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Features

Everything your auto shop needs, in one platform

Ten connected modules run the whole shop — estimates, jobs, scheduling, inventory, built-in accounting and a deep reports hub, plus marketing, a customer portal, a native technician app, HR and multi-location. Turn on only what your trade needs.

01 Sales & Estimates

Auto shop estimate software that wins the job

Build clean, branded estimates in minutes with saved packages, catalog items and good-better-best options. Send for e-signature, collect a deposit, and the moment it's approved it becomes a job — no re-typing.

  • Branded estimates with reusable packages & catalog items
  • Good-better-best options to choose from
  • Customer-selectable add-ons & upsells
  • E-signature approval on any device
  • Online deposit collection at approval
  • One-click estimate → job conversion
  • Lead pipeline / Kanban with your own stages
  • Customers & vehicles database with history
  • Automated estimate follow-ups
  • Booking requests queue you approve
  • Maintenance plans — recurring service, auto-scheduled visits
FinishBay estimate screen with packages, add-ons and totals
02 Operations & Jobs

Track every job from check-in to pickup

A live board moves each vehicle through your real workflow. Check vehicles in with photos and inspections, attach work orders, route outsourced work, and track keys and warranties all the way to handoff.

  • Live job board with custom workflow stages
  • Vehicle check-in with photos
  • Digital inspections & damage diagrams
  • Customer-facing inspection links
  • Work orders & service orders on the job
  • Service Orders vs. Parts POs for outsourced work
  • Warranty tracking
  • Lock-box / key tracking
  • Drop-off & pickup scheduling
FinishBay live jobs workboard with kanban columns
03 Scheduling, Booking & Dispatch

Online booking, scheduling & dispatch

A calendar that understands your bays and technicians. Let customers self-book online, offer upsells at booking, and for mobile work, schedule by address with “on the way” alerts and a live map.

  • Calendar by bay & technician (week/day, drag-to-reschedule)
  • Public online booking page (per-brand pretty URLs)
  • Booking requests you approve first
  • Booking upsells offered at booking time
  • Mobile service at the customer's address
  • “On the way” notifications + live GPS tracking
  • Dispatch / live map board
  • Calendar blackouts & availability rules
FinishBay scheduling calendar by bay and technician
04 Purchasing & Inventory

Inventory & purchasing for film, coatings and parts

Track stock for film, coatings, parts and materials, and raise purchase orders with receiving and vendor bills. Bills of materials auto-consume inventory per package — and every cost flows back to the job for honest profit.

  • Stock tracking with low-stock / reorder alerts
  • Purchase orders, receiving & vendor bills
  • Multi-tracking — split shipments & partial receiving
  • Vendor & vendor-type management
  • Bills of materials per package (auto-consume)
  • Purchase units vs. usage units conversion
  • Costs flow back to each job's profit
FinishBay inventory with stock levels, vendors and reorder points
05 Accounting

Built-in accounting that replaces QuickBooks

A true double-entry general ledger runs under the hood, so invoices, payments and bills post to the right accounts automatically. Close periods, track job profit, set aside reserves, and read role-based dashboards — no separate accounting subscription.

  • True double-entry general ledger
  • Invoices, payments, credit memos & vendor bills
  • Chart of accounts, journal & period close
  • Cash drawer management
  • Cash-basis & accrual toggle
  • Job profitability & labor costing
  • Profit Buckets — auto set-aside reserves
  • Executive, Sales, Ops, Purchasing, HR & Accounting dashboards
FinishBay executive dashboard with revenue, profit and jobs
Reports & insights

A reporting hub built for shop owners

Around 40 built-in reports across accounting, sales, operations and staff — every one exportable to CSV, with favorites and per-report access control so the right people see the right numbers.

FinishBay reports hub with report categories and cards

Accounting

  • Profit & Loss
  • Balance Sheet
  • Trial Balance
  • A/R & A/P Aging
  • Sales Tax Liability
  • 1099-NEC vendor summary
  • Expense Insights

Business overview

  • Company Snapshot
  • Customer Lifetime Value
  • Repeat Customers
  • Bay Utilization Heatmap

Sales

  • Sales Funnel
  • Estimate Conversion
  • Lead Sources
  • Add-On Performance
  • No-Shows & Cancellation Patterns
  • Boomerang Pool (lapsed customers)

Invoices

  • Item Sales
  • Parts / Service / Labor breakdown
  • Missing Invoices (uninvoiced completed jobs)

Staff

  • Payroll (hourly / commission / flat)
  • Revenue by Technician
  • Staff Performance
  • Timeclock & Job Timers

…and the rest

Around 40 reports in all, each with CSV export, a favorites system, and access control per report — so sensitive numbers stay with the people who should see them.

06 Marketing, Reviews & Loyalty

Marketing, Google reviews & loyalty that fill the schedule

Automate the messages that grow revenue — review requests with a feedback gate that catches negatives privately, win-back and pre/post-service touches, loyalty, referrals, and even weather-triggered campaigns.

  • Automated Google review requests
  • Internal feedback gate (catch negatives privately)
  • Email & SMS campaigns
  • Pre-service, post-service & win-back messages
  • Lead follow-up automation (rules, delays, placeholders)
  • Loyalty points & punch cards (redeem as credit)
  • Two-sided referrals & customer badges
  • Coupons, discount codes & gift cards (sold online)
  • Social media planner (calendar + composer)
  • Weather-based automation (trigger on conditions)
FinishBay reviews and marketing engagement dashboard
07 Customer Portal & Payments

A polished portal with the payments you need

Give customers a self-service portal to view estimates, invoices and appointments, and let them pay online by card across multiple processors — or finance the job. Every document generates a clean, branded PDF.

  • Self-service portal (estimates, invoices, appointments)
  • Online card payments — Square, Stripe & Clover
  • Financing via Wisetack
  • Deposits, tips & gift-card purchases online
  • Branded PDFs for every estimate, invoice & work order
  • Secure document signing links
  • Approve estimates & pay invoices online
FinishBay branded customer invoice with itemized totals and balance due
08 Technician Mobile & Time Clock

A native mobile app for your whole crew

A real FinishBay app on the App Store and Google Play — not just a mobile web page. Technicians see their jobs, update status, scan parts and clock time at the vehicle, with push notifications and a kiosk time clock for the shop.

  • Native mobile app — App Store & Google Play
  • Per-tech job list & status updates
  • Clock in/out & job timers → real labor cost
  • Scan parts onto the work order
  • Kiosk time clock (PIN / badge) + hardware devices
  • Push notifications
09 HR & Team

Manage the team, hours and time off

Run the people side of the shop in the same system — shifts and job timers feeding real labor cost, time-off requests with accrual-aware balances, and a per-brand labor model that drives payroll and job profit.

  • Time clock — facility shifts + job timers
  • Time Off / PTO — requests, approvals & accrual-aware balances
  • Schedule-conflict warnings on time off
  • Employee management
  • Granular roles & permissions
  • Per-brand labor model (hourly / commission / flat, per-job override)
FinishBay team roster with roles, pay and time-off balances
10 Platform & Multi-location

One platform that scales to many shops

Run multiple brands and locations from one login, with per-module scope so each part of the business only sees what it should. Give every brand its own custom domain and booking links, sync documents to the cloud, and turn modules on or off per trade.

  • Multi-brand × multi-location business structure
  • Per-module scope (company / brand / location) + presets
  • Granular roles & permissions per user
  • Custom domains per brand (self-serve, auto-attached)
  • Per-brand public URL slugs for /book & /legal
  • Cloud document sync to OneDrive / Google Drive
  • In-app Knowledge Base (~40 articles) & support tickets
  • Custom fees scoped per brand & service type
  • Turn modules on/off per trade
FinishBay business structure with brands and locations

See all of it in your shop

Request a beta seat and we'll set up your detailing, tint, PPF, restyle or repair shop as spots open.