Window tint shop software that prices any vehicle

The one that prices a car the way you sell it and knows what the film cost. A tint quote is a glass set at a film tier — two fronts, a windshield strip, the full rear, in dyed, carbon or ceramic — and the roll it comes off has a real per-foot price. Service VIN builds the quote that way and shows the margin live. Tint Wiz, Urable and OrbisX are all credible; the tables above say where each is stronger.

Bays. A tint bay is a physical place with one car in it, and a calendar that only models a time slot will let a service advisor book two. Service VIN puts bays and installers on one drag-and-drop calendar and refuses an overlapping bay hold in the database, so the conflict cannot be created by a tired click at 5pm. AI scheduling can also rank your open slots by projected profit when you are deciding what to squeeze in.

Yes, and the difference from a generic CRM is the vehicle. A tint shop's next conversation is about a specific car — which glass was done, which film went on, what the VLT was, whether the warranty still stands — so the vehicle has to be a record rather than a free-text note. Service VIN keeps the customer, every vehicle they own, every past job, the film warranty and the whole text and call thread on one screen.

Carry the real film cost onto the bill and settle it without a second app. Each film line is drawn from the roll it was cut from at the price you paid, so the invoice reports true COGS; the deposit taken at approval is already credited; and if your shop charges a card surcharge it lands on the invoice rather than disappearing. The customer pays on a link they open on their phone.

Cheap usually means "does it charge me per person". 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. If that is still more than you want to spend, a plain invoicing app will be cheaper — it just will not tell you what a job cost.

Yes. You pick the glass and the tier and the builder prices each line from the actual roll, so a ceramic all-around and a dyed two-front are different numbers for the right reason. Packages, add-ons like a windshield strip or a ceramic topper, per-line discounts and an order discount all sit on the same quote, and the customer approves it from their phone with a deposit.

Yes — the AI Front Desk answers 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 it writes the booking into the system of record instead of promising a callback. Quiet hours and opt-outs are enforced in code, and every text it sends is on the customer's thread afterwards.

Yes. Lead response, quote follow-up, missed-call text-back and review requests all run as automations you can read and edit, and the AI-written ones start draft-first so the shop's voice stays yours. Opt-outs and quiet hours are enforced in code rather than left to memory, and a message about a customer's own car is never held back by the marketing contact budget.

Yes. There are native import presets for Tint Wiz, Urable 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 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, 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 cars before you decide. What the alternatives publish is in the tables above, each figure with its source and its date.

A mobile one-man operation whose only need is sending an invoice will be happier and cheaper with an invoicing app. An auto glass shop that lives on parts ordering and OEM glass catalogues should look elsewhere — we do not do parts catalogues. And a flat-glass-only architectural film business will find the vehicle-shaped parts of this product mostly in the way.

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.