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Hello all,

One of the only things we’re struggling with in our goal of becoming fully paperless this year is our chemical/pesticide leave-behinds. In our state, we need to provide a report within 24 hours (don’t quote me on that, I just know it is pretty dang close to ASAP) to the client with various information including name of applicator, date, certification number, chemical(s) used, MSDS number, concentration, time of application, et al. In the past, we had a small pad with carbon copies which we would leave the carbon behind after the crew or applicator was done performing the work. 

We would like to move away from paper as much as possible, and we have also noticed that clients either don’t want or don’t care about the carbon that we leave behind. 

If anybody is in a similar boat as us, what kind of solutions have you tried within Aspire to solve this? The chemical usage report is nice but it is not an automated process and requires steps after printing the pdfs to get them to the client. The email/sms notification system doesn’t seem to have access to the information regarding material use on the ticket to pull in as tokens. Using invoicing is out of the question as we invoice monthly and not only that is not timely enough in a lot of situations (think a spray crew treating an area ahead of a large renovation job on the same ticket as the main work to be performed), we would really prefer not to clutter our invoices with that much detail. We thought about using issues and the customer portal but it’s unclear if that’s a legal way to notify in our state (we got positive confirmation that email notification is ok if client opts in).

Any thoughts would be helpful!

This has been something I sporadically work on, and there are a few options worth exploring.

Customer notifications are fairly customizable through the use of tokens, so you can draw in named items (there is currently a limit of 3 for some reason), but that might get you most of the way there. 

Another option might be visit forms that are attached to certain services, which is how i currently document my chemical applications. In IL where I am we just need to have a record of temp, wind speed and direction, and of course chemicals used. Not sure if you could set it up to automatically pass that report along to customers.

I know this is something that is going to hopefully be improved going forward, because it isn’t the most elegant part of the system right now.

Hope that helps!


Here in Kansas we are required to leave a statement of service with each client.  By law the statement of service report must includes product applied,  mix rate of product applied, wind speed, temps, re-entry requirements, tech signature etc.  We are also required to have copies of the Statement of Service on record for 3 years. We have created a custom form in Aspire and assigned it to all of our application services so when a application ticket/ service is completed the applicator is required to complete the statement of service form before the ticket will be completed.  This information is then available in Aspire in a excel format, or word format.  This is great until you are asked to print off the statement of service for an individual application.  Regarding the requirement of sending the client of the statement of service we have outsourced to another program/app that the applicator can fill out the Statement of service and email the client right from the truck.   Just started this process so I do not have too much feedback at this point.

I really hope that Aspire understands the importance/ legal requirements that all landscape companies across the country have regarding the application services that are provided to our clients, and that the software is not quit equipped to handle the legal requirements.  Hoping that Aspire has moved this issue to the top of the list for resolution.  


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