PPF shop software that quotes from the roll

The one that costs a job from the film you actually bought. PPF is purchased by the roll and consumed by the linear foot, so software that counts inventory by the each can tell you what a job sold for but never what it cost. Service VIN prices every film line from the real per-foot cost of the roll on your rack and shows the margin live as you build the quote. Tint Wiz, Urable and OrbisX are all credible tools that many shops run happily — the tables above say where each one is stronger.

It has to know that a bay is a physical thing. A full-body wrap and a quick windshield film cannot share a lift, and a calendar that only models a time slot will happily let a service advisor book both. Service VIN puts bays and installers on one drag-and-drop calendar and refuses an overlapping hold in the database rather than hiding the option in the interface, so the conflict cannot be created by a tired click at 5pm.

A CRM for PPF installers is not a contact list with a car field bolted on. It has to hold the vehicle as a record — VIN, the panels that were wrapped, the film that was used, the warranty that was registered — because that is what the next conversation is about. Service VIN keeps the customer, the vehicle, every past job, the film warranty and the whole text and call thread on one record, so nothing is a separate subscription and nothing has to be re-keyed.

It should put the real material cost on the invoice's own line, not on a spreadsheet afterwards. Because each film line is drawn from a specific roll at the price you paid for it, the invoice carries true material COGS, the deposit taken at approval is already credited, and the card surcharge — if your shop charges one — lands on the bill rather than vanishing. Payment happens on a link the customer opens on their phone.

Cheap is usually a per-seat question rather than a sticker 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 a second installer. If you want the smallest possible commitment, the Operations plan is $299 a month and needs no migration. If even that is more than you want to spend, a single-vehicle invoice app will genuinely be cheaper — it just will not tell you what a job cost.

Yes, and it should do both on the same quote. Customers buy hood-and-fenders one week and a full front the next, so the builder holds à la carte panels, coverage packages, add-ons like a windshield film or a ceramic topper, per-line discounts and an order discount — and it prices all of it from the roll. The customer approves it from their phone and can leave a deposit at the same time, which drops the job onto the calendar.

Yes — the AI Front Desk answers the calls nobody reached, texts back the ones that ring out, and books from your real calendar. The part that matters is grounding: it answers from your actual services and prices and writes the booking into the system of record, instead of promising that someone will call back. It obeys quiet hours and opt-outs in code, and every text it sends is a text you can read on the thread afterwards.

By making the follow-up something the software owes you rather than something you owe it. A new lead gets an answer while they are still comparing shops; an open quote is chased on a schedule you set; a missed call is texted back from your own number in seconds. Every one of those is draft-first where a person should read it, and each one lands on the same customer thread, so the next person to pick it up can see what was already said.

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 your live messaging rails, so bringing a back catalogue across can never text a customer 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, with 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, so you can quote three real jobs before you decide. For what the alternatives publish, the tables above carry each figure with its source and its date.

A general field-service tool will book a job and send an invoice, and plenty of shops start there. What it cannot do is tell you what the job cost: it models a customer and an address, counts inventory by the each rather than by the linear foot, and has nowhere to put a coverage zone, an install position or a manufacturer film warranty. The moment you want to know which packages on which vehicles actually pay, you need a tool that costs the film the way you buy it.

A one-van operator whose whole need is sending an invoice will get there faster and cheaper with an invoicing app. A general repair shop that lives on parts ordering, labour guides and diagnostic integrations should look at a shop-management system built for that work — we do not do parts catalogues or labour times. And a shop with a crew that will not use anything but paper should fix that first; software cannot.

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.