It has no field for pH, alkalinity, or CYA. For a pool service operator, that’s not a missing feature — it’s a missing category. Here is the honest comparison.
The route business in one app: recurring route scheduling, drive-ordered days, per-pool records with the water test on every visit, repairs and seasonal jobs scheduled as their own work, SMS reminders, and flat monthly card-on-file billing.
Free up to 15 customers, then $47/month flat — versus $89–$199/month for the Jobber-plus-second-app stack. Best for: pool-only businesses that want the whole job in one place.
The honest trade: pool-only depth. If pools are one line in a multi-trade company, Jobber’s breadth is genuinely worth its price.
Excellent general field-service software — scheduling, quoting, invoicing, and a polished app, at $49–$149/month. Fifty industries share it, which is precisely why no one industry’s workflow lives in it.
Best for: mixed service businesses. For pool routes, expect to bolt on a second app, a paper log, or discipline you will not have in July.
No — there are no fields for pH, chlorine, alkalinity, CYA, or calcium hardness, and no concept of a reading trending over time. Pool companies on Jobber either scribble readings into generic note fields or run a second app alongside it. PoolPros records the water test on every visit — free chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, CYA, calcium hardness, salt, temperature — plus what was added, with last visit’s numbers in front of the tech as they test, and the readings go on the customer-facing service report.
Because the generalist CRM handles scheduling and invoicing but not the pool-shaped parts — recurring routes in drive order, seasonal openings and closings, repairs that span visits — so pool companies on Jobber run a second app or a paper system beside it, commonly $89–$199/month all in. PoolPros covers the route business for $0–$47/month — the two-tool tax is the real comparison.
For a recurring pool route, yes — weekly service is the native model: visits generate automatically, days come drive-ordered, and flat monthly card-on-file billing runs itself. What PoolPros deliberately lacks is Jobber’s multi-trade breadth: consumer financing, big quote workflows, and 50-industry flexibility.
A record per pool with contact details, notes for gate access and equipment, the service schedule, and the full visit history — each visit with its water readings, what was added, photos and the tech’s note, plus repairs and seasonal jobs in the same history as the weekly stops. Structured pool-profile fields (gallons, surface, sanitiser) are not in the product; those live in the notes.
Export customers to CSV, import into PoolPros, and confirm the weekly schedules the import wizard proposes. An afternoon for a typical route — and since the free tier covers 15 customers, most techs trial-run part of the route before moving the rest.
Import your route, log this week's readings, and compare your software bill to the two-tool stack. Free tier, card on file with $0 today, no clock.
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