NAICS 56179Industry · 5-digitlocal market1 market record

Other services to buildings and dwellings

SoftwarePool & Spa Service Business Software 561799

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing services to buildings and dwellings. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

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Establishments · CanadaA: 1,756
Under 10 employeesA: 78%
Establishments · USA: 17,574
Employment · USA: 87,422
Payroll · USA: $4.1B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–497055%

5–940723%

10–1922213%

20–491177%

50–99312%

100–19940%

200–49950%

500+0—

Of 1,756 Canadian establishments with employees, 78% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario62235%

Quebec49128%

British Columbia24614%

Alberta18310%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Administrative and Waste Services, US · opened 2020

79.4%

1 year

63.6%

3 years

51.5%

5 years

37%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 561, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionlow capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 561 Administrative and support services

Janitorial, landscaping, security and staffing: low capital and easy to start, so margins are competed down to labour cost. Route density and contract retention decide the outcome.

Who sets the price: Tender and the client's procurement; labour is most of the cost.
The software it runs on: Workforce scheduling, route and work-order management, staffing front and back office.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 561799

Pool & Spa Service Business SoftwareOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

Incumbent Skimmer (owner-operators and small crews); at the multi-branch top, ServiceTitan and Pool Brain are winning the private-equity roll-ups

Pool service software has a clear owner at the small-route end and two different owners at the top, and the top is where the customers are going. Skimmer owns the owner-operator and small-crew market. It is Austin-based, founded 2017, and took $74M of growth capital from Mainsail Partners in October 2024, with Unbundled Capital (its 2020 backer) staying on the board [B: Mainsail release]. It now says more than 35,000 pool service professionals servicing 1,000,000+ pools in North America use it, and that it is "trusted by more pool service companies than any other company in North America" [C, vendor]. Its price is $1 a serviced location a month up to 49 pools and $2 from 50 to 1,000 pools, with paid add-ons for texts, an AI phone line, marketing and bookkeeping [C, vendor pricing page, checked 2026-10-08]. In August 2026 it bought Pool Builder Geek and Poologics to move into pool construction [C, Skimmer release] — it is widening, not defending. The buyer is consolidating, and the consolidators are not choosing Skimmer. Private-equity roll-ups are buying route companies city by city: SPS PoolCare (Storr Group; 30+ branches in five states, 1,000+ employees) standardised on ServiceTitan in March 2026 [B: ServiceTitan release]; Azureon (O2 Investment Partners; Subcomm was its 13th acquisition, August 2026) chose ServiceTitan in December 2025 [B: GlobeNewswire via Nasdaq; Barchart via Webull]. National Pool Partners, "the largest multi-regional pool service company in the United States," chose Pool Brain in September 2023 after testing "just about every software option for over 2 years" [B: Field Technologies]; America's Swimming Pool Company (257 locations, 22 states; owned by Apax-backed Authority Brands since 2018) chose Pool Brain in December 2024 [C, Pool Brain release; B for the 2018 deal]. So the enterprise seats are being decided by ServiceTitan (public, Nasdaq: TTAN) and Pool Brain (Phoenix, no disclosed funding), not by a newcomer. Equipment makers are buying the software layer. Fluidra bought 100% of Pooltrackr, the leading pool-service platform in Australia and New Zealand (2m+ pools under management claimed), in 2025 and said it intends to scale the model globally [B: SPLASH; C for the pool count]. RB Retail & Service Solutions, the pool-and-spa retail POS, has been inside Fullsteam since June 2020 [C, RB's own announcement]. Below that, the tier is crowded and cheap. Pool Office Manager, PoolTrac ("$1 per visited pool"), PoolCarePRO, Paythepoolman ($50 a month plus $15 a technician), PoolDial and ProValet all sell routing, chemistry logs, dosing calculators, photos and invoicing at roughly $1–2 a pool or $15–65 a technician a month [C, vendor pages]. Dosing math is a free feature — Orenda, a chemical maker, gives its calculator away in an app. Pool Office Manager already markets the obvious northern wedge, seasonal openings and closings for routes that do not repeat all year [C, vendor]. Incumbent vulnerability decides it: the small end is held by a $74M-funded leader pricing at a dollar or two a pool, the large end is being decided inside PE roll-ups by ServiceTitan and Pool Brain, and the features a newcomer would lead with are already in five products. Market size UNVERIFIED — no pool-software vendor publishes revenue. Classification note: pool cleaning and maintenance services sit in NAICS 561799 (all other services to buildings and dwellings) in the Canadian system — the US equivalent is 561790 — so that is the customer industry this record is filed under.

NAICS 56179913 vendors namedOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 12

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
Orenda TechnologiesPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	1/12
PaythepoolmanPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	2/12
Pool BrainPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	3/12
Pool Office ManagerPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	4/12
PoolCarePROPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	5/12
PoolDialPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	6/12
PoolTracPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	7/12
PooltrackrPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	8/12
ProValetPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	9/12
RB Retail & Service SolutionsPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	10/12
SkimmerPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	11/12
WaterGuruPrivate	All other services to buildings and dwellings561799	—	12/12

Who works here

The occupations employed in Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Security guards and related security service occupations Mostly one sector 69.7%

Contractors and supervisors, agriculture, horticulture and related operations and services Mostly one sector 67.9%

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Mostly one sector 56%

Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Mostly one sector 16.8%

Service supervisors Mostly one sector 14.2%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 12.9%

Educational and employment counsellors Mostly one sector 8.5%

Logging and forestry workers Mostly one sector 6.4%

Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities Mostly one sector 6.3%

Roofers, glaziers, painters, decorators and floor covering installers One industry 4.7%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 29.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 15%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 13.5%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 6.6%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 5.1%

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 4.8%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 4.5%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 4%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 3.9%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 78% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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Inside this industry

2 rows sit directly beneath 56179. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
561791	Duct and chimney cleaning services	398	screened at 56179
561799	All other services to buildings and dwellings	1,358	Pool & Spa Service Business Software

Alongside it, under 5617 Services to buildings and dwellings

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
56171	Exterminating and pest control services	744	Pest Control Business Software
56172	Janitorial services	11,566	Cleaning Business Software Commercial Janitorial Services
56173	Landscaping services	13,253	Landscaping & Green Industry Software Lawn Care & Snow Removal Route Business
56174	Carpet and upholstery cleaning services	530	screened at 5617