Housecall Pro sends a plumber to fix your toilet and a pool tech to balance your water. Same software. But those are fundamentally different jobs — and one of them is a weekly route, not a one-off call.
Standing weekly service is the default: routes generate and order themselves, per-pool records carry access and equipment notes, every stop leaves a dated record with photos, and monthly card-on-file billing runs without an invoice night.
Free up to 15 customers, $47/month flat after. Best for: pool-only operators whose business is the recurring route.
The honest trade: no dispatch board, no financing offers, no multi-trade estimating. If you need those, you need HCP — genuinely.
Polished software for dispatched home-service work: booking, estimates, payment processing, and marketing tools at $65–$169/month. Widely used, well supported.
Best for: multi-trade home service companies running one-time jobs. The recurring pool route fits inside it the way a wetsuit fits in a toolbox — technically.
No — its center of gravity is the dispatched one-time job: estimate, book, complete, invoice. Recurring weekly service exists but as a configuration, not the grain of the product. A pool business is forty standing appointments a week; the tool should assume that, and PoolPros does.
Into whatever you improvise — generic notes, a separate app, or a paper log in the truck. There are no water-chemistry fields, so readings can never trend, prefill, or appear on a service record. PoolPros does not have structured chemistry fields yet either — readings on the visit record are in development; today each visit leaves a dated record with photos and a service note on the pool.
Housecall Pro runs $65–$169/month, sized for trades with high average tickets. A pool route billing monthly subscriptions lives on thinner, steadier margins — which is why PoolPros is free to 15 customers and $47/month flat after, with no per-user seats.
Yes — each visit leaves a dated record with photos and the tech’s note on the pool’s history, so when a customer asks what they are paying for, the answer is on the record rather than in your memory. For a subscription customer who never sees you work, that record is the product: the visit on record, not just a wet deck.
A home-services company where pools are one line among plumbing or HVAC work, with dispatched jobs and big variable quotes. That is the business HCP was built for — and the one where its price and machinery earn their keep.
Bring the customer list, keep your Stripe account, and run a week of pool stops through PoolPros before deciding anything.
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