About ProBase
Free field service management software for home service professionals — scheduling, route optimization, invoicing, payment collection, and customer management. No free trial. No feature tiers. No credit card. Free from day one.
Get Early AccessThere'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 pool care pro has so much to do after you've cleaned your last pool. You're out there doing invoices, planning tomorrow's route, getting back to 3 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. Skimmer — the market leader in pool service software — doubled its per-pool rate in 2024. A 100-pool operator who didn't change a thing about their business went from paying $1,200/year to $2,400/year overnight.
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 acquisition, 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.
Route management →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, chemical readings (chlorine, pH, alkalinity, and more for pool service), and services performed — stored by customer, date, and 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.
Service history →Service professionals get tipped — but most customers pay online now, with no moment to hand over cash. ProBase builds a tipping prompt into every online payment, and customers use it.
Tip collection →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. Neither Skimmer nor Pool Brain has tip collection built in.
See how tip collection works →Every competitor — Skimmer, Pool Brain, Pool Founder — manages the customers you already have. If you want to grow, that's your problem. ProBase connects you to the LawnStarter and Lawn Love 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 TodayThe pool software market has one dominant player, one enterprise option, and several mid-market alternatives. Here's the honest picture.
Comparison reflects standard tiers at Skimmer, Pool Brain, Pool Founder, and PoolDial as of 2026.
Skimmer's per-pool model means your software bill grows every time your business grows. Add 20 pools, add $40/month. ProBase is flat zero regardless of how many customers you have or how fast you grow.
Skimmer doubled its price in 2024. The pros who were on the $1/pool tier got moved to $2/pool. 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 daily workflow depends on Bluetooth water testing synced to a dosing calculator, Skimmer is worth the cost. If you're logging chemicals, running routes, and billing customers — which is most of what most pool pros do, most days — ProBase handles all of it for free.
$200/month vs. $0. Feature-by-feature breakdown.
See comparison → ComparisonEnterprise pricing vs. no pricing. What you give up and what you gain.
See comparison → ComparisonGoogle Sheets works until it doesn't. Here's where the gap shows.
See comparison →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.
The first beta cohort is pool service. Lawn care and other home services are next.
Steve Corcoran founded ProBase after more than a decade running home services operations business, LawnStarter. Founded in 2013, LawnStarter scaled to over 500,000 pool and lawn customers nationwide.
That scale matters because it shows up in ProBase. The tipping system was built and tested across half a billion 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.
ProBase is currently in beta with pool service professionals. There's no credit check, no commitment, and no minimum. Setup takes less than five minutes.
Four steps. 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. No add-ons. No tiers. Free from day one.
Build quotes on-site, text the link, get approval in one tap. ProBase converts approvals into scheduled jobs automatically.
Learn more → FeatureProBase builds your daily route automatically and adjusts when customers cancel. Less driving. Less planning. More time back.
Learn more → FeatureWrite notes naturally at the stop. ProBase extracts chemicals, readings, and observations into a structured visit record.
Learn more → FeatureLog what you add at each stop. No separate notebook. No double entry. Tied automatically to the visit record.
Learn more → FeatureRecord chlorine, pH, alkalinity, and more. Track readings over time. Spot patterns before they become problems.
Learn more → FeatureEvery visit, every chemical, every reading tied to a customer record. Answer any question about any pool in 10 seconds.
Learn more → FeatureInvoice the second the job is done. Customers tap a link, pay with a saved card, and you're done — no follow-up calls, no weekend admin.
Learn more →Answers to what pool pros ask most about ProBase.
Join pool pros in the ProBase beta. Free. No credit card. No commitment. Setup in under five minutes.
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