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A pool-service company in Phoenix

Built a customer portal where homeowners see service history, next visit, and pay invoices.

Cut billing collection time from 28 days to 6 — and recovered $40K of stale AR

Two weeksBy FutureFounder Editors · Last updated January 1970

The story

Base44 powers the data model and portal. Stripe handles billing. Zapier routes appointment events from their scheduler. The owner stopped chasing checks.

Why this matters

The exact stack behind it.

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Founder stack — what they used

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  • Base44

    An underrated chat-to-app builder that turns a plain-English description into a real, password-protected product — including a clean customer-facing UI, not just an admin panel.

  • Zapier

    The default automation layer for SaaS.

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