Shop management software for quick lube and express service
The only trade measured in minutes.
No appointments and no parts ordering, which makes this the one trade with no supply wait at all. What it has instead is a queue on the apron and two techs working the same car from opposite sides.
The week it goes sideways
The stack on the apron is the only inventory, and it is perishable.
Upper and lower bay are the same car at the same time
The hood tech and the pit tech are not sequential steps. They are two lanes of one column, which answers who has the car rather than pretending one finishes before the other starts.
Added services stall the whole line
A courtesy check finds something, and the car sits on an unanswered yes while three more queue behind it. Waiting-on-OK is its own lane, so the one car holding the bay is visible from the counter.
Cars leave without the exit check
At this speed the last look is the one that gets dropped. It is a terminal-adjacent stage, so a ticket reaches checkout through it rather than around it.
Your bay board
10 columns, already named the way you talk.
Pick quick lube in onboarding and this is the board that arrives. Not twelve blank columns to fill in — the stages this trade actually runs, in order, with tickets on them from the first morning. Rename any of it afterwards; the names are yours, not ours.
Scheduled
Stack
Write-Up
Staging
In Bay
Courtesy Check
Added Services
Top-Off & Reset
Exit Check
Checkout
One ticket is one card. It moves when the work moves — from a phone, on the floor, one-handed — and everyone looking at the board sees it move.
Questions quick lube ask.
Upper bay and lower bay are two lanes of the same column, because the hood tech and the pit tech are not sequential steps. The board answers who has the car instead of pretending one finishes before the other starts.
The car moves to the waiting-on-OK lane, so the one vehicle holding a bay on an unanswered yes is visible from the counter instead of silently stalling the line.
Not on this board. The exit check sits right before checkout, so a ticket reaches the end through it rather than around it, even on the days it is busy enough to be tempting.
The stack on the apron is the only inventory this trade has, and it is perishable. Jobs measured in minutes are exactly where losing track of one car costs the most.
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