For pool service company owners

How many minutes can a pool take before it stops making you money?

Six numbers you already know. No spreadsheet, no login, no email to see the answer. You almost certainly know your price per pool. Almost nobody knows their cost per stop.

Your route

What you sell.

Pools on your recurring route Average monthly price per pool Visits per pool, per month

What it costs to run it

What you pay to deliver it, per month. This is the half nobody has at hand.

Route techs (count yourself if you run a route) Route hours per week, each Route only - leave out repairs, installs and shop time. Monthly route payroll (all techs) Wages before taxes and insurance - we add those below. Both money questions here are monthly, so nothing has to be converted.

Your vehicles (optional)

Monthly cost of all service vehicles Payment or lease, fuel, insurance, maintenance. Leave it blank and we show the number without it.

Fill in the first six and your number appears here. Nothing is sent anywhere while you type.

Revenue per stop
Route time per stop	min
Loaded labor per stop	−
Vehicle per stop	−
Contribution per stop
	/ month

And it is an average. Your best pool and your worst are not the same account, and the difference between them is where the money is. This page cannot tell you which is which. Neither can anything else you use today.

What we assumed - change it

Labor burden multiplier

Route time per stop is not a guess: it is the route hours you already pay for, divided by the stops you already make. It carries drive, shop, water testing, callbacks and customer phone calls.

Chemicals and overhead are not estimated at all. They vary too much - salt against chlorine, shade against full sun, Florida against Arizona - for a default to be honest.

Months are 52 / 12 weeks. If your route is seasonal, run this twice: once for a peak month, once for a slow one. The gap is what your off-season costs.

Want the rest of it?

We will email you this cascade with the arithmetic written out, plus the worksheet that does it account by account instead of on average.

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We compute this from what you typed. It is arithmetic, not an audit and not financial advice.

Why we can show you this and your software cannot

Your scheduling app knows what you charge. It does not know what a stop costs you, because that lives in your payroll, your truck and the drive between two addresses. So it can tell you an account is paid. It cannot tell you an account is worth keeping.

This page does the same arithmetic on the average of your whole route. It is the right first question, and it is not the last one: the average is not the account. Somewhere in your book there is a pool that has been losing money every month for a year, and an average can never point at it.