- Text customers the day before every treatment; pets inside and gates open save the tech a return trip.
- The core of pest control scheduling is on Koira's Front Office plan, $499 flat, with no per-person fee.
- Customers book online and stops sorted by the drive decide most of it for pest control companies.
How a pest control company's calendar works
Pest control is a route business with seasonal spikes. Quarterly services repeat on their own, while spring brings ants and summer brings mosquitoes and wasps on top.
A small company needs the recurring stops in driving order, the one-time calls fitted around them, and the customer told before the tech arrives so pets and kids are inside.
What lands on a pest control calendar
- Quarterly services by area
- Monthly services
- Initial treatments
- Re-service calls
- Termite inspections
- Mosquito rounds
- Rodent follow-up visits
- Estimate visits
What scheduling software should do for pest control companies
- Bookings only into times that fit the day
- Every stop in driving order
- Day-before reminders the customer can answer
- Each person's stops on their own phone
- Recurring service plans, which matters for pest control companies
- Customer page or portal, which matters for pest control companies
How Koira does it
In Koira, every booking for a pest control company, from a call, a text or your site, lands on Today in driving order on its own, whether it is quarterly services by area or monthly services. Koira only offers customers times that fit the route, and the day before it texts them to confirm or move. That is on Office, the free plan.
On Grow, calls are answered on a Koira number and booked into your real day. On Front Office, $499 flat, each person gets a lane with their stops on their own phone and clocks in and out of jobs.
For pest control companies in particular
- Stops sorted by the drive. Today sorts stops by the drive on every plan, and postcards go to homes near your current customers.
- Calls answered by AI. On Grow, Koira answers on a Koira number and texts back a missed call in about a minute.
Side by side
The features that matter for pest control scheduling, where each first appears on each company's public pricing page, then the people, usage, card and add-on rows every company gets.
| What you need | Koira | GorillaDesk | Service Autopilot | Housecall Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customers book online | Office (free) | Pro (online booking) | Not listed | Basic |
| Stops sorted by the drive | Office (stops sorted by the drive) | Basic (up to 25 stops), Pro (Drive Matrix) | Pro (route optimization) | Essentials (routes), Max (route optimization) |
| Day-before reminders | Office, the day before | Basic (automated confirmations and reminders) | Not listed | Not listed |
| Crew scheduling | Front Office | Pro (GPS and time clocking) | Startup (scheduling and dispatch) | Basic (schedule and assign techs) |
| Calls answered by AI | Grow | AI agents in its menu, not on a plan card | Not listed | CSR AI, listed as a separate product |
| Recurring service plans | Front Office | Pro (subscription billing) | Not listed | Max (recurring service plans) |
| Customer page or portal | Office (free) | Pro | Elite, or an add-on on request | Not listed |
| People, usage and card fees | ||||
| Extra people | No per-person fee; one or fifteen people, the same price | Admin users free; each added route raises the price | Added app licenses through its team, no price listed | $35 a month each on Max; on Basic and Essentials, move up a plan |
| Usage or credits | None on Office, at cost on Grow, included on Front Office | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 | None on the pricing page | None on the pricing page |
| Card payments | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2%, 1% or 0.5% by plan (Koira) | Not published; your own Stripe or Square account's rate | Not published on its pricing page | From 2.59% a card payment, 1% bank payments |
| Add-ons | None; postcards are a flat price per card | Texting $5 a month plus message credits | Two-way texting, QuickBooks sync, client portal, Smart Maps, email integration, GPS, all call for pricing | CSR AI, Pipeline, Campaigns, Voice, Websites and Tap to Pay, sold separately, no price listed |
From GorillaDesk pricing and Housecall Pro pricing, checked October 8, 2026; Service Autopilot pricing, checked October 9, 2026. GorillaDesk prices by route with a slider that fills in by script, so we read each route count in a real browser. Part of Housecall Pro's pricing page fills in by script and it was running first-month offers when we checked. The plan prices below are the regular ones its plan cards show. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
What each one costs
Every plan in the same columns: price, people, usage, card rates and add-ons.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | People included | Usage or credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | ||||
| Office | $0, free | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | None charged on Office |
| Grow | $249 a month | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Texts, call minutes and emails at cost, nothing added |
| Front Office | $499 a month, flat | Monthly, no contract | One or fifteen, the same price | Included in the $499 |
| GorillaDesk | ||||
| Basic | $49 a month for 1 route, $99 for 2, $149 for 3 | $539 a year for 1 route | Unlimited admin users and devices | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 |
| Pro | $99 a month for 1 route, $149 for 2, $199 for 3 | $1,089 a year for 1 route | Unlimited admin users and devices | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 |
| Growth | $149 a month for 1 route, $249 for 2, $299 for 3 | $1,639 a year for 1 route | Unlimited admin users and devices | Texting $5 a month plus message credits, $50 for 1,000 |
| Service Autopilot | ||||
| Startup | $49 a month plus a sign-up fee | Yearly rate | 1 business user, 1 mobile license | None on the pricing page |
| Pro | $199 a month plus a sign-up fee | Yearly rate | 1 business user, 2 mobile licenses | None on the pricing page |
| Pro Plus | $499 a month plus a sign-up fee | Yearly rate | 1 business user, 5 mobile licenses | None on the pricing page |
| Elite | Priced on request | Priced on request | 2 business users, 8 mobile licenses | None on the pricing page |
| Housecall Pro | ||||
| Basic | $79 a month | $59 a month billed yearly | 1 user | None on the pricing page |
| Essentials | $189 a month | $149 a month billed yearly | 5 users | None on the pricing page |
| Max | $329 a month | $299 a month billed yearly | 8 users | None on the pricing page |
What comes on top: people, card payments and add-ons
| Company | Each extra person | Card payments | Add-ons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koira | No per-person fee on any plan | 2.9% + 30¢ (Stripe) plus 2% on Office, 1% on Grow, 0.5% on Front Office (Koira); on Office that share replaces a monthly fee | None; postcards are a flat price per card |
| GorillaDesk | Admin users free; each added route raises the price | Not published; your own Stripe or Square account's rate | Texting $5 a month plus message credits |
| Service Autopilot | Added app licenses through its team, no price listed | Not published on its pricing page | Two-way texting, QuickBooks sync, client portal, Smart Maps, email integration, GPS, all call for pricing |
| Housecall Pro | $35 a month each on Max; on Basic and Essentials, move up a plan | From 2.59% a card payment, 1% bank payments | CSR AI, Pipeline, Campaigns, Voice, Websites and Tap to Pay, sold separately, no price listed |
From GorillaDesk pricing and Housecall Pro pricing, checked October 8, 2026; Service Autopilot pricing, checked October 9, 2026. GorillaDesk prices by route with a slider that fills in by script, so we read each route count in a real browser. Part of Housecall Pro's pricing page fills in by script and it was running first-month offers when we checked. The plan prices below are the regular ones its plan cards show. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.
Card rates as each company publishes them, checked October 9, 2026. Koira's is Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ for a US card plus Koira's share, which pays for Office in place of a monthly fee.
Sources, each checked October 8, 2026: GorillaDesk pricing, Service Autopilot pricing (checked October 9, 2026), Housecall Pro pricing, Housecall Pro industries, Stripe pricing (checked October 9, 2026), and Koira pricing. We read each page's own text; we did not use summaries or third-party price lists.