About Northern Pest Control
Established almost 30 years ago, Northern Pest Control is a leading provider of pest control services across Northern Ireland. The team has a reputation for offering a high-quality, personable service at competitive rates for all business types from corner shops to multi-national organisations.
The NI-based firm is fully accredited and holds a British Pest Control Association membership. With fully trained and qualified staff located throughout the region, Northern Pest Control operatives are never more than 45 minutes from any location.
Why did you feel the need for this software in the first place?
With the company growing significantly, teams were struggling to manage incoming jobs. “The workload was becoming too much for our current systems at the time. The company had outgrown a purely paper-based system and logging calls to each service technician via phone call, tracing response times manually and building reports was inefficient and time-consuming.”
How has WorkPal benefitted you since implementing the software?
By moving to a cloud-based solution for job management, staff are able to plan operative schedules better, improving communication between teams. Having data in a centralised location that is easy to access from anywhere makes processes much more efficient.
“WorkPal has streamlined our inefficiencies and provided a straightforward system where all jobs can be tracked, details recorded and reports uploaded. From this, office staff and management can easily see the progression and completion of jobs and run customised reports when required.
“In an average week, where there are hundreds of jobs being completed by several different technicians, it makes it much easier and organised to have a cloud-based solution for job management in place.”
How easy was WorkPal to implement into your business?
“It was straightforward and despite some hesitation from some less ‘tech savvy’ technicians at the beginning, within a week of using the software, they realised the benefits to themselves as a job management solution which replaced a paper-based system which was in place previously. Data upload was simple and effective and integration into our existing process was seamless.”
Do you think you were given enough training and support with WorkPal and is there enough support post-set-up?
“Training was more than adequate, and any queries were resolved in a timely manner. Support following set up was good, with the development team creating custom reports and forms to tie in with our requests and the exact requirements of our business model.”
Would you recommend WorkPal to another company?
“Most definitely. We have already recommended it to several other businesses.”
