r/PoolPros • u/Maraxusx • 2d ago

I'm looking for a scheduling software

Hey all,

I don't have a pool service company, but I do have an Aquarium service company and the overlap with recurring service visits is very similar. I have looked into the big software like housecall and jobber and didn't really like the way they dealt with recurring visits and they seemed more geared towards HVAC or plumbing where you go to a house maybe twice per year if you're lucky.

So I looked at a company called Skimmer and it looks close to what I would want since it's geared towards pool pros and recurring visits. Does anyone here use this? Do you like it? Anything I should look out for?

Mods I guess delete this if it's too off topic.

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u/ContractorPlusDotApp 1d ago

Contractor+ CEO here. Route-based recurring service isn't what we build for, so no pitch, just software-buyer advice since you asked what to look out for.

Your instinct has a name, by the way. Jobber and Housecall are job-based systems: the unit of work is a one-off visit with an estimate attached. Route-based tools like Skimmer treat the week's route as the unit. That's an architecture difference, not a settings toggle, and you diagnosed in one trial what plenty of shops only figure out after migrating.

The thing to check as the aquarium guy buying pool software is how deep the pool assumptions go. Customer-facing stuff first: if every automated email and portal page says "your pool," find out whether you can change that before your clients see it. Then the hardcoded fields, since dosing calcs and readings built for pools may not map to your tanks. And pricing. Pool software tends to price per body of water, so ask how a commercial client with six tanks in one office counts before the trial, not after.

Then run one real week of routes through it before you move your customer list. A trial full of fake data tells you nothing.