About ProBase
Free field service management software for lawn care and pool service professionals — scheduling, route optimization, invoicing, payment collection, and customer management. No free trial. No feature tiers. No credit card. Free from day one.
Start Free TodayThere's a version of running a service business where you finish your last job and you're actually done for the day.
Most home service professionals aren't living that version. They're finishing their last stop and then starting the second shift — the one that happens on their phone in the driveway, or at the kitchen table after dinner. Invoices. Tomorrow's route. The customer who called while you were mid-job. The quote you haven't sent yet.
"I know that every service pro has so much to do after you've finished your last job. You're out there doing invoices, planning tomorrow's route, getting back to customers, doing sales calls. It feels like this never-ending rat race."
— Steve Corcoran, Founder & CEO, ProBaseThe rat race isn't a time management problem. It's a tools problem. And most tools charge you more every year for the privilege of solving it. The leading software in both lawn care and pool service can run $59–$349/month — costs that grow with your business whether or not the value does.
Everyone's got to make money, us included. Here's how it works.
We partner with marketplaces that connect homeowners with service professionals. Through ProBase, you can pick up jobs from these marketplaces if you want to. We take a percentage of those jobs.
You're never required to take a single job from us. Every tool — scheduling, routing, invoicing, customer management, all of it — is free whether you take marketplace jobs or not.
Why give it away? Because we need the best pros. And the way we get the best pros is by building something so good you'd be crazy not to use it.
ProBase handles the full administrative layer of a field service business — so you finish your last job and you're actually done.
ProBase builds your route every day. When a customer cancels, the route adjusts. When you finish a stop, you send the invoice with a single tap. Customers tap a link, save a card, and pay through their own portal — no chasing checks, no follow-up calls.
Operators who switch to ProBase recover an average of 130 hours per year previously lost to scheduling, invoicing, and follow-up. The goal is simple: you finish your last job and you're done. Not done at 10pm — done.
At 80, 120, even 200 stops a week, no one remembers every detail from three weeks ago. ProBase ties every visit to a record — notes, photos, and services performed — stored by customer, date, and visit. Pool service pros get chemical readings logged automatically alongside each visit.
When a client calls with a question, the answer is in the app in seconds. Not in your head. Not on a notepad that got rained on.
The Tipping Difference
"Our tipping software is the best in the world. If you're not making at least 11% of your income from tips, we can improve that."
— Steve CorcoranLawnStarter internal data across 500,000+ home service customers. Revenue estimate assumes $150 average invoice. Most competitors — including Jobber, Skimmer, and Pool Brain — do not include tip collection.
See how tip collection works →Every competitor — Jobber, Skimmer, Pool Brain — manages the customers you already have. If you want to grow, that's your problem. ProBase connects you to home service marketplaces, where homeowners are actively looking for service professionals right now.
You set your availability. You choose what you accept. You can ignore it entirely and never lose a single feature. But when you want more work, it's there — and no other software in this category can say the same.
Start Free TodayWhether you're in lawn care or pool service, the paid software market has the same problem: costs that compound as your business grows. Here's the honest picture.
Comparison reflects standard tiers at Jobber, Skimmer, Pool Brain, Yardbook, and LawnPro as of 2026.
The leading software in both lawn care and pool service uses per-customer or tiered pricing — which means your software bill grows every time your business grows. ProBase is flat zero regardless of how many customers you have or how fast you grow.
Skimmer doubled its per-pool price in 2024. The pros who were on the $1/pool tier got moved to $2/pool with no grandfathering for long-term customers. That's the risk of per-pool pricing — the company controls your costs, not you. Full comparison →
LSI calculators, QuickBooks integration, and offline mode are on the roadmap but not in the current build. If your workflow depends on deep chemistry tooling or accounting sync, weigh that carefully. If you're scheduling, routing, and billing customers — which is most of what most service pros do, most days — ProBase handles all of it for free.
$349/month vs. $0. Lawn care feature breakdown.
See comparison → Comparison$200/month vs. $0. Pool service feature breakdown.
See comparison → ComparisonGoogle Sheets works until it doesn't. Here's where the gap shows.
See comparison →Lawn care and pool service businesses running 1 to 5 crews and 50 to 200+ stops a week. The owners who are still close to the work — scheduling at the kitchen table, answering the phone between jobs, and probably still on the truck themselves a few days a week. ProBase was designed for you.
ProBase is not designed for large commercial operations with 20+ crews, enterprise dispatch, or corporate billing workflows. Those operations have different problems. ProBase is built for the professional running their business from their phone between stops — and who shouldn't need to pay $200/month to do it.
Steve Corcoran founded ProBase after more than a decade running home services operations at LawnStarter. Founded in 2013, LawnStarter scaled to over 500,000 lawn and home service customers nationwide.
That scale matters because it shows up in ProBase. The tipping system was built and tested across hundreds of millions of real service transactions before it came to ProBase. The route logic was developed by people who know what a 100-stop week looks like. This isn't a product built by developers guessing at what a service route feels like.
No credit check, no commitment, no minimum. Setup takes less than five minutes.
Business name, service area, payment setup. Under five minutes from first screen to running.
CSV, PDF, or a photo of your spreadsheet. ProBase pulls in your existing customers — no manual re-entry.
Works from any browser. Optimized for mobile. Add it to your home screen on iOS or Android for an app-like experience.
— Steve Corcoran, Founder & CEO"What we're doing at ProBase is trying to do something that sounds very simple, but it's hard. It will save you 5 minutes here, 10 minutes here, 1 mile a day with a slightly better route. We're doing that all for free.
"My promise to you is I'll be working here at 10 at night just like you are so that I can get you 1 hour back, 2 hours back, a weekend free, time with your family. That's ProBase."
Every feature is included for both lawn care and pool service. No add-ons. No tiers. Free from day one.
Set recurring jobs, manage one-offs, and keep your whole week visible in one place. Adjusts automatically when plans change.
Learn more → Lawn CareProBase builds your daily route automatically and adjusts when customers cancel. Less driving. Less planning. More time back.
Learn more → Lawn CareWrite notes naturally at the stop. ProBase extracts observations into a structured visit record tied to the customer.
Learn more → Pool ServiceLog what you add at each stop. No separate notebook. No double entry. Tied automatically to the visit record.
Learn more → Pool ServiceRecord chlorine, pH, alkalinity, and more. Track readings over time. Spot patterns before they become problems.
Learn more → Both VerticalsInvoice the second the job is done. Customers tap a link, pay with a saved card, and you're done — no follow-up calls.
Learn more → Both VerticalsBuilt into the payment flow. Customers see a tip prompt after rating the visit. No cash required, no awkward ask.
Learn more →Answers to what lawn care and pool service pros ask most about ProBase.
Free software for lawn care and pool service pros. No credit card. No commitment. Setup in under five minutes.
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