Land surveyor workflow
Land survey teams need more than generic tasks. PLN keeps the work practical for owners, project managers, field surveyors, and billing staff who need one current view of each job.
The task record captures what needs to be done, who owns it, where it happens, and what information the field team needs before arrival.
PLN gives management a view into active work, schedule load, resource availability, pending invoices, and the activity behind each job.
Pricing, activity, tax, payment details, due dates, and export actions live with the task so billing does not need to rebuild job context manually.
On this page
This page walks through how a land surveying company runs on PLN: the daily workflow, the job record, control points and field use, the mobile app, people and scheduling, billing, and what to check before choosing any system.
A surveyor's workflow
Land surveying companies rarely need a new methodology. They need the steps they already follow to stop living in five different places, so nothing is retyped and nothing is remembered wrong.
A client call or email becomes a task with the contact, address or coordinates, survey type, priority, price, due date, and the files the crew will need.
Before a date is promised, the calendar shows assigned surveyors, booked instruments and vehicles, and approved time off in the same view.
Single-day and multi-day plans carry start and end times, private notes, and a tentative state while the date is still being agreed with the client.
Crews open the task on the phone with its map geometry, control points, files, and contact, then log time, photos, and comments where the work happens.
Recorded activity, pricing, and contact details feed the invoice, which exports to PDF or DOCX and keeps its payment status on the job.
The job record
A land survey job is not a generic to-do. It carries a client, a parcel, a survey type, a price, files, a crew, a plan, a record of what changed, and eventually an invoice. PLN keeps all of that on the same record instead of spread across a folder, a chat, and someone's memory.
Client and contact, survey type, address or coordinates, description, priority, price, due date, and attachments are captured when the job is created.
Every task has an assignee and a status, so nobody has to ask who is holding a job or whether it has already moved on.
Comments, uploaded files, status changes, plans, and billing actions remain on the record instead of scattering into inboxes and private chats.
Find work by assignee, status, priority, survey type, or due date range once the register grows past what one person can hold in their head.
Orders and lineage
A single order often turns into topographic work, staking, and a final measurement. PLN groups those tasks under the order they came from, so the office can see what was ordered, what is running, and what still has to be created.
Control points and location
Most surveying companies lose more time to finding marks and re-establishing points than to any office process. PLN stores that knowledge for the whole organization instead of in one surveyor's notebook.
Global control points
Benchmarks, GNSS reference points, and temporary nails are stored once for the whole organization with their coordinates, a note, and a picture, so a point established two years ago is still usable by whoever is nearest today.
Camera guide
Coordinates get a crew to the street. The camera guide gets them to the mark: a live camera view with the bearing, the remaining distance, the current position accuracy, and the reference picture of the point side by side.
PLN System Mobile
The app is built for the person holding a pole, not for reporting from a desk. It is currently in pre-release testing with beta companies, and what the crew records in it reaches the office immediately.
Surveyors open the tasks assigned to them with survey type, priority, status, client, due date, description, and the map markings for the job.
Find the nearest eligible task from where you are standing, or open the map of visible task places. FastPicture uploads a site photo and FastDraft saves a draft image straight to the task files.
Take a picture, add a comment, and log time against the task while still on site instead of reconstructing the day in the evening.
Direct conversations with surveyors and managers happen inside the app, so a field question does not turn into a private message nobody else can find later.
The task opens on the map with its geometry zone and a navigate action, so a crew reaches the right parcel without a separate list of coordinates.
The organization control point register travels with the crew as a list or a map, with the note and picture recorded when each point was established.
People and scheduling
Nothing breaks a survey schedule faster than promising a date to a client while the only person who can do the work is already approved for leave. In PLN the people side and the planning side are the same system.
The employee list, job titles, and access rights live in one place, so people see the work and data that belongs to their role.
Staff request absences with dates and a note, save them as a draft, or send them for approval. Managers approve or reject from the same table.
Used days, vacation days, time-off days, and pending requests are visible to the employee without asking the office for a number.
One calendar
The month view shows planned survey work colour-coded by type, with approved absences in the same grid, so a conflict is visible while the plan is still being made rather than on the morning of the visit.
Billing handoff
The gap between finished fieldwork and a sent invoice is where small survey companies lose money. PLN closes it by building the invoice from records the job already produced.
Invoice record
The invoice is created from task pricing and the contact record, so billing staff review and adjust rather than retype. Payment type, due date, tax, and print settings are on the same screen.
Invoice register
The register filters by status and contact and carries issue dates, due dates, and totals, so an owner can answer what is outstanding without opening the accounting package.
Evaluation checklist
Most tools demo well. These are the questions that decide whether a land surveying team is still using the software in month three, and how PLN answers each one.
Who it serves
Project management software for land surveyors has to be worth opening for the crew as well as the owner, or it becomes another system the office maintains alone.
Active jobs, workload, logged hours, pending invoices, and the coordination gaps that are costing delivery time.
Crew plans, instrument and vehicle availability, absence conflicts, due dates, and where each job currently stands.
Today's assigned work, task geometry, control points, notes, files, and a way to record time and photos on site.
Contacts, task pricing, invoice statuses, exports, payment terms, taxes, and company settings in one workspace.
Pricing
Founding beta access is free until 31 December 2026, with no credit card and no automatic conversion. After beta, the plan sets how many users and how much storage the workspace has, not which parts of the product you may open.
EUR 9 / month
USD $10 / month
EUR 29 / month
USD $32 / month
EUR 59 / month
USD $65 / month
USD equivalents are approximate. EUR remains the primary listed billing currency. Extra users and storage can be added as the team grows.
Questions
It is for survey company owners, project managers, field surveyors, and billing staff who need one current view of each job instead of a spreadsheet, a shared calendar, a chat thread, and a separate invoice file.
That is the usual reason companies move. The task record replaces the job spreadsheet, survey planning replaces the shared calendar, and activity logged on site replaces notes that were retyped later.
Yes. The mobile app, currently in pre-release testing with beta companies, gives crews their assigned tasks with map geometry, control points, files, and contacts, and lets them log time, photos, and comments from site.
Control points are stored for the whole organization with coordinates, a note, and a picture, and task areas appear on the same map. A camera guide shows bearing, remaining distance, and position accuracy for the final approach to a mark.
Instruments, vehicles, and materials are kept with serial numbers, calibration, check-and-adjust, insurance, and inspection dates, and that status is visible during planning rather than discovered on site.
Yes. Invoices are created from task pricing and contact records with line items, taxes, payment terms, and due dates, move through draft, sent, paid, and cancelled statuses, and export to PDF or DOCX.
Yes. Staff request absences with dates and a note, managers approve or reject them from the same register, balances are visible to the employee, and approved absences appear in the planning calendar.
PLN supports localized workspaces across English, Lithuanian, and major European languages, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Turkish.
Founding beta access is free until 31 December 2026 with no credit card required. After beta, plans start at EUR 9 per month for 2 users and 5 GB, with every feature included in each plan.
Your company owns its project, client, team, activity, and billing records. Key records can be exported and beta users can request workspace deletion through support. PLN is built in Lithuania, in the EU.
Next step
Apply for the founding beta or contact the team with questions about rollout, pricing, trust, and workflow fit.