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How to evaluate drilling software, including where we lose
Seven questions to put to any vendor, us included. Ask for the answer on your own shifts, not a slide.
- Ask them
- What happens with no signal, and how does it upload?
- Why it matters
- A manual offline switch or a required re-login loses shifts in camp.
- DrillLogs today
- Saved on the tablet; uploads by itself when coverage returns. Android only.
- Ask them
- Who approves a shift, and can they approve their own?
- Why it matters
- Self-approval is the first thing an auditor asks about.
- DrillLogs today
- Someone other than the submitter, by default. Then locked.
- Ask them
- What happens to a shift with a problem in it?
- Why it matters
- A warning nobody reads is not a control.
- DrillLogs today
- Accepted with an alert. Overlapping depths, wedge errors and core loss block approval until settled; other checks warn.
- Ask them
- Can your client sign off inside the product?
- Why it matters
- Saves a round of emailed PDFs.
- DrillLogs today
- Clients get a read-only view of every shift.
- Ask them
- Can it check an invoice made outside the system?
- Why it matters
- Your contractor may never adopt your software.
- DrillLogs today
- The contractor's own PDF, checked line by line against your shifts.
- Ask them
- What can you export, and is anything gated?
- Why it matters
- Your record should leave with you.
- DrillLogs today
- PLOD PDFs, a PDF or Excel management report, CSVs, invoice files (QuickBooks, Xero, CSV, JSON) and a read-only API. Invoicing needs the billing plan.
- Ask them
- Which languages, on which screens?
- Why it matters
- “Multiple languages” often means the website only.
- DrillLogs today
- Tablet: English, French. Web app: English, French, Spanish, Russian. Management report: English. Website: English, French.
DrillLogs vs Excel and paper
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