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7 shipped· July 7, 2026

Deposits, skills, and no-shows.

Take a deposit at booking on any till, route each job to a mechanic who can actually do it, catch the customers who don't turn up, and apply a ready-made safety checklist in one tap.

New

Deposits at booking, any till

Ask for a deposit or the full amount when a service slot is booked, on Stripe, Square, or Shopify. A held slot now means a committed customer, and a cancellation refunds the deposit automatically under your rules.

New

Route jobs to the right mechanic

Each mechanic gets a can-do and a prefers grain per service, and manual assignment warns you when you're handing a job to someone who can't do it, or who's already full for the day.

New

No-shows, tracked

A no-show status with a per-customer tally, so the customer who books and vanishes three times is visible on the record instead of a vague feeling at the counter.

Improved

Checklists you can apply in a tap

Ready-made safety-checklist templates that drop onto a booking in one click, plus an aging indicator that flags a bike stuck waiting on a part or a customer approval.

Under the hood

  • A digest when something breaks quietly

    A founder-alert job emails a daily digest of silent backend failures, and admin now surfaces a real error instead of a blank panel when a fetch fails, so a broken screen stops reading as an empty one.

  • Printing grows up, and the inbox threads

    The print bridge added Windows support, a direct browser-print option, and an in-admin setup guide; and the inbox now threads all of a customer's messages, across SMS and email, into one conversation.

  • Currency, locale, and a hardening pass

    Job cards print in the shop's billing currency, tenant dates read in the shop's locale, and a security pass tightened rate limiting, SSRF guards, and a set of database policies.

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