Help
Plain answers for owners, office staff and technicians. Pick a section, or type a few words to narrow the list.
Getting started
- What do I set up first? Walk through the Setup page
The Setup page has 8 steps that tick themselves off as your data comes in. What each one is, where it lives, and why one may not tick.
For the owner
- Sign in, and turn on two-step sign-in
Sign in on the office website or the app, reset a forgotten password, and add a 6-digit code from an authenticator app.
For everyone
- I got an invite. How do I join my company?
Open the invite link or scan its QR code, make your login, and you are in your company. Steps for the website and the app.
For everyone
- Add a tech and connect their phone
Add a tech on the Team page, make their invite, and send it yourself by text or email. Barrierline does not send it for you.
For the office
- Which files do I export or send from my old software?
The files to export from your old software, in CSV or Excel, before you cancel it. Or send us whatever your old software gives you.
For the owner
- Check what came in, move it in, and undo it if I need to
Add your files, check the totals against your old system, move everything in with one button, and undo the move for 30 days.
For the owner
Every day
- How do I read the Today board?
The Today page: the top sentence, why a day is late, the board, Needs a look, the List, printing tomorrow, and a phone change that did not go through.
For the office
- Add a stop, move a visit and fill the week on the Schedule
Read the week by tech, add or move a stop, put a route in order, load a day from a spreadsheet and fill the week from plans.
For the office
- Use the map: a tech’s route, a day handed on, a better order
On Today, draw a tech’s route, move stops, hand on a day when a tech is out, and take a change back.
For the office
- What does a tech do at each stop?
Get there, Start service, fill in the record, Finish service, and what to do when you can’t do the stop.
For techs
- What happens when I have no signal?
You keep working. Every tap saves on the phone first and goes to the office when there is signal.
For techs
- Photos, the customer’s signature and the service report
Add photos and short videos, get the customer’s signature, and send the service report from your own phone.
For techs
- Find a customer, add one and read their page
Search for a customer, add a new one, read their page, and pause, cancel or stop serving a customer with the reason kept.
For the office
- What is a callback, and how do I book one?
A callback is a return visit because the last treatment did not hold. Book it from the customer and say why, so Reports can count it.
For the office
- Keep track of a customer who asked for a quote
Leads are customers who asked for a quote. Work each one from New to Won or Lost on the Leads page, and the tech who found it gets the credit.
For the office
- Set up, pause or resume a recurring plan
Add a recurring plan to a customer, change it, pause it with a reason, resume it, and see why plans stopped.
For the office
- How do plans book their own visits, and when should I leave it off?
Settings, Plans can keep visits booked 2, 4 or 8 weeks ahead each night, or stay off while your old software still schedules.
For the owner
- Put bait stations on file and read their history
Put each property’s stations on file, let techs scan them on every visit, then read the history or print it for an auditor.
For the office
- What is in the Inbox, and which alerts do I get?
The Inbox holds alerts from the stops, messages from techs and a To do list. You choose which alerts ping you in Settings.
For the office
- Can the app be in Spanish?
Yes. The tech screens and the customer’s page have Spanish. Records and reports stay in English.
For techs
The state
- Find, export and correct an application record
Search every product applied, export the rows the state lists, and fix a finished record without losing the tech’s original.
For the office
- How do I keep the pesticides I buy and the ones I get rid of?
Supplies keeps each purchase and each disposal the way Arizona lists them, with the receipt, and never deletes one.
For the office
- Which termite reports are due, and how do I file them with the state?
Arizona wants a termite report within 30 days. Records lists each one with its due date and builds the state’s upload file.
For the office
- How do I keep incident reports and my list of vehicles?
Write up an incident, record that you told the state, keep the copy you sent, and list the date you got each truck and trailer.
For the office
- How do I get ready for a state inspection?
What an Arizona inspector asks for, what Barrierline keeps, what stays on paper, and how to pull each record.
For the owner
- Keep your safety data sheets, insurance and signed contracts on file
Store each product’s safety data sheet, your insurance or bond with its end date, and a signed contract for each customer. Get warned before it runs out.
For the office
- The team file: hire dates, training and gear
The day each applicator started, their training, the gear you issued and the day they left, kept 3 years after they go.
For the office
Customers and billing
- Bill finished visits and record what customers pay
Price visits, make one invoice per customer, give a discount or a credit, record checks and cash, see who owes, and print or export invoices.
For the office
- Set up the email your company sends
Pick the name and reply address, confirm it, turn on visit reminders, and track who agreed to get email and who asked to stop.
For the owner
- Send a customer their own page, and ask for a Google review
Every customer can have a link with no password to their visits. Copy it, send it yourself, and set your Google review link.
For the office
- Track termite bonds and warranties, and work the renewals
Put a bond or warranty on a customer, get warned before it ends, renew it with the invoice in one click, or end it and say why.
For the office
- How do I read Reports?
Pick a date range, read the numbers at the top, see which stops started late, and know why a rate says “Not enough visits yet (16)”.
For the owner
Your team
- Roles, licenses and hours: managing your team
What the owner can do that office staff cannot, how to invite office staff, keep licenses current, remove people, and check hours.
For the owner
- Tell techs what to do on a kind of job: job sheets and checklists
A job sheet says what a service treats and with what. A checklist is steps the tech ticks. Both are in Settings.
For the office
- Add products, check their labels and see what is on each truck
Put your products on file with their label facts, hide the ones you stopped using, and see about how much is left on each truck.
For the office
Your data
- How do I take my records with me, or close my company?
Download your records any time. To close the company, the owner uses Close the company in the app and has 90 days to download.
For the owner
When something goes wrong
- I can’t sign in, or I was signed out
What each sign-in message means on the website and in the phone app, and what to do about it.
For everyone
- A tech’s phone is lost, broken or stolen. What now?
Remove the tech’s login on the Team page to cut off a lost phone, then get them going on a new one. Work never sent stays on the old phone.
For the office
- How do I contact support?
Write to help@barrierline.com, from the app or any sign-in page, and say what you were doing.
For everyone
Still stuck? Email help@barrierline.com.