Vendor review
Poolside
Pool-route software billed as flat monthly tiers locked by active technician count and customer count.
Poolside is pool-route software for scheduling, technicians, quotes, and billing. Its site bills flat monthly tiers locked by active technician count and customer count. Those two caps move the bill together. Crossing either one jumps the shop to the next published tier.
Pricing
Verified fact: Public Poolside pricing, checked 2026-09-16.
| Plan | List price | Technician cap | Customer cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29.99/mo | 1 | 50 |
| Growth | $59.99/mo | 2 | 125 |
| Pro | $99.99/mo | 5 | 300 |
| Enterprise | Request pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Verified fact: The same pricing page advertises 50% off the first month on paid plans, no long-term contract, and cancel anytime. That promo is a first-month discount. It is not a free trial and not the month-two price. The fetched home and pricing pages do not advertise a free trial.
Editorial judgment: Do not treat $14.99 / $29.99 / $49.99 as the ongoing floor. Ask for a written quote at your technician count and customer count. See Poolside vs Skimmer, Pool Brain vs Poolside, Jobber vs Poolside, Poolside vs Paythepoolman, and Pool Office Manager vs Poolside.
Features the site emphasizes
Poolside home lists routes and scheduling, a live map dashboard, alerts, branded service reports, text ETAs, chemical readings in the technician app, offline then sync, quotes to invoice to pay-now, and profit by pool, route, and tech. We have not tested the app.
Verified fact: Starter lists route management and maps. Smart route optimization and per-pool P&L sit on Growth and above (pricing). The fetched home, pricing, and FAQ pages do not publish the string “GPS tracking.” Treat GPS tracking as unpublished.
Verified fact: The pricing feature list and the fetched home page do not name Orenda, an LSI calculator, or LaMotte. Chemical readings are claimed in the technician app. Treat Orenda, LSI, and LaMotte as unpublished.
Integrations and gaps
Verified fact: Starter lists Quotes and Stripe pay-links and basic invoicing. Growth adds card on file and in-app charging and per-pool P&L. A processor percentage is not published on the fetched pricing or home pages.
Verified fact: The pricing matrix lists QuickBooks sync on Pro and Enterprise, not Starter or Growth. The FAQ says “Connect QuickBooks to keep your books in sync.” Privacy names Intuit QuickBooks Online and says the product syncs accounting records such as customers, items, invoices, payments, and expenses via OAuth. Direction and Desktop are unpublished. This page does not invent either. See the QuickBooks guide.
Buying notes: solo-operator guide, small-team guide, chemical tracking guide, route optimization guide. Feature lists follow vendor copy. No hands-on test. We do not earn commissions. Ask for a written quote at your tech and customer counts.
Feature checklist
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Chemical tracking | Partial |
| Route optimization | Partial |
| Customer communication | ✓ Yes |
| Accounting integrations | Partial |
| Mobile apps | ✓ Yes |
| Offline mode | ✓ Yes |
| Invoicing & billing | ✓ Yes |
| GPS tracking | ? Unknown |
| Scheduling | Partial |
| Inventory tracking | ? Unknown |
Verdict
Editorial judgmentPoolside fits a shop that can live inside a published technician cap and customer cap and wants claimed chemical readings plus a claimed offline tech app. We have not tested the app. Get a written quote at your tech count and customer count. The 50% first month is not the ongoing floor.
Operator feedback (aggregated)
Third-party operator commentThird-party summaries from public review sites, app stores, trade press, or vendor trust pages. These are not PoolProStack hands-on reviews, and they are not anonymous star ratings we invented. Each item links to the source and shows when it was published and when we retrieved it.
No third-party review HTML for Poolside pool-service software retrieved 2026-09-08 (Software Finder 404; G2 blocked; search results collide with unrelated AI company poolside.ai). Snippets intentionally empty. Not a PoolProStack field test.
Last retrieved Sep 8, 2026. Seemethodology.
No dated public operator comments met the sourcing bar for Poolside in this retrieval. The coverage note above is the record, not a placeholder review.
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