helpful tool

Reviewed on 01/03/2019

PestPac has really revolutionized the way we have interacted with customers and completes orders/rep...

PestPac has really revolutionized the way we have interacted with customers and completes orders/reports. There is definitely room for improvement, but I highly recommend it.

Pros

It streamlines reports and the ease of running CC's and emailing/notifying clients. I like the ability to save favorites that I use personally.

Cons

Seems to have periodical connection issues causing me to have to log out to update. Used to he able to swipe between open orders for the day, but you have to back out and scroll up/down instead.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Honest Review

Reviewed on 01/03/2019

PestPac is not terribly hard to use but it does take awhile to get used to. Most of the time when...

PestPac is not terribly hard to use but it does take awhile to get used to. Most of the time when you call in for help you get a very friendly and knowledgeable rep who can walk you through how to do exactly what you need. Not always but most of the time.

Pros

What I like most about the software is that there are several different options for using it. We can route our techs with it, created service orders, take payment and more all in one place instead of using multiple different software applications.

Cons

What I like the least about the software is that every time they have an update it completely changes how other processes work.

regena
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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horrible

Reviewed on 11/01/2023

We all hated it. from the start to finish was a headace

We all hated it. from the start to finish was a headace

Pros

At the beginning was the digital log book and how it scheduled.

Cons

after months of use and a nightmare to imput information with little help from new people on support that didnt know what to do either, we started to pull reports to see where our progress was. the reporting totally is off and horrible! to much information all over the place and wrong! I would not recommend this software to anyone. Its entirely to complicated and does not work properly. see ya.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Regena,
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with WorkWave. Customer satisfaction is a top priority for us and you can be assured we are looking closely into your feedback in order to improve.
Thank you,
WorkWave

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  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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Very useful

Reviewed on 07/03/2018

Pros

Super helpful to scheduling routes, invoicing, follow-up calls, and overall tracking / maintaining customer list & information.

Cons

Not the most user friendly, because it is such a big piece of software.. but customer support is very useful to assist.

bryan
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My Honest Opinion On Pest Pac

Reviewed on 01/03/2019

Onboarding can be overwhelming at times, but the support staff has always been helpful and...

Onboarding can be overwhelming at times, but the support staff has always been helpful and available whenever needed. You really get the sense that everyone cares about your success.

Pros

Pest Pac software is extremely comprehensive. It offers everything you could imagine from accounting to customer service. I'm a huge fan of Pest Pac Mobile.

Cons

Being so comprehensive can also be negative in that it takes years to master all of the aspects it offers.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

I would rate it -0 if I could. Do your research

Reviewed on 02/12/2022

This was a horrible, insanely expensive mistake from start to finish. They told me my cards would...

This was a horrible, insanely expensive mistake from start to finish. They told me my cards would transfer over to sell me (they didn’t almost putting my out of business), they made tons of promises that were not kept, they were WAY more expensive that sold as you keep having to pay for other functionalities to make anything work. Functionalities didn’t work leading to loss of customers. Routing was so bad we had to pay a full time employee to run it. Then they hold your data and cards hostage and try to make it impossible to leave, sending me a bill for over $40k to leave and won’t give me my credit cards for up to 8 weeks.

Pros

Nothing. Did not provide services promised, expensive, horrible customer service

Cons

This was a horrible, insanely expensive mistake from start to finish.

Response from WorkWave

Hello,

Thank you for sharing. We take your feedback seriously and have passed it along to our team. You will be hearing from your team shortly if you haven't already.

Thank you - WorkWave

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

It's great when it works

Reviewed on 17/09/2019

My overall experience with PestPac is that It is great when it works

My overall experience with PestPac is that It is great when it works

Pros

What I like the most about this software is that they offer so many different features in the same place

Cons

What i I like the least about this software is that all of the different features they offer have constant issues

Response from WorkWave

Hello, and thanks for your feedback. We are glad you have found success with all of our different features and functionality on one platform, but are sorry to hear that you have been experiencing issues. We are taking your feedback into consideration, and appreciate the valuable insight. For any current issues you are experiencing, feel free to reach out to our support team who is happy to help, at 800-762-0301.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

PestPac review

Reviewed on 09/08/2018

Pros

The only thing that I liked was that they let me out of my contract early. It was easy to end our relationship with PestPac.

Cons

Very hard to use. A dinosaur of a product that instead of re-designing they seemed to have just added on to. Expensive. They have you sign a contract. They are always trying to sell you more products to add to PestPac. The free training that they provide is terrible and when that's over they charge you. I watched YouTube videos on PestPac and it was still so ridiculously hard. Their reps can be rude at times. My current software is so easy, no contract and always free support! PestPac was a nightmare.

Denise
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Experience With Pest Pac

Reviewed on 01/03/2019

My experience as a user is that I am having to come up with work arounds for the Pest Pac system...

My experience as a user is that I am having to come up with work arounds for the Pest Pac system short comings. The advantages that I see is that the software is evolving into a more customer friendly system.

Pros

The customer service people are very nice and very willing to help when they are able.

Cons

The limitations and some functions of the software.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

PestPac Admin User

Reviewed on 04/03/2019

Satisfied with the ease of scheduling and tracking activity.

Satisfied with the ease of scheduling and tracking activity.

Pros

Scheduling and service request are simple. Payment posting.

Cons

Help pages don't go into enough details or provide samples. Confusing terminology. Numerous Reports, but do not always have what is needed. Excludes some common sense simple features.

Paul
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  • Industry: Facilities Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Don't waste your money

Reviewed on 17/06/2021

My overall experience is very poor. When we first started with them was back when they first came...

My overall experience is very poor. When we first started with them was back when they first came on the market and they were very nice and eager to help. Now it seems that they could care less, the system doesn't work half the time, and now customers of ours are constantly calling to complain about scheduling and "callahead" problems.

Pros

The system allowed us to go into a mobile environment very quickly after several months of trying to figure out how it worked. The training staff was informative but the system is so overly complicated you have to have a coding degree to figure out most features.

Cons

This system is old, antiquated, and needs many improvements. The company charges a separate fee for everything and nickel and dime you to death. Then try and bind you in long term contracts. When we have problems no one called back to let us know if it was resolved or not. The software is definitely not user friendly. You have to manipulate the software to get it to work.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Paul, Being able to meet our customers' needs is one of our top priorities and we are sorry that our solution and customer service did not satisfy your expectations. We sincerely appreciate your valuable feedback as we look to continually grow and improve our processes and we will be reviewing this issue with our team.

Michael
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  • Industry: Facilities Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

PestPac

Reviewed on 24/11/2019

It's great that i have a system in place that handles all the daily paperwork that i go through...

It's great that i have a system in place that handles all the daily paperwork that i go through each day. I am able to invoice, record materials used, how they were used , time of day they were used all the things that we used to write out are now done with a click on my smartphone.

Pros

The software allows me to present my customers with great field reports. It is great for billing. It is well thought out for the pest control industry .

Cons

I have had some issues with my field printer and software communicating. This was resolved with a nice work around and i have had no issues in the last year.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Michael - Thank you for the review! We are so glad you are finding success with our software, and really appreciate the valuable feedback.

Marsha
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great tools and addition to any pest control company

Reviewed on 04/03/2019

In general, I LOVE pest pac. It has made our business so much better by using it. I would highly...

In general, I LOVE pest pac. It has made our business so much better by using it. I would highly recommend to anyone looking for pest control software. There are so many tools and pieces to use and add it you want, it is GREAT!

Pros

Customer support is excellent! I can't ask for anything better! Anything that you are unsure about, you can ask questions and get quick answers. Anything you need... training and support, they are right there to schedule time to train and go over things that you may even have already been trained on but need a refresher. Questions of any kind or problems, support will help right away. This is SO nice and comforting to know when experience with other companies in the past is not at all like this generally.
Scheduling -Route OP and dynamic planner is good, especially if you have never used a scheduler for pest control, it is great. Reports are awesome!! You can run just about any report however you want...great details to help you watch over the business.

Cons

Some of the scheduling in Route OP and dynamic planner needs attention. There are a some things that make it not work as efficiently as it could. In general it is a pretty good software, I just wish some of the ways the scheduler works were corrected to make this work better. The goal for Route OP is to help make scheduling more efficient and when it takes a lot of work to make it most efficient, that doesn't make the most sense to me.

Chris
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

PestPac is a total ripoff

Reviewed on 14/10/2022

More than anything I feel totally taken advantage of. I was sold something impractical for me and...

More than anything I feel totally taken advantage of. I was sold something impractical for me and my business. They take no responsibility and made me feel stupid, for lack of a better word. Now they tell me I’m stuck paying for this for a year even though I can’t use it. They took advantage of my ignorance and instead of helping me grow my business, they insured my failure. I am disgusted.

Pros

Nothing. Extremely cumbersome and extremely complicated. A killer for small companies like mine. I feel totally misled from the beginning.

Cons

Training and technical support is beyond terrible. My issues have never been settled. I gave up on ever getting help. I felt ignored and taken advantage of.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Chris - thank you for your honest feedback and we apologize for any difficulty you are having. Your comments have been passed along to your team and your account is being looked into. Thank you, WorkWave

Jennifer
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

PestPac has been a time saver

Reviewed on 12/05/2022

I have used other software products for pest control and PestPac is by far the easiest and most...

I have used other software products for pest control and PestPac is by far the easiest and most efficient!!

Pros

Route Op is the BEST....it makes it so easy to create very tight and effective routes for all of our specialists.

Cons

It would be so much better to be able to "un void" an invoice

Response from WorkWave

Hi Jennifer - Thank you for the five star review! We are so glad you are finding success with our software.

Amy
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Not worth your time and effort

Reviewed on 26/08/2021

Not good and when talking to customer service they were not helpful.

Not good and when talking to customer service they were not helpful.

Pros

Not much I like about this program, everything is extra.

Cons

To even learn about their program you have to pay money, to add any feature you have to pay money. The program scheduling doesn't always work right, throws things off to a totally different day.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Amy - We place a top priority on being able to meet our customers' needs and we are sorry that you feel our solution did not satisfy your expectations. We sincerely appreciate your valuable feedback as we look to continually grow and improve our processes.

Daniel
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I see things different. Many problems.

Reviewed on 13/02/2015

This is not a program for a company wanting to go paperless. You can have invoices, statements...

This is not a program for a company wanting to go paperless. You can have invoices, statements and inspection reports customized but you are going to PAY $$$ for it. Then they want you to give your customers the inspection report as an invoice not the actual invoice. The only document you are allowed to customize for the mobile app is the inspection report and they told me that they are going to be stopping that too. If you have a customized invoice on the desktop side you cannot print the customized one from the app. If you do print the invoice from the mobile app you will not be able to view the same invoice again. The invoices that you can print from the desktop side are not the same as ones printed from the mobile app. If you have target pests on your service order the tech will not be able to edit or even see what those targets are on the mobile app. If you forget to time into the order on the app you are out of luck because you cannot customize the time in/time out. If you time out of an order you cannot reopen it to make changes or corrections. Their inspection reports, service orders and invoices do not meet our state regulations. I even showed the reports to several people at our state regulatory department and they agreed with me that it wasn't correct. I had them prepare a document to tell pestpac that it was incorrect and they made some changes won't do any more because they are too busy with everything else and are not making customizations anymore. There are a lot of complaints just like mine on pestpac's message boards for customers. So don't be fooled by all the other good comments, this program is not as great as it sounds.

Response from WorkWave

Thanks for providing your honest feedback. We've reached out to you a few times unsuccessfully. Please give us a call back when you have some availability.

PestPac was designed with the concept that someone in the office should be reviewing and posting invoices to ensure accuracy. The invoice/inspection report can then be automatically e-mailed the same day.

The Report Writer Module (included for hosted customers) can be used to create custom forms. Users that prefer not to do this are welcome to request billable programmer time to create custom forms.
We are more than happy to review and update any discrepancies with state-required forms. We do not charge programming time for this.
Printing enhancements for the mobile app are on the road map for this year. Custom printing is a larger development project to take on, but it is on our radar. The latest app release has provided the ability to view target pests. Please make sure you have updated your Marathon Mobile app.

Thanks, David!

Nancy
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Work smarter not harder..

Reviewed on 14/11/2019

The problems we are solving is the same as above. Scheduling appointments in a timely matter. It...

The problems we are solving is the same as above. Scheduling appointments in a timely matter. It has solved the problem of doing it manually. My over all experience is positive with the exception of a few things I believe should be worked on.

Pros

the convenience of scheduling appointments and allowing our daily tasks to be at our finger tips and not done manually.

Cons

There are a few things I think they can do better on the scheduler. Being able to snap up or down time blocks like other appointments would be more convenient. Also printing out a customer renewal form is a lot more work than it should be, and we do this often. I think these things should be updated.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Nancy - Thanks for the positive review and the helpful feedback! We are so glad you are finding success with our software, and will be sharing your feedback with our team.

Elizabeth
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Used to be great, but has declined over the years

Reviewed on 15/12/2016

I was a pest pac user from 2008 to 2016. Over the years little changed in the way of improvements....

I was a pest pac user from 2008 to 2016. Over the years little changed in the way of improvements. It was exciting to have a software that had the ability to invoice customers, compile great reports, schedule customers, track leads, process credit cards, process ACH, track commission, connect third party collections partners, track employees, provide up to date state forms, and had communication elements. All this sounds great and like a 1 stop shop. The only and main issue is most of the features don't function at all or as they should. Scheduling took years, the scheduling aids simply did not work at all. I went to a Pest Pac conference and found many other customers that had the same complaint.

Pest Pac lead tracking is a joke. I called to complain and the sales person agreed. He tried to sale me another add on services. The only thing worst than the lead functions are the reports. Pest Pac is very antiquated and hard to master. If you do not put information in exactly right you can make an error that cannot be corrected. The report will probably never work for any customer. You would have to be a full time data entry expert to enter information in a way that did not jack up the reports.

Finally, billing is holy hell. The service is too pricey and the add ons are a trap. You have to buy add on to use some of the basic features that apart form the package. Tech support also sucks. I ended service in August and received an email in September that said they were still working on an issue I reported in July. Don't bother with Pest Pac. Every other software provider provides the same features in a simpler way. Avoid Pest Pac at all cause.

Pros

Mature company that was a been in the service industry for a while.

Cons

Slow unresponsive tech support, too expensive, feature do not work or work well. To use basic feature you have to pay for add on services, the billing department sucks. The company does not respect the fact that they support other business and the software is vital to the operation of a business. The system goes down for hours at a time and when they do system updates

George
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Pest Control Program

Reviewed on 18/08/2022

Our Business has benefited with using PestPac

Our Business has benefited with using PestPac

Pros

There are many Reports that can be used to help track or Business and forecast.

Cons

Advance call or texting, notification of service.

Alternatives Considered

Briostack

Response from WorkWave

Hi George - thank you so much for leaving us a great review. We're so happy you're finding success with PestPac!

Michelle
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  • Industry: Veterinary Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

It works...when it wants to

Reviewed on 08/03/2019

It works for what we are currently doing but there are so many bugs and issues it makes it difficult

It works for what we are currently doing but there are so many bugs and issues it makes it difficult

Pros

It works sometimes. Allows us to keep track of our customers and billing is fairly simple.

Cons

The software is extremely buggy. Pages take forever to load. Sending the customer the email to set up their online profile takes forever to send and half the time it tells you there was an error. You used to be able to view all statements before sending them out to ensure there were no errors on them. Now if the customer is set up for emailed statements you get a warning that the customer is not set up for bulk printing. Found a bug where the division got wiped out on all of our customers so we had to go in and fix the problem and no one could ever figure out how it happened.

Guy
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent

Reviewed on 22/11/2019

Over the last few years we have grown and this software has been instrumental in doing so.
we...

Over the last few years we have grown and this software has been instrumental in doing so.
we haven't even scratched the surface as far as what its capable of.
There are components we still need to grown into.

Pros

Ease of use.
Common sense applications.
Room to grow into as our company grows.
EXCELLENT tech and customer support

Cons

It seem to crash the android phones when taking pictures.
id like to see the app on my end have more features.
Id like the techs to be able to lock appointments.
We use the WDO module, but wish we could do service agreements in app

Response from WorkWave

Hi Guy - Thank you for the review! We are so glad you are finding success with our software, and we really appreciate the valuable feedback.

Tammy
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Work Wave

Reviewed on 14/11/2019

I have been with WorkWave (PestPac) for about 15 years. It has worked very well for me and my...

I have been with WorkWave (PestPac) for about 15 years. It has worked very well for me and my company.

Pros

I love the fact that it takes care of the scheduling, accounting and storage of customer accounts.

Cons

I hate the new mapping program. Google maps worked so much better. When the transition was made....I lost my pins on my of my hard to find client's homes. I spent 2 hours yesterday on back roads trying to locate the property that should have been easy, since I had it pinned. I was not and am not happy for so much wasted time, gas and energy.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Tammy - Thank you so much for the great review! We are so glad to hear you are finding success with our software.

Annette
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Learning the ropes

Reviewed on 14/11/2019

I am learning the billing portion. It has been difficult but the call center has been a tremendous...

I am learning the billing portion. It has been difficult but the call center has been a tremendous help to me! I look forward to working with WorkWave PestPac in the future.

Pros

I like the ease of the entering customers. I was able to select what was needed for our company. I am new to the industry and I was using the program part time until recently. I am now a full time user and the program is starting to make since to me.

Cons

My least favorite thing about the software is there are too many options for setup. Being new to the industry, it was a little overwhelming. As our company grows, I'm sure we will utilize more options in the near future.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Annette - Thank you for the review! We are so glad you are finding success with our software, and we really appreciate the valuable feedback.

Millie
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

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Reviewed on 12/03/2019

It's a challenge. All of the calls for support and having to spend hours dealing with support...

It's a challenge. All of the calls for support and having to spend hours dealing with support attempting to fix is exhausting. They always need numerous examples which is time consuming to gather all of the info needed to fix. Then all of the phone calls while the case is in review. Need a person just to deal with pest pac fixes.

Pros

Nothing so far. Must use a certain amount of nice things to say, but just don't have them.

Cons

This software is not user friendly. The route opt did not work for our company's scheduling and was forced to pay for the entire year. The web portal has had problems. Have had problems with the program function at different times.