Check a pest control phone number
verify_phoneCheck a pest control company's phone number against official state license records. Give it the number on the van, the flyer, the voicemail or the caller ID and it returns the license records that publish that exact number, each with the business name, license number, issuing state, the official state source link and the date PestPin last processed that source. Use it when someone has a number and wants to see which license records publish it, before they hire or let anyone in. The state lookups PestPin works with are searched by business name or license number, so a number on its own is normally a dead end; this covers 35 states. The match is exact on ten digits and never partial, so a number one digit different is a different company and is never offered. A match means a license record publishes that number: it does not say who answered, whether the caller works for that company, or anything about insurance or work quality. No match is not proof anyone is unlicensed: coverage is 35 states, about half of all listings publish no phone at all, and a licensed company can publish a number PestPin does not hold. Records from states that license the individual operator rather than a firm are never returned here, because a phone number is not a way to look up a private person; they are counted in withheld and the license-number lookup returns them. It looks up a business's published number, never a person's own.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| businessPhone | Yes | The pest control company's published phone number, e.g. 713-555-0100. Dashes, brackets, spaces, a leading 1 and an extension are all accepted. A business's number, not the person's own. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| note | Yes | The limits a reader must be told | |
| matches | Yes | License records publishing that number, empty when none does | |
| withheld | No | Matching records deliberately left out because that state licenses the individual operator rather than a firm. Zero when nothing was withheld. | |
| phoneNumber | No | The ten digits the number was read as | |
| totalMatches | Yes | How many records publish that number |