From NWS alert to invoice — without the 4 AM text thread. RootControl auto-dispatches your crews the moment a winter-storm warning hits, logs every pound of salt as it goes down, and bills the whole event in one click — with the audit trail behind it.
Most snow contractors run their season on text threads, photos buried in camera rolls, and salt invoices that get challenged six weeks later. Snow Ops fixes the three places that pain shows up.
Storm hits, the office is texting crews, crews are texting back, and nobody knows who already pushed Maple Lane. By dawn the route is half-doubled and half-skipped.
The HOA board pushes back: "We don't think you actually salted on the 14th." Without depth-stamped photos and per-event salt logs, you're arguing from memory.
HOA boards, property managers, and (increasingly) state DOTs want season-totals reports — material applied, dates, crews, weather. Pulling that out of paper logs takes a week you don't have.
One pipeline runs the storm — from the moment the alert fires to the moment the invoices are billed.
The National Weather Service issues a winter-storm warning. RootControl matches it against your active snow contracts, picks the affected properties, and pushes the dispatch SMS to assigned crew leads — with OSRM-optimized routes already plotted. Auto-dispatch is opt-in per org: flip the toggle once you've watched a couple of storms and trust the alert matching, then crews get the activation in their PWA without a 4 AM phone tree.
Each property gets a depth-stamped photo (date, time, GPS, accumulation depth) and a one-tap salt-application log. Material, area, and rate auto-compute from the contract — the crew taps once, the record writes itself. Customers get an automatic safety notice the instant salt goes down.
Per-property activations, push counts, route progress, and the depth-photo grid render in real time. Need to pull a crew off one route and onto another mid-event? One click, and the reassignment cascades to the PWA instantly.
Storm closes. Pick the event, hit bill. Per-push customers see push counts, per-inch customers see accumulation, seasonal-flat customers see their fixed rate — all generated from the same event record, with NWS alert ID, timestamps, photos, and salt logs attached for any HOA or auditor that asks.
Six tools, one workflow. Built for contractors who manage anywhere from a dozen to a thousand snow accounts.
Crews go out the moment a winter-storm warning hits — no phone tree, no missed properties.
Every property gets a photo with date, time, GPS, and measured accumulation depth burned in.
Tap once. Material, area, and rate auto-compute from the contract — the record writes itself.
Per-property activations, push counts, OSRM-optimized routes, and the depth-photo grid — all in real time.
Pull a truck off one route and onto another in one click. The PWA picks it up instantly.
Pick the storm, hit bill. Per-push, per-inch, or seasonal-flat — RootControl handles all three from the same event record.
Every storm event ships with a regulator-grade audit trail attached. Pull it for one property or roll it up for the whole season.
Roll the whole season up with a single date-range query. Export to CSV for spreadsheets or PDF for the HOA board packet. State requirements vary — confirm your jurisdiction's specifics before relying on the report for regulatory filings.
Set the mode per snow contract, not per event. One storm can produce all three invoice types in parallel — the audit trail behind every one is the same.
Every push that hit the property gets billed at the contract's per-push rate. The event record shows the count and the timestamps so the customer can see exactly what they're paying for.
Depth-stamped photos drive the bill. Tiered rates (e.g., $X for 2-4", $Y for 4-8") apply automatically based on the recorded accumulation for the event.
One rate covers the season regardless of activation count. Storm events still record fully against the property so you have proof of service for HOA boards and renewals.
The instant a salt-application log is saved, a safety notice goes out — email, Client Hub, and SMS — telling the property owner the surface has been treated. That's a record on your side, and a heads-up on theirs.
30-minute walkthrough — bring a recent storm and we'll show you how the dispatch, photos, salt logs, and billing would have played out in RootControl.