Pest Control Stops-Per-Day Capacity Estimator

The estimate is a bottom-up stop-cycle model. Subtract your fixed daily overhead from the paid workday to get productive minutes, divide by the time one stop takes (service + drive), and round down — you never count a stop you can't finish.

productiveMin   = workdayMin − fixedOverheadMin     (workdayMin = hours × 60)
cycleMin        = serviceMin + driveMin
stops/day       = floor(productiveMin ÷ cycleMin)
driveShare      = (stops/day × driveMin) ÷ productiveMin
dailyRevenue    = stops/day × avgTicket
monthlyStops    = stops/day × workingDays × techs
monthlyRevenue  = monthlyStops × avgTicket
sensitivity     = floor(productiveMin ÷ (serviceMin + max(driveMin − 5, 0))) − stops/day

Round down, always. Capacity is a physical ceiling, so a fractional stop is no stop. The monthly roll-up floors the daily count first, then multiplies by working days and technicians.

Drive time is the dominant lever. The tool shows what shaving 5 minutes of drive between stops would add — on a typical route, that's one or two more stops a day. Drive-time share above 40% of the productive day is flagged as a route-density warning; it never caps the computed stops/day.

Default bands (12–18 stops/day general pest, 6–10 complex/termite; 5–7 productive hours; $800–1,200 daily route revenue) are typical industry figures used as sanity captions, not hard-coded multipliers. This tool keeps no addresses, no map, no live route sequencing, and no saved stop/customer records — the monthly figure is a recomputation of your current inputs.

Sources: ServiceWorks technician-utilization / capacity model (productive ÷ available); CalcMyBid billable-hours "5–7 productive hours/day" anchor; Pest Control Millionaires route- efficiency bands (12–18 / 6–10 stops; $800–1,200/route).

Capacity is mostly a function of how tightly the day is packed, which is what route density measures. The cadence that produces those stops in the first place is planned in the recurring service schedule template, and on commercial accounts the visit frequency you can actually staff is an input to the what a commercial account is billed monthly rather than an afterthought.