Ceramic coating business software that tracks the warranty

The one that still remembers the coating in twelve months. Selling the package is the easy part; what separates a coating business from a detail business is the warranty registered against the car, the certificate the customer can find when they sell it, and the maintenance visit that has to be asked for on time. Service VIN holds all three. Urable, DetailPro and Tint Wiz are all real options and the tables above say where each is stronger.

At handover the coating is registered against the vehicle's VIN, with the product, the tier and the date on the record. The certificate and the contract are served to the customer behind secure, expiring links rather than emailed as an attachment that gets lost, and the whole thing sits on the vehicle's own history — so a claim two years later is a search, not an archaeology project through somebody's sent folder.

Hold the bay for it. A coating is not finished when the last panel is done — it needs the bay while it cures, and a calendar that models only labour hours will book the next car into a space that is still occupied. Service VIN holds the bay across the whole job including the cure, and refuses the overlapping hold in the database rather than hiding the option in the interface.

Yes — that is the recurring-revenue half of a coating business and it is the half most shops lose. The interval lives on the coating's own record, and the reminder fires on its schedule as an automation you can read and edit, with quiet hours and opt-outs enforced in code. A message about the customer's own car is never held back by the marketing contact budget, because it is not marketing.

The real cost of the coating and the prep. Each line carries what the product actually cost you, so the invoice reports true COGS instead of a percentage somebody guessed; the deposit taken at approval is already credited; a card surcharge, if your shop charges one, lands on the bill rather than vanishing. The customer pays on a link they open on their own phone.

Cheap is usually a per-seat question. Service VIN is Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299 and Command $399 in US dollars flat for the whole shop with no per-seat charge, which is what keeps the bill still when you hire. The smallest commitment is the Operations plan at $299 a month, with nothing to migrate. A plain invoicing app will be cheaper still — it just will not remember the warranty.

Yes, and the tiers are ready to send rather than rebuilt each time. A package holds the coating, the prep, the correction stage and the add-ons, priced from real material cost, with per-line discounts and an order discount available. The customer approves it from their phone with a deposit, which drops the job onto the calendar as a booked bay rather than a note to call them back.

Yes — the AI Front Desk answers the calls nobody reached, texts back the ones that ring out, and books from your real calendar. It answers from your actual services and prices rather than a script, and writes the booking into the system of record instead of promising a callback. Quiet hours and opt-outs are enforced in code, and every message is on the customer's thread afterwards.

Yes, as an automation you can read and edit rather than a black box. A finished coating asks for the review on its own schedule, in wording you approved, and the AI-written version starts draft-first so the shop's voice stays yours. Opt-outs are honoured immediately and permanently, and quiet hours are enforced in code rather than left to whoever is on the phone at six o'clock.

Yes. There are native import presets for Urable, Tint Wiz and OrbisX, plus QuickBooks Online, Zoho Books and any CSV, covering customers, vehicles, invoice history, job history and open leads. Imported records are held apart from the live messaging rails, so bringing a back catalogue across cannot text somebody who has not heard from you in two years. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with every feature unlocked.

Service VIN is flat monthly pricing with no per-seat charge — Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299 and Command $399 in US dollars, two months free on annual billing, and unlimited team logins from Growth up. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with every feature unlocked. What the alternatives publish is in the tables above, each figure with its source and its date.

A solo detailer whose entire need is an invoice and a calendar will be happier with something smaller. A shop that wants its marketing run for it — ads managed, leads bought — is describing an agency relationship rather than software, and the table above names a platform that sells that bundle. And a shop that does not actually register warranties will not get the value this page is built around.

Tax: your shop sets one rate and every line on an invoice is taxable or exempt against it, so GST at 5 percent or HST at 13 or 15 is a setting rather than a workaround, and the sales-tax report gives your bookkeeper the taxable base, the exempt base and the tax actually charged on an accrual or a cash basis. What it does not do is split one invoice across two provincial rates, because there is a single shop-wide rate and no per-line rate in the data; if you bill at two rates, check that first. CASL is not a switch somebody flips but a set of rails: service and appointment messages are treated separately from marketing, marketing is counted against a per-customer limit, quiet hours and opt-outs are enforced in code, and an opt-out applies across the whole shop. The SMS policy page sets out the rules the product follows, and nothing here is legal advice.