Run a 28-stop Tuesday route without a clipboard. Auto-bill the weekly clean every Friday night. Send a $1,850 variable-speed pump quote from the equipment pad in two taps.
Start for $1 →$1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. Card required. Cancel any time.
The $1 trial is Starter. Route optimization, two-way texting and job costing are on Crew ($39/mo).
The 5 things that decide whether you do 18 stops or 28, route optimization that respects setup time, weekly recurring auto-bill, on-site chemistry logging you can pull up any time, equipment history per pool, and a fast-quote workflow for the dead heater on Friday afternoon. All in one app. Built for the tech who's fished a frog out of a Tampa skimmer at 110° in July.
Route optimization puts the day's stops in the shortest driving order with one tap. Shops that fit 28 stops on a Tuesday instead of 18 are running the same tech and the same hours against nearly double the addresses.
$165 weekly clean, $185 chemistry-only, $295 weekly and chemicals, auto-billed through Stripe on Friday night. The customer never sees an invoice. You stop chasing payment on Saturday morning and start running Saturday's makeup route instead.
Tech logs free chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid, salt level, every visit, on his phone as custom fields on the job. When the customer asks why the water turned cloudy, you pull up six weeks of perfect logs and explain the heavy rain Sunday tipped the pH.
Pump (Pentair IntelliFlo, install 2022, warranty till 2027), heater (Raypak P-R206A, gas, install 2019), filter (Hayward DE6020), salt cell (Hayward T-CELL-15, replaced 2024), automation (Pentair EasyTouch). When the heater dies Friday, you pull up the address and know it's an 8-year-old Raypak, so the repair vs replace conversation starts with the facts on the table.
Pump dies. Tech photographs the failed pump, builds the repair-vs-replace quote in 5 minutes, repair $385 (1-year warranty), replace with single-speed $1,250, replace with variable-speed $1,850 (saves $40/mo on electric). Customer accepts the quote and pays a deposit before the tech leaves the equipment pad.
Starter is $19/mo. Texting, AI and dispatch start on Crew at $39. The phone line and AI receptionist are on Business at $79.
Pool service is a route business with a side of high-ticket equipment work. The recurring weekly clean is what holds the customer for 7 years. The pump replacement, heater replacement, salt cell, automation upgrade, those are what fund your truck and your retirement.
The shops that win run two things differently: they fit 28 stops on a Tuesday route instead of 18 (nearly double the billable pools for the same labor cost), and they catch the equipment work the moment it surfaces instead of letting the customer call a competitor while you're three stops away.
The route is the engine. Equipment work is the upside.
When you build a Tuesday route correctly, you fit 28 stops between 7am and 4pm. Drive time stays under 15% of the day. Setup is under 4 minutes per pool because the addresses cluster. Most pool shops without route optimization run 16-20 stops a day, same labor cost, fewer billable pools. Claver's route optimization puts the day's stops in the shortest driving order with one tap. Your Tuesday becomes a 28-stop machine instead of a 16-stop one, same tech, same hours on the clock.
Recurring billing is what makes the route profitable for years. $165/week clean is $8,580 a year per pool. A 28-stop Tuesday route at $165/clean is $4,620/week, $240,240/year, from one tech, one Tuesday, billed automatically. Stripe pulls the card every Friday night. The customer never sees an invoice. You never chase a payment. You wake up Saturday with the deposit already in your bank.
On-site chemistry is the part that builds trust and proves your work. Tech opens the job, logs free chlorine 2.4ppm, pH 7.6, alkalinity 95ppm, cyanuric 45ppm, calcium 240ppm, salt 3,200ppm, as custom fields with a timestamp. When Mrs. Castillo calls Saturday saying the water looks cloudy, you pull up six weeks of perfect logs and explain that Friday's heavy rain dropped the pH to 7.0 and we're rebalancing on Tuesday's visit. That's the customer who renews next March without hesitating.
Equipment history is what catches the high-ticket work the moment it surfaces. Pentair IntelliFlo pump installed 2022, warranty till 2027. Raypak P-R206A heater, gas, installed 2019, no warranty. Hayward T-CELL-15 salt cell, replaced 2024. When the customer mentions Friday that the heater isn't firing, your tech pulls up the address and knows it's an 8-year-old Raypak that's reasonably at end-of-life. The conversation is honest from the first sentence: $385 ignition assembly repair on a unit that's already past its expected lifespan vs $3,200 replacement that comes with 5-year parts + 1-year labor warranty. The customer respects the honesty. The job closes Saturday morning.
And the fast-quote workflow closes the equipment work before the customer can call a competitor. Tech photographs the failed pump, builds the three-tier quote in 5 minutes, $385 repair (1-year warranty), $1,250 single-speed replacement, $1,850 variable-speed (saves $40/mo on electric, pays for itself in 32 months). Customer sees three professional options on the tech's iPad. Picks Better. Accepts it on the spot. Pays a 25% deposit. The pump is on the truck Tuesday instead of sitting on a callback list while the customer "gets other quotes."
Cancel anytime. 20-minute migration from your current tool.
$19/mo to start. $39/mo for growing teams with texting, AI, and route optimization. $79/mo for the full toolkit, phone line and equipment history included. Same plans as every Claver page, no pool upsell.
Every plan includes unlimited jobs, quotes, invoices, and Stripe payments. Texting, AI, dispatch and job costing start on Crew. The phone system and full back office are on Business.
Starter: $1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. · Cancel anytime · Your data exports as CSV
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