What payment is required to receive the business phone number from Clear Pest Pros?
Clear_Pest_Pros Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
We will provide you, in exchange for your payment of the Technology Fee, the business phone number to be used by the Business. This number will be forwarded to any device that you choose. As part of your local marketing, this number must be dedicated to your Clear Pest Pros Business. You must continually list Clear Pest Pros Business in the primary Internet and telephone directory servicing the Territory and, at a minimum, to maintain a trademark listing advertising your Business in the primary directory servicing the Territory
We do not currently offer a service through which selected phone calls to our toll-free phone number will be forwarded to you or us, but we reserve the right to do so in the future. In the event we offer this service, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain this service during designated hours, subject to acts of God or circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including power outages and the unavailability of telephone services. In the phone routing process, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to route calls from prospective customers requesting service in the Territory to you. We do not guarantee that every phone call requesting service in the Territory will be routed to you. We reserve the right to modify or terminate this service at any time, in our sole discretion, including, without limitation, the right to require that all customer calls be directed through our tollfree line or any other telephone number we designate. We reserve the right to charge a fee per month or otherwise for this toll-free number and forwarding call service. (Section 2.I of the Franchise Agreement).
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 40–49)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Clear Pest Pros' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, to receive a business phone number to be used by the Clear Pest Pros Business, a franchisee must pay the Technology Fee. This phone number will be forwarded to any device the franchisee chooses. The franchisee must dedicate this number to their Clear Pest Pros Business as part of their local marketing efforts. They are also required to continually list the Clear Pest Pros Business in the primary Internet and telephone directory servicing their territory, and at a minimum, maintain a trademark listing advertising their Business in the primary directory servicing the Territory.
Clear Pest Pros does not currently offer a service to forward selected phone calls to their toll-free number to franchisees, but they reserve the right to do so in the future. If this service is offered, Clear Pest Pros will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the service during designated hours, but service may be interrupted due to circumstances beyond their control, such as power outages or unavailability of telephone services. Clear Pest Pros will also use commercially reasonable efforts to route calls from prospective customers in the franchisee's territory to the franchisee, but they do not guarantee that every call will be routed to them.
Clear Pest Pros reserves the right to modify or terminate this service at any time, including the right to require that all customer calls be directed through their toll-free line or any other telephone number they designate. They also reserve the right to charge a fee per month or otherwise for this toll-free number and forwarding call service.