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Pin Drop vs Onetrace
Onetrace turns every fire protection install, seal and inspection into a signed, photographed record ready for handover. Pin Drop adds what it does not show, where every site sits, who owns which patch and how a day's visits string together across a region.
Territories drawn by hand.
Draw patches on the map with named owners, so overlap and coverage are visible at a glance, not buried in a spreadsheet.
Automatic check-in and check-out.
Notes and photos land against the pin the moment a visit starts or ends, building a location history no job sheet captures alone.
Traffic-aware multi-stop routes.
Plan a day across several sites and hand off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze, rather than working one job sheet at a time.
Open, portable data.
Export to CSV, GeoJSON, KML or SHP behind an open API, so the map plugs into whatever else the business runs, including Onetrace.
Where the two tools cover different ground.
Onetrace is purpose-built for fire protection and passive fire subcontractors, and it shows. Fire stopping, fire doors, cavity barriers, intumescent paint, dry lining and fire dampers all have a home in its job sheets, with photographic evidence pinned to marked-up drawings for every seal and install.
Its Traceability product turns surveys, installs and remedials into a signed, branded report a client can trust, and its Workforce product adds timesheets, GPS clock-in and out, and a visual planner for scheduling operatives across jobs. Used by more than 1,000 subcontractors and rated 5.0 on Google Reviews, it is a well-liked, well-built tool for the compliance paperwork this trade lives or dies by.
Where it stops is the job. Its drawings and pins mark up a single floor plan for a single site, and its maps and directions get an operative to that site, but neither shows a contracts manager the shape of the business across sites: which patch belongs to which team, where coverage overlaps, or how a portfolio of clients and locations is actually laid out.
That is a different question to the one Onetrace answers, and a fair one to leave unanswered. A tool built around the job sheet has no reason to also be a territory planner.
This is where the map earns its place. Every site becomes a pin holding its own visit history, notes and photos, so a contracts manager can see coverage and overlap across a whole region rather than one drawing at a time.
Territories drawn by hand give named owners a patch, multi-stop routes string a day of site visits together with traffic in mind, and offline capture on iOS and Android keeps that working from a van with no signal, the same conditions fire protection crews already work in.
None of this replaces the compliance trail Onetrace is good at. Run Pin Drop alongside it for the geographic view, or as the map-first layer for a business that has outgrown drawing pins on a single site plan.
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How Pin Drop compares with Onetrace
The capabilities that matter when you move your map across.
Capability
Pin Drop
Onetrace
How it works
From job list to one live map of the work.
01
Import what you already have
Bring jobs, sites and assets across from a spreadsheet, CSV or export. However many, they map instantly.
02
Shape it around your work
Tag, group and add the custom fields your operation runs on, by job type, site or engineer.
03
Put it in the engineers' hands
Everyone works from the same live map on the phone they carry. A visit logged on site shows up in the office without an update being sent.
Why field teams switch
Less chasing, less overlap, less admin.
One shared truth
Every job, site and visit on one map, so office and field are never out of sync.
Clear ownership
Know who covers what and where, without a spreadsheet to keep current.
No duplicated visits
Everyone sees what has already been done, so two people don't attend the same site.
Less admin
No double entry and no status meeting to find out where things stand.
Add Pin Drop alongside Onetrace.
Start freeTrusted at scale
Used by 10,000+ organisations.
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Verified organisations
613
At $1B+ revenue
360
10,000+ employees
17+
Sectors represented
Amazon
Nike
Adobe
Oracle
Pfizer
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Mars
Walmart
Whole Foods
M&S
Mastercard
Capital One
Barclays
AT&T
Toyota
Volvo
Bosch
Bayer
BASF
Philips
UPS
Kuehne+Nagel
BT Group
NHS
Abbott
ADP
Cargill
Veolia
Paramount
Made to fit
Built around your operation.
Shaped to your team
Route a van between sites, record what happened at each, or see the whole region at a glance. The pieces are the same, how you assemble them is yours.
No big bang
Import what you have, invite who needs it and work from the phone in their pocket. No migration project, no training week, nothing to switch off first.
FAQS
Questions you might have
How is Pin Drop different from Onetrace?
Onetrace manages fire protection inspections, certificates and compliance records. Pin Drop is the shared site map beside it, pinning every door, asset and access point with photos and notes your team can find on site.
Can I use Pin Drop alongside Onetrace?
Yes. Log inspections and certificates in Onetrace, keep the site map in Pin Drop. Engineers find the right asset on a shared map while the records stay in Onetrace.
Can I import my sites and assets into Pin Drop?
Yes. Bring your sites and assets in, organise them into shared maps and add notes, photos and visits against each pin, on mobile and desktop.
Is Pin Drop a good companion for Onetrace users?
Yes. If your team needs a fast shared map of assets and access points that a compliance system does not hold, Pin Drop fills that gap.
How much does Pin Drop cost?
Pin Drop has a free plan and paid plans billed per seat. See the pricing page for current plans. Onetrace pricing is separate and changes over time, so check their site.
