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Built inside a pest-control company.
It started as one owner’s fight with commission day. It became the place a pest-control sales company runs its season.
It started as one owner’s fight with commission day. It became the place a pest-control sales company runs its season.
Swarm started with one pest-control owner who hated commission tracking.
Spreadsheets first, then Airtable, then a stack of workarounds. Nothing held up against a pest-control pay plan, where a sale pays out in pieces over months, rates climb with the season, two reps split an account and a leader earns on the team. Making sure people were paid right and on time had become a full-time job. So he built the thing that did it right, and commission day stopped being a day.
Then the question changed. With payday solved, everything else came into view: all the things a pest-control sales company puts up with because nobody ever built for us. We are a niche the software world never thought was worth caring about, so we run our seasons on borrowed tools. Recruiting in one app. Contracts in another. Onboarding in a spreadsheet. The season plan in a slide deck. The team in a group chat. Commissions in whatever survived last summer. A swarm of software, held together by the owner.
In Swarm, the recruit books their own interview from a link. The agreement is signed on a phone, with their pay terms written into it. Their first thirty days run on a schedule. The season is planned on the real pay plans. Payday runs itself, and every rep reads their own check in their pocket. One set of numbers, start to finish, built inside the industry by people who run these seasons.
That is what Swarm is: sales operations for the modern pest-control sales company.
From one office with a handful of reps to regions with many teams. If your pay has pieces, seasons, splits or overrides, it was built for you.
You approve payday in minutes instead of building it over a weekend, and the number you promised a rep is the number they get.
You see your own people, who needs a call, who is past a step, and what your team earns you, without asking the office.
You see your next check, every past check explained line by line, and where you stand, on your phone, before you think to ask.
These are not marketing lines. They are hard rules in the engine, and breaking one fails our own tests before it ever reaches you.
Every amount is tracked in whole cents. No rounding, no "close enough." A plan that leaves even a penny unaccounted for cannot be saved.
When a sale is serviced, its payments are worked out once and locked. A later change raises a question for you. It never quietly rewrites a check.
Splits, manual edits, exclusions and paid statuses belong to you. No upload or sync can overwrite them. And a sale missing from a file means nothing on its own.
Every manual change records what changed, the old and new values, and who did it, with a required note on anything that moves money. Six months later you will know exactly why that check was $150 higher.
Change something in one place and Swarm follows it everywhere it matters. Unpaid checks move to the new paydays, stale alerts clear themselves, a new employee claims their waiting sales.
Every check explains itself, line by line, to the office and to the rep. Every number on a screen can show its math. A straight question gets a straight answer from the people who build it.
Because that is what a great sales season looks like.
A swarm is not chaos. It is a lot of individuals moving fast in the same direction, each one knowing its job. That is a good summer: reps selling, techs servicing, recruiters filling the pipeline, and nobody stopping to argue about a spreadsheet. Swarm handles the part in the middle, making sure the honey gets counted right.
Questions, edge cases, or a pay plan you think will stump it? support@swarmhq.app goes straight to the people who build Swarm.
