It can’t log 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 full stack in one app: recurring route scheduling, drive-ordered days, per-pool records (gallons, surface, salt vs chlorine, equipment), water chemistry logging on every visit, 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-chemistry-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 chemistry lives in it.
Best for: mixed service businesses. For pool routes, expect to bolt on a chemistry 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 logs chemistry natively on every visit record.
Because the generalist CRM handles scheduling and invoicing but not chemistry, and the chemistry app handles readings but not the business. Jobber plus a chemistry app commonly totals $89–$199/month. PoolPros covers both jobs 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.
Per-pool profiles: gallons, surface type, salt or chlorine system, equipment notes, gate access — plus the full chemistry history and visit photos. In a generic CRM all of that lives in free-text notes, which means none of it can trend, alert, or prefill.
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, no card, no clock.
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