What recurring plans do
A recurring service plan is a job that repeats on a schedule. You set the customer, the service, and how often — weekly, biweekly, monthly — and SideWRK spawns each visit as its own dated job, already filled in, so it lands on your schedule without you touching it.
Each spawned visit is a normal job you can edit, add work to, and invoice like any other. The plan just makes sure it shows up — so a route runs itself instead of living in your head.
What you can use it for
Run a route without re-typing it
Pool service, lawn care, bin cleaning, recurring house cleaning — set each customer’s plan once and the visits populate themselves, week after week.
Never miss a scheduled visit
The visit shows up on your schedule on its date automatically, so a recurring customer doesn’t slip through the cracks between busy weeks.
Build predictable revenue
Recurring visits are the steady base under the one-off jobs. Knowing what’s coming every week is what turns side work into a real business.
Keep each visit flexible
A spawned visit is a full job — add extra work, adjust the price, attach photos — so a plan gives you structure without locking you in.
How to set up a recurring plan
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Pick the customer and service
Choose who it’s for and what the recurring service is — the weekly mow, the monthly treatment, the pool visit.
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Set the frequency
Weekly, biweekly, monthly — set how often the visit should repeat.
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Let it populate
SideWRK drops each visit onto your schedule as its own dated, pre-filled job, on time, without you re-entering it.
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Do the visit
Show up, do the work, add anything extra that came up, and the job’s ready to invoice.
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Invoice and repeat
Collect on the visit like any job. The next one’s already scheduled — the plan keeps the route running.
Why recurring work runs the business
The one-off jobs pay the bills this week; the recurring ones pay them every week. A route you don’t have to rebuild each time is the difference between hustling for the next job and knowing it’s already on the calendar.
Recurring plans are included — no separate "scheduling suite" tier. Set the plan and the app carries it.
Reviews
The moment a job is done and paid is the moment a customer is happiest — and most likely to say so. SideWRK asks them for a review right then, and the ratings land on your public page, where the next customer is deciding whether to call you.
When a job is finished and paid, SideWRK can reach out to the customer and ask for a review while the work is fresh. The rating they leave shows up on your public page (sidewrk.app/p/yourname) — the same page a new customer lands on when they look you up.
On the Pro plan you can also add your Google and Yelp review links to that page, so visitors can read your reviews there too. Between the ratings you collect and the links to your outside reviews, your page becomes a wall of proof instead of a list of services.
Win the tiebreaker
When a customer is choosing between you and a stranger with no reviews, the ratings on your page decide it. Proof beats a promise.
Ask at the right moment
Right after a paid job is when a customer is most willing to leave a good word. Asking then, automatically, gets you far more reviews than remembering to ask later.
Point people to your Google reviews
Pro operators can add Google and Yelp links to their page, so a visitor can go read the full picture where it carries the most weight.
Compound into referrals
A customer who just left you a review is a customer who’ll tell their neighbor. Reviews and referrals feed each other.
Maintenance plans
A maintenance plan turns a one-time customer into one who books you every season without being chased. You set it up once — the spring startup, the fall blowout, the yearly tune-up — and SideWRK spawns each visit pre-filled and reminds you when it’s due. Steady work for you, one less thing to remember for them.
A maintenance plan is a standing arrangement to come back on a schedule — instead of the customer having to remember to call you, you’ve already agreed on the visits. An irrigation spring startup and fall blowout. An HVAC tune-up before summer and before winter. A pool open and close. A yearly chimney sweep. Whatever your trade repeats, you package it once and it runs itself.
Under the hood it’s built on recurring jobs: you set the plan, and each visit drops onto your schedule pre-filled and dated, with a reminder when it’s time. You’re not re-selling the same customer every season — you already have the yes.
Recurring revenue you can count on
A plan turns a one-off into two, four, or twelve visits a year. That’s income you can predict, and slow-season work you booked back in spring.
They never forget — because you remember
The value to the customer is simple: they don’t have to think about it. The blowout happens before the first freeze, the tune-up before the heat wave, because it’s on your reminder, not their memory.
Catch small before it’s expensive
Regular visits catch the worn part, the small leak, the clog before it becomes a callback or a flood. Customers stay on a plan because it saves them the big bill.
Loyalty that beats the low bidder
A customer on a plan doesn’t shop around every season — you’re already their guy. Plans are the cheapest customer retention there is.
Seasonal campaigns
The spring startup, the fall blowout, the lights before Thanksgiving. A lot of your best work comes around every year, and the customer just needs reminding. SideWRK writes that reminder in your trade’s words and hands you your customer list, ready to paste. You send it from your own email account. SideWRK never mails your customers.
Two pieces, and that’s the whole thing. SideWRK writes the season's message for your trade — the mower tune-up as spring comes on, the blowout before the first freeze, the "book your lights" note in October — and it hands you your customer list, ready to paste. Copy both, open your own email, send.
SideWRK doesn’t send it. The reminder goes out from your account, under your name, to people who already hired you, and the replies land in your inbox where you want them anyway. We never mail your customers on your behalf.
Book the work that comes around
The tune-up, the blowout, the takedown — the same jobs come due every year. A note at the right time turns "I should call them" into a booked slot.
The address they already know
It arrives from you, not from a piece of software your customer has never heard of. They recognize the name, so it reads like their guy checking in instead of a mailing.
Grab the list without retyping it
Take your customers straight out of SideWRK instead of picking addresses off a phone screen one at a time. Paste them into the BCC line and every customer gets their own copy.
Say it in your trade’s words
The message comes written for what you do — snowblowers, gutters, pool, pest, lights. Change any of it before you send. It’s your name on the bottom.
Recurring jobs — common questions
Which trades is this for?
Any trade with repeat visits — pool service, lawn care and landscaping, pest control, house cleaning, trash bin cleaning, recurring maintenance. If you go back on a schedule, this is for you.
How often can visits repeat?
Set the plan to weekly, biweekly, or monthly — whatever the route runs on.
Does it invoice automatically?
Each visit spawns as its own job for you to complete and invoice. You stay in control of billing each visit rather than money moving on its own.
Can I change a single visit?
Yes. Every spawned visit is a full, editable job — add extra work, adjust the price, or attach photos without touching the rest of the plan.
When does SideWRK ask for a review?
After a job is marked done and paid — the point where the work is fresh and the customer is most likely to leave a good one. You’re not stuck remembering to ask.
Where do the reviews show up?
On your public page at sidewrk.app/p/yourname — the page new customers land on when they look you up, so the proof is right where it counts.
Can I show my Google reviews?
On the Pro plan, yes — add your Google and Yelp review links to your page and visitors can read those reviews too.
Can a customer opt out?
Yes. Review requests respect opt-outs, so a customer who’d rather not be asked isn’t pestered.
What trades can offer a maintenance plan?
Any trade with a season or a service interval. Irrigation (spring startup, fall blowout), HVAC (spring and fall tune-ups), pool (open, close, weekly service), pest control (quarterly), chimney (yearly sweep), gutters (spring and fall), lawn care, pressure washing, and appliance maintenance are all naturals.
How is a plan different from a recurring job?
A recurring job is the tool — a visit that auto-repeats on a schedule. A maintenance plan is what you sell the customer using that tool: an agreed set of visits, priced and on a reminder, so they book you every season without being asked.
Do I have to rebuild the visit every time?
No. You set the visit up once and it spawns pre-filled on your cadence. Each one is still fully editable if a particular visit needs more work.
How should I price a plan?
Set a price for the whole plan or per visit. A common move is to price the plan slightly under booking the visits separately, so the customer feels the value and you lock in the repeat work.
Does SideWRK email my customers?
No. SideWRK writes the message and hands you the list; the send happens in your own email account, from your own address. The only mail SideWRK sends on your behalf is the paperwork a customer is already expecting — an estimate to approve, an invoice, a receipt, a nudge on an unpaid balance.
How do I send to the whole list at once?
Paste the addresses into BCC instead of To. Everyone gets their own copy and nobody sees the rest of your customers. Email providers cap how many addresses one message can carry and how many you can send in a day — check yours, and split a long list into a few batches over a few days.
What are the rules on marketing email?
A seasonal pitch to a past customer is commercial email, and the FTC's CAN-SPAM rules cover it: a subject line that matches what’s inside, a real physical address in the message, a clear way to tell you to stop, and that request honored within 10 business days. Keeping your own list of who asked out, and never mailing them again, is the part that matters most. How you handle it is your call — those are the rules as they’re written.
Which trades get a written reminder?
Anything with a season has its own: the small-engine spring tune-up, the irrigation blowout before the freeze, the chimney inspection before the first fire, the November light install. Trades without an obvious season get a plain "time for your regular service" note you can edit into whatever fits.
Can I text it instead?
Copy the same words and text them from your own phone. SideWRK will never send a text for you: automated marketing texts from a business fall under the TCPA, which wants written consent first and carries real per-message penalties. We hand you the message — what you do with your own phone is your business.