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PestDesk HQ · for pest control companies

Fast answers for your customers. Follow-ups that keep them renewing.

Your customers get answered day or night, from your own service plans and your own prices. Check-ins and renewal reminders go out on time, even when your office is swamped. Built for pest control companies, from one-truck operators to multi-branch teams.

From $495/month

Before anything goes live, you review every reply for a week.

The problem

The calls you miss don't leave a message.

Somebody finds a swarm on a Sunday morning and calls three companies off Google. Two go to voicemail. The third one picks up and gets the job.

And every spring the phone fills up with “flying ants” that turn out to be termite swarmers. Each of those calls is an inspection waiting to be booked, and the caller won't wait until Monday.

The rest of it is quieter. A tech finishes a treatment and nobody calls the customer to ask whether it worked. A renewal reminder goes out late. Someone calls on a Thursday wanting to cancel and hears back the following week, by which time they've found somebody else.

Your office isn't doing anything wrong. There are only so many hours in a day and the phone takes all of them.

What you get

Two things that stop slipping.

Every customer answered. Calls, texts and email, answered as your company: booking and rescheduling, questions about service plans, prices off your own list, billing questions, WDI inspection requests for home sales. Telemarketers and robocalls are screened out, so your line stays open for your customers. Screened calls are on us and never count toward your minutes.

Customers who stay. A check-in after every stop to make sure the problem is actually gone. Renewal reminders before the date. Cancellation requests sent to you within minutes, with the reason. Review requests sent to every customer after the visit.

As you know, about 85% of residential pest control revenue is recurring, according to Specialty Consultants' industry research. So the renewal conversation is worth more than almost anything else in the week, and it's usually the first thing to get dropped.

What each plan gives you

After-Hours Desk
Your texts and email answered automatically, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Add Voice and our voice agent also answers the calls you can't get to, books visits with your approval, and screens out telemarketers and robocalls.
Retention Engine
The follow-up side on its own: customers checked on after every service, renewals reminded before the date, cancellation requests sent to you within minutes with the reason, and reviews asked for.
Full Desk
Every text and email read by a person before it goes out, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, plus the voice agent and the Retention Engine.
Full Desk + Voice
Everything in Full Desk, plus every call picked up straight away, and a member of my team on the line whenever a caller asks for a person (8am–8pm Eastern, Mon–Fri).
Multi-Branch
Full Desk + Voice for each of your locations.

Prices and exact hours are in the pricing section.

How it works

What actually happens when your customers call, text or email.

It starts with your business, not a script. Setup takes three weeks. Your part is three conversations of about two hours in the first two weeks, or six shorter ones if that suits you better. Before we talk, we'll have read your website, your price sheet and anything else you send us, so the time goes on how you actually run things. We do all the writing. What comes out is your approved answers, in one document that belongs to you. That time is why the answers sound like your office, not a script.

Here's what happens in a few everyday situations.

A text at 9pm

A customer texts asking if you can come out Thursday. It gets an answer from your approved answers. On the After-Hours Desk the reply is automated. On Full Desk, a person on my team reads it before it goes out.

A missed call at 2pm

You're under a house and can't get to the phone. With voice, your phone rings first. Once the wait you set is up (we recommend 5 seconds), our voice agent answers, finds out what they need and sends you the details. On Full Desk + Voice, your phone doesn't have to ring at all: the agent picks up straight away, and if the caller asks for a person, a member of my team takes over during office hours. Either way, it works only from your approved answers and never quotes a price that isn't on your list.

A caller wants a visit

With voice, the agent offers your next open arrival window and texts you the request. You reply to approve it, turn it down or pick another time, and then the customer gets a text to confirm. Nothing is booked until you say yes. Reschedules work the same way.

A sales call at 11am

A telemarketer calls trying to sell you something, or a robocall comes in. The agent recognizes it and politely ends the call, so your phone line stays open for your customers. You don't get a text about it. Once a week you get an email listing who called, what they were selling and any contact details they left, in case you ever want them. If the agent isn't sure, it treats the caller as a customer. People on your customer list are never screened.

A caller wants a person

On Full Desk + Voice, they get one. Between 8am and 8pm Eastern, Monday to Friday, a member of my team takes over the call. Outside those hours, a member of my team calls them back within fifteen minutes.

A customer wants to cancel

The agent doesn't try to handle it. It confirms what they want, asks why, and passes it to you within minutes with the reason in their own words, so you can call them yourself. From Full Desk up, a member of my team makes one attempt to keep them first, within two hours during office hours, using only the options you approved, and anything final comes to you. Refunds, chemical exposure and property damage never get an automated answer either. The full list is below.

A job finishes Tuesday

With the Retention Engine, the customer gets a check-in a few days later. If the problem's back and your plan covers a re-service (the kind of callback your techs actually mean), we offer them your next open window and you approve it with a one-word text, like any booking. If they're unhappy with the tech or the treatment, it comes straight to you in their own words. We never argue with a customer or promise anything on your behalf.

Checking the agent

On the After-Hours plans, a person on my team checks the agent's texts, emails and calls every two hours, 8am to 8pm Eastern, Monday to Friday.

End of the month

You get a report: what came in, how quickly it was answered, what got renewed, what got saved, how many sales calls were screened out, and anything we passed to you.

On the call I'll walk you through a live one.

The hard stops

Four things never get an automated answer.

Cancellations. Refunds. Anything to do with chemical exposure, whether it's a child, a pet, a reaction, or a smell somebody's worried about. Property damage.

Those four go straight to a person the moment they're recognized. Anything about chemical exposure or damage comes to you right away, day or night, on every plan. Cancellations come to you, with the reason; from Full Desk up, a member of my team tries to keep the customer first. From Full Desk up, refunds go to my team first too. Nobody guesses.

Standing rules, written into the contract
  • We never quote a price that isn't on your list.
  • We never promise a technician will do something without your say-so.
  • We never change a warranty or a guarantee.
  • We never comment on chemical safety, active ingredients, or whether a product is safe around children or pets. That's your licensed people's call.
  • We never tell a customer how bad their infestation is. We book the inspection.
  • Nobody on my team claims to be sitting in your office. If a customer asks, they're told they're speaking to your customer care team, which is true.
The business side

A US company, built around the rules.

  • US company, US contracts. PestDesk HQ is run by Vantage Desk Operations LLC, registered in Wyoming with a US tax ID. Our contracts are governed by US law.
  • Calling and texting rules. Calls and texts are built around the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the carriers' registration rules. Every texting line is registered before it sends, consent is recorded for each customer, and a STOP reply takes effect immediately. Callers are told when a call is recorded.
  • Your data. Your customers' information is used only for your account. It's never sold, it leaves with you if you go, and it's deleted when you ask. The details are in our privacy policy.
  • Security. Two-step login on every account, access limited to the people working on yours, and card numbers are never taken by phone or text.
Coverage

What “24/7” actually means here.

On every plan, office hours mean Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm Eastern. Everything else is after hours.

After-Hours Desk. Texts and email answered automatically, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or only after hours if you'd rather your office keeps the daytime. Add voice and our agent answers any call you don't pick up within the wait you set, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A person checks the agent's work every two hours during office hours.

Full Desk + Voice. Every call is picked up as it rings, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. During office hours, a person takes over whenever a caller asks. After hours, a person calls back within fifteen minutes.

I'm spelling that out because “24/7 live answering” gets sold all over this market and usually means the same thing. Some commercial contracts require a person picking up at 3am. If yours does, we can staff that shift. Ask and I'll price it, rather than quietly not doing it.

Same goes the other way. If you'd rather have somebody listening in while calls are happening instead of waiting to be asked for, that's a staffed shift on your account and it gets priced on its own. Tell me on the call and I'll give you a number.

Who this is for

Worth a call if any of these sound familiar.

The phone goes to voicemail after six and on weekends, and you know some of those people don't call back.
After-Hours Desk + Voice
You're a one or two truck operation, and the phone rings while you're up a ladder taking down a wasp nest. By the time you're down, they may have called someone else.
After-Hours Desk + Voice
You're suited up, halfway through a treatment, when the phone buzzes. You stop, pull off a glove and answer, thinking it's a job. It's a robocall. Again.
Sales-call screening
A tech finishes a job and nobody calls the customer to check the problem's gone.
Follow-up
Somebody asked to cancel and heard back a week later, once it was already settled.
Cancellation alerts
Renewals lapse because the reminder went out late, or didn't go out.
Renewal reminders
Your office manager is good and is drowning, and you've been about to hire for six months.
Full Desk
Reviews only happen when somebody's angry enough to write one.
Review generation
Two or more locations, and each one answers the phone a bit differently.
Multi-Branch

Where we're not the right fit

  • You want cold calls made to new leads. We look after your existing customers and the people who contact you. Calling lists of strangers is a different service with different rules, and it's not what we do.
  • You want your ads managed. We don't run paid ads.
  • You need a person answering at 3am but don't want to pay for that shift. A person at 3am is a staffed shift, and it's priced as one. We'll quote it honestly, and we'll never pass off an automated line as live answering.
  • You'd rather not hand over your plans, pricing and protocols. The whole thing runs on your documents. Without them we'd be guessing, which is what you're trying to get away from.
Pricing

The prices are here because you shouldn't have to book a call to find them out.

Telemarketers and robocalls are screened out, so your line stays open for your customers. Screened calls are on us and never count toward your minutes.

Your monthly rate is locked for 12 months from the day you sign.

After-Hours Desk $495 / mo
  • Texts and email answered from your approved answers, 24/7, or only outside office hours if you prefer
  • A member of my team checks the replies every 2 hours, 8am–8pm Eastern, Mon–Fri
  • Anything it can't handle goes to your office
  • A monthly report on what came in
After-Hours Desk + Voice $795 / mo
  • Everything in the After-Hours Desk
  • Calls answered by our voice agent when you don't pick up, 24/7. Your phone rings first; we recommend a 5-second wait
  • The agent finds out what the caller needs and sends you the details
  • Books visits with your approval: you approve or move them by text
  • A member of my team checks its calls every 2 hours, 8am–8pm Eastern, Mon–Fri

Includes 300 call minutes a month. Need more? Packs from $150.

Retention Engine $1,200–$1,500 / mo
  • The follow-up side on its own: it doesn't answer your incoming texts or calls
  • Check-ins after every stop, renewal reminders and review requests
  • When a customer asks to cancel, it goes to you within minutes, with the reason and the save options you picked at setup
  • Sent Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm in your customer's time zone; a member of my team approves every batch
  • A monthly report on check-ins, renewals, reviews and why customers cancelled
Up to 500 serviced stops a month
$1,200 / mo
Up to 1,000 serviced stops a month
$1,500 / mo

Includes 300 call minutes a month for check-in calls. Need more? Packs from $150.

Pair it with After-Hours Desk + Voice

Up to 500 stops: $1,200 + $795
$1,995 / mo
Up to 1,000 stops: $1,500 + $795
$2,295 / mo

One $499 setup fee, 600 call minutes shared. Calls answered when you can't pick up, plus every follow-up after the visit.

Full Desk, from $2,400, adds a member of my team reading every text and email before it sends.

Full Desk (Text & Email) $2,400–$2,900 / mo

Includes After-Hours Desk + Voice and the Retention Engine

  • Everything in After-Hours Desk + Voice and the Retention Engine
  • Every text and email read by a member of my team before it sends, 24/7
  • Answered within 15 minutes, 8am–8pm Eastern, Mon–Fri; within 2 hours the rest of the time
  • When a customer asks to cancel, a member of my team makes one attempt to keep them within 2 hours (8am–8pm Eastern, Mon–Fri), using only the options you approve
Up to 1,000 conversations and 300 call minutes a month
$2,400 / mo
Up to 2,000 conversations and 600 call minutes a month
$2,900 / mo

Need more minutes? Packs from $150.

Full Desk + Voice $3,800–$4,800 / mo

Includes Full Desk and the Retention Engine

  • Everything in Full Desk
  • Every call answered by our voice agent as it rings, 24/7
  • Plus a live person: 8am–8pm Eastern, Mon–Fri, a member of my team takes over whenever a caller asks
  • After hours, if a caller asks for a person, a member of my team calls them back within 15 minutes
Up to 1,200 conversations and 1,500 call minutes a month
$3,800 / mo
Up to 3,200 conversations and 3,200 call minutes a month
$4,800 / mo

Need more minutes? Packs from $150.

Multi-Branch From $5,800 / mo

Full Desk + Voice for every location, Retention Engine included

  • For companies with two or more locations
  • A number and reporting line for each location
  • Priority response and a quarterly review
Main office, on Full Desk + Voice
$3,800 or $4,800
Locations 2 and 3
$2,000 each
Locations 4 to 10
$1,700 each
Location 11 and up
$1,400 each

Your main office keeps its Full Desk + Voice allowance. Locations 2 and 3 each add 1,200 conversations and 1,500 call minutes a month; each location after that adds 1,000 conversations and 1,200 call minutes. Shared across all your locations. Example: 10 locations with the main office at $3,800 is $19,700 a month. Need more? Packs from $150.

Setup fee · one time, from $249

Paid once, at signing. It covers connecting your phone line, registering it for texting, building your approved answers and testing everything with you.

  • After-Hours Desk and After-Hours Desk + Voice: $249
  • Retention Engine: $499, which also covers After-Hours Desk + Voice if you take both
  • Full Desk: $749
  • Full Desk + Voice: $999
  • Multi-Branch: $999, plus $249 for each extra location
  • Half of it comes off your third month's bill.
  • If you move up a plan later, you only pay the difference between the two setup fees.
Call minutes · included on every voice plan
  • After-Hours Desk + Voice: 300 a month
  • Retention Engine: 300 a month, for check-in calls (600 shared if you pair it with After-Hours Desk + Voice)
  • Full Desk: 300 or 600 a month, depending on your volume
  • Full Desk + Voice: 1,500 or 3,200 a month, depending on your volume
  • Multi-Branch: shared across your locations, as shown above
  • Extra minutes are $0.90 each, on every plan.
  • Need more every month? Add a pack: 200 minutes for $150 or 500 for $325. A pack is used once your included minutes run out.
  • Unused pack minutes carry over to the next month, then expire. No refunds, and you can drop a pack any month.
  • Screened sales calls never count toward your minutes.
  • Calls and texts from your family, friends and your own team are on us, up to 60 minutes and 120 texts a month. The agent takes a message and texts it to you.
How volume is counted
  • A conversation is one customer on one topic, however many texts, emails or calls it takes.
  • A serviced stop is one completed visit.
  • You start on the price that fits your volume.
  • If you go over it two months in a row, we'll recommend moving up, and you'll see it in your monthly report first.
  • Nothing is ever billed per message.

Where you land depends on volume and whether you want the phones covered. I'll tell you on the call, and if the honest answer is the $495 tier then that's what I'll say.

Who runs this

Inam Rehman, founder.

Inam Rehman, founder of PestDesk HQ

PestDesk HQ is run by Vantage Desk Operations LLC, a Wyoming company, and our team works from Karachi, Pakistan. It's a huge, lively city, it's home, and in my completely unbiased opinion it makes the best biryani in the world. If you're curious about any of it, ask me on the call.

You'll talk to me, not a sales team. Once we're working together, I stay your direct line. A customer you're worried about, a change to your prices, anything that doesn't feel right: text me and I'll handle it personally.

Want to ask me something first? Email hello@pestdeskhq.com. It comes straight to me.

Questions

Straight answers to the things you're probably wondering.

So is this a bot or a person?

It depends on the plan. The After-Hours Desk is automated and works only from your approved answers, and a person checks its replies and calls every two hours during office hours. From Full Desk up, a person reads every text and email before it sends. On Full Desk + Voice, any caller who wants a person gets one.

If a caller asks whether they're talking to a person, the agent tells them it's an automated assistant. On Full Desk + Voice it brings in a member of my team if they ask; on the other plans it takes a message for you.

Do your people know pest control?

They're trained on your business before they touch a call. Your plans, your pricing, your protocols, how you handle things. They're not licensed applicators and they won't pretend to be. Anything needing a licensed opinion comes to you.

How do I know it's working?

Before you sign anything, I'll show you the system running on a screen share. Once we start, we agree your targets in writing, like how fast calls and messages get answered, and every monthly report shows you exactly how we did against them.

What if it gets something wrong?

On written replies, that's what the review step is for. On the phone, the agent only works from what you've approved. If a mistake still reaches a customer, we tell you, review it within 24 hours, and fix whatever caused it. The full incident goes in your monthly report, along with what we changed.

What happens with an urgent call while I'm on a job?

Your phone rings first. If you can't pick up, our agent answers. Anything urgent, like someone feeling sick after a treatment, a pet reaction or property damage, isn't handled by the agent. If anyone has symptoms, it tells them to call 911 or Poison Control first. Then it texts you their name, number and what happened, marked urgent, any time of day or night, on every plan.

Will my customers know it's an outside team?

We answer as your company, since that's what you're hiring us for. Nobody claims to be in your office. If a customer asks straight out, they're told they're speaking to your customer care team.

Where is your team? Will my customers hear an accent?

Our voice agent speaks plain American English. My team and I work from Karachi, Pakistan. Everything we write is in American English and comes from your approved answers. On Full Desk + Voice, a caller who asks for a person speaks with a member of my team, trained on your business. Nobody claims to be in your office.

What software do you plug into?

We don't replace anything, and we don't need to plug in to be useful. Where your software allows it, we can connect directly, and we'll check yours on the call. If it doesn't, even an older in-house system, bookings and messages reach your office as a clear summary to enter, and a regular export of your customer list is enough to run the follow-ups.

Do we need a new phone number?

No. Your customers keep calling and texting the number they already know. Calls you miss forward to us, and when we call someone back, it shows your number. For texting, we either text-enable your current number or, if your phone company doesn't allow that, set up a text line in your company's name and help you add it to your website and invoices.

How long until you're live?

Three weeks. In the first two, we have three conversations of about two hours with you or your office manager, or six shorter ones if you'd rather. We come prepared, so you're filling in gaps, not starting from scratch. In the second week we also shadow: we handle things and you review before anything sends. In the third week we go live on the channels you picked.

Who owns the data?

You do. Your customer records and the approved answers we build are yours, and you take them with you if you ever leave. We never sell your data or use it for anyone else's account. Only the people working on your account can see it, and if you ask us to delete it, we do.

What about the texting rules?

Every number is registered, and consent is tracked for each customer. When someone replies STOP, they're opted out right away by a fixed rule, not left to the AI. Nothing gets texted to a customer who hasn't agreed to hear from you.

Will telemarketers eat up my call minutes?

No. On every plan with voice, the agent screens out telemarketers and robocalls, so your line stays open for your customers. Screened calls are on us and never count toward your minutes. Once a week you get an email listing who called, in case you ever want them.

What if a caller hangs up before the agent answers?

Your phone rang first, so the missed call is in your call log. Our agent doesn't call back people who hung up. An automated call to someone who never reached us is the kind of call US rules restrict, and a caller's number can be faked. You choose how long your phone rings before the agent picks up. If callers are hanging up, set it to 5 seconds, the shortest it goes.

Do you put a chat box on our website?

We put a "Text us" button on it instead, as part of setup on every plan. A chat window is gone for your customer once they close the tab. A text stays on their phone, so the visit confirmation, reminders and follow-ups all land in the same thread. On a computer, the button shows your number and email instead.

What will I actually pay?

The price on your plan's card, plus a one-time setup fee, paid with your first month when you sign. Half the setup fee comes off your third bill. We cover the text-line registration and payment fees. Screened sales calls never count. Your bill only changes if you go past your call minutes (the first time is on us; after that you get a text at 80%, and extra minutes are $0.90, or you can add a pack), or if you keep going over your plan's volume, which your monthly report shows you before anything changes.

Am I locked into a contract?

The first three months after go-live are a commitment, because setup is real work on both sides. After that it's month to month: tell us you're leaving and your service ends at the end of the next calendar month. Nothing is billed after that. After the first three months you can also move to a smaller plan with the same notice.

Why three months? The answers we start with are our best version of how you run things. Real customers ask things nobody thought of, and every question the agent can't answer is written up for you to approve and add. Your first monthly reports show those gaps getting filled.

If the review week shows it isn't right for you, you can walk away before we go live. Your first month is refunded; the setup fee isn't.

Can we start small?

Yes. The After-Hours Desk is $495 a month for texts and email answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or $795 with our voice agent also answering the calls you can't get to and booking visits with your approval. It's an easy way to see how we work with your customers, and you can add more whenever you're ready.

Next step

Twenty minutes to see what comes off your plate.

You tell me how calls, texts and follow-ups work at your company today and where things slip. I'll show you which parts we'd take over, the system running live, and exactly what it would cost. If it's a fit, we plan the next step together.

Or email hello@pestdeskhq.com. Either one reaches me.