SWITCH FROM SPECTORA
Spectora vs Calisto Trades
Spectora runs the inspection and the report. Calisto Trades runs the whole inspection business on one record, from the booking to the books.
- Property & Home Inspection
Feature by feature
Calisto Pro beside Spectora
- 9 In both
| 9 features | Calisto Pro | Spectora |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | ||
| Mobile capture app and a web report editor | Yes | Yes |
| Report templates to start from | Yes | Yes |
| A comment library, with suggested wording on comments | Yes | Yes |
| Dictation into the report | Yes | Yes |
| Booking | ||
| Agreements per service, signed online or on site | Yes | Yes |
| Online scheduling and payments | Yes | Yes |
| Fees adjusted by floor area, age and foundation | Yes | Yes |
| The report | ||
| A repair request list with credit amounts, shared by link | Yes | Yes |
| Ancillary | ||
| Pest (WDO) inspection reports | Yes | Yes |
What replaces it
What runs property & home inspection on Calisto
The apps that take over from Spectora, each in the words property & home inspection businesses use.
- Inspection jobsCalisto Trades
- Inspection equipmentCalisto Inventory
- Business setupCalisto Purview
- Inspection standardsCalisto Blueprint
- Commercial quotesCalisto Proposals
- Inspection agreementsCalisto Sign
- PaymentsCalisto Payments
- Booking requestsCalisto Deals
- Inspector schedulingCalisto Dispatch
- Work ordersCalisto Orderflow
- AccountingCalisto Ledger
- Capture & reportsCalisto Assure
What moves
Bringing your data from Spectora
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Spectora and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Spectora can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Why businesses switch
Why inspectors switch from Spectora to Calisto
One record from the booking to the books
The booking or the accepted quote, the agreement, the payment, the capture, the report, the invoice and the accounting sit on one inspection record.
Your client's home stays on Calisto's servers
Dictation and photo drafts run on Calisto's own models, and every draft is a suggestion the inspector confirms.
Every country's standard, every currency
Starter standards for many countries, and each record keeps its own currency.
Capture with no signal
Rooms, photos, readings and findings are held on the phone and sent when it reconnects.
One report, on the web and as a PDF
The web report and the PDF come from one renderer, so they never disagree.
Utilization and profit per inspector
A firm sees each inspector's utilization and profitability with no extra product.
Moving your inspection business
Questions about switching
Which standards can I inspect to?
Calisto ships starter standards for residential, commercial and ancillary work in many countries, each written in Calisto's own words within that standard's scope. A starter follows its standard; you can change every item, and add your own.
Who decides when the report is released?
You do. The default holds the report until it is published, the agreement is signed and the fee is paid in full, and you can change those conditions per service or release a report by hand.
Does the report go to anyone but my client?
No. On release the report goes to your client only. Your client decides who else sees it, and can take that access away again.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.
- Professional ServicesCalisto for Property & Home Inspection
Calisto Pro books the inspection, signs the agreement, captures every finding on the phone and publishes a branded web and PDF report from the same record, then holds or releases it by the rules you set.
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- AppCalisto Trades
Plumbers, electricians, heating, cleaning, pest control, pools and landscaping: requests as leads, quotes signed with a deposit, jobs and visits on the schedule, the technician’s phone, certificates, invoices and service plans.
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