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Customer storyFieldRoutesSolea

Same workload, 29% less drive time per stop.

How Able Pest Management, a pest and termite company serving all of Oahu, left FieldRoutes for Solea, moved its data in three days, and cut drive time per appointment from 21½ minutes to 15 in its first full month.

Location: Waipahu, HI
Technicians: ~7
Services: Pest, rodent, termite
Replaced: FieldRoutes
On Solea since: July 27, 2026

John Baraquio, Owner of Able Pest Management, in the customer video

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FieldRoutes → Solea

Watch John’s story · 2:45

−29%drive time per stop21m 32s → 15m 13s

140 hrsof driving saved in the first full monthabout 2,150 fewer miles

3 daysto move the data off FieldRoutespast switches took 6 to 12 months

These stats compare August 2025, on FieldRoutes, with August 2026, Able’s first full month on Solea: 1,340 appointments against 1,343.

Before Solea

Five vendors to run one office.

John Baraquio founded Able in 2000 and has been through every kind of pest software since: paper, CDs, then two CRMs that promised more than they delivered. The most recent was FieldRoutes.

Scheduling, route optimization, payments and collections each came from a different company, five in all. Drive time hovered around 22 minutes per stop for 18 months straight.

John had spent five years trying to bring AI into the business, and every AI vendor he tried was “a nightmare.” Switching wasn’t an easy way out either: each past migration had taken six months to a year.

**John Baraquio**Owner, Able Pest Management

An Able Pest Management office team member at her desk — Able’s office in Waipahu, from the customer video

The switch

Off FieldRoutes in three days, not a year.

Able signed with Solea in late May 2026 and went live on July 27. Moving the data was the fast part. The rest of the runway went to payments and people, and it ran on Able’s schedule.

**John Baraquio**Owner, Able Pest Management · switched from FieldRoutes

Days 1 to 3Data straight from FieldRoutes
Solea connected to Able’s FieldRoutes account through its API. Nobody had to request a backup or export a spreadsheet. Customers, properties, subscriptions, contracts and service history came across, and Solea checked every import against Able’s live FieldRoutes data. The team had told John it would take a week. It took three days.

“Sure enough, in 3 days they said, “We’re done.” That was something I’ve never experienced before.”John Baraquio
Until launchFieldRoutes kept running
Able ran its business in FieldRoutes right up to go-live. Solea kept re-syncing in the background so the data never went stale, and a final sync ran the morning of launch. The office never had to freeze bookings or re-type customer records.
Over ~30 daysCards moved to Stripe without a billing gap
Stored cards moved from Able’s old payment processor to Stripe, which takes about 30 days because the old processor has to send them over. Able kept charging customers as usual the whole time. Rather than rush it, Solea moved go-live back three weeks, from July 6 to July 27, so every card was in place on day one.
From JuneTraining, one role at a time
Training started online in June, split by role: office staff, schedulers, sales and billing. Each session ended with homework in a test account: create a customer, add a card, book the first service. Before launch, both teams checked the imported data and the first two weeks of appointments together, then made the go/no-go call.
July 27Go-live
The day before launch, Solea built Able’s routes for the next 30 days in one run: nearly 1,000 appointments across 174 technician shifts. On Monday morning the final sync ran, everyone logged in, and the trucks went out on Solea routes. Then Able switched FieldRoutes off.
The first weeksDaily check-ins
Solea checked in with Able’s office every day for the first week, then twice a week. The team stayed reachable in person, by text and by email, for everyone from technicians and sales to the office staff and John himself.

“Very easy to get a hold of and very knowledgeable. Sharp, smart cats.”John Baraquio

What changed

Two parts of the office started running themselves.

Scheduling and collections moved into the same system as the customer record, so the office stopped stitching five vendors together.

AI scheduling

Jobs drop into routes on their own, built around drive time instead of a dispatcher’s sequence. When a job moves, the route recalculates automatically. Compared with August 2025 on FieldRoutes:

Before: With Solea
Drive time per stop: 21m 32s15m 13s
Miles per stop: 9.27.6
Stops per technician per day: 7.78.4

Stops per day compares technicians who ran routes in both years.

“Solea has definitely cut costs, increased productivity, and decreased the time that we’ve been spending on certain tasks.”John Baraquio

AI accounts receivable

Invoices and follow-ups live in the same system as the schedule. Past-due reminders go out on their own: at 30 days, then weekly until 60 days, then every three days by email and weekly by text. Customers can now pay by ACH as well as by card.

Before: With Solea
Past-due reminders: A separate vendorBuilt in
Ways to pay: CardCard and ACH

“Now we can focus more on the human aspect of it rather than spend so much time doing scheduling or routing or making collections.”John Baraquio

Results

What it added up to.

An Able Pest Management truck on the road — An Able truck on Oahu, from the customer video

Same workload, less driving: Able ran 1,343 appointments in August 2026, against 1,340 a year earlier, with 29% less drive time per stop.
140 hours back in one month: Six minutes saved on every stop came to about 140 fewer hours behind the wheel in August, and about 2,150 fewer miles.
More stops per technician: The same crew fits more work into a day without adding trucks.
Three days to switch, not a year: Past migrations took Able six months to a year. The data move to Solea took three.
One system instead of five: Scheduling, routing, payments and collections now run in one place.

Drive time per appointment sat around 22 minutes for 18 months on FieldRoutes. It dropped the month Solea took over routing, and has stayed down.

Another company that switched to Solea.

ServSuite → SoleaPest Tech Hawaii nearly doubled stops per route with the same crew−54% drive time per stop93% paid same dayRead the story

A pest control company office after closing time, one room still lit

Pests don't keep office hours.Neither does Solea.

The 9 PM ant call gets answered and put on Thursday’s route. Nobody has to pick up the phone, find a slot, drag jobs between routes or build the invoice.

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OvernightSun 6 PM to Mon 7 AM

Handled while the office was closed

Calls answered149 booked

Texts and emails11auto-replied

Payments collected$2,8607 invoices

Monday's routes38 stopsbuilt at 3:00 AM

Booked9:14 PM · Ant treatment, Thu 10:30 AM