PestPac

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Field service software for pest control businesses

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Value for Money
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Ease of Use
3.6/5
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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 2019/03/01

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: 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 2019/03/01

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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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

horrible

Reviewed on 2023/01/11

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

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

Reviewed on 2018/03/07

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.

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 2019/03/01

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 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 2022/12/02

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 2019/09/17

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 2018/08/09

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.

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 2019/03/04

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.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

14 Year User of PestPac

Reviewed on 2019/04/30

Great 14 years ago not so any longer.

Great 14 years ago not so any longer.

Pros

14 years ago there wasn't a lot of options and it helped when we needed it.

Cons

Functionality, easy of use, extremely high cost of use, horrible customer service when there's an issue which is often. When we tried to get our data to try another software it took months to get the data backup.

Response from WorkWave

Thank you for leaving a review, we sincerely appreciate your valuable feedback as we look to continually grow and improve our products and processes. We are sorry that PestPac has not met your expectations, but your feedback is appreciated and will be taken into consideration.

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 2021/06/17

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 2019/11/24

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 2019/03/04

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 2022/10/14

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

Mary
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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

Dependable product and excellent customer service support!

Reviewed on 2019/11/14

Very good experience with WorkWave PestPac overall.

Very good experience with WorkWave PestPac overall.

Pros

The software is very reliable. We use this daily and it never fails. Very easy to create customized reports. E-mail and text notifications to customers for appointment notifications work extremely well. Customer service is very quick to respond to any problems or questions if needed. I highly recommend this product.

Cons

We tried the mobile app. What we did not like about it was that the technician could not look up customer histories of past jobs. The only thing available was the jobs listed for them to do, could not add a customer on the fly if needed. That had to be done on the administrative side at the office. The app did not suit our needs so I cancelled the mobile app service.

Response from WorkWave

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

Bill
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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

Grow Your Company

Reviewed on 2021/05/14

Pest Pac has enabled us to grow our business exponentially over the last 30 years. It has allowed...

Pest Pac has enabled us to grow our business exponentially over the last 30 years. It has allowed us to accelerate our pace of growth. Going paperless has been a game changer for us on many levels. The field APP has our Techs working from their smart phones with everything they need at the touch of a button. The scheduler, GPS and the routing software are powerful tools that enable our production manager and our call center reps to schedule efficiently. The online payments has been a nice tool also.

Pros

The software impacts all areas of our operation including scheduling, routing, A/R, marketing, sales, reporting, etc.. Without this software our growth would be impeded drastically.

Cons

The leads/sales module needs to be improved. The online sales component of the sales module is outdated and needs an upgrade. The ability to measure and track REO on all the marketing channels also needs to be simplified. There are too many steps necessary for a CSR to utilize in its present form.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Bill!

You are a highly valued customer of ours, and we truly appreciate you writing this great review of PestPac. We are so happy that PestPac has been a game-changer for you and helped you to grow our business exponentially over the last 30 years. We look forward to seeing Cowleys Pest Services grow even more in the next 30!

James
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Document Uploads Ridiculously Slow

Reviewed on 2021/07/23

Slow and cumbersome.

Slow and cumbersome.

Pros

This message isn't about pros and cons. This message is about a specific problem listed below in the "cons" section.

Cons

I need to upload dozens of PDF documents and photos to various accounts. When doing so a red font message appears under each one as it "scans document for viruses". This is needless, cumbersome, and ridiculously time consuming for PDF files and Jpegs. While I understand the need to scan certain types of files (maybe website links) there needs to be a way to turn it off. IF there is no way to turn it off then that shows a lack of intuitiveness toward company time and thus is unacceptable in an age where time is money more than ever.

Response from WorkWave

Hi James,

We sincerely appreciate your valuable feedback as we look to continually grow and improve our processes. I will share this information with our leadership team and hope to work with you on a resolution.

John
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  • Industry: Facilities Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Ease of use

Reviewed on 2022/08/02

Good. Could be better.

Good. Could be better.

Pros

Easy mobile use. Like the use of documents with the mobile application.

Cons

Hard to attach documents to emails on the desk top. Reports need a quick list other than all the options of running reports.

Alternatives Considered

Briostack

Reasons for Switching to PestPac

Customer service

Response from WorkWave

Thank you for your review, John! We appreciate your positive comments and have passed along your notes of improvements. Thank you for choosing PestPac!

Haley
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Could use some improvement

Reviewed on 2017/10/25

Really great software overall, but it is on the pricy side.

Really great software overall, but it is on the pricy side.

Pros

The software makes it really easy to track the progress of work that is being done. When can easily keep track of how many pests are caught/sighted in hotel rooms, apartment units, or single family homes. You can also set up to automatically schedule follow ups, that way nothing gets missed or forgotten. They have good reporting features to keep track of things. When an apartment manager wants to see one progress on one specific unit, we can pull a report just on the one apartment, instead of giving them everything, so it's easier for the managers to distinguish and read the reports.

Cons

There is a task feature, so you can create tasks for yourself or others so you can schedule follow ups or check back in with clients. In the past, this has been very helpful, however, with the last update, they have changed the task feature. It still keeps all your tasks in one place, but it is much more difficult to navigate and you basically have to open up the task in one window and open separate windows to view customers accounts to see the history.

Jennifer
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  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

PestPac is the logical choice for pest control companies

Reviewed on 2022/02/08

Pros

What I like most about Pestpac is the ability to set it up according to particular business needs. Not every business is the same, and Pestpac allows you to be unique in the sense of how you build your software.

Cons

The complexity. There are so many options and so little clear definitions. Checking or unchecking one box could make or break your entire set up.

Response from WorkWave

Hi Jennifer - Thanks for the review!

Michelle
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  • Industry: Veterinary
  • 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 2019/03/08

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 2019/11/22

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 2019/11/14

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 2019/11/14

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

Review

Reviewed on 2019/03/12

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.