The signed route
Contracts closed in summer for weather nobody can forecast — the risk lives in how they were written.
Zaras for Snow Removal
Seasonal and per-event contracts, storm dispatch, and salt tracked site by site.
The plowable season is a plateau from December through March — March ties January at plowable depth and beats December, in one hundred twenty seasons of the Minnesota DNR’s own record for a single metro. The number of storms swings sixteen times over between the best season on record and the worst. The contracts that decide who carries that risk were signed six months before the first flake. Snow fills the winter calendar; it does not de-risk the year.
What carries season to season: the route list service times last storm’s salt.
A dispatch at 2 a.m., a second pass at the retail lot, an invoice that closes without a dispute — the schedule for the crew, the history for the office, one thread for the account.
Dispatch goes out
The route list wakes with the storm — each site’s map, obstacles, and stack zones already on it, not radioed in from memory.
Second pass at the retail lot
A per-event invoice is only as good as its record — each pass timed and logged against the site as it happens.
Snow removal money comes from two engines — the contracts closed for weather nobody can forecast, and the storm log that turns a 2 a.m. dispatch into a paid invoice. Zaras runs both from the same record.
Contracts closed in summer for weather nobody can forecast — the risk lives in how they were written.
What turns a 2 a.m. dispatch into a paid invoice.
The record, not the whiteboard — every route from first call to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Contract management — seasonal, per-push, per-event, and time-and-materials work on one record.
Route lists and site maps — obstacles and stack zones attached to the address, ready before the storm.
Storm dispatch across crews — the route list wakes with the storm, every truck assigned from one board.
Per-site service times and pass logs — every pass timed and logged against the site it happened on.
Salt and material tracking — tonnage attached to the site and the storm that used it.
Before/after photo documentation — the proof attached before anyone asks for it.
NET-terms commercial billing — with post-season inspection notes, ready for the joint walk-through.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — every storm closes the loop without leaving the operating record.
Sign → dispatch → log → bill — every storm, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, site maps, and service logs come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — retail, industrial, and property-management portfolios with per-site logs, contract-type flexibility, and NET-terms billing live beside your seasonal route book.
Snow and ice contractors running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for Snow Removal — contracts, dispatch, storm logs, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the routes you run today.
$49/ month
One truck, one storm. Run the route, log the pass, close the invoice before the dispute starts — the record keeps the account straight.
from$149/ month
Dispatch at the desk, crews on the route. Storms, renewals, and salt tickets triaged from one board, every driver walking in with the site's own history.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.