Pest control routes for monthly and quarterly accounts.
Recurring accounts are a map problem: the same addresses every month or every quarter, cut into days that keep the driving short.
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The short answer
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Lite Route Planner is pest control routing software for recurring service: import your accounts, color the map by last visit to see who's due, lasso each day's accounts into a route and optimize it in one click. Techs get their routes on their phones with nothing to install, and Business includes unlimited techs from $59.99 a month with no per-tech fees. It's free for up to 50 addresses.
How to route 75 monthly accounts
Say you have 75 residential accounts on monthly service, at about 25 minutes each. That's five days of 15 stops, or a little over six hours at stops each day before any driving. The question is which 15 go together.
There are two common ways to cut them, and they work best together.
Master route or daily zones
Master route: one loop, cut into days
Put all 75 accounts on one route and optimize it. The order traces one efficient loop through your territory. Stops 1 to 15 become the first day, 16 to 30 the second, and so on, so each day is a stretch of the loop. In Lite, lasso each stretch into its own route.
Daily zones: one area per day
Split the map into five areas and give each account a Zone column. Color the map by zone to check that each one is compact, then filter to a zone and lasso it on its day.
Use both
Optimize the master route once to see where the loop naturally breaks, then write those breaks into your Zone column. Import the sheet again and Lite fills in the zone on the accounts you already have.
Keep the same week each month
Customers like a predictable visit. If North is always the first Monday and East the first Tuesday, only the date changes month to month. More on splitting stops into routes.
A recurring account list
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | |
| 1 | Account | Address | City | Plan | Service | Zone | Minutes | Last service | Tech | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Garcia residence | 6611 Brook Hollow Dr | Garland, TX | Monthly | General pest | North | 25 | 09/22/2026 | Luis | Side gate, 2 dogs |
| 3 | Sunrise Diner | 1408 W Walnut St | Garland, TX | Monthly | Commercial | North | 40 | 09/24/2026 | Luis | Kitchen back door |
| 4 | A. Patel | 3920 Old Orchard Dr | Plano, TX | Quarterly | General pest | East | 30 | 07/15/2026 | Amy | |
| 5 | Hollis Apartments, Bldg C | 5240 Spring Creek Pkwy | Plano, TX | Monthly | Commercial | East | 45 | 09/29/2026 | Amy | Office key |
| 6 | Rebecca Lin | 817 Shady Oaks Dr | Richardson, TX | Quarterly | Termite and pest | South | 35 | 07/21/2026 | Luis | Crawl space |
Plan, Zone and Tech come in as text you can color by, Minutes as a number and Last service as a date. Set the real service time on each stop, and copy anything a tech needs at the door into the stop note.
Every service day
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Filter to today's zone
Filter to the zone, then color by last visit. Monthly accounts that are due show 2 to 4 weeks or 1 to 2 months since their last service, and quarterly accounts that are due show over 2 months.
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Lasso and optimize
Lasso the due accounts, start at the shop or the tech's home, and press Optimize.
- 3
Check the day's total
Time at stops plus drive time. If it runs long, move the farthest accounts to the next day in that zone.
- 4
Send it to the tech
Assign the route. The tech marks each account Visited, or Attempted with a note like "no access, gate locked."
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Catch the misses
Color by last outcome to find every Attempted account, and add them to a later route before the month ends. See finding customers you haven't visited.
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Complete the route
Each service lands in the account's history with its date and note.
The driver app
Techs get the day's accounts on their phone
No app store and no password: techs sign in with a code from their email. They see the accounts in order with the drive time and distance between each, tap to open Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze, and mark each one Visited or Attempted with a note. Progress shows in your planner within seconds.
When you need more than routing
Choose Lite if
- You track services and billing somewhere else and want routes that are quick to build.
- You want a map of every account colored by how long since its last service.
- You want techs on a phone link with no per-tech fees.
Choose pest control software if
- You need chemical application records, service tickets and customer signatures.
- You want routes generated for you from recurring service schedules.
- You want billing, autopay and customer reminders in the same system.