The route bill
Monthly billing on a weekly stop — the base that makes the year predictable whether the route runs all year or five months.
Zaras for Pool Service
Weekly routes, monthly billing, openings, closings, and equipment repairs.
In the Sunbelt the route runs all year and staffing barely moves — California and Florida alone hold over forty percent of the country’s inground pools. In the Northeast the season compresses into five months, and openings and closings bracket it on either end. Staffing swings at least five percent in the Sunbelt and at least a hundred and thirteen percent in New Jersey — the widest swing in the states we measured. Either way, the record runs both, and the monthly bill is what makes either one predictable: seventy-six percent of pool pros bill customers monthly.
What carries season to season: the monthly bill equipment history last season’s readings.
A twelve-stop pool route, a spring opening, and a pump failure mid-route — the schedule for the tech, the history for the office, one thread for the account.
Twelve-stop pool route
Each stop’s readings and chemical log are on the record before the gate opens — a substitute tech is not starting over.
Pool opening
The closing notes from October say what was capped and what was already leaking, before the cover comes off.
Pool service money comes from two engines — the route bill that makes the year predictable in any climate, and the equipment desk where the margin is. Zaras runs both from the same record.
Monthly billing on a weekly stop — the base that makes the year predictable whether the route runs all year or five months.
Pumps, heaters, filters, automation — where the margin is, priced off history instead of a guess at the truck.
The record, not the whiteboard — every pool from first call to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Weekly route scheduling — stops sequenced once and resequenced when a route changes.
Monthly billing — one bill covers every stop on the route, in any climate.
Per-pool chemical and reading logs — every reading, every chemical, attached to the pool it happened at.
Equipment and serial history — pumps, heaters, and filters tracked by serial, not memory.
Repair estimates from the route stop — priced and sent the same day, approved from the thread.
Openings and closings booked off last season — last year's closing notes open this year's booking.
Commercial and HOA accounts with NET terms — hotel, HOA, and municipal accounts scheduled and invoiced from the same record.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — the bill closes the loop without leaving the operating record.
Stop → log → bill → repair — every pool, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, pool histories, and monthly billing come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — HOA, hotel, and municipal accounts on daily or every-other-day schedules, with per-site logs and NET-terms billing living beside your residential routes.
Pool-service companies running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for Pool Service — scheduling, billing, equipment history, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the routes you run today.
$49/ month
One tech, one route. Log the readings, close the pool, price the repair at the gate — the record keeps the account straight.
from$149/ month
Dispatch at the desk, techs on the routes. Openings, closings, and repair estimates triaged from one board, every tech walking in with the pool's own history.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.