
A safety inspection is a fixed job at a fixed price on a date somebody else set. Put it on a page, run the lanes off one day view, and keep every car you have ever checked.
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The check and the pre-purchase inspection sit on your page at a set length and a set price, so a car only lands in a lane that is actually open.
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Every inspection on one timeline at the length it really takes, so the hoist is not holding two cars at once and a gap is easy to see.
Learn moreNobody books an inspection because they feel like it. When the page has nothing left before their date, the answer cannot be a dead end.
When nothing fits, they leave the vehicle, the date they are up against and a phone number, and it arrives as a thread rather than a missed call.
Accept and it becomes a real booking in the lane you choose. Decline and it closes, without a phone call either way.
Two people cannot take the same lane at the same time. The database refuses the overlap no matter who is doing the booking.
Anything at all before Friday? My rego is up then.
An inspection day is not four big jobs, it is a dozen small ones. Move one and everything behind it has to still make sense.
A car turns up late or a tester goes home sick. Drag the job to a new time or a new person and commit the lot in one go.
Working hours come off each tester, and the hours nobody is on are hatched out, so the page cannot sell a slot at half past five.
A car that never turned up is marked as a no-show on the booking itself, so the lane reads as lost rather than quietly as done.
A pass ends the job. A fail starts a second one, and the re-inspection belongs against the same vehicle rather than in a fresh file.
The first visit, what it found and the quote you wrote from it are already on the record, so nothing is typed twice.
The first check and the one it sent back sit in the same filterable list, so a vehicle waiting on you is never invisible.
Put the return visit in the slot you can actually give it, and it holds against everything else on the board.
What you book
A car over five years old needs one before the renewal goes through. Fixed length, fixed price, booked into a lane off your page.
The seller books the inspection the sale depends on, and the date they need is on the page rather than negotiated over the phone.
A short check on a tight clock. It books like any other slot and the record shows exactly when you did it and on which vehicle.
No deadline, a much longer slot and a different customer entirely. Priced and booked as its own service so it never lands in a short lane.
The yard that sends four cars a week books them itself and talks to you in one thread, instead of ringing every time.
A fail is the start of a second visit. Book it against the same vehicle so the first inspection and what it found sit right there.
Shorter again, and a lane of its own. Each one is its own service with its own duration, so the day is not built out of one block size.
A run of vehicles from the one operator, booked back to back and kept under the one customer with a record per vehicle.
A longer job that cannot share a lane with the quick ones. Give it its own duration and the page stops overbooking the morning.
Pads, tyres, wipers, a windscreen. Itemised while the car is still up, sent to the owner, and accepted before it comes down.
Who brought it, how to reach them and what they still owe, on one record you can open mid-conversation.
Sent, opened, agreed. You can see which owner has read the list of items and which has not, without ringing to ask.
The yard that sends you cars all week keeps one conversation, with its booking requests answered inside it.
Each tester carries their own hours and their own work, so a slot is only ever offered when somebody can take it.
The check, what it failed on, the repairs you quoted and the money that came in, in one line each and in order.
A fail is a list. Itemise it while the car is still on the hoist, send it, and let the owner say yes before they have left the waiting room.
They type their name to accept and it is stamped with the time, so the go-ahead on a set of pads is in writing before the spanners come out.
The accepted quote turns into a booking carrying its own lines, so the car is back in a lane without you re-typing the job.
Put a use-by date on a price for tyres and it lapses on its own, instead of being waved at you six months later.
A fixed-price check should not turn into an invoice chase. Take it as they book, take it as they hand the keys over, or write it up after.
Write a cash or bank transfer payment onto the job by hand with the date it landed, on any plan. That part is free and always has been.
Card payments, on the booking page or taken at the desk, are the one part of the money story that needs Pro. Everything else does not.
Card money is paid out by Stripe into your own account. Bookables never holds it and never sits between you and it.
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Switch on a confirmation as they book and a reminder the day before, so the lane you set aside is not sitting empty at eight in the morning.
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No, and it never will. The result is lodged by you through the scheme your state runs, the same way it is now. Bookables holds the appointment, the vehicle, the repair quote and the money.
Yes. Put the safety check and the pre-purchase inspection on your page with their real durations and prices, and the page only offers slots a lane can genuinely turn around.
Each is its own service with its own duration. A pre-purchase inspection takes the time it takes, and the page will not sell it as a quick check slot.
Book the re-inspection against the same vehicle. The first visit and the quote you wrote from it are already on the record, so nothing gets typed twice.
Yes. Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand on any plan. Card payments, at the desk or on the booking page, come with Pro.
They leave a request instead of leaving. It lands in your inbox with the vehicle and the date they are up against, and you accept or decline it in the thread.