Booking software for DIY mechanic bay hire.
Your one hoist can only be under one car, so book the hoist bays and the hard stands as separate things and put the vehicle itself on the job.
Start with Google- Hoist bays and hard stands booked as different things
- A booked hoist cannot be promised to anyone else
- The vehicle recorded on the job, not just the owner
- A job that runs over is charged for the hours it took
Online booking
Customers book themselves
Share your link and customers pick a service and slot at a price worked out for them, straight into your diary.
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Peak hours, kept full
Every booking lands on one timeline across your spaces and your team, so nothing double-books and quiet gaps are easy to spot.
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Built for every kind of diy mechanic bay hire business
Weekend restorers
A long project car comes back most Saturdays. Every booking sits under the same owner and the same vehicle, so the history of what has been done and how long it took is in one place.
Big jobs over a weekend
A clutch or an engine out is not four hours. Book the bay across the Saturday and the Sunday as one window with a start and an end, so nobody else is sold the hoist on the Sunday morning.
Mobile mechanics without premises
A mobile operator who needs a hoist for one job books the bay for the hours, brings the customer's car in and is gone. It is a trade booking against a business rather than a hobbyist hour.
Club days and group sessions
A car club taking every bay for a Sunday morning holds each one individually, so the whole workshop is genuinely off the page for that window.
See it in action
Every booking, in one app.
Schedule
The hoist that cannot be promised twice
Each bay is its own diary and the database refuses a second booking on one, so the worst argument in this business simply never starts. Hard stands and hoists show as the different things they are.
Instant booking
The car is on the job, not in a name field
Make, model and year sit against the booking, so whoever opens up on Saturday morning knows a dual cab is coming to bay two and the vehicle history is already on file next time.
- Hoist bay - Saturday8 hoursA$280
- Hoist bay - Sunday6 hoursA$210
- Transmission jackOptionA$60
Get paid
Four hours that became seven, billed as seven
Bays price by the booked duration, so extending the hire prices the extra hours at the same rate and the balance is taken on the card before they drive out.
Less admin, more bookings
Made for diy mechanic bay hire businesses
Your one hoist can only be under one car
Availability is per bay, and a bay that is booked is refused to everybody else by the database rather than by whoever is on the desk. That single fact removes the worst argument in this business. If you have one two-poster and one four-poster, they are two units with two diaries, and the Saturday morning that is gone is visibly gone.
A hard stand bay is not a hoist bay
A flat bay with air and a drain is a real product and it is not the same product as a hoist. Set them up separately at their own hourly rates and the customer chooses what the job actually needs. Oil changes and brake work that never needed a hoist stop occupying the thing everybody is waiting for.
The car itself is on the booking
Make, model and year sit against the booking as the vehicle rather than as a note in a name field. The person opening up on Saturday morning knows a dual cab ute is coming to bay two, and the next time that owner books, the car is already on file with its history behind it.
The job that runs over pays for the hours it took
A four hour booking that turned into seven is normal and it should not be free. The bay is priced by the booked duration, so extending the hire prices the extra hours at the same rate and the balance can be taken on the card before they leave. The clock and the invoice finally describe the same afternoon.
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One app for every booking
Everything you need to run your diy mechanic bay hire business.
Capacity that holds
Set the places on a session once and booking stops by itself when it is full.
Email reminders
Confirmations and reminders go out automatically, so fewer bookings are forgotten.
Common questions.
Each hoist bay is its own bookable unit. Once one is held for a window nothing else can be booked into it, because the overlap is refused at the database rather than depending on somebody checking the diary.
Yes. They are separate services with their own hourly rates and their own availability, so a hard stand is cheaper and the hoist earns what it is worth. Customers pick the one their job needs before they arrive.
They can. A hire runs from a start instant to an end instant and can span days, so a gearbox job booked from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon holds the bay for the entire window as a single booking.
Extend the hire and the additional hours price at the same rate, then take the difference on the card or send a payment request they can pay from their email. Nothing runs on unbilled.