Jobber vs Skimmer for a pool company in 2026.

Monthly cost at five route sizes

Monthly cost · pick a size	60 pools1 tech	120 pools2 techs	200 pools3 techs	300 pools5 techs	500 pools8 techs
Connect · per user	$139Connect, 1 user	$168$139 + 1 × $29	$197Lowest$139 + 2 × $29	$199Lowest listedConnect, 5 users	$286Lowest listed$199 + 3 × $29
Scaling Up · per pool	$120$98 + 11 × $2	$240$98 + 71 × $2	$400$98 + 151 × $2	$600$98 + 251 × $2	$1,000$98 + 451 × $2
Also compared
Pool RunsCore plan · per pool	$62.50Lowest$45 + 10 × $1.75	$167.50Lowest$45 + 70 × $1.75	$307.50$45 + 150 × $1.75	Volume pricingPriced with you; we match and beat a lower price	Volume pricingPriced with you; we match and beat a lower price
Lowest at this size	Pool Runs, by $57.50 over Skimmer	Pool Runs, by $0.50 over Jobber	Jobber, by $110.50 over Pool Runs	Jobber, by $401 over Skimmer. Pool Runs has volume pricing.	Jobber, by $714 over Skimmer. Pool Runs has volume pricing.

We read each company's pricing page on October 21, 2026 and used monthly billing with no annual term. Jobber adds users at $29 each, and its current promotion is left out. Skimmer's Getting Started plan ($1 a pool, $49 minimum) is for up to 49 pools and has no route optimization or LSI dosing. Pool Runs counts a property only in a month it has a completed visit. Over 200 properties, we price the plan with you, and the match-and-beat promise still applies.

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• Not on their site, or not available

Jobber, Skimmer and Pool Runs compared feature by feature

Feature				Also comparedPool Runs
Run the route
Recurring visits and scheduling	Included: Every plan	Included: Route builder, every plan		Included: Core plan
Route optimization	Higher plan only: Connect, $1391	Higher plan only: Scaling Up, $982		Included: Core plan
App works with no signal	Included: Job forms, notes and timers3	Included: Readings, photos and notes		Included: Stops, readings, doses, photos and videos4
Checklists and photo reports	Higher plan only: Checklists on Connect, $139	Included: Included; required items on Scaling Up		Included: Required and photo-required items5
Service videos	Higher plan only: Unlimited photos and videos on Plus	Not found: Not on their site; 20 photos a visit		Included: Up to 90 seconds a stop
GPS	Higher plan only: Connect, $139	Not found: Not on their site		Included: GPS
Time clock	Higher plan only: Time tracking on Connect, $1396	Not found: Not on their site		Included: Time clock
Water chemistry
Readings logged at each stop	Higher plan only: In checklists, on Connect7	Included: Readings and dosages, every plan		Included: Readings and doses; readings can be required
LSI calculator	Not found: Not on their site7	Higher plan only: Scaling Up, by Orenda8		Included: Core plan
Dose suggestions	Not found: Not on their site	Higher plan only: Scaling Up, by Orenda8		Included: Sized to the pool's gallons
Test-kit integration	Not found: Not on their site	Higher plan only: LaMotte, on Scaling Up8		Not available: Not available
Customers and billing
Customer portal with payments	Included: Client hub, every plan	Included: Every plan		Included: Pay, auto-pay, visit history, quotes and signing
Quotes approved online	Included: In the client hub, every plan	Higher plan only: Scaling Up, $982		Included: With e-signature
Service agreements and e-signature	Signature approvals on quotes	Not found: Not on their site		Included: Agreements, estimates and waivers from templates9
Card, ACH and auto-pay	Higher plan only: Card and ACH on every plan; auto-pay on Connect	Included: Every plan		Included: Through Stripe10
Customer financing	Included: Wisetack, 3.9% a sale11	Higher plan only: Sunbit, on Scaling Up		Not available: Not available
QuickBooks Online sync	Higher plan only: Connect; one-way to QuickBooks12	Included: One-way to QuickBooks13		Included: Two-way14
Office
Users and technicians	Counted: plans of 1, 5, 10 or 15, then $29 a user1	Included: Unlimited, no fee		Included: Unlimited, no fee
Equipment records	Not found: Not on their site	Included: Equipment tracking, added August 202615		Included: Scan the equipment label for make, model and serial
Inventory and truck stock	Not found: Not on their site	Not found: Not on their site15		Included: Truck stock, shopping list and fuel log
AI receipt scanning	Higher plan only: Expenses on Connect; automatic capture on Plus6	Not found: Not on their site		Included: Items and prices into truck stock16
Reporting	Included: Financial, client and work reports; job costing on Grow; custom builder on Plus	Included: Financial reports; productivity on Scaling Up		Included: Income, expenses and P&L reports17
Phone, texting and growth
On-the-way and visit-done texts	Higher plan only: Automated notices on Connect	Included: Unlimited on Scaling Up18		Add-on: Communications, $50
Two-way texting	Higher plan only: Grow, $1991	Not found: One-way texts only18		Add-on: $80 with both add-ons19
Business phone and calling	Not found: Not on their site	Not found: Not on their site		Add-on: Communications, $50: app calling, ring groups, voicemail20
AI phone answering	Add-on: Receptionist $29; books visits21	Add-on: AI Phone $99; inbound calls22		Add-on: In Communications, $50; drafts work orders23
Workflow automation	Higher plan only: Custom workflows on Grow, $1991	Add-on: Automations in Marketing Suite, $150		Add-on: Engage, $50; 24 triggers24
Online booking or requests	Included: Online booking, every plan	Lead request form		Add-on: Booking request page, Engage $50
Marketing and review requests	Add-on: Marketing Suite, $99	Add-on: Marketing Suite, $150		Add-on: Review requests with both add-ons, $8025
Recently sold homes with pools	Not found: Not on their site	Not found: Not on their site		Included: Fresh Movers and lead routes26
AI
AI assistant on your own data	Included: Jobber AI Chat, every plan	Included: AI Insights27		Included: Core plan, on web and app
Voice input in the field	Included: Jobber AI Voice, every plan	Not found: Not on their site		Included: Say readings, doses and a note
Plans and support
How you're charged	By user, in plans of 1, 5, 10 or 15	Per pool serviced that month		Per property serviced that month28
Starts at, billed monthly	$49 Core for 1 user, without routing; $139 Connect	$49 up to 49 pools; $98 Scaling Up2		$45 with 50 properties
Free trial	14 days of Grow, no card	First month free, as a promotion29		30 days
Onboarding and support	Chat, phone and email support on every plan; white-glove onboarding offered from Connect	White-glove setup; live phone support on Scaling Up		White-glove move from your current software, free

1. 1With monthly billing and no commitment, Jobber Connect is $139 for 1 user, $199 for 5, $299 for 10 and $399 for 15. Grow is $199, $299, $399 and $499 for the same team sizes, and extra users are $29 each. A 1-year term or annual prepay costs less.
2. 2Skimmer's Getting Started plan ($1 a pool, $49 minimum) is for up to 49 pools and leaves out route optimization, quotes, job management, the LSI and dosing calculator and LaMotte. Scaling Up is $98 with 49 locations, then $2 each.
3. 3Jobber added offline work on March 18, 2026, so job forms, notes, attachments and timers save on the phone and sync later. Its help center says some tools, such as location-based timers and reports, need a connection. An earlier staff reply in its community, from before that update, said the app didn't work offline.
4. 4The Pool Runs app completes stops, readings, doses, checklists, photos and videos with no signal and syncs when signal returns. Creating quotes, work orders and invoices needs a connection.
5. 5Pool Runs checklist items and readings can be marked required or photo-required, and the app won't complete the stop until they're done.
6. 6Jobber's Connect plan lists tracking time and expenses. Grow adds automatic time tracking, and Plus adds automatic expense capture.
7. 7Jobber's pool page says techs record chemical readings and treatments in Checklists, which start on Connect. We found no LSI or dosing calculation on its site. Its separate Chemical Tracking feature is entered on jobber.com rather than in the app.
8. 8Skimmer's LSI and dosing calculator, powered by Orenda, and its Bluetooth sync of LaMotte results both come with Scaling Up.
9. 9Pool Runs builds service agreements, estimates, change orders and waivers from templates or your own PDFs, sends them by email or has the customer sign on the tech's phone, and keeps the signed PDF with an audit trail.
10. 10Card and ACH payments in Pool Runs run through Stripe, which charges its own processing fees.
11. 11Jobber's customer financing runs through Wisetack. Jobber's page says it costs 3.9% per transaction and doesn't name a plan.
12. 12Jobber's new QuickBooks integration, rolling out to accounts, imports clients and items once and then syncs one way from Jobber to QuickBooks, so paid status no longer comes back. Accounts still on the legacy integration sync clients both ways.
13. 13Skimmer's QuickBooks FAQ says the integration only sends data from Skimmer to QuickBooks, and changes made in QuickBooks don't update Skimmer.
14. 14Pool Runs has a two-way sync with QuickBooks Online that covers customers, invoices, payments and items.
15. 15Skimmer has shopping lists, chemical-usage reports and, since August 2026, equipment tracking. We found no stock tracking on its site.
16. 16Take a photo of a supply-house receipt and Pool Runs reads the items, quantities and prices. You check them, add them to a truck's or warehouse's stock, and can post the purchase to QuickBooks with the image attached.
17. 17Pool Runs reports also cover revenue, A/R aging, profit per pool and per route, tech payouts, chemical usage and route efficiency.
18. 18Skimmer's service texts are one-way, so replies get an automatic message that the number doesn't take calls or texts. They come included on Scaling Up and cost 2.9¢ each on Getting Started.
19. 19Two-way texting in the Pool Runs shared inbox needs Communications for the number and texts and Engage for the inbox, which together cost $80 a month.
20. 20Communications is $50 a month with a business number, 1,000 texts and 400 voice minutes. It adds calling from the browser and the iPhone and Android app, ring groups, a phone menu, voicemail with transcription and free number porting.
21. 21Jobber's Receptionist answers calls and texts around the clock, books visits from your online booking settings and is included in Plus, from $499 a month for 5 users.
22. 22Skimmer calls $99 the launch price for AI Phone, which its page describes as answering inbound calls, recognizing customers and routing urgent calls to you.
23. 23The Pool Runs AI voice agent comes with Communications. It recognizes the caller, looks up the account and drafts a work order that the office confirms and books.
24. 24Engage workflows start from 24 triggers, such as a paid invoice, an accepted quote or a missed call, and send texts or emails, alert a teammate, request a review, or create tasks and deals. Ten starter recipes are included, and text steps need a Communications number.
25. 25Review requests go out by text, so they need a Communications number as well as Engage, $80 a month for the pair. Email broadcasts are in the core plan.
26. 26Fresh Movers finds homes with a pool that sold in the last 7 to 180 days in a ZIP code, with the sale details and the new owner's name and mailing address, and lead routes turn them into a door-knocking route in the app.
27. 27Skimmer's AI Insights answers plain-language questions about your business data and became generally available in July 2026. Its pricing table doesn't name a plan.
28. 28A property counts in a month once it has a completed visit that month, and Pool Runs offers volume pricing over 200 properties.
29. 29Skimmer's free first month is a limited-time offer on Scaling Up, with a separate 30-day refund guarantee.

Read on each company's pricing, feature and help pages on October 21, 2026 at monthly billing. “Not on their site” means we searched their pages and found no mention of it. Prices and plans change, so check each site before you decide.