Route Management

Build the route in minutes. Watch the day from the office.

Weekly and bi-weekly service routes, separate repair routes, one-click optimization, drag-and-drop reordering, and a live dashboard that shows stops routed versus completed for every technician. At the pool, techs log 11 readings, chemicals, a checklist, photos and video.

Included in every plan · Orenda dosing in Plus
Pool route management in Paythepoolman: drag a customer onto a technician's route and optimize stops in one click
What you can do

Service routes, repair routes, and everything at the stop.

25 stopsoptimized in one click
Less windshield time

One-click route optimization

Pick a technician's day and click optimize. Paythepoolman reorders up to 25 stops for the shortest drive and saves the new order straight to the route. Fewer miles, more pools, home earlier.

Watch the day from the office

Live progress dashboard

Stops routed versus completed, repairs routed versus completed, percent complete per tech, and a flag for pools logged on a different day than serviced.

Drag, drop, shift

Reorder stops, move a customer to another day, push a stop to tomorrow, reassign to another tech, or temporarily shift a customer between techs.

Track the readings and chemical costs that matter to you

Log the water chemistry you care about at every stop, see at a glance when a reading is out of range, and know what every dose cost you. Chemical spend per pool and per tech, without a spreadsheet.

Electronic door hanger

After each stop, an emailed door hanger with readings and, optionally, the technician's photo. Hide chemicals or readings per customer if you prefer.

Weekly and bi-weekly scheduling

Set each customer's service days once, weekly or every other week, and they land on the right technician's route automatically.

Repair routes and calendar

Repairs run on their own routes with a drag-and-drop calendar, multi-tech repair groups, checklists and blueprints for recurring jobs.

Checklists, photos, video

Per-technician checklists, optionally visible to customers. Service and repair videos, image locations, and repair-request photos that can be emailed or texted.

How it works

A Tuesday in Paythepoolman.

Build the day

Drag customers onto a technician's day, or convert a won lead straight into route stops. Optimize the order in one click.

Work the route

The tech opens the Plus app, logs readings and chemicals, ticks the checklist, and attaches photos or video.

Tell the customer

The electronic door hanger goes out by email with the readings and the tech's photo, or by text.

Watch and adjust

The office sees percent complete per tech. Anything undone is pushed to tomorrow or reassigned with a tap.

Filters, salt cells and Service Inspector

Recurring maintenance and water trends are tracked alongside the route, so problems get caught before the customer calls.

  • Filter cleaning and salt cell tracking with last-cleaned and due dates, past-due and coming-due views, equipment tags, and a customer notice by text or email
  • Custom trackers for anything else on a schedule
  • Send a bid request straight from a filter or cell cleaning
  • Service Inspector trends the last 8 service logs per pool, color-codes each reading, and writes plain-English recommendations, including a possible-leak flag when salt and conditioner both drop
  • Equipment records per customer with up to 5 photos, viewable from the map pin
Never miss a billable filter cleaningEvery filter with its last-cleaned and due dates, past-due and coming-due at a glance. Companies that track them bill over 80% more filter cleanings.
No more chlorine crashesStay ahead of salt cell cleanings with due-date tracking, and avoid the chlorine drops that turn into green pools and callbacks.
Catch problems before the customer doesService Inspector trends every pool's readings visit over visit and flags what's drifting, so you fix it before it costs you the account.
The right part, the first tripEvery pool's equipment logged with photos on the customer record, so nobody drives back to the supply house with the wrong part.
Pool filter cleaning tracking in Paythepoolman with last cleaned and due dates, salt cell cleaning and custom trackers
Versus the alternatives

Route optimization is included, not a tier.

Skimmer lists route optimization only on its Scaling Up plan at $2 per pool. Jobber lists routing and GPS only on Grow at $199 a month. Paythepoolman includes optimization, repair routing and the progress dashboard at $50 plus $15 per technician.

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★★★★★

"Paythepoolman is saving me 2-3 hours a night!!"

Cliff Side Pool Service
Questions

Route management FAQs

How does route optimization work?

Pick a technician's day and click optimize. Paythepoolman reorders the stops for the shortest drive, up to 25 stops per optimization, and saves the new order back to the route.

Does it support bi-weekly customers?

Yes. Mark a customer bi-weekly and Paythepoolman puts them on the route every other week automatically.

What does a technician log at each stop?

Up to 11 readings (total and free chlorine, pH, alkalinity, conditioner, hardness, phosphate, salt, TDS, water temperature and filter PSI), chemicals added with amounts converted to ounces, a checklist, photos and video.

What does the customer receive after a stop?

An electronic door hanger by email with the readings and, if you choose, the technician's photo. You can hide chemicals used or actual readings per customer.

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