CASE STUDY  ·  PEST CONTROL BACK OFFICE OUTSOURCING

Recovering 5–6 Hours a Day

How a Pest Control Operator Eliminated Back Office Drag with Infinity Remote Teams

Confidential Client  ·  FieldRoutes  ·  Small-to-Medium Operator

5–6 hrs

RECOVERED DAILY

< 24 hrs

INVOICE TURNAROUND

100%

AR FOLLOW-UP RATE

↓ 70%

CUSTOMER RESPONSE TIME

client context

A confidential small-to-medium pest control operator delivering residential and commercial services on FieldRoutes. Growing field team, but back office capacity had not scaled with it.

Owner and in-house staff were consuming 5–6 hours per day on scheduling, routing, billing, and CRM tasks time that should have been directed at customers and technicians.

Key Challenges

Scheduling Overload

Routes in FieldRoutes were being built, broken, and rebuilt daily — consuming the bulk of operational bandwidth with no standardized process.

Billing Delays

Completed jobs sat uninvoiced for 3–5 days, creating cash flow gaps and customer confusion.

No AR Discipline

Aging balances went unaddressed for weeks; no structured payment follow-up process or dedicated collections function existed.

CRM Neglect

Customer records were incomplete; renewal opportunities were missed; post-service communications were inconsistent.

Zero Financial Visibility

Revenue reporting was manual, irregular, and too slow to support operational decisions.

Our approach

01

Deployed a dedicated remote team fully embedded in the client’s FieldRoutes environment — covering scheduling, routing, invoicing, AR, CRM, and reporting as distinct daily functions.

02

Built standard operating procedures for every back office workflow before go-live, ensuring consistent output and measurable accountability from day one.

03

Assigned specialist ownership: separate remote staff for technician scheduling, billing and AR, CRM management, and customer communications — no task left unowned.

04

Established a weekly reporting cadence with structured revenue and AR summaries delivered directly to the business owner every Monday.

05

Completed full onboarding in 30 days discovery, SOP development, parallel operation, and live handover with zero disruption to field operations.

Impact & Results

The engagement delivered measurable results across every dimension of the operation. The owner and in-house staff recovered 5–6 hours daily that had previously been consumed by back office tasks, freeing them to focus entirely on customer acquisition and field team management. Invoice turnaround was cut from 3–5 days down to 24 hours, improving cash flow and eliminating the post-service billing confusion that had long disrupted client relationships. For the first time, 100% of aging AR accounts received structured follow-up on a defined schedule  a complete departure from the informal, gap-ridden process that preceded it. Customer response time fell by 70%, dropping from a two to three day average to same-day resolution and driving immediate improvements in satisfaction and renewal rates. The inspection report backlog was fully cleared within 2 weeks, and weekly financial reports were delivered to ownership for the first time in the company’s history.

key takeways

For growing pest control operators, back office drag is a growth constraint — not a headcount problem.

Embedding a specialized remote team directly into the operating platform eliminates the constraint, scales cleanly with the business, and restores leadership focus where it belongs.

Let's build your Remote Team so you can focus on growth, not paperwork.