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8 shipped· June 25, 2026

Two-way texting, and a map of where you ride.

The big one. A unified inbox with two-way SMS goes live, mobile-service shops draw their own coverage areas on a map with tiered travel fees, mechanics get their own calendar and inbox, and a new bike-sale flow lands.

New

Two-way SMS, live

Customers can text your shop back, their replies land in the inbox, and you answer in kind: a text gets a text, an email gets an email. The platform SMS pause is lifted. Texting is on.

New

One inbox for every channel

Inbox, templates, announcements, and settings unify into one familiar messaging split, with inbound email and SMS folded in, each thread linked to its booking, and an unread count badged in the nav.

New

Draw your own service areas

Mobile-service shops draw hand-drawn catchment polygons, or origin-and-radius rings, on one shared coverage map, with tiered per-way or return travel fees. The booker shows the customer a pickup coverage map so they know before they book whether you'll come to them.

New

The mechanic's own app

A mechanic gets their own calendar, an inbox scoped to just their assigned jobs, and a My day where tapping a job opens the full job card. Built for the person actually turning the spanners.

New

Sell a bike, book the first service free

A new bike-sale tab logs a sale and sends the customer a free-first-service email, collecting the same details as the rest of the site so the new owner's already in your system.

Improved

Pickup and drop-off, together

Shops can offer pickup and drop-off at the same time and let the customer choose, through a compact card-style chooser instead of an either-or setting.

Under the hood

  • SMS billed per segment from the prepaid wallet

    Texts debit the prepaid wallet per segment (partner shops like Laneway at Twilio cost), so margin holds even on a multi-segment message.

  • Internal notes split from customer messaging

    Internal notes get their own tab, leaving Messaging strictly customer-facing, plus an address-lookup hardening pass that fixes untappable mobile suggestions and adds a legacy Places fallback.

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