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Huge congratulations to our two winners of The Pool Deck Birthday Giveaway! Thomas from Float On Pools and Spas and Abraham from West Coast Chemical Company are coming with us (all expenses paid 💸) to San Antonio for the Skimmer Pro Summit.Both of our winners, ​@FloatOn ​@Abraham are Pool Deck members and represent the spirit behind our collective efforts here to keep growing this knowledge hub and creating moments to bring our community together 🤝Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway!!And I am SUPER pumped to share that the Pro Summit 2026 is officially SOLD OUT, with hundreds of pool pros from 27 states gathering in San Antonio October 16 & 17!! However, we do get cancellations, so if you still want your chance at getting a free pass, join the waitlist:👉Skimmer Pro Summit waitlist👈 Congrats again, Thomas andAbraham!The entire Skimmer team is looking forward to meeting you both in San Antonio!!

September's updates round out how you connect the tools you already use, see what's happening across your business, and manage your Skimmer account. Here's what shipped.  Skimmer bookkeeping Skimmer bookkeeping is a new add-on: a real bookkeeper categorizes your transactions and reconciles your accounts, so your books stay current without you doing it yourself after hours. Find it under Bookkeeping in your left navigation, where you can book a demo or subscribeLearn more →  Skimmer Marketing Suite Marketing Suite gives you three ways to bring in more business without hiring a marketing person: automated email and SMS campaigns, review requests with a private heads-up before anything goes public, and ad spend tracking that shows which dollars are actually working. Find it all in the Marketing Suite section of your left navigation in Skimmer.Note: Campaigns and reviews are add-ons. Ads attribution is available on Skimmer for Enterprise.Learn more about campaigns and reviews → Learn more

This release brings a big update to how techs log in, plus some improvements under the hood that make syncing more dependable and diagnostic data easier to understand. You'll see a new sign-in screen, tighter password protections, and a handful of fixes that clean up rough edges on mobile. Here's everything that's changing. A new way to log inSkimmer's sign-in process is moving to a more secure system, the same upgrade that rolled out on the web app back in August. It keeps things familiar while running on more reliable technology behind the scenes.Here's what changes on mobile:The login screen no longer has username and password fields. Instead, you'll tap Sign In and land on Skimmer's secure sign-in page to enter your credentials. After the update, everyone will need to log back in and set up biometric login (Face ID or fingerprint) again. If you're on iOS and don't use biometrics, you'll see an extra confirmation prompt each time you log in. Turning on biometric login is the only wa

Busy routes don't always mean a profitable business, here’s what every pool pro needs to know about their numbers: Full routes and steady revenue feel like success. But with labor, fuel, chemicals, and equipment costs still rising, more revenue doesn't always mean more money in your pocket. If your costs climb faster than your prices, your margins can shrink without you noticing.Niki Acosta sat down with Ryan Marcinik, founder of Happy Pool & Spa, Conor Chang, VP of Finance and CPA at Happy Pool & Spa, and Amanda DaSilva, Director of Payments and Expansion at Skimmer, to break down the financial fundamentals every pool service owner should understand. You don't need to be an accountant, you just need to know which numbers to watch.  Key takeaways: Aim for 45% gross margin and 20% EBITDA. Ryan's "guiding light" for a healthy service business is at least 45% gross margin and no less than 20% EBITDA. Keep overhead (SG&A) under 15% of revenue, and closer to 10% as you scale. Kn

Marketing Suite is now available in Skimmer, automating your customer outreach and helping you manage your online reputation. It runs on the same customer and job data you already track in Skimmer, so campaigns and review requests are based on your real service history, not an imported list. Here’s what’s included: ✉️ Email and SMS Campaigns:Pre-built email and SMS automations, purpose-built for pool pros, ready to turn on and send A plain English audience builder that lets you describe who you want to reach, no spreadsheet exports required AI-drafted subject lines, copy, and images to help you get started when you have your own idea 🌟 Reviews:An NPS survey goes out to your customers, automatically, via email or SMS. Customers rate your company 1-10. Happy customers who rated your company a 9 or 10 land on a direct link to post their review on Google. A 1-8 score opens a comment box asking what went wrong. After that is sent to your team, a Google review link is shared if they want to

It's not even seven on Monday, and you're six tabs deep on your distributor's site, cross-referencing what you quoted against what you actually need on will call.Then a tech finishes a repair, and days later someone builds the invoice off a work order note and a text. Nothing connects what got ordered to what got installed to what got billed.That's not a process you created. It's what happens when your pricing lives in one place and your work lives in another.Skimmer is now integrated with Heritage, and it closes the loop:Real pricing on the quote, so what you charge is built on what the part actually costs today Parts ordered right inside Skimmer,  so they’re attached to the quote or work order instead of floating in a browser tab The invoice is built from what was actually ordered and installedQuote, order, install, invoice. Every step carries forward into the next one. Checks and balances on your own repair revenue.Summer was a lot. Now that things are slowing down, this is your win