Every pool company starts with a sheet: one tab for customers, one for the route, one for money. It works right up until a tech skips a pool nobody notices, or an invoice never goes out.
| What matters | SplashPilot Pro | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|
| Flat price, everything included | ✓ $20/mo flat | ✓ free (your time isn’t) |
| Free trial without a sales call | ✓ 7 days, self-serve | ✓ |
| Measure pools from aerial imagery | ✓ built into the Map | — |
| Day routes with one-tap optimizing | ✓ | manual re-sorting |
| Tech check-in / photos / My Day view | ✓ | texts and hope |
| Quotes clients approve online | ✓ | PDF attachments |
| Recurring visits that rebook themselves | ✓ | copy-paste rows |
| Client portals (no login) | ✓ | — |
| Season-long water chemistry history | ✓ per-pool trend, out-of-range flagged | a tab you forget to fill |
| Bring your list across in one go | ✓ CSV import with a preview and duplicate check | ✓ it is the CSV |
| Texts to customers from your own number | ✓ confirmation, on-my-way, reminder, invoice | typed out one at a time |
| Invoices your client pays by card | ✓ pay link, money straight to your Stripe | chase the cheque |
| Overdue invoices flagged automatically | ✓ | — |
| Expenses & monthly P&L | ✓ | SUM() and hope |
| Email campaigns to your client list | ✓ | BCC from your inbox |
| Equipment & maintenance reminders | ✓ | another tab |
| Crew tracker for the owner | ✓ per-tech timeline & route | — |
| Free pool chemical calculator | ✓ no account needed | your own formulas |
| Automatic backups | ✓ every 5 minutes | one bad sort away |
Rebook a weekly clean when it’s marked done. Tell you the Hendricks gate code at the curb. Show the customer photos of the sparkling pool. Plot a pool’s chlorine and pH across the whole season so you catch drift before a callback. Chase an overdue invoice at 2am. Order today’s stops so the truck stops zig-zagging across town.
Add your clients and pools (bulk import is on our board — vote for it), hit “Locate” to pin each property, set the weekly cleans once, and from then on the schedule runs itself. Most owners are moved in inside an evening.
Under ~10 pools and working alone? Keep the sheet, seriously. The switch is worth it the day someone else starts skimming for you — that’s when “what did my tech do today?” stops being answerable from a spreadsheet.
Everything included · $20/month flat after the trial · no card, no demo call, no per-pool math.
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