# PropelMapper: Short answers > PropelMapper is a field-based, location-based reporting platform. People talk through a visit, take photos and pin observations to a place. We organize those captures into structured records and draft a professional client report for review. Agriculture is our first and main market: agronomists, crop consultants, farm managers and land managers. The same tools can document pest-control visits, cultivation walks, home and property inspections, landscaping and site surveys. The person doing the work checks the facts and adds professional judgment before signing and sending PDF and Word copies. Captures save offline; upload, transcription, new report drafting and sending need a connection. US crop and soil data and dated satellite imagery provide context for agricultural visits. One question each about PropelMapper: price, phones, offline, reports, maps, exports, data use. Generated at build from the published pages (under https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/) in sitemap order. Every file is listed in the index (https://www.propelmapper.com/llms.txt) --- # Short answers about PropelMapper URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/ > Short, checked answers about PropelMapper: price and the 45 free days, iPhone and Android, offline capture, reports, maps, exports and your data. PropelMapper answers the questions advisors ask before they try it, one question to a page, each checked against the product. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. ## Getting started ### How much does PropelMapper cost? PropelMapper costs $99 a month for one person, or $400 a month for a team of 5, and the first 45 days are free. ### Is there a free plan? Yes, PropelMapper is free for 45 days on the full Individual plan, with a card on file and $0 due today. ### Does it work on iPhone? Yes, PropelMapper has an iPhone field app for voice, photos, readings, offline capture and report review. ### Does it work on Android? Yes, PropelMapper is on Google Play for Android, with the same account you use in the web app. ### What is a place? A place in PropelMapper is the named location your team visits, such as a farm, field, building or site. ### How do I cancel? A team admin cancels PropelMapper in the web app under Settings, Billing, where Manage billing opens the billing portal and you cancel the plan. ## Capture in the field ### Does PropelMapper work offline? Yes, PropelMapper’s mobile app captures field records offline, while transcription, report drafting and sending require a connection. ### How accurate is the transcription? PropelMapper does not publish an accuracy percentage for transcription, because the result depends on the recording: wind, engine noise, how far the phone is from your mouth and how many unusual names you say. ### How long can a video clip be? PropelMapper records video clips up to 30 seconds in the mobile app, with playback in the web visit record. ### Does it record the weather? Yes, PropelMapper looks up the weather at a place for the time of your visit and can add it to the report as a Field conditions section. ### What languages does it support? PropelMapper runs in English and Spanish, on the phone and on the web, and its reports can be written in English, Spanish, German or Afrikaans. ### What is Ask Propel? Ask Propel is the question box in PropelMapper’s web and mobile apps, and it answers questions about your team’s places, notes and readings with links to the records behind each answer. ## Reports ### How fast is the draft? The median time from the end of a visit to its PropelMapper draft report is 20 seconds. ### Does it send Word or PDF? PropelMapper sends both: every report goes out as a PDF and as a Word file, and you can download either one later. ### Can I use my own report template? Yes, PropelMapper supports team report templates with logos, report language and letterhead, with routing by place status or category. ### Can clients sign the report? No, in PropelMapper you sign the report and your client confirms they received it through a link, which is a receipt and not a signature. ### Can growers read reports without an account? Yes, growers, landowners and lenders read PropelMapper reports without an account, an app or a paid seat. ### Can I see who changed a report? Yes, PropelMapper provides report activity, version history and a comparison view for reviewing changes, signatures, sends and recipient acknowledgments. ### Who owns the report? Your team does: every visit, recording, photo and report in PropelMapper is owned by the team, not by the person who recorded it. ## Maps and places ### What map layers are included? PropelMapper includes satellite, street and terrain base maps, plus field layers for soil, crop history, NDVI, elevation and drive time, all on the same map as your pins and boundaries. ### Can it import shapefiles? Yes, PropelMapper imports places from zipped shapefiles, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or CSV in the web app, with a 20 MB file limit. ### Can I rename farm and field? Yes, PropelMapper can name your place levels with your team's own words, such as site and zone instead of farm and field. ## Team and data ### Can my team share places? Yes, everyone on a PropelMapper team works from the same places, with each place’s visits, reports and open tasks in one record. ### Can it replace our CRM? PropelMapper can be the CRM for some teams, with contacts, accounts, a sales pipeline, opportunities and follow-up tasks. ### Can I export my data? Yes, PropelMapper exports reports as PDF or Word files, Metrics readings as CSV or Excel, and contacts as CSV. ### Do you train on our data? No, PropelMapper doesn’t train on your data. ### Is there an API? No, PropelMapper does not offer a customer API or webhooks today. ### Is PropelMapper HIPAA or SOC 2 compliant? No, PropelMapper has no HIPAA compliance claim, SOC 2 report or ISO 27001 certification. ## Other industries ### Does it work for pest control? Yes, PropelMapper supports pest-control visit records with voice notes, photos, readings, team report templates, author signing and recipient acknowledgment. ### Does it work for property inspections? Yes, PropelMapper supports property inspection records with voice notes, marked-up photos, checklists, readings, reviewed reports and assigned follow-up. ## The numbers behind the answers The answers on these pages come from the product and from our production records: 9,100+ field visits, 13,000 reports and 467,000 acres of drawn fields across 32 states. A draft report is ready a median of 20 seconds after a visit ends. ## Using PropelMapper in the field The answers above cover capture, maps and reports. For a view of the whole visit, follow the product walkthrough from the first recording through the reviewed report. --- # Can clients sign the report? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-clients-sign-the-report/ > You sign the report; your client confirms they received it. PropelMapper sends a link the recipient taps, and the confirmation lands in the report history. Answers No, in PropelMapper you sign the report and your client confirms they received it through a link, which is a receipt and not a signature. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Disease scouting - Ridge Field. You sign once the draft says what you mean: draw or type your signature, on the phone or in the browser. Signing locks that version. If you edit later, a new version is created and the earlier one stays readable. When you send the report, the recipient gets the files plus a link that says, in effect, "I received this report." One tap records who confirmed it and when. They need no account, no password and no paid seat. Every step shows up in the report activity log: when the visit started, each photo and recording, the draft, your edits, your signature, each send and the confirmation. If a landowner later says they never got the report, you can show the date they confirmed it. Page 1 of the sample report keeps the advisor’s Sign-off with the findings, readings and assigned follow-up task. Receipt is confirmed separately through the email link. ## Where signing and receipt show up Open the report from Visits or from Paper Trail, Reports in the web app. Read the draft against its recordings and photos, edit it, then draw or type your signature. Only the author signs, so the signature on the PDF is always the advisor’s. The version you sign is the version the client receives. After you send, the activity log lists each send and each acknowledgment with its date and time. A report with no acknowledgment has gone out, and nobody has confirmed it through the link yet. The email carries the signed report as PDF and Word files, with the confirmation link in the same message. ## When the work needs the client’s approval Some jobs need a client to approve a plan, a treatment or a spend. PropelMapper records receipt, not approval, so a client’s written approval stays with your own records, the way it does today. The receipt settles the question that comes up most after a field report goes out: did it arrive, and when. The paper trail covers the rest, with the visit times, each capture, every version and your signature, all on the report that was sent. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy Download the full sample report (PDF) --- # Can growers read reports without an account? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-growers-read-reports-without-an-account/ > Yes. Growers, landowners and lenders read PropelMapper reports as email attachments with no app, login or paid seat, and confirm receipt in one tap. Answers Yes, growers, landowners and lenders read PropelMapper reports without an account, an app or a paid seat. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Send panel. When you send a report, the email carries it twice: a PDF for reading and a Word file for anyone who wants to quote from it. A grower opens either one on a phone or a computer with the reader already there, so there is nothing of ours to install. The email also holds a link the grower taps to confirm the report arrived. That confirmation lands in the report’s activity log with their name and the time. It is a receipt, not a signature. The only person who signs the report is its author, with a drawn or typed signature. The grower reads the report you checked against the recording and photos and then signed. Opening an attachment does not make them a member of your team, and growers and clients never pay to read a report. Every paid plan can also send a shared link the grower opens in the browser. Without one, each report reaches the grower as its own email with both files attached. ## What the recipient receives The recipient opens the attached files in an ordinary document reader. The send dialog starts with the place’s contact filled in, you can add other addresses, and each person gets their own email. Look over the photos and notes in the report before it goes, since every recipient sees all of it. The Word file suits a reader who lifts a passage into a landlord letter or a loan file. The signed report stays in PropelMapper as the reference copy. A Word file someone edits on their own computer becomes a separate document, and the signed version in the app does not change. ## Checking delivery and access needs The activity log keeps sending and acknowledgment as two separate rows. The acknowledgment records that the reader confirmed the report reached them. It does not mean they accepted the advice, approved a repair or signed an agreement. To see a report the way a grower does, open the sample report on a phone and look at the photos, the field map and the sign-off page. Then send one of your own reports to your own address, tap the link in that email and watch the acknowledgment row appear on the report. When a report asks the grower to decide something, write the decision and its due date into the report before you sign it. The receipt link confirms delivery only, so the grower’s answer reaches you the way it always has. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can I export my data? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-i-export-my-data/ > PropelMapper exports reports as PDF or DOCX, Metrics readings as CSV or Excel, and contacts as CSV, from the web app with no request to us. Answers Yes, PropelMapper exports reports as PDF or Word files, Metrics readings as CSV or Excel, and contacts as CSV. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Reports export from the report itself, and a farm report, which gathers several visits into one document, exports the same way. Metrics and contact exports run in the web app. They are standard files you can open and check before you pass them on, and nobody needs a PropelMapper account to read them. Imports go the other way: places from CSV, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or a zipped shapefile up to 20 MB, and contacts from CSV. The report activity log stays with the report in the app: the captures, every version, your signature, each send and each acknowledgment. The exported document is the signed report itself. Your data stays yours. Under the Terms of Service you keep ownership of everything you enter, we don't train on it, and you have 30 days to export it after an account closes. ## Pick the export for the job For a client or a file, open the signed report and download it as a PDF or as a Word document. For readings, go to Places, Metrics in the web app and choose CSV or Excel. Contacts has its own CSV export, and the same format brings contacts back in. A report and a table of readings do different jobs. The report is what the client read. The Metrics export holds the numbers behind it, ready to sort, chart or combine with your other spreadsheets. At the end of a season, a farm report hands a grower the whole year on one farm. Choose the visits, and the document exports like any other report. ## Moving to or from another system There is no customer API or webhook feed. Moving data between systems is a file handoff: export, check the columns, then import. Boundaries come in from a grower’s shapefile or KML, so a field mapped in another tool does not need drawing again. Check the date format and the units the other system expects before you import. Keep the original export, so you can compare a corrected working copy with what left PropelMapper. For the original voice recordings and photos, contact us and name the team and the places you need. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can I rename farm and field? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-i-rename-farm-and-field/ > Yes. PropelMapper names the farm and field levels with your team's words, such as site and zone or property and building, everywhere at once. Answers Yes, PropelMapper can name your place levels with your team's own words, such as site and zone instead of farm and field. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Tell us the singular and plural for each level when your team starts, and contact support to change them later. The words appear in the sidebar, the breadcrumb, the place header and the report heading, for the whole team at once, in the browser and in the phone app. Team profile in Settings shows the structure in use. You also choose how many levels you need. Two, such as farm and field, suit most crop advisors. Four, such as entity, farm, tract and field, suit teams that track more structure. This matters most outside agriculture. A report with Field at the top looks wrong to a property manager, and a technician should not have to translate the app in their head all day. Renaming changes the words, not what a place holds. A renamed building still takes a pin or a boundary, visits, photos, readings, tasks and reports. Reports already signed keep the words they were signed with, and new drafts use the current labels. ## Set labels around the work you visit Decide which levels describe the places your team visits before choosing names. A property team might use property and building, and an advisory team might use farm and field. Other pairs that fit the work include site and station for environmental monitoring, vineyard and block for wine grapes, and ranch and pasture for cattle. Hierarchy labels are separate from status and category settings. Settings, Statuses & categories classifies places, and Settings, Reports holds the report templates. Labels name the levels, categories sort the places and templates shape the report, and each one is set on its own page. ## Check the setup with a real reporting task Choose a representative place and walk through how the team will find it during a visit. Then read a report from that place with the person who will receive it. If that reader needs a room, gate or equipment ID, say it in the voice note and it carries into the draft with the finding. Labels are set once for the whole team, so every screen and every report uses the same words. Pick two levels or four when you set the team up, before hundreds of places pile up under the old structure. Soil, crop history and NDVI are farm layers, so a team that inspects buildings will leave them off. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can I see who changed a report? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-i-see-who-changed-a-report/ > Yes. Every PropelMapper report keeps an activity log and versions: drafted, edited, signed by whom, sent and confirmed, with a view to compare versions. Answers Yes, PropelMapper provides report activity, version history and a comparison view for reviewing changes, signatures, sends and recipient acknowledgments. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Activity panel. The log starts with the visit: when it began and ended, and each photo, recording and note captured along the way. Then come the draft, edits made before signing, the signature with the signer's name, each send and each recipient's confirmation. Signing freezes a version. Any change afterward creates a new one, while the earlier signed version stays readable and is marked superseded. The compare view sets two versions next to each other and highlights what changed, which helps when a client asks how their copy differs from the current one. The log is built from the records the visit and report already hold, so it reads as a paper trail of the work, not a sealed archive. An edit before signing shows up when it is saved, not keystroke by keystroke. ## Find the report and compare versions In the web app, use Visits to open the relevant visit or Paper Trail, Reports to locate its report. Use the activity and version views to follow the record. When a client asks about a different copy, identify the version and send event before comparing the wording. The comparison view helps locate differences between versions. Review the changed passage alongside the visit’s original captures when a correction affects a name, count, unit or recommendation. A version difference shows that the wording changed, and the recording and photos show why the author corrected it. ## Limits of the activity record A recipient acknowledgment confirms receipt. It does not show that the reader agreed with the advice or authorized work. For a client’s signature on an agreement, use the tool you already use for contracts, and mention that approval in the report if the reader needs to see it. The timeline is built from stored report and visit records: capture times, saved versions, the signature, each send and each confirmation. It shows who did each step and in what order. It does not follow a downloaded copy, so an edit someone makes to a file on their own computer never appears in the log. When explaining a correction to a recipient, identify the earlier copy and the reviewed replacement so both people are discussing the same report version. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can I use my own report template? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-i-use-my-own-report-template/ > Yes. PropelMapper report templates carry your firm's logo, sections and language, one for each kind of visit, set up once by a team admin. Answers Yes, PropelMapper supports team report templates with logos, report language and letterhead, with routing by place status or category. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Settings, Reports is the web location for the team’s reporting configuration. Supported branding includes the team logo, extra logos such as a partner’s or a program’s, and an uploaded stationery PDF of up to 5 MB that reports are laid on. The same page sets the font, heading color, logo position, margins and footer. Templates belong to the team, not to each client. A place’s status or category picks which template its reports use, so a team that writes two kinds of report keeps a template for each. Each team has room for five templates, and each template holds up to 20 sections. Template languages include English, Spanish, German and Afrikaans. These choices are separate from the English or Spanish interface used by each person. The template sets the structure and the branding. The author still checks the draft against the recording and photos, edits it, adds the recommendation and signs it. ## Where templates are configured Use Settings, Reports in the web app to configure team report templates and report branding. Each template sets the report title, its sections and its language. Reports use the default template unless someone picks another or the place routes elsewhere. The place’s status or category picks the layout, not the client’s name. App language is a separate personal setting under Settings, Language. Choosing Spanish menus does not set every report template to Spanish, so a crew can work in Spanish while the report goes out in English. The same Reports page lists office recipients, and you choose when the office gets a copy, for example whenever a report is signed. ## What to check against an existing form Bring the report your clients already receive to a setup call, and we set up the template with you: the title, the sections, the language and the branding. Then record a visit and compare the new report with the old one side by side. Author signing and recipient acknowledgment are different steps. The author signs with a drawn or typed signature, and recipients confirm receipt from a link in the email. A client’s legal signature on a contract belongs in the tool you already use for contracts. Test the template and the status or category routing on the kind of visit your advisors record most. Keep a short acceptance list for the layout: required sections, language, branding and the evidence the reader needs to understand the finding. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can it import shapefiles? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-it-import-shapefiles/ > Yes. PropelMapper imports field boundaries from a zipped shapefile, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or CSV, up to 20 MB a file, in the web app. Answers Yes, PropelMapper imports places from zipped shapefiles, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or CSV in the web app, with a 20 MB file limit. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. The import runs in the web app. Zip the.shp file together with its companion files, upload the archive, and each shape becomes a place on the map with its boundary, ready for visits. Before anything saves, a preview shows the shapes and their names, so a wrong file or a field in the wrong county gets caught before it reaches the map. Most teams arrive with a boundary file from somewhere: a previous farm software, a GIS export, or a KML someone drew in Google Earth. Those come in without a call to us. Contacts come in separately, from a CSV file. Boundaries can also start on the phone. Draw the outline on the satellite map, or walk the edge and let the app trace your path. PropelMapper never draws a boundary for you. Once a field has a boundary, the soil, crop history and NDVI layers are clipped to it, so you see that field rather than the whole county. ## Prepare the package before importing Keep the shapefile’s companion files together in the archive, and keep the original export and the supplier’s map close by so you can compare the result. If the source is KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or CSV, check the names in the preview against the names in the file. Use Places in the web app for the import. After uploading, check that each field sits in the right spot and under the right farm. Compare local field names with any farm, tract or field numbers the supplier sent, then start recording visits against the imported places. ## Check outlines and limitations Look at lanes, waterways, holes and separate pieces, not only the broad shape. An outline might mark a property, a management field or planted acres. Those areas differ for good reasons, so note which one a boundary stands for when its acres matter. The import brings in places and their boundaries. It does not bring over visit history from another program. A field that lands in the wrong spot or with a piece missing points back to the source file, so fix it there and import that file again. An imported outline is a working boundary for visits and map layers, not a legal survey or a program acreage record. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can it replace our CRM? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-it-replace-our-crm/ > For some teams PropelMapper is the CRM: contacts, accounts, pipeline, opportunities and tasks, with Gmail or Outlook mail matched to each contact. Answers PropelMapper can be the CRM for some teams, with contacts, accounts, a sales pipeline, opportunities and follow-up tasks. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Opportunities include value, currency, owner and open, won or lost status. Contacts and relationship notes let the team retain the context around a visit. Accounts group the people and places of one operation alongside the pipeline. Gmail and Outlook connections match read-only mail to contacts on a five-minute cycle. Tasks can carry assignees and followers, including reminders, follow-ups and appointments. These functions support a relationship that continues between visits. The field record lives in the same product. Voice notes, photos and readings become a report you review and sign. Say the next step in the voice note at the end of a sales call and it comes back as a task on that place for you to confirm. Contacts import from CSV, up to 1,000 at a time, and export to CSV. There is no customer API and no live sync with another CRM, so contact lists move between systems as files. ## Where the sales workflow lives In the web sidebar, Sales contains Pipeline, Contacts, Opportunities and Accounts. The opportunity describes potential work, the account holds the customer relationship and the contact is the person you talk to. The strip above the pipeline counts leads, farms in contact and clients for the period you pick, and the board switches between places and contacts. For follow-up, Tasks supports assignees, followers and Reminder, Follow-up or Appointment types. A task created by voice in the field lands on the place for you to confirm and assign, so the next action sits on its own instead of inside a visit narrative. ## Mail, calendar and other systems Mail sync is switched on per team. Then each person opens Settings, Integrations and connects their own Gmail or Outlook for read-only mail matched to contacts. You can subscribe to your PropelMapper calendar from Google, Outlook or Apple. PropelMapper reads mail but does not send from your inbox or run email campaigns. PropelMapper has no customer API and no webhook feed. Automations are available on request through the contact page. A team that keeps another CRM alongside PropelMapper moves contacts between the two as CSV files, by hand. When an imported contact’s email already belongs to someone in PropelMapper, the import asks you to review it instead of making a duplicate. Duplicates that already exist can be merged, and the places and activity of the one you drop move onto the one you keep. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Can my team share places? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/can-my-team-share-places/ > Yes. In PropelMapper places belong to the team, so every member works from the same farms, fields and sites, with the same visits, reports and tasks. Answers Yes, everyone on a PropelMapper team works from the same places, with each place’s visits, reports and open tasks in one record. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. The web app organizes the work through Places, Map, Visits and Tasks. The whole team uses one hierarchy, with level names it picks: farm and field, site and zone, or its own words. A visit keeps its voice notes, photographs, typed notes and readings. The signed report carries the finding, and an assigned task carries the follow-up, so the next person can see what was found and what is still open. Boundaries can be imported in the browser or drawn or walked on the phone. When several people cover the same property, they record visits under the same place, so every report lands on the right field. The Team area holds Members, Schedule and Invites. Settings holds the hierarchy, statuses, categories and report setup for the whole team. Territories are available on request. Two roles keep it simple: an admin manages members, labels and team switches, and a member records visits and signs reports. The map shows every capture the team recorded, pinned where it was taken, and colors each place by how long it has been since the last visit. ## Hand a place to the next person Places in the web app has a tab for each level of the hierarchy. The level names are set for the whole team, so a vineyard team can say block where a crop team says field. For a handoff, open the place to see its earlier visits and signed reports, then its open tasks. Tasks have assignees and followers, so the person doing the next check is named on the task and the rest of the team can follow it. Contacts are linked to places too, so the landlord and the tenant show up on the farm with their calls, mail and visits. ## Offline captures and cover Capture works on the phone with no signal. Transcription, drafting and sending need a connection, so a visit recorded out of coverage reaches the team once the phone reconnects and the captures upload. When someone covers a place for a colleague, the place page has what they need: the boundary, the last report and the task that says what to do next. Nobody has to forward a folder of notes first. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Do you train on our data? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/do-you-train-on-our-data/ > No. PropelMapper doesn’t train on your data, and the Privacy Policy and Terms say so in writing. Your team owns its visits, recordings, photos and reports. Answers No, PropelMapper doesn’t train on your data. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. The Privacy Policy and Terms set this out in writing. Your recordings, photos, notes and readings are used to do the work you asked for: transcribe what you said, draft the report from your visit and answer your questions in Ask Propel. Both the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service state that we do not use your data to train models. Your team owns the records, and they stay with the account when someone leaves. If your organization needs the commitment in its own agreement, contact us before you roll out and we will go through it with you. ## What the Privacy Policy and Terms say The Terms of Service say that the client data, field observations, voice recordings and service information you enter belong to you. We claim no ownership, and we process them only to provide the service to your team. The service providers that transcribe your recordings and draft your reports keep data for 30 days or less, only for that processing, and do not use it to train models. The same terms cover the audio briefings you ask PropelMapper to prepare before a visit. If you connect Gmail or Outlook, PropelMapper gets read-only access. Mail exchanged with your saved contacts is matched to them and used in the briefings you ask for. It is never sold, used for advertising or used to train models, and disconnecting it in Settings stops access at once. ## Where your records stay Your visits, recordings, photos, readings and reports stay with your team’s account, under the places they are about. Reports download as PDF or Word, readings export to CSV or Excel and contacts export to CSV. If a grower or another person you serve asks us about their data, we forward the request to you, because your team controls that record. The full wording is in the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service, both linked from the foot of every page. We may use anonymized, aggregated data to improve the product. If you would rather we leave your team’s data out of that too, email us and we will exclude it from that work as well. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Does it record the weather? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-it-record-weather/ > PropelMapper supports weather and conditions per visit. Check the place and date, and keep looked-up conditions separate from field measurements. Answers Yes, PropelMapper looks up the weather at a place for the time of your visit and can add it to the report as a Field conditions section. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. On the draft report, choose Add to report, then Weather. PropelMapper looks up the temperature, rain, wind and humidity at that place for the visit’s time window, plus the rain over the previous seven days. NDVI and soil snapshots can go in next to it. That snapshot is saved inside the report. Open the report next spring and it shows the numbers from the visit, not today’s weather fetched again. The conditions are looked up for the place, not measured by an instrument at your stop. The mobile app captures notes, photographs and readings without service, and they upload when you reconnect. Adding weather to a draft needs a connection, the same as transcription, drafting and sending. The advisor still interprets the field evidence. Weather helps answer a question about wet or dry conditions, and the report keeps that context apart from what you saw, what you measured and what the grower told you. ## Where weather fits in the visit In the web app, each visit shows its weather and conditions, and the report can include a Field conditions section. Each place’s Site data tab also shows the current conditions and the days ahead next to its soil and NDVI, which is enough to tell a walking day from a spraying day. Keep a field measurement separate from looked-up weather. If you measure standing water, rainfall from a farm gauge or a canopy condition, record it as a note or a reading with its unit. The report then shows what you measured on site apart from the weather section. ## What weather adds to a report Yellow corn in a photo reads differently after a wet week than after a dry spell. An adjuster, a lender or a grower who reads the report months later wants to know which it was, and the Field conditions section answers that. Weather does not diagnose crop injury or show the state of a buried drainage line, so your note says what the visit showed and what is still uncertain. The section holds those values for the visit window. It is not a station log or a compliance record. If you rely on a station record from another source, name the source and the date in your note so the reader knows where it came from. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Does it send Word or PDF? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-it-send-word-or-pdf/ > Both. PropelMapper attaches every report as a PDF and an editable Word file when you send it, and you can download either one at any time. Answers PropelMapper sends both: every report goes out as a PDF and as a Word file, and you can download either one later. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Send panel. The PDF is the copy of record. It matches what you signed, with your logo, photos and signature in place. The Word file is for clients and colleagues who want to quote from it, paste a section into their own paperwork or file it in a system that expects a.docx. Signing locks the version that went out. If someone edits the Word copy afterward, the signed report in PropelMapper does not change, and its activity log still shows what was sent, to whom and when. A farm report, which gathers a farm's visits into one document, downloads in both formats as well. Readings from the Metrics grid export separately, as CSV or Excel. Every recipient gets a link to confirm receipt with one tap, without signing in. Each person on the send list gets their own email with both files, and you can switch on a copy to yourself. The place’s contact is already filled in when the send dialog opens. ## Review and send from the report Find the visit in Visits or the report in Paper Trail, Reports on the web. Read the draft against the original notes and photographs before signing. Report templates are configured for the team, with branding and language settings, so check that the selected report fits this kind of visit. The send workflow attaches both document formats. Review the recipient and the version being sent, then use the report activity log to follow the send and acknowledgment events. The acknowledgment confirms the report arrived. It does not approve the advice or authorize a proposed repair. ## Choose the file for the next reader Use the PDF when the reader wants the finished document. Use DOCX when their process needs an editable document or a passage they can place into other paperwork. A downloaded file that someone edits becomes a separate copy, and the signed report in PropelMapper stays as it was. A document export is different from a structured-data export. Readings can come from Metrics as CSV or Excel, and contacts have a CSV export. Teams that use the photo gallery can download a place’s photos, or a date range of them, as a zip. There is no customer API, so data leaves PropelMapper as these files, downloaded by anyone on the team who can see them. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Does it work for pest control? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-it-work-for-pest-control/ > Yes. PropelMapper turns a pest control technician’s spoken route notes into a signed service report with a receipt the site contact confirms. Answers Yes, PropelMapper supports pest-control visit records with voice notes, photos, readings, team report templates, author signing and recipient acknowledgment. Example account: Heartland Pest Solutions. Monthly rodent service - Receiving dock (doors 1-8). Use named places to organize sites and zones, then identify the exact device, doorway or storage area in the note. Custom hierarchy labels help the team use familiar words instead of adapting every finding to farm terminology. The phone supports voice capture, photographs and markup, typed notes, readings, pre-visit checklists and short video clips up to 30 seconds. Keep the finding and the relevant location reference together so the reviewer can check what the technician meant. After upload, review the transcript and drafted report. Correct device names, counts and units, and add the intended recommendation. Reports export and send as PDF and DOCX, with an activity log for capture, versions, signature, send and acknowledgment. Tasks with assignees carry the next check or the corrective work. PropelMapper covers the visit and the report. It does not do invoicing or dispatch, so routes and billing stay in the tools you use for them today. ## Configure site records before the route Choose place names that fit the operation, such as property and building or site and zone, in two levels or four, and we set them when the team starts. In Settings, Checklists and Metric types, set up the checks and readings your technicians record at each stop. Settings, Reports holds team templates, each with your logo and a report language. A place’s status or category picks the template, so each kind of service visit gets its own layout. Say the station number and what you found at it, and the draft keeps the two together in the findings. ## What the technician still supplies The technician states the zone, device or room and what was found there. A photo, a marked-up image or a short clip keeps the evidence with the note. PropelMapper does not identify pests from photos or decide on treatment. That call belongs to the technician, and the report carries it in their words. Captures save on the phone without service and upload when you reconnect. Transcription, drafting and sending wait for a connection. Tasks assign corrective follow-up to a person. The site contact confirms receipt from a link in the email, while the technician’s signature records who reviewed the report. That confirmation is not a signature and does not approve the work. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Heartland Pest Solutions --- # Does it work for property inspections? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-it-work-for-property-inspections/ > Yes. Walk the building, photograph each defect, say where it is, and PropelMapper drafts an inspection report you review, sign and send. Answers Yes, PropelMapper supports property inspection records with voice notes, marked-up photos, checklists, readings, reviewed reports and assigned follow-up. Example account: Keystone Property Inspections. Annual unit inspection - Building C. The phone collects a voice explanation, photographs, typed notes, readings and short video clips of 30 seconds. Photo markup points to a detail that is hard to see in a wide shot. The inspector names the location and describes the condition in their own words. Captures save on the phone with no signal and upload when you reconnect. You need a connection for transcription, drafting and sending. The web app handles the desk work: places, visits, reports and tasks. Team templates carry your logo and report language. The author reads the draft, adds the conclusion and signs it. The report goes out as PDF and DOCX attachments, and the recipient confirms receipt with a link. The report activity log keeps the visit start and end, each capture, every version, the signature, each send and each acknowledgment. It reads as a dated paper trail of the inspection. PropelMapper does not diagnose defects or survey the property, and the log is a readable history, not a sealed archive. ## Set up the inspection record Tell us the place names your team uses, such as property and building, and we set them when the team starts. Then set up Checklists, Metric types and Reports for the checks, readings and report layout your team uses. A place’s status or category picks the report template, so each kind of inspection your team does can have its own. Keep the room, doorway, roof area or equipment ID in the note. A place boundary locates the property, but the interior references come from what you say and photograph. A broad view and a close view of the same spot help someone reading the report at a desk understand the condition. ## Keep conclusions within the inspection scope Say which areas were locked or not inspected and what needs a closer look, and that goes into the draft with the rest of the findings. A photo shows a stain, and your note says what you think caused it. When a contractor says the work is done, note it as their statement until you see the work yourself. The recipient’s confirmation records that the report arrived. It does not approve a repair. An assigned task holds the return inspection with a person and a date. PropelMapper does not issue certifications or track compliance, so the report is your inspection write-up on your team’s template. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Keystone Property Inspections --- # Does it work on Android? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-it-work-on-android/ > Yes. Get the PropelMapper Android field app on Google Play. Sign in with your web account email, capture visits offline and upload when you reconnect. Answers Yes, PropelMapper is on Google Play for Android, with the same account you use in the web app. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Use the Google Play badge below to open the PropelMapper listing. Check that the developer is PropelMapper Inc, then tap Install on your Android phone. Open the app and sign in with the same email address as your web account. Your visits belong to that account, so you can capture them on the phone and return to them in the browser at your desk. If you are new to PropelMapper, start 45 days free on this site first. Use that email when signing in on Android so your phone and browser work stay together. In the field, record voice notes, take photos, enter readings or type observations. Each capture keeps its location and time, giving the report a record of what you saw and where you stood. You can keep capturing without a signal. Captures save on the phone and upload when you reconnect. Transcription, new report drafts and sending require a connection. ## Prepare for a visit without coverage Sign in while you have a connection and download the offline maps you need before heading out. The phone can save captures and draw or walk a boundary away from cell service. A report draft already downloaded to the phone can also be reviewed and signed offline. Before your first disconnected visit, make a short recording while online and check that it appears in your web account. Then try a voice note and photo without coverage and reconnect to check the upload. This gives you a chance to check microphone and location access on the phone you will carry, rather than discovering a setup problem at the field gate. After reconnecting, let the waiting captures upload before expecting a new draft. Review the report against your notes and photographs, correct the wording and send it when it is ready for the client. ## Use Android and iPhone on one team Colleagues can use either phone platform for field visits and use the web app for maps, shared places, tasks and contacts. Browser work needs an internet connection. Clients receive the exported report without having to install the field app. The recording screen shown here was captured on iPhone. For the current Android screens and installation requirements, see the Google Play listing. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Does it work on iPhone? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-it-work-on-iphone/ > Yes. The PropelMapper iPhone app records voice notes, photos, 30-second clips and pins with or without signal, then lets you edit, sign and send the report. Answers Yes, PropelMapper has an iPhone field app for voice, photos, readings, offline capture and report review. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap Tap record at the field and talk. While the recording runs you can take photos, draw on them, shoot clips of up to 30 seconds, type a note, log a reading and drop pins. Each capture is stamped with the time and your GPS point. You can also draw a field boundary on the map, or walk its edge. The app keeps working in a dead zone. Captures save on the phone and upload by themselves when you have coverage again. Once they are up, PropelMapper drafts the report, and you can read it, edit it and sign it on the iPhone. The phone and the browser share one account. Sign in with the same email and you see the same visits, places and reports in both. The app is available in English and Spanish. For a team using both platforms, the Android app is available on Google Play. Tasks and contacts are on the phone too, so a follow-up can be assigned before you leave the yard. ## Get the phone ready for a field visit Pick the place before you start recording, so every capture lands on the right field. The capture tools cover voice, photo markup, typed notes, readings, mileage and pre-visit checklists. A reading keeps its unit, and a photo keeps its context when you say what it shows. If the visit is outside coverage, download offline maps while you still have signal. Back in coverage, the captures upload by themselves, and the visit marks each one as synced. ## From draft to sent report Transcription, drafting and sending need a connection. Once the captures are up, compare the names, measurements and units in the draft with the recordings and photos, add your recommendation and sign, with a drawn or typed signature, the same as in the browser. The client can confirm receipt after you send. Download PropelMapper from the App Store using the badge above and sign in with the email you use in the browser. Colleagues on Android install the field app from Google Play. Open the first report you send on another device, so you see the PDF and Word attachments your clients receive. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Does PropelMapper work offline? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/does-propelmapper-work-offline/ > Yes for capture: voice notes, photos, video clips and pins save on the phone with no signal. Drafting the report and sending it wait for a connection. Answers Yes, PropelMapper’s mobile app captures field records offline, while transcription, report drafting and sending require a connection. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap On the phone, capture works with no signal: voice notes, photos, readings, checklists and the walked boundary save as you go and upload when you reconnect. Download offline maps before you leave coverage. Every capture keeps its time and GPS point. The captures list on the visit shows each voice note, photo and typed note and whether it has synced, so you can see what is still waiting before you leave the yard. Readings and checklist answers save the same way. A draft already downloaded to the phone can be read, edited and signed with no signal, and sending it waits for a connection. Transcription, drafting and sending are connected steps. A recording made in a dead zone needs to upload before those steps can use it. The web app has no offline mode. Plan disconnected field capture on the mobile app and use the browser for the online desk workflow, including visits, reports, places, tasks and Metrics. ## Before you leave coverage Download the offline map areas you need while you still have signal. Open the place you are heading to and check that its name and boundary match the field, so every capture lands in the right spot. Your places and captures sit in an encrypted database on the phone, which is how the app keeps working in a dead zone. Pick the readings and checklists for the job before you start. Say the unit and the sample, pen or room number with each value, since a map pin shows where you stood and not what you counted. A boundary you walk with no signal saves with the visit, so a new field can be mapped on the first walk. ## When the signal comes back The captures upload on their own once the phone reconnects, and the captures list on the visit marks each one as synced. The transcript and the draft follow from there, and you can open the visit on the phone or in the browser, whichever is closer. Read the transcript and the readings pulled from it against the recording before you sign. The report’s activity log keeps the captures, every version, the signature, each send and each acknowledgment. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Offline maps and sync in the phone menu. Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # How accurate is the transcription? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/how-accurate-is-the-transcription/ > PropelMapper publishes no accuracy percentage. A team vocabulary, the original recording and your review before signing are how errors get caught. Answers PropelMapper does not publish an accuracy percentage for transcription, because the result depends on the recording: wind, engine noise, how far the phone is from your mouth and how many unusual names you say. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. What we do instead is make mistakes easy to catch and less likely to repeat. Your team keeps a vocabulary in Settings, under Terms: hybrid numbers, product names, growth stages and the names growers use for their fields. Adding a word there helps every later transcript spell it right. The original recording stays with the visit. If a sample depth or a field name looks wrong in the draft, play the note back, fix the wording and carry on. Readings you say out loud, such as a stand count or a soil depth, are pulled into the visit form, where you can check each number against what you said. Read the report against the original recording and check the recommendation before signing and sending. Recording works with no signal. Turning it into text waits until the phone has a connection. ## Set up terms and reading names In Settings, Terms, keep the names and words the team says in the field. Terms belong to the whole team, so a word one person adds helps everyone. In Settings, Metric types, set the reading names and their synonyms, so a stand count said three different ways lands in one column. PropelMapper pulls those readings from the transcript, and each value appears in the visit form for you to confirm or edit. Say the number and the unit together, and name the field, sample or animal before the value. A number heard correctly still needs its subject, so the habit matters as much as the microphone. ## Check the draft against the recording When a name, date or reading looks off, open the recording and listen. The transcript, the readings and the draft all come from that one recording, so one listen settles it. Fix the wording, add the interpretation your client needs, then sign. Transcription turns speech into text. The advice in the report is yours: you add it, check it and sign it. A recording made with no signal stays on the phone until it reconnects. The upload, the transcript and the draft then follow in that order. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # How do I cancel? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/how-do-i-cancel/ > A team admin cancels in Settings, Billing. What you pay after canceling, what to export first and how long your data stays available. Answers A team admin cancels PropelMapper in the web app under Settings, Billing, where Manage billing opens the billing portal and you cancel the plan. PropelMapper plans, billed monthly. Monthly plans can be canceled at any time. Subscriptions renew on their own, so canceling before the renewal date stops the next charge. Under the Terms of Service, you pay through the end of the current billing period or annual commitment, and fees are not refunded except where the law requires it. Deleting the phone app does not cancel the plan. The subscription belongs to the team, and it is canceled from Settings, Billing. The reports, readings and contacts belong to you under the Terms of Service, before and after you cancel. Reports you already sent stay with the people who received them, since the files arrived as email attachments. Before you cancel, finish any reports still waiting for a signature or a send. Open the phone app somewhere with a connection, so captures recorded without signal finish uploading to the team. After the account closes, the Terms of Service give you 30 days to export your data. After 90 days, the data is permanently deleted from our systems. ## What you can take with you Each report downloads as a PDF or a Word file, and so does a farm report that gathers several visits. In the web app, Metrics exports readings to CSV or Excel, and Contacts exports to CSV. Open each file once before the account closes and check that the date range is the one you need. For a season of work on one farm, a farm report is the quickest record to keep. Pick the visits you want, and they are gathered into one document. The exports cover reports, readings and contacts. For the original voice recordings and photos, contact us before the account closes and name the team and the places you want kept. ## Who cancels, and when to write to us A team admin cancels the plan. If someone else manages billing for your team, ask them to cancel from their own login. If you are on an annual plan or pay by invoice and have a question about the end date or a payment, use the contact link below and name the team and the plan. Keep our reply with your billing records. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Individual: $99 a month, or $900 a year Team, 5 people: $400 a month, or $4,000 a year Each added team member: $80 a month, or $800 a year Clients who read reports: Free --- # How fast is the draft? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/how-fast-is-the-draft/ > The median time from the end of a visit to its PropelMapper draft report is 20 seconds, from the approved production snapshot. Answers The median time from the end of a visit to its PropelMapper draft report is 20 seconds. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. The figure comes from the production snapshot dated October 28, 2026. It measures the time from the end of a visit to its draft report across the visits recorded in that dataset. Half of those drafts were ready in that time or less. Transcription and drafting need a connection. A visit recorded without signal saves on the phone and uploads when you reconnect, and the draft follows once the recordings arrive. Then you check the draft against the recordings, photos and readings, fix any name, number or unit, add your advice and sign it. The report workflow also includes author signatures, PDF and DOCX export, sending and recipient acknowledgment. Its activity log follows the captures, every report version and each of those handoffs. ## What the draft is built from PropelMapper writes the draft from everything captured on the visit: the transcribed voice notes, typed notes, readings and photos. Readings you say out loud land in the visit form, where you confirm or edit each value. The draft goes into the report template your team set up, with your logo and report language, so the version you review already looks like the one your client gets. ## Where the draft shows up In the web app, Visits has Processing and Ready to sign views. A visit sits in Processing while its draft is being written and moves to Ready to sign when the draft is done. Open a Ready to sign visit to read the draft next to its recordings and photos. The draft follows your team’s setup. Settings, Reports holds the report templates, and Terms and Metric types hold your vocabulary and reading names, so the draft spells them the way your team does. ## What the median means for your day Because the draft is written while you pack up, the review can happen between stops instead of at the desk that evening. A phone that has not reconnected yet holds the recordings, and the draft starts once they upload. The time is to a draft, not to a finished report. Checking it, adding your recommendation and signing are your part, and they take as long as the visit needs. A fast draft with a wrong unit is still a wrong report until you fix it. Last checked: November 6, 2026 20 s median time from the end of a visit to its draft report. Source: Production snapshot, October 28, 2026: 8,773 visits in 2026 with both times recorded --- # How long can a video clip be? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/how-long-can-a-video-clip-be/ > Up to 30 seconds. PropelMapper records short clips in the phone app during a visit, pins each to where you stood, and plays it back on the web. Answers PropelMapper records video clips up to 30 seconds in the mobile app, with playback in the web visit record. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap Thirty seconds covers what a still photo cannot: water backing out of a tile outlet, a heifer favoring a hind leg, a plugged nozzle on a boom, wind pushing spray off target. Each clip is stamped with the time and your GPS point. It lands as a pin on the visit map and sits in the timeline between the voice note before it and the photo after it. A clip shot with no signal waits on the phone and uploads with the rest of the visit. For anything longer, keep talking instead of filming. The voice note carries the explanation, and the draft report is written from what you say. If one clip is not enough, shoot a second. The phone also supports photo markup. A marked-up still works better when the detail that matters is a spot or a visible feature rather than motion. ## Shoot a clip that explains itself Start the clip from the record screen during the visit. Say what it shows in a voice note next to it: the field, the outlet, the animal. Someone who opens the report a month later did not stand where you stood. Video records in the mobile app for iOS and Android. The web app plays clips back and does not record them. Put the numbers in a reading or a note. The clip shows the motion, and the reading holds the flow rate or the lameness score, so the value lands in Metrics with its history. ## After the visit Clips play back in the web visit record, with the voice notes and photos from the same walk. Write the finding into the report in words, because the report is what the client reads and files. Anyone on the team can open the clip from the visit later. Clips are part of the paper trail. The activity log records each capture on the visit, so a clip appears with its time alongside the voice notes and photos. A clip recorded without signal stays on the phone until you reconnect. Transcription, drafting and sending need that connection too, so the visit is ready to review once the upload finishes. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # How much does PropelMapper cost? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/how-much-does-propelmapper-cost/ > PropelMapper costs $99 a month for one advisor, or $400 a month for a team of 5. Start with 45 days free; clients read reports free. Answers PropelMapper costs $99 a month for one person, or $400 a month for a team of 5, and the first 45 days are free. PropelMapper plans, billed monthly. You pay only for the people who walk sites and write reports. Each extra team member after the first 5 is $80 a month. Growers, landowners, lenders and anyone else who receives a report read it free, without an account. Paying yearly lowers the price: $900 a year for one person, $4000 a year for a team of 5, and $800 a year for each added member. Free for 45 days on the full Individual plan. Add a card at checkout and pay $0 today. Cancel any time before day 45, or it continues at $99 a month. Record real visits and review, sign and send reports before the first charge. ## Check the plan against the work Use the pricing page and its seat calculator to compare the current monthly and annual options. Decide who needs to record visits and write reports, and distinguish those workers from clients who only receive the finished documents. Keep the selected billing period clear when comparing amounts. The free days run on the full Individual plan, so you evaluate the same features you would pay for. Use a place, a visit and a reviewed report that look like your normal work. Report recipients never count as seats. A grower, landowner or lender opens the report you send without an account, so a team pays for the advisors who record visits, however many clients receive reports. ## Confirm special requirements before choosing Shared links are included in every paid plan. Briefings and Insights are switched on per team, and automations and territories are available on request. If your rollout depends on one of them, ask us to turn it on before you compare prices. Check requirements beyond price as well: the field app runs on iPhone and Android, the browser is online only, and mobile transcription, drafting and sending require a connection. There is no customer API or webhook feed. Monthly plans cancel anytime from Settings, under Billing. Pick monthly or yearly billing at checkout. Yearly saves on both plans, and the free days work the same way on either. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Individual: $99 a month, or $900 a year Team, 5 people: $400 a month, or $4,000 a year Each added team member: $80 a month, or $800 a year Clients who read reports: Free --- # Is PropelMapper HIPAA or SOC 2 compliant? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/is-propelmapper-hipaa-or-soc2/ > PropelMapper has no HIPAA claim, SOC 2 report or ISO 27001 certification. Here is where records are hosted, how they are backed up and how they leave. Answers No, PropelMapper has no HIPAA compliance claim, SOC 2 report or ISO 27001 certification. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Activity panel. PropelMapper is built for field visits to farms, sites and herds. If your organization requires a SOC 2 report, an ISO 27001 certification or a business associate agreement, talk to us before choosing a plan. Records are hosted in the United States. The database is backed up hourly, and those backups are copied along with your uploaded files to a second US region. On the phone, the field app keeps your places and captures in an encrypted database so it works without signal. The captures upload to the team when you reconnect. Every person signs in with their own account, and a team has two roles. Admins manage the member list, invitations, labels and team switches. A member records visits, writes and signs reports and works their own tasks. ## What the record shows Each report keeps an activity log: visit start and end, each capture, every version, the signature, each send and the acknowledgment. Signing freezes a version. A later edit creates a new one, so the signed copy stays readable next to it. The activity log is a paper trail kept from stored records. Recipients confirm receipt through a link, and only the author signs the report. ## Your data and how it leaves Your team owns its visits, recordings, photos, readings, contacts and reports, and we don't train on your data. Reports export as signed PDFs and Word files, readings as CSV or Excel and contacts as CSV, with no request to us needed. When someone leaves the team, remove them from the member list. Their visits and reports stay with the team, under the places they belong to. A Delete action asks for confirmation first, and a deleted record cannot be restored from the app. Closing a team account and removing its data goes through us. Shared links to records outside the team come with paid plans and only exist when someone on the team creates one. Gmail and Outlook connections stay off until a team turns them on, each person connects their own mailbox, and mail access is read-only. If your review comes with a security questionnaire, book a call and send it over. We would rather answer it before your team starts recording visits. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Is there a free plan? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/is-there-a-free-plan/ > PropelMapper is free for 45 days on the full Individual plan. Add a card at checkout, pay $0 today and cancel before day 45. Answers Yes, PropelMapper is free for 45 days on the full Individual plan, with a card on file and $0 due today. 45 days free, with a card on file. There is no free-forever plan. Choose Free on the pricing page and Stripe checkout takes your card and charges nothing. You get every Individual feature for 45 days. Cancel any time before day 45 and you are never charged. Otherwise the plan continues at $99 a month, or $900 a year if you chose yearly billing. The free days are a working account. You record real visits on the phone, read the drafted report, sign it and send it to a grower, and the grower reads it without paying anything or creating a login. $99 a month for one advisor. $80 a seat for teams of 5 or more. Only the people who record visits and write reports count as seats. A team that wants several people recording from the first day can choose the Team plan at checkout instead. ## Make the free days count Add a place that looks like your normal work, then record a visit with the evidence you usually collect: voice notes, photos, typed observations and readings. Read the draft against those captures, add your recommendation, sign it and send it to your own email to see exactly what a client receives. Capture works on the phone with no signal, and uploads send when you reconnect. Transcription, drafting and sending need a connection. Set up your report template and letterhead early, so the reports you send during the free days already look like yours. ## Before day 45 A team admin cancels from Settings, under Billing, where Manage billing opens the billing portal. Cancel before day 45 and the card is never charged. Keep going and the first charge is the plan you picked at checkout, monthly or yearly. Universities, extension services and nonprofits can ask for the education price, which is set after we verify the institution. Shared links, Insights and scheduled reports come with the paid plans. Your clients never need a plan of their own. A grower, landowner or lender opens the report you send without an account, during the free days and after them, so the only seats you pay for are the people who record visits. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Free: 45 days Due today: $0 Plan: Individual, every feature After day 45: $99 a month or $900 a year Card: Required at checkout Cancel: Any time before day 45 Access: Web app and mobile app for iOS and Android. --- # Is there an API? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/is-there-an-api/ > No. PropelMapper has no customer API or webhooks today. Data moves through file imports and exports, Gmail and Outlook, and a calendar link. Answers No, PropelMapper does not offer a customer API or webhooks today. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Data moves in and out of PropelMapper as files. Places import from CSV, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or a zipped shapefile up to 20 MB. Contacts import and export as CSV. Metrics exports readings as CSV or Excel, and reports export as PDF or DOCX. Settings, Integrations connects Gmail and Outlook. Mail is read, never sent, and matched to the contact every five minutes. A personal calendar link puts your PropelMapper visits and tasks in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar. With mail connected, each email to and from a client contact is filed onto that contact’s places, so the conversation sits with the farm it was about. The calendar link is private to each person and can be replaced at any time. Automations are available on request. If your rollout depends on one, ask us through the contact page. Those connections each do one named job: mail, calendar or files. There is no general integration framework behind them, and we don’t publish a date for an API. ## Moving data with files In the web app, boundaries come in through Places, readings go out through Metrics, and contacts move both ways through Contacts. Reports and farm reports download as documents from the report itself. Each export runs from the web app whenever you need it, with no request to us. Boundaries drawn in another mapping tool come in as a shapefile, KML, KMZ or GeoJSON, so nobody draws the fields twice. Contacts kept in a spreadsheet or another CRM come in as CSV. Before a handoff, check the columns, units and date format the receiving system expects. CSV is a shared format, and two systems still name their fields differently, so a look at the headers first saves a failed import. ## Telling us what you need Tell us what needs to move, in which direction, how often and who handles errors. Say whether you need original files, readings or only the signed reports. A specific request gets a specific answer. Once a handoff works, write it down: which export to run, where the file goes and how the receiving system checks it. The next person on the team can then repeat it without guessing. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # What is a place? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/what-is-a-place/ > A place in PropelMapper is anything you visit and report on: a farm, field, ranch, greenhouse or building. Visits, photos, reports and tasks file under it. Answers A place in PropelMapper is the named location your team visits, such as a farm, field, building or site. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap Places organize where the team works. The Map, Places and Visits areas are three ways to find that work, and reports carry the checked findings from each visit. Names the team and the report reader both recognize work best. The hierarchy can use two or four levels, and its labels are customizable. A farm-and-field structure is one option, and teams outside farming choose words such as site and zone or property and building. Places can have mapped boundaries. Supported map information includes SSURGO soils, crop history and Sentinel-2 NDVI, with layers clipped to field boundaries. Weather and conditions are also available in the visit workflow. Everything recorded on a visit files under its place: the voice notes, photos, readings, reports and the tasks that follow. Open a place and its visits read in order, so whoever goes next sees what was found last time and what is still open. ## Choose the identity before recording Use Places in the web app to review the saved hierarchy and Map to see where each place sits. The sidebar has one Places tab per hierarchy level and a Needs a visit view. Pick the right place before you start recording, because every capture from that visit files under it. Choose the level structure and the words for each level when the team starts, and we set them for you. Statuses, categories and report templates are set on their own pages. The hierarchy names what you visit, and a place’s status or category picks which report template its visits use. ## What a boundary is for A boundary can be drawn or walked on the phone, or imported in the web app. It is a working outline for visits and field layers, not a legal survey of the property line. PropelMapper never draws one for you, so the outline matches the ground your team manages. A place holds the visit, and the note holds the detail. A building place does not say which room you inspected, and a field place does not say where a sample came from. Say the room, stop or sample ID in the voice note and it carries into the draft, so the report separates the saved place from the exact spot you checked. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # What is Ask Propel? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/what-is-ask-propel/ > Ask Propel answers questions about your places, notes and readings in the PropelMapper web and mobile apps, with links to the records behind each answer. Answers Ask Propel is the question box in PropelMapper’s web and mobile apps, and it answers questions about your team’s places, notes and readings with links to the records behind each answer. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap Ask about a field, an earlier visit or a reading, and the answer points to the notes it came from. Open that source and read it before you use the answer in a report or a phone call. You can type a question in the browser, or type or dictate one on the phone, and Ask is on automatically. Ask searches the team records you have access to, and it needs a connection. A visit still saved on a colleague’s phone, waiting for a signal, becomes searchable once it uploads. A question that names the field and the time finds the right visit faster than a broad question about a client with several farms. When you cover a colleague’s farm, ask what was recorded at that field last week and read their note before you call the grower. Ask finds and reads the record. It does not diagnose a problem or replace a field visit. You check the source, explain the finding and sign the report yourself. During the 45 free days you have the same Ask Propel as the Individual plan. ## Where to find Ask Propel On the web, Ask sits in the top bar. On the phone, open Ask from a visit and it offers the questions people ask most: summarize this visit, what issues came up and what should I do next. Answers draw on your places, field notes and readings. The linked source shows the visit date and the advisor who recorded it, so you can tell an observation from a client’s comment or from advice added during review. ## Reading an answer well A single reading tells you what was recorded on one day. A trend needs another dated sample to compare. Compare any number, unit or name in an answer with the source before it goes into a report. When the detail you expected is missing, the visit has not uploaded yet or the note was never made. Check with the advisor who made the visit, or open that visit, before you conclude nothing was seen. An earlier photo stays evidence of the earlier visit. In the new report, keep what your colleague found then apart from what you inspected today, so the grower reads the sequence clearly. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # What languages does it support? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/what-languages-does-it-support/ > PropelMapper runs in English and Spanish on phone and web. Report templates can be English, Spanish, German or Afrikaans, set apart from the app. Answers PropelMapper runs in English and Spanish, on the phone and on the web, and its reports can be written in English, Spanish, German or Afrikaans. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. The two settings are separate on purpose. Each person picks the language of their own menus, buttons and messages in Settings, under Language. The choice is saved on their account, so it follows them to the phone and to every browser. The phone app is fully translated into Spanish, error messages included. The report language belongs to the report template, which a team admin sets. A crew lead can work in Spanish all day while the grower receives a report in English, or the other way round. A team that sends reports in two languages keeps a template for each. A note spoken in Spanish is transcribed in Spanish, and the words you said are the words the draft starts from. The Language settings page has a button to request another app language. Those requests decide which one comes next. ## Choose the interface and template separately Use Settings, Language for a person’s English or Spanish interface. That preference is saved on the person and follows them across devices. Use Settings, Reports for each template’s language. Changing your app language leaves every report template as it was, and changing a template leaves everyone’s menus alone. Places route to a template by status or category. A team with English and Spanish readers sets up a template in each language and points each group of places at the right one, so nobody picks a language at the end of a visit. ## Check the whole handoff in the required language Choose a representative visit and read its recorded note, the reviewed report and what the recipient receives. Check names, units and the recommendation with someone who reads the report language well. The author reads the draft against the recording and photos, edits it and signs it, whatever language it is in. A translated menu helps someone find their way around the app. The professional wording in the report is still the author’s. Report templates come in English, Spanish, German and Afrikaans today, and the app itself runs in English and Spanish. For any other language, use the request button in Settings or tell us on a setup call. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # What map layers are included? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/what-map-layers-are-included/ > Satellite, street and terrain maps, plus SSURGO soil, eight years of crop history, NDVI, elevation and drive time, on the same map as your pins. Answers PropelMapper includes satellite, street and terrain base maps, plus field layers for soil, crop history, NDVI, elevation and drive time, all on the same map as your pins and boundaries. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap Soil comes from the USDA SSURGO survey, showing each map unit and the share of the field it covers. Crop history uses the USDA Cropland Data Layer for a rolling eight years, so you can see a field's rotation before you get there. NDVI from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery is available for each place. For terrain there are 3D views, elevation and hillshade. Drive-time rings show what lies within 30 or 60 minutes, and a route layer lays out today's stops. A density layer shows where your team has recorded the most notes and photos. On a field with a boundary, the soil, crop and NDVI layers are clipped to that outline. SSURGO and the Cropland Data Layer cover the United States only. Download the areas you work in ahead of time and the base map and your boundaries open on the phone with no signal. ## Where layers and boundaries meet Use Map in the web sidebar to switch between the base maps and field layers. Layers clip to the saved boundary, so a lane or waterway inside the outline is part of what the layer shows for that field. You draw or walk each boundary, or import one, so the outline matches the ground you manage. Weather is recorded per visit, and each place's Site data tab shows today's conditions and the days ahead next to its soil and NDVI. ## Limits of mapped context Soil survey, crop history and vegetation imagery are background for a field visit. They do not diagnose a pest or a disease, predict yield or show the condition of buried tile. A low NDVI patch or a soil map unit tells you where to walk, and the visit tells you what is there. On a draft report, soil and NDVI snapshots can be added next to the visit's weather, so the reader sees the background the visit was made against. Offline maps are a phone feature, so download the areas you need before a visit without signal. The web app has no offline mode. Drive-time rings show how far you can get in 30 or 60 minutes, and an imported outline is your working boundary, not a survey of the property line. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy --- # Who owns the report? URL: https://www.propelmapper.com/answers/who-owns-the-report/ > Your team owns every PropelMapper visit, recording, photo and report, not the person who recorded it, and the record stays with the account when someone leaves. Answers Your team does: every visit, recording, photo and report in PropelMapper is owned by the team, not by the person who recorded it. Example account: Prairie Agronomy. Disease scouting - Ridge Field. It all stays with the account when someone leaves. The advisor who walks the field records the visit and signs the report. The team that holds the account owns what was recorded. When an advisor leaves, the places, the visits and the signed reports stay where they were, so the next advisor opens the farm and reads its history. The client who receives a report gets the signed PDF and Word copies and a link to confirm they received it. Confirming is a receipt, not a signature, and it does not give the client the source recordings. Reports download as PDF or Word, readings export to CSV or Excel and contacts export to CSV. If your client agreement sets its own terms for reuse of a report, those terms sit in that agreement. ## When someone leaves the team A team admin decides who is on the team. When an advisor leaves, the admin removes their access, and everything they recorded stays under the places it is about: the visits, the voice notes, the photos, the readings and every signed version of their reports. Nothing has to be exported or handed over by email before they go. The advisor who takes over the farm opens the place and reads its history in order. The earlier report shows who signed it and when, and the activity log shows each capture, every version, the signature, each send and the client’s confirmation. Signing freezes a report at that version. A later change makes a new version and the signed one is kept, so what the client received stays on the record when the team changes. ## What the Terms of Service say The Terms of Service say that the client data, field observations, voice recordings and service information you enter belong to you, that we claim no ownership and that we process them only to provide the service. If a grower or another person you serve asks us about their data, we forward the request to your team, because you control that record. Last checked: November 6, 2026 Example account: Prairie Agronomy