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A Tintly alternative for a tint shop that also quotes

Tintly is cheaper and it is built for tint shops. If catching the lead is the whole job, that is a good answer.

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Its own headline is “Never miss another lead”, which is the same promise the Service VIN front desk makes, at a quarter of the monthly price. So the honest comparison is not which one answers faster; it is what the two prices buy. Tintly is a platform for tint shops at $79 a month on its Pro tier; Service VIN's front desk is one rung of a whole operations center at $299, where the reply is drafted from your own catalog and the booking is written into the calendar your bay board reads. Everything below that the 2026-09-22 fetch could not see is marked unverified rather than filled in.

The short answer

What is the best Tintly alternative for a tint shop?

A Tintly alternative is what a tint shop looks for when catching the lead is no longer the whole job. Tintly publishes Pro at $79 a month for tint shops; Service VIN includes the AI front desk at $299 inside a shop system, so the same call ends in a priced quote and a held bay.

  • Tintly publishes its price, which in this cohort is unusual: Pro at $79 a month, Enterprise from $249, a 14-day trial, all read from its own site on 2026-09-22.
  • It is a tint-shop platform rather than a horizontal receptionist, so the vocabulary is already right for the trade.
  • Service VIN's front desk is $299 a month and the rest of the shop system comes with it, which is more than a shop that only wants the lead caught needs to buy.
  • The question that decides it is whether the reply has to know your prices and hold a bay, or whether catching the lead and telling you about it is enough.

Bottom line: If the lead is the problem, the cheaper tool is a reasonable answer and this page will not pretend otherwise. If the quote is the problem, you are buying a different thing and the price gap is what it costs.

How to choose

Four questions that separate one of these from another

None of them is which has more features. A front desk is judged on what it knows and what it is allowed to write, so those are questions two and three.

What counts as a missed call
A tool that only fires on a voicemail misses the busy signal, the failed call and the one the customer cancelled two rings in. Ask which paths trigger the text, and ask whether you still get first refusal on the phone.

  1. Where the reply's prices come from

    A generic receptionist answers from an FAQ you typed. The question a film shop gets is not generic: a full front, a windshield strip, a five-year coating. If the reply cannot come back with the coverage and the price you actually sell, somebody still has to write the quote.

  2. Whether it can write into the calendar

    Booking a slot and promising a callback are different products. A tool with no write access to your system of record can only ever hand you a message, which means the job is still on your list at nine at night.

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What it does about consent and quiet hours
Automated texting has rules, and the difference between a setting and a rail is whether somebody can turn it off by accident. Ask whether quiet hours, per-customer limits and opt-outs are enforced in the code or configured in a screen.

The cohort

What a tint shop is actually choosing between

  • Tintly1

    Best for: A tint shop that wants a published price and a platform built for its trade

    Genuinely good atBeing in the trade, and saying what it costs. Pro at $79 a month is the lowest published figure anywhere in this cohort, and the site's own headline is about the lead rather than about software.

    Watch forWhat each tier contains was not readable on 2026-09-22, and the site carries Organization schema only and no robots.txt, so an answer engine has very little to go on when somebody asks about it.

    Per tintly.io, direct-fetched 2026-09-22: the title calls it "The All-in-One Platform for Tint Shops" and the H1 is "Never miss another lead." Tint shops are the only vertical named. tintly.io

    Facts checked

  • TintBridge4

    Best for: A tint or coating shop that wants AI built for it rather than bought off a shelf

    Genuinely good atEvery one of its seven published posts is about the missed call, which is a narrower and more convincing focus than most of this cohort has.

    Watch forNo published price at all, and an offer to commission a custom build, so the comparison with a $79 subscription is not like for like.

    TintBridge alternative

    Per tintbridge.com, direct-fetched 2026-09-22: an AI consultancy for tint and coating shops, with all seven of its published posts about missed calls and AI receptionists, and no public pricing page in its 24-URL sitemap. tintbridge.com

    Facts checked

  • Generic missed-call tools5

    Best for: A shop that wants a text sent on a missed call and nothing else

    Genuinely good atThey are what the search index returns for this query, they are cheap, and for sending a text they work.

    Watch forNone of them is built for this trade, so the reply is as good as the FAQ you typed, and none was verified first-hand for this page.

    Quo alternative for auto shops

    Observed 2026-09-22, method: web-search result set for "software that texts back missed calls for a tint shop": the first page returned quo.com, withallo.com, upfirst.ai, enzak.com, getnextphone.com and gohighlevel.com, with no PPF, tint or detailing CRM among them. This is a record of what the search index surfaces for this query, not a claim about any of those products.

    Facts checked

  • Service VIN6

    Best for: A film, tint, wrap, coating or detail shop that wants the missed call answered AND the quote drafted from its own prices

    Genuinely good atGrounding and write access. The reply comes from the shop's own catalog and the booking is written into the same calendar the bay board reads, so a conversation ends in a held slot rather than a message.

    Watch forIt is dearer than a phone app and it is not the cheapest way to get a text sent. $299 a month buys the whole operations center with the front desk on top of it, and a shop that genuinely only wants the text is paying for the rest.

    the AI front desk for auto shops

    Service VIN's own figures on this page come from the plan catalog in the product, not from marketing copy: the plan name, the monthly price and the trial length are read from it at build time, so a re-price cannot strand a stale number here.

    Facts checked

Sources & notes

Facts checked

  1. 1.Per tintly.io, direct-fetched 2026-09-22: the title calls it "The All-in-One Platform for Tint Shops" and the H1 is "Never miss another lead." Tint shops are the only vertical named. tintly.io
  2. 2.Per the same fetch: Pro at $79/month marked "Most Popular", Enterprise from $249/month, and a 14-day free trial. Those are the published figures on that date; what each tier contains was not read, so it is not verified as of 2026-09-22. tintly.io
  3. 3.Per the same pass: the only JSON-LD type on tintly.io's page was Organization, and the domain served no robots.txt (HTTP 404). Neither says anything about the product; both say something about how an answer engine finds it. tintly.io
  4. 4.Per tintbridge.com, direct-fetched 2026-09-22: an AI consultancy for tint and coating shops, with all seven of its published posts about missed calls and AI receptionists, and no public pricing page in its 24-URL sitemap. tintbridge.com
  5. 5.Observed 2026-09-22, method: web-search result set for "software that texts back missed calls for a tint shop": the first page returned quo.com, withallo.com, upfirst.ai, enzak.com, getnextphone.com and gohighlevel.com, with no PPF, tint or detailing CRM among them. This is a record of what the search index surfaces for this query, not a claim about any of those products.
  6. 6.Service VIN's own figures on this page come from the plan catalog in the product, not from marketing copy: the plan name, the monthly price and the trial length are read from it at build time, so a re-price cannot strand a stale number here.

Facts about Service VIN come from the product. Facts about the other tool come from what this research could actually read on 2026-09-22: where a vendor's own page was fetched, the note says so and quotes it; where the vendor was only observed as a search result for these queries, every figure reads "not verified as of 2026-09-22" rather than a number nobody checked. Pricing and features move. Check the vendor's own site before you decide, and tell us if we have something wrong.

Side by side

Tintly and the Service VIN front desk, side by side

Five axes, the same five on every page in this cluster. Tintly's price is its own published figure; the rest was not readable on that date and the cells say so rather than guessing.

Service VIN's AI front desk compared with Tintly for a tint shop
What you are comparingService VINTintly
Who it is built forYes: Built for PPF, tint, wrap, ceramic and detailing shops, and it is the whole operations center rather than a layer on top of oneYes: Tint shops, and only tint shops, with the H1 “Never miss another lead”1
Where the reply's prices come fromYes: The draft is grounded in your own service catalog, your own prices and the customer's own history, and it will ask you rather than invent a figure it does not haveNot verified as of 2026-09-222
What counts as a missed callYes: Calls ring your phone first; a genuine miss on any path (no answer, busy, failed, cancelled) is texted back from your own number in secondsNot verified as of 2026-09-222
Whether it books the job itselfYes: It books into the same calendar the bay board reads, so the slot is held rather than promised, and the thread lands on the customer's recordNot verified as of 2026-09-222
What you payIncluded on the Operations plan at $299 a month in US dollars, no per-seat charge, with a 14-day free trialPro $79/month, Enterprise from $249/month, 14-day free trial, published on their own site2

Sources & notes

Facts checked

  1. 1.Per tintly.io, direct-fetched 2026-09-22: the title calls it "The All-in-One Platform for Tint Shops" and the H1 is "Never miss another lead." Tint shops are the only vertical named. tintly.io
  2. 2.Per the same fetch: Pro at $79/month marked "Most Popular", Enterprise from $249/month, and a 14-day free trial. Those are the published figures on that date; what each tier contains was not read, so it is not verified as of 2026-09-22. tintly.io
  3. 3.Per the same pass: the only JSON-LD type on tintly.io's page was Organization, and the domain served no robots.txt (HTTP 404). Neither says anything about the product; both say something about how an answer engine finds it. tintly.io
  4. 4.Per tintbridge.com, direct-fetched 2026-09-22: an AI consultancy for tint and coating shops, with all seven of its published posts about missed calls and AI receptionists, and no public pricing page in its 24-URL sitemap. tintbridge.com
  5. 5.Observed 2026-09-22, method: web-search result set for "software that texts back missed calls for a tint shop": the first page returned quo.com, withallo.com, upfirst.ai, enzak.com, getnextphone.com and gohighlevel.com, with no PPF, tint or detailing CRM among them. This is a record of what the search index surfaces for this query, not a claim about any of those products.
  6. 6.Service VIN's own figures on this page come from the plan catalog in the product, not from marketing copy: the plan name, the monthly price and the trial length are read from it at build time, so a re-price cannot strand a stale number here.

Facts about Service VIN come from the product. Facts about the other tool come from what this research could actually read on 2026-09-22: where a vendor's own page was fetched, the note says so and quotes it; where the vendor was only observed as a search result for these queries, every figure reads "not verified as of 2026-09-22" rather than a number nobody checked. Pricing and features move. Check the vendor's own site before you decide, and tell us if we have something wrong.

Tintly and the AI front desk, answered

Is Tintly cheaper than Service VIN?

On the published figures, yes, and by a lot. Tintly's Pro tier was $79 a month on 2026-09-22; the Service VIN front desk is included on the $299 a month plan. What the higher figure buys is the rest of the shop system: quoting with a live margin, the bay board, invoices and payments, inventory and the AI crew, with the front desk as one rung of it rather than the whole product.

What does Tintly do that Service VIN does not?

We could not verify a single feature of it. A direct fetch on 2026-09-22 read the title, the H1, the verticals and the pricing tiers; it did not read a feature list, so this page asserts none. If you are shortlisting the two, ask Tintly what happens to the missed call and whether it can write a booking, because those are the two answers that decide it.

Do I have to replace my shop software to use the Service VIN front desk?

No. Point a number at it, give it your services and prices, and it starts answering beside whatever you use today. There is no migration to schedule before it earns anything; bringing quotes, jobs and history across is a later decision.

Does the Service VIN front desk answer the phone with a voice?

Not on this plan, and saying otherwise would be the one claim on this page a buyer could disprove. The $299 plan is the text-and-quote path: you and your team still answer the phone, and the AI picks up the callers you could not. There is an AI voice receptionist, and it is an opt-in beta on the tier above.

Why is most of your Tintly column blank?

Because nobody here read those answers. This site's rule is that a figure nobody verified says "not verified as of 2026-09-22" and never "not published", which would assert the vendor hides it. Every cell carries a numbered note saying what was read and when, and a table of honest blanks is worth more to you than a table of confident guesses.

Whichever way you go, the number worth having first is your own: work out what your own missed calls cost. Nothing on this page pretends to know your recovery rate, because nobody has published one worth quoting.

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Where to start

It starts with the call you missed.

Every missed call texted back from your own number, the quote drafted from your own prices, and the job booked into your own calendar. Included on the Operations plan at $299 a month, running beside whatever you use today.

It answers from your real services, your real prices and your real calendar — and writes the booking into them. No migration, no data to move — it runs beside whatever you use today.

A customer reading a text in her parked car, a shop owner at her laptop and at the shop's glass door, and the call, text-thread, quote, calendar and review panels drawn over the pictures.

Illustration. Product demonstration with sample data; every reply in it is a text message.

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