The report is done before you leave the room.
Record the test in the mechanical room, and keep recording it when the signal drops. The report, the tag and your customer's copy are ready to send before you reach the truck — on the CRD's own form — and the next test is dated the moment you finish.
No card. Sign in with Google or an email link. The first report is free, then 14 days of the firm plan. Or for US$400 a month we do the whole programme for you.
This is what comes out.
The CRD's own Backflow Preventer Test Report, July 2025 layout, filled from the readings you enter in the mechanical room. Not a summary of one — the form itself.
How it works
Pick the device, enter the readings. Pass or fail is checked against the form's own thresholds as you type.
Complete the test. The purveyor's report renders field-for-field on the official layout, with the tag as a 4-up sheet.
Send it. One tap: the customer and you get the report and tag, with the PDF attached, and the record shows who it went to and when. The next test is already scheduled at 60, 30 and 7 days, with the overdue date on the job.
What it does
Readings survive a dropped signal
Enter readings with no bars and they are held on the phone, then synced once when you are back in range, with no duplicates.
Exactly where we are on that →Purveyor-exact forms
The CRD Backflow Preventer Test Report is reproduced section for section, in the July 2025 layout, checked field by field against the authority's own PDF.
The clock is built in
The report has to be received by the CCC Officer within 35 days of the notice — testing early does not help if the filing is late, so the report is ready to send the moment you finish. 14 days for a failed device on the portal, 30 days to repair, retest and notify. Each deadline is on the job.
Where does it actually go?
We read the bylaw for 46 authorities and published one page each: the address reports go to, the deadline, the section number it comes from, and the date we last checked. Free, no account, and it says so plainly where an authority publishes nothing at all.
Never lose a day to a lapsed gauge
Tell us when your test kit was last calibrated and we will email you thirty days before it lapses. Free, no account, works wherever you test — and a lapsed gauge does not slow you down, it stops you working.
Anyone can check a report is real
Every report carries a code. Type it in and the page shows what is on the document — the site, the date, the result, and whether a newer version has superseded it. No login, no account. A property manager can confirm the test happened. So can an insurer. So can the authority.
Pricing (USD)
Hand us the paperwork, or run it yourself. First report free either way.
Done for you
We run your test programme
We load your customers, devices and history, produce your reports and get them to your customers, and run the reminder programme that brings the work back next year. Where an authority takes a filing in a way we can do on your behalf, we do that too — and where it does not, we say so rather than implying otherwise. You keep testing.
US$400 / month
Plus US$750 one time to load everything you already have. The software is included.
Priced in US dollars. We are a British Columbia company and most of our customers are Canadian, so your card will convert at your bank's rate — the amount in dollars is fixed, the amount in your currency is not.
Do it yourself
Founding prices for the first 50 firms, locked for life.
Priced by how many devices you look after, not by how many tests you run.
Solo
US$39 / month
Founding price · US$69 after the first 50
Up to 500 devices. Unlimited tests, reminders, file of results.
Choose SoloFirm
US$149 / month
Founding price · US$229 after the first 50
Up to 2,500 devices. Your logo on every report and our name off it, plus a weekly due-list digest.
No per-seat fee. A second tester costs nothing.
Choose FirmLarge
US$449 / month
No founding discount on this band — it did not exist when the founding fifty were offered
Up to 10,000 devices. More than that, talk to us and we will work it out.
Choose LargeNot ready to pick? Your first report is free and there is no card — start with one, or pay US$3 a report with no monthly fee.
Tell us roughly how many devices you manage when you sign up — no proof needed, and we true it up from what you load. Annual plans get two months free. Any first paid month is refunded on request.
Who you would be buying from
My name is Ethan Kerr. I build BackflowFiled on my own, in Victoria, British Columbia. There is no team, no sales department and nobody else with access to your records.
I built it because the testing is the part you are trained for and the paperwork is where the time goes. The device takes twenty minutes; the form, the copy to the owner, the copy to the authority, the chasing and the filing take the rest of the afternoon, and none of it is the skilled work you are paid for.
The jurisdiction directory is free, it will stay free, and it is not a lead magnet. No email wall, no account, no “download the full list”. It is free because a tester in a town whose council publishes no intake address should still be able to find out what the bylaw requires, whether or not they ever buy anything from me. If you use it and never speak to me again, that is a fine outcome and the pages are built for it.
What I will not tell you. You will not find a customer count on this site, or a logo wall, or a figure about how many more tests a week somebody does. Not because I am being coy — because there is nothing there yet, and putting up a number I cannot stand behind would contradict the only thing I am actually selling.
And what it does not do. It fills in the authority's own form, keeps the record, and sends the copies. It does not file to the authority on your behalf — not yet, and never at all where the authority requires a vendor's portal. Where that is the case, the page for that authority says so plainly rather than leaving you to discover it on a deadline.
The one piece of outside proof I do have is not a testimonial. It is water authorities confirming, in writing, that what we publish about their rules is correct — those are marked on the directory with the date they answered.
If something here is wrong, or you need something it does not do, write to me directly at help@backflowfiled.com. I read everything and I answer, usually the same day.
— Ethan Kerr
Victoria, British Columbia
Questions
- Do I have to move my customer list?
- No. Add sites as you test them. Or send us a Syncta export or a spreadsheet and we load it for you.
- What does the first report cost?
- Nothing, and no card. After that you get 14 days of the full Firm plan, then pick the band that matches how many devices you look after.
- Do you file it to the authority, or do I?
- Today, you do — and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. When you send a report it goes to your customer and to you, with the PDF attached, ready to forward to the Cross Connection Control Officer. We do not yet send the authority's copy ourselves; we are not turning that on until the CRD confirms the inbox accepts filings, because a report that silently did not arrive is worse than one you sent yourself. A failed device is different and always will be: Bylaw 3516 s.7.3 requires it to go through the CRD's CCC Portal within 14 days, and no software can do that for you.
- Which authorities do you support?
- One, properly: the Capital Regional District, on the CRD's own Backflow Preventer Test Report as updated July 2025, checked field by field against their published PDF. If yours is not there, tell us which one — that is genuinely how the order gets decided.
- Tell us which authority you file to →
- Is my logo on the report, or yours?
- On the Firm plan and above, yours: upload it in settings and it prints top-left on every report, and you can switch our name off entirely. On Solo and pay-per-report, the report carries a small "Prepared with BackflowFiled" line in the footer. We would rather you knew that now than found it on a report you had already sent.
- What happens to my records if I stop paying?
- You keep them. Cancelling does not lock you out of your own tests or the PDFs you have produced — every one of them stays downloadable. Keeping those records is a legal obligation you carry personally, so holding them would be indefensible.