Free planner for pool service owners
Plan your cash for the slow season
Pool service follows the swimming season. Revenue peaks in summer and drops in winter, while truck payments and insurance stay the same. In warm states the dip is smaller. In the north it can be most of the year's revenue gone for four months.
Adjust your season (share of yearly revenue by month)
Lowest month-end cash
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Cash burned in the slow months
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total of the months that lose cash
Cash to hold before the slow season
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burn + one month of fixed costs
The starting numbers and the monthly pattern are an example for a pool service business. Adjust them to your own history.
A slow-season plan for a pool service business
- Set your winter reserve in May, from last winter's actual shortfall.
- Move part of every summer week's surplus to a separate reserve account.
- Offer winter service or opening and closing packages to keep some revenue in the slow months.
How cash moves in a pool service business
- Revenue swings with the season. Fixed costs do not.
- Chemicals and parts are bought ahead of the work, so cash goes out before the invoice.
See the slow season coming, every Monday
One Page CFO tracks your cash 13 weeks ahead from your QuickBooks, so the slow months never arrive as a surprise.