Is this pool account actually profitable?
Put one recurring customer through your real labor, travel, supply and overhead costs. See the estimated profit, operating margin, profit per route hour — and the monthly price needed to hit your target margin.
- ✓Find accounts that look busy but pay poorly after time and travel.
- ✓See a concrete target price instead of guessing at a percentage increase.
- ✓Use your own assumptions. No hidden “industry average” rates.
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The full workbook compares recurring clients side by side, flags ON TARGET / REPRICE / LOSS accounts, and summarizes the route in one dashboard.
Audit the full route →A full route can still be a badly priced route.
A monthly fee can look healthy until you count the time and cost required to earn it. Service minutes, drive time, vehicle expense, chemicals and overhead all compete for the same revenue.
This checker turns those pieces into one account-level view before you make a pricing decision.
Five numbers that make pricing less fuzzy.
Audit the entire route without doing this 40 times.
The free checker is intentionally limited to one account. The Pool Route Profit & Pricing Workbook is the operational version: add your recurring client list once, then compare profitability, target price, price gap and route economics together.
- Account-by-account profit and margin
- Automatic ON TARGET / REPRICE / LOSS status
- Target monthly price and price gap
- Profit per route hour
- Route dashboard and weekday economics
Better answers to the questions behind the calculator.
Each guide tackles one specific route-pricing decision and points back to the free checker when numbers matter.
How to know if a pool-service account is profitable
Build the cost stack correctly and separate revenue from what the account actually contributes.
Read guide → RepricingWhich pool-service customers actually need a price increase?
Use the target-price gap instead of applying the same increase to every customer.
Read guide → Route efficiencyPool route profit per hour: why revenue per pool can mislead you
Compare what each stop earns against the service and travel time it consumes.
Read guide → QuotingHow to calculate a target monthly pool-service price
Turn your actual costs and target margin into a defensible internal price target.
Read guide →What this tool is — and is not.
Does this tell me what pool service “should” cost in my city?
No. It deliberately avoids generic market rates. It tells you what one account looks like using the costs and target margin you enter. Local demand and competition are separate business questions.
Should I count my own time as labor if I am the owner?
For profitability analysis, assigning a real cost to owner service and travel time avoids making labor appear free. The hourly value you choose is a business assumption, not a universal rate.
Does travel time count in labor cost?
Yes in this model. Service time and travel time both consume working hours, so labor cost is applied to both. Vehicle or mileage cost is modeled separately.
Is this accounting or tax software?
No. It is an operational planning calculator. Results are estimates driven entirely by the assumptions you enter.
What does the paid workbook add?
The free tool checks one account. The paid workbook stores and compares a recurring client list, calculates account status and target pricing automatically, includes a new-account price calculator, and summarizes the route in a dashboard.