Detailing is not a twenty-minute job. A correction and a coating can hold a unit for two days, which is why an empty Tuesday costs more here than almost anywhere else. Picktime lets customers book the real length of the work, takes a deposit that holds the bay, and keeps the vehicle’s history against the plate.
Blu DetailBook online
Paint correction8h · Bay 1$540.00
Interior restore3h · Ola$180.00
Ceramic coating2 daysBook
Next freeTueWedThu
Job length
2 days held
A coating, not a wash
Deposit
$135.00
25% on the correction
Bay and detailer
Both free
Or the slot is not offered
A day of a bay and a day of your hands, sold in one action and held with something more than a promise.
Set the real length and the calendar holds it. A ceramic coating that needs the unit until Thursday closes Thursday, so nothing else is sold into a bay that is still curing.
Your unit, your lighting rig, your polisher station: each one a bookable thing. A job that needs the bay is only offered when the bay is free for the whole of it, not just the first hour.
Take part of the price through PayPal, or through Stripe or Square on the paid plans, when the booking is made. Nobody books a whole Thursday on a whim once there is money against it, and nobody cancels one on a Wednesday night either.
What it is, how big it is, what the paint looks like now and whether it has been machine-polished before. Your own questions, so an eight-hour job is not booked as a four-hour one.
Not everybody does paint correction and not everybody applies a coating, and the person who does both is usually the person the diary revolves around. Give each detailer their own working hours, their own days off and only the services they carry out, and the page will not sell a correction on a day the only person who does them is not in. Everything sits on one colour-coded calendar, so a week that is genuinely booked out looks booked out.
A ceramic coating is a relationship rather than a sale: the car comes back for a maintenance detail every few months, and what was applied to it matters. Every past booking stays against the plate with the answers to your booking questions attached, and on the paid plans a maintenance visit can be set to repeat so the customer’s slot is held before they think to ask for it. The reminder before each one is what keeps a coating warranty alive.
Ten to eight on a Thursday. The unit has been kept clear since Monday for an eight-hour correction agreed over Instagram messages, the lighting rig is set up and the pads are out. At twenty past eight a message arrives saying he has decided to leave it for now. Two people asked about that Thursday last week and were told it had gone.
Picktime takes the booking properly: the real length, a deposit against it, a confirmation in writing and, on the paid plans, a reminder the night before. And when somebody does cancel, the day goes back on sale the moment they do it.
An enhancement detail, a full correction, a ceramic coating, an interior restore, a maintenance wash. Give each the hours it actually takes rather than the hours you hope.
The unit and the lighting rig as bookable resources, each detailer with their own hours and the services they carry out, so a two-day job cannot be sold into a half-free week.
PayPal, or Stripe or Square on the paid plans, and decide how much holds a booking and how much notice somebody has to give to move it. Then put the link in your Instagram bio, where the enquiries already are.
You cannot stop halfway through a panel to answer a phone, and a detailing enquiry that rings out goes to the next unit on the industrial estate. The Picktime AI receptionist answers on a number of its own, around the clock and on several calls at once, takes the caller’s name, number and vehicle, guides them through your packages, books the day straight into your calendar and transfers to you when somebody wants to talk about paint. Every call is transcribed, so a description of what the bonnet looks like is written down instead of remembered.
The free plan has no end date and no card behind it. What each plan carries is on the pricing page; the free plan itself does not expire.
A booking lands in the Google or Outlook calendar you already run on, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so two days held for a coating are never offered to anybody else. Deposits and balances go through PayPal, or through Stripe or Square on the paid ones, rather than a transfer you have to chase.
Picktime opens in a browser on a phone as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so what is booked in tomorrow and what was done to that car in March are in a pocket rather than in a notebook.
Yes. Picktime has a free forever plan with no card and no end date: your own booking page, an online calendar, customers booking their own days, the bay held with the booking, and email notifications. You pay when there are more detailers on the account.
The one that can hold a whole day rather than an appointment slot. Picktime books a package at its real length, holds the bay for all of it, and takes a deposit at the moment the day is taken.
Yes. Take part or all of the price when the booking is made, through PayPal, or through Stripe or Square on the paid plans. On a job that costs you a whole day of a unit, that is the difference between a booking and an intention.
Yes. Set the service to its real length and the calendar closes the whole of it, so nothing else is sold into a bay that is still curing.
Yes, on the paid plans. Write your own booking questions (vehicle, size, condition, whether it has been machine-polished before), and the answers arrive attached to the booking.
Yes, on the paid plans. Set the visit to repeat every three or six months with an end date and the customer’s slot is held in advance, with a reminder before each one.
Yes. The booking page is a link, so it goes in a bio, a story or a QR code on the unit door, and somebody can take a Thursday without sending a single message.
The one you can open standing next to a car, because that is where a detailer takes the call rather than at a desk. Picktime’s iOS and Android apps are on the free plan and show the same calendar the booking page writes into, so a job agreed at the unit door is on it before the customer has driven off. The page keeps doing the rest while you work: the customer picks the day, the bay is held for the real length of the job, and the deposit is taken as the day is taken.
Quick slots Short slots across several bays, and the wash plan that repeats.
See car wash scheduling
Workshop The drop-off slot, with the ramp and the technician held together.
See auto repair scheduling
Full days Long sittings booked with a deposit and a consultation first.
See tattoo studio schedulingFree forever for a one-bay unit. No card, no trial clock, and your page can be taking deposits tonight.
Google Calendar
Outlook Calendar
Stripe
PayPal
Square