Chemical inventory and costs

Chemical inventory is opt-in per chemical: track the three or four products that matter (liquid chlorine, acid, tabs) and ignore the jar of something you buy once a year.

How it works

1. Turn tracking on per chemical and enter what you have on hand, in the units you buy (gallons, buckets, pounds).
2. Techs log chemicals used at each stop exactly as they already do on the stop screen, in dose units (ounces, tablets).
3. PoolChecker converts dose units to purchase units and decrements stock automatically. Only tracked chemicals decrement; everything else is just recorded on the visit.
4. When a tracked chemical crosses its reorder point, a low-stock alert appears on the dashboard.
5. Restock when the supply run happens, and the cycle continues.

The cost catalog is the quiet superpower

Alongside stock, you can record what each chemical costs you. That single table turns tech dose logs into dollars:

• Profit per pool on the Reports page needs chemical costs to mean anything. Without the catalog it can only show revenue; with it, you see which accounts quietly eat their margin in acid and tabs.
• Seasonal patterns pop out: the pool that costs triple in July tells you its rate is a winter rate.

See Profit per pool for how the pieces combine.

Ripple effects

• The truck-loading list (the pre-pack card techs see for tomorrow) projects chemical needs from each pool's recent readings, so inventory and prepack together mean the truck leaves with what the day actually needs.
• Undertracking shows up as drift. If stock numbers keep drifting from reality, techs are dosing without logging. The fix is habit, not settings: the log IS the invoiceable proof of what was added, so frame it as "if it is not logged, we gave it away free".

Keep it light

Start with your two most expensive chemicals only. A perfectly maintained inventory of fourteen products is a part-time job; a good inventory of chlorine and acid is ten seconds per stop and covers most of the money.