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PestShift vs Fieldwork: Which Fits Your Pest Control Business?
Fieldwork is a field-service platform built specifically for pest control, with published tiered pricing and a strong reputation for offline mobile reliability.
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| PestShift | Fieldwork | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $39–$149/month, published, tiered by technician count only (1/5/10). Every tier gets the full feature set — no feature gating, no per-property fees. | Published tiered pricing: Solo $39/mo, Startup $59/mo, Business $79/mo, Pro $99/mo, each with a two-week free trial; office/admin seats are free. |
| Contract terms | Month-to-month. Cancel anytime, no early-termination fee. | Publishes its pricing openly, which reviewers specifically call out as a contrast to quote-only competitors. |
| Chemical compliance depth | Moderate — By default, a job can't be closed until the chemical application record (product, EPA registration number, target pest, rate, application site) is complete; the owner chooses which services require it. We don't yet auto-generate state-specific compliance forms. | Deep — Pest-control-specific chemical tracking and trend reporting, with barcode scanning for traps and stations and canned compliance reports available through a customer portal — a real vertical edge that generalist field-service tools skip. |
| Payment processing | Optional Stripe Connect: customers pay deposits and invoices by card, settled directly to your own bank. We never hold the funds; PestShift's platform fee is 1% of each card payment, on top of Stripe's processing fee. Keep your existing processor instead if you prefer — nothing is required. | Not publicly specified in vendor materials we reviewed. |
| Offline mobile support | Yes for technicians: My Day works with no signal — start and complete visits with notes and the chemical record — and syncs when signal returns. A home-screen web app, not an App Store app; office screens need a connection. | Yes — reviewers and industry writeups specifically call out reliable offline mobile access as a Fieldwork strength. |
| Route optimization | Builds the day's order and arrival times together, around appointments the customer was already promised, and flags any job the assigned technician isn't licensed for. Real driving times when a routing key is configured, straight-line estimate otherwise — the UI says which. | Not publicly specified in vendor materials we reviewed. |
| Support | Direct access to the team building the product, not a ticket queue. | Reviewers consistently rate support highly. |
PestShift vs Fieldwork
Pricing model
$39–$149/month, published, tiered by technician count only (1/5/10). Every tier gets the full feature set — no feature gating, no per-property fees.
Published tiered pricing: Solo $39/mo, Startup $59/mo, Business $79/mo, Pro $99/mo, each with a two-week free trial; office/admin seats are free.
Contract terms
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime, no early-termination fee.
Publishes its pricing openly, which reviewers specifically call out as a contrast to quote-only competitors.
Chemical compliance depth
Moderate — By default, a job can't be closed until the chemical application record (product, EPA registration number, target pest, rate, application site) is complete; the owner chooses which services require it. We don't yet auto-generate state-specific compliance forms.
Deep — Pest-control-specific chemical tracking and trend reporting, with barcode scanning for traps and stations and canned compliance reports available through a customer portal — a real vertical edge that generalist field-service tools skip.
Payment processing
Optional Stripe Connect: customers pay deposits and invoices by card, settled directly to your own bank. We never hold the funds; PestShift's platform fee is 1% of each card payment, on top of Stripe's processing fee. Keep your existing processor instead if you prefer — nothing is required.
Not publicly specified in vendor materials we reviewed.
Offline mobile support
Yes for technicians: My Day works with no signal — start and complete visits with notes and the chemical record — and syncs when signal returns. A home-screen web app, not an App Store app; office screens need a connection.
Yes — reviewers and industry writeups specifically call out reliable offline mobile access as a Fieldwork strength.
Route optimization
Builds the day's order and arrival times together, around appointments the customer was already promised, and flags any job the assigned technician isn't licensed for. Real driving times when a routing key is configured, straight-line estimate otherwise — the UI says which.
Not publicly specified in vendor materials we reviewed.
Support
Direct access to the team building the product, not a ticket queue.
Reviewers consistently rate support highly.
What Fieldwork's own users say
Verbatim, attributed reviews — not our summary of them.
“Canned reports could be more robust. They provide less than stellar data that has to be reviewed and scrubbed prior to it being a functional report.”
Where Fieldwork genuinely wins
Fieldwork's chemical compliance tooling is deep and purpose-built — this is not a case where a generalist tool is weaker on compliance than us. If offline reliability in the field and transparent published pricing matter most to you, Fieldwork is a strong, honest choice.
Fieldwork's real strengths
- Transparent, published pricing with no charge for office staff seats
- Reliable offline mobile app, useful in low-signal service areas
- Genuinely deep, pest-control-specific compliance and chemical tracking
Chemical compliance, specifically
Pest-control-specific chemical tracking and trend reporting, with barcode scanning for traps and stations and canned compliance reports available through a customer portal — a real vertical edge that generalist field-service tools skip.
Questions about switching from Fieldwork
- Usually, yes, if Fieldwork's reported per-month costs above hold for your account — but Fieldwork is quote-only in most cases, so the only way to know for certain is to get a real quote from them and compare it to our published pricing, which starts at $39/month.
- Yes. Export your customers, properties, and any chemical-application history you have, send it to us, and we handle the cleanup and import. See our full switching guide for the step-by-step.