Your NYS DEC pesticide report, done.
Log applications all year — or import your spreadsheet in January — and PestDocket turns them into validated, upload-ready DEC files. Before February 1. Every year.
$149 a year for the whole business. No contract.
183
days left
until the 2026 report is due — February 1, 2027
Why January is like this
The deadline does not move
Every certified applicator and technician in New York files the Pesticide Reporting Law report by February 1. Statutory. No extensions. Electronic only since 2024.
The free tools are from 2015
The state’s own options are Windows desktop software and bare Excel workbooks. On a Mac, or a phone, you are on your own.
Rejections are routine
Common enough that the state runs a standing “Common PRL Report Issues” help page and six tutorial videos. Undiluted quantities, county codes and EPA number formatting are where reports come back.
Missing it is expensive
DEC’s standard consent order for a missed report is $250. Statutory exposure runs to $5,000 for a first violation and $10,000 for each one after. Recordkeeping counts stack: one small-shop case reached $14,000.
Sources: DEC Pesticide Reporting Law and DEC’s PRL settlement page; penalty ceilings from ECL §71-2907.
What PestDocket does
Import anything
A spreadsheet, a PestPac export, a GorillaDesk CSV. We map your columns automatically, and remember the mapping for next season.
Validate like DEC does
Every rule from the official specification: EPA number format, undiluted quantities, county codes, date rules. You see every problem before you file, in plain English — “that is the Establishment Number, not the Registration Number”.
Fix in minutes
An inline grid and bulk fixes: strip the commas out of quantities, normalise EPA dashes, fill the county in from the address. All five boroughs, and the rest of the state.
One click, upload-ready files
Correctly named Form 26 and 26A files, zipped for the nysprl.com upload page. Multi-applicator businesses covered — the 26A roster is built from the same data.
Cert-ID verification
Type a certification number and we check it against DEC's published roster, then fill in the name and the expiry date. You get a warning before a certification lapses.
Log as you go
Twenty-second entry on a phone, in the van, the day it happens. Do that and next January is a download rather than a fortnight.
Your data is yours
Full export whenever you want it. Public pricing, no contract, cancel any time. Nothing is held hostage on the way out.
Check your file, free
Upload the spreadsheet you already have. We run every DEC rule over it and tell you how many problems there are and what kind — before you create an account, before you pay anything. The file is read and thrown away: the rows are never stored.
How it is built
- Built to the official DEC Text File Specifications. The state accepts third-party software output as text files conforming to its published record layouts, uploaded at nysprl.com. That is the path PestDocket produces for.
- You file it.We prepare the files and hand them to you, correctly named and zipped; you upload them at nysprl.com and keep the submission number. We are not an agent and we do not file on anyone’s behalf.
- The three-year record, kept with the report. New York requires daily use records — dosage rate, application method, target organism, specific place — kept for three years. None of that is filed, and PestDocket keeps it with every entry, so an inspection is a search rather than a shoebox.
Pricing
$149
per year, per business
Covers every applicator and technician you file for — Form 26 and the Form 26A roster. No contract, cancel any time, and your data exports whenever you want it.
A free account shows you every problem in your season, in full, with what to change in each case. Paying builds the upload-ready DEC files and turns four hundred rows of tidying into one button.
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