Zaras for Water Treatment
Softener installs, filter and salt routes, and well-test follow-ups.
Installs crest with home sales in spring and summer — seventy-two percent of water-softener buyers bought within a year of buying or leasing a home, the water-quality industry’s own survey finds — and spring is well-testing season, when snowmelt and heavy rain push private-well contamination risk to its peak. An advisory can spike any month, no calendar attached. Through all of it, the salt-and-filter base barely moves — this is one of home services’ least seasonal trades, and the record is what runs the loop underneath every peak.
What carries season to season: serials media dates last test’s numbers.
A softener install, a filter route, and a post-shock retest — the test that priced the system, the media dates that build the route, and the estimate that follows the retest without a second visit.
Softener install
A new homeowner, priced off last week’s water test already sitting on the record — the tech logs serials at the door instead of starting the system’s history from a blank page.
Filter route morning
Six service stops, and every one arrives with its own media ages and last-change dates already on the record — no guessing which cartridge is overdue before the knock.
Water-treatment money comes from two engines — the recurring loop that barely notices the seasons, and the desk that turns a test result into a booked install. Zaras runs both from the same record.
Salt, filters, and annual sanitization — the least seasonal base in home services, and the account’s real value.
Tests that become systems — a result on the record is what turns a water test into a priced install.
The record, not the whiteboard — every system from the first test to the next renewal, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Water tests on the record — results attached to the job the moment the sample comes back, not a slip in a truck.
Install estimates from test results — the fix priced straight from the numbers already on file, no re-testing to quote.
Serial, media, and settings history — per system, so the next tech knows what's installed before the truck leaves the yard.
Filter routes from due lists — media-change dates build the route, not a memory of who's overdue.
Salt programs — recurring delivery scheduled from the account, not a separate calendar.
Annual service reminders — sanitization and retest fire on the system's own clock.
Well-test follow-ups — including post-flood retests — shock, then retest, logged in order, never a filtration fix offered first.
Install and service invoicing — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
Test → install → service → renew — every system, 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, system serials, and test history come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — restaurants, offices, and well-served commercial sites run per-site system records and NET-terms billing on the same record as your residential book.
Water-treatment dealers 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 Water Treatment — testing, install estimates, service routes, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the trucks you run today.
$49/ month
One tech, one van. Run the test, price the install, keep the service loop on schedule — the record keeps every system straight.
from$149/ month
Dispatch at the desk, trucks on the route. The service loop fills the calendar, and every install starts from a test already on file.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.
