Prices checked October 21, 2026
Pool Runs puts an offline tech app, two-way QuickBooks sync and ACH payments on the core plan, at a price built to compete.
We'll match and beat any lower price for the same job.
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Paythepoolman's list price is lower once you add a second tech, and our promise covers that gap. Each figure is that company's list price on October 21, 2026, billed monthly on the core plan, with techs as Paythepoolman's paid logins and add-ons and card fees left out.
| Monthly, list price | 60 pools · 1 tech | 120 pools · 2 techs | 200 pools · 3 techs | 300 pools · 5 techs | 500 pools · 8 techs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pool Runs$45 with 50 pools, then $1.75 each serviced, up to 200 | $62.50$45 + 10 × $1.75 | $167.50$45 + 70 × $1.75 | $307.50$45 + 150 × $1.75 | Volume pricingPriced with you, with match and beat | Volume pricingPriced with you, with match and beat |
 Paythepoolman$50 base + $15 per tech | $65$50 + 1 × $15 | $80$50 + 2 × $15 | $95$50 + 3 × $15 | $125$50 + 5 × $15 | $170$50 + 8 × $15 |
Pool Runs counts a property in a month once it has a completed visit. Over 200 properties, we price the plan with you, and the match-and-beat promise still applies. Paythepoolman charges per tech and never per pool, and neither company's promotions are applied here. Its payroll and text credits are extra, and card processing fees apply at both.
Pool Runs$307.50Paythepoolman$95At 200 pools with 3 techs, Paythepoolman charges $95 a month against $307.50 for Pool Runs.
We'll match and beat any lower price for the same job.
Paythepoolman add-onsPool Runs add-onsBoth have GPS, a time clock and P&L reports, and Pool Runs adds an offline tech app, documents with e-signature and AI receipt scanning. Every Paythepoolman mark below comes from its own pages, every Pool Runs mark from our product team, and the small numbers explain the details.
| Read October 21, 2026 | Paythepoolman$50 + $15 per tech | Pool Runs$45 with 50 properties, then $1.75 each, up to 200 |
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| Run the route | ||
| Scheduling and recurring visits | Included: Weekly and bi-weekly routes | Included: Recurring visits on the core plan |
| Route optimization | Included: One click, up to 25 stops a pass1 | Included: Core plan, one tech's day per pass1 |
| GPS | Included: Trail beside each stop, with a proof-of-visit map | Included: Included in the core plan |
| Tech app works with no signal | Not offered or not found: Not on their site | Included: Today's and tomorrow's stops, readings, checklists and photos sync later2 |
| Photo visit reports and checklists | Included: Emailed door hanger with readings, photos and video | Included: Visit report with photos and videos up to 90 seconds; required and photo-required checklist items |
| Repairs and work orders | Included: Repair routes and multi-day projects | Included: Work orders and jobs |
| Equipment label scanning | Not offered or not found: Equipment log with photos; scanning not on their site3 | Included: Scan the equipment label to fill in make, model and serial |
| Water chemistry | ||
| Readings at every stop | Included: Up to 11 readings, chemicals logged in ounces | Included: Readings and dosages with no signal, and readings you can make required |
| LSI and dose suggestions | Included: Orenda dosing with automatic LSI4 | Included: LSI calculator with dose suggestions by gallons |
| Test-kit import | Included: LaMotte SpinTouch results into the tech app | Not offered or not found: Not in Pool Runs |
| Customers and billing | ||
| Pay page and customer portal | Included: Pay link on every invoice and bid, good for 30 days | Included: Pay, autopay, visit history, quote approval and document signing |
| Branded customer mobile app | Add-on: Pool Junction, $25 a month, with push notifications | The portal opens in the phone's browser, with no app to install |
| Quotes approved online | Included: Approve or deny by link, with deposits5 | Included: Approved with an e-signature |
| Documents and e-signature | Not offered or not found: Not on their site | Included: Agreements, estimates, change orders and waivers, signed by email or on the tech's phone6 |
| Invoicing | Included: Batch billing run, late fees and statements | Included: Batch invoices from completed visits |
| Card payments and auto-pay | Included: Through Stripe on every plan7 | Included: Through Stripe on the core plan7 |
| ACH bank payments | Add-on: Needs Pool Junction, $257 | Included: Core plan, through Stripe |
| QuickBooks Online | Included: Pushes records to QuickBooks Online8 | Included: Two-way sync of customers, invoices, payments and items |
| Office | ||
| Inventory and truck stock | Not offered or not found: Stock tracking not on their site; it lists a shopping list and equipment log | Included: Truck stock, shopping list and fuel log |
| Tasks | Included: Task Hub, for any job in the business | Included: Tasks with a calendar feed |
| Team alerts | Dashboard flags and fleet maintenance warnings | Included: Email or push alerts you route by event9 |
| Workflow automation | Not offered or not found: Not on their site | Add-on: Engage, $50, with 24 triggers and 10 starter recipes |
| Income, expenses and P&L | Included: Bank feed, cash and accrual P&L, tax reports | Included: Income, expenses and P&L reports, plus A/R aging and profit per pool |
| Time clock | Included: Included on every plan10 | Included: Included in the core plan |
| Payroll | Add-on: Through Everee, $12 an employee10 | Tech payouts report with a CSV for your payroll service |
| Users and technicians | $15 per tech; office logins aren't priced on its site | Included: Unlimited, no fee |
| Phone, texting and growth | ||
| Business phone and calling | Not offered or not found: Not on their site | Add-on: Communications, $50: calls from the web and phone app, ring groups, phone menu, voicemail transcripts11 |
| Texting customers | Add-on: Text credits, one per text; reminders free12 | Add-on: Communications, $50, with 1,000 texts |
| Customers can text back | Not offered or not found: Listed as coming soon12 | Add-on: Shared inbox, $80 with both add-ons13 |
| AI phone answering | Not offered or not found: Not on their site | Add-on: AI voice agent, in Communications, $5011 |
| Lead pipeline | Included: Sources, follow-up dates, one-step conversion | Add-on: Pipelines in Engage, $50 |
| Finding new pool customers | Not offered or not found: Not on their site | Included: Fresh Movers for recently sold homes with pools, lead routes and pools found from satellite14 |
| Messages to every customer | Included: Email, text and push | Included: Broadcast email |
| AI | ||
| AI assistant on your own records | Not offered or not found: Not on their site15 | Included: Answers questions from your own records |
| AI receipt scanning | Receipt photos for expense logging16 | Included: Reads items and prices into truck stock, and can post the purchase to QuickBooks |
| Plans and support | ||
| How you're charged | $50 a month plus $15 per tech; never per pool | $45 with 50 properties, then $1.75 each serviced that month, up to 200; volume pricing above |
| Free trial | 30 days, cancel anytime | 30 days, month to month after |
| Support | Included: Free phone, text and email, weekdays 8 to 4 Eastern | Included: Phone and email, with a white-glove setup call |
| Help switching | Skimmer importer included; its team imports for a small fee | Included: Free white-glove migration |
Read on each company's pricing, feature and help pages on October 21, 2026 at monthly billing. “Not on their site” only means we found no mention of it. Prices and plans change, so check each site before you decide.
Route optimization and water chemistry end even, and so does price once our match-and-beat promise applies. Paythepoolman wins on running payroll inside its app.
Paythepoolman's site doesn't list an AI phone agent, and its free phone support is for owners with questions about the software.
The Pool Runs AI voice agent comes with Communications at $50 a month and answers the call, recognizes the caller by number, looks up the account and drafts a work order for the office to confirm. Because it doesn't book the visit itself, nothing lands on a route until someone in the office says yes.
At list price, Paythepoolman is lower once you add a second tech, at $80 a month for 120 pools with 2 techs against $167.50 for Pool Runs. Pool Runs is $2.50 less at 60 pools with 1 tech ($62.50), and past 200 pools it moves to volume pricing.
Send us your Paythepoolman bill, and we'll match and beat it.
Paythepoolman runs payroll through Everee for $12 an employee a month, plus a one-time sign-up fee. Pool Runs has GPS and a time clock as well, and its tech payouts report exports a CSV for the payroll service you already use.
Both include it on the base plan, reordering one tech's day for a shorter drive in a single pass of about 25 stops at no extra charge.
Both log readings at every stop and work out LSI with dose suggestions. Paythepoolman does it through Orenda and imports LaMotte SpinTouch results, which saves typing if your techs carry one. Pool Runs does the math in its own calculator from each pool's gallons, even with no signal, and can require a reading before a stop is marked complete.
The Pool Runs tech app keeps each tech's stops for today and tomorrow on the phone, saves readings, dosages, checklists and photos with no signal, and syncs them when the signal comes back. Creating quotes, work orders or new customers needs a connection. We found no mention of offline use on Paythepoolman's site, so ask them before you count on it in a dead zone.
Pool Runs has a two-way sync with QuickBooks Online that covers customers, invoices, payments and items. Paythepoolman's pages describe pushing customers, invoices, payments, expenses and bids to QuickBooks Online.
In Pool Runs, a tech photographs the receipt and AI reads the items and prices into that truck's stock, and the purchase can post to QuickBooks. Paythepoolman's techs snap receipt photos for expense logging, and we found no mention of reading the items off them.
All six come from Paythepoolman's own pages, linked and dated beside each one.
What Paythepoolman's pages sayHow Pool Runs handles itWe found no mention of working without signal on its feature or route management pages.
paythepoolman.com/features/route-management/Read October 21, 2026The tech app saves stops, readings, checklists and photos with no signal and syncs them later.
Its invoicing page says it pushes customers, items, invoices, payments, expenses and bids to QuickBooks Online.
paythepoolman.com/features/invoicing/Read October 21, 2026Pool Runs has a two-way sync with QuickBooks Online that covers customers, invoices, payments and items.
Its Pool Junction app sends one-way messages and lists two-way messaging as coming soon.
paythepoolman.com/features/customer-app/Read October 21, 2026Replies land in a shared inbox the office answers, with Communications and Engage at $80 a month.
Its payments page says ACH, Apple Pay and Google Pay need the Pool Junction add-on, which is $25 a month.
paythepoolman.com/features/online-payments/Read October 21, 2026Card and ACH payments run through Stripe on the core plan, and auto-pay charges a saved card.
Customers approve or deny a bid from a secure link. We found no e-signature on its bidding page.
paythepoolman.com/features/contactless-bidding/Read October 21, 2026Customers sign quotes, service agreements and waivers with an e-signature on the core plan.
Its pages list free weekday phone support for owners. We found no agent that answers your customers' calls.
paythepoolman.comRead October 21, 2026The AI voice agent answers, looks up the account and drafts a work order for the office, in Communications at $50 a month.
“We used to drive all over town, sometimes doubling back three or four times a day. With Pool Runs route optimization, we shaved almost an hour off every route. My guys are home earlier and we're saving a fortune on gas.”
Jordan WalshOwner, Lakeside Pool Services“I let my techs optimize their own routes from the app now. They save 20–30 minutes a day and I don't have to micromanage the stop order anymore. It just works.”
Wendy RutherfordOffice Admin, Rutherford PoolsYou can keep Paythepoolman running until you're sure. Your techs keep working the route the whole time.
Export your customer list and anything else you keep, and we'll bring over customers, properties, bodies of water, equipment and recurring schedules.
Our team loads it all for free and sets up your recurring schedules with you, so the route days match what your techs drive now.
Check route days, rates and balances, tell us what to fix, and we'll go live once you say it looks right.
It has no contract, so run both while you try Pool Runs and cancel when you're ready.
Prices and features checked October 21, 2026
The Paythepoolman facts on this page all come from the pages below, and we checked the Pool Runs facts against the product itself.
Before you switch
Pool Runs is priced to compete. Keep Paythepoolman running while you give Pool Runs a week of real stops in the 30-day trial, and test the five things on this list.
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